Happy Doors Open Denver! Today and tomorrow, you can tour dozens of historic and architectural marvels around Denver….but you might want to eat at home before you head downtown, because the brunch lines are long. Snooze at Union Station — where Doors Open Denver is headquartered — is on a…
There was plenty of news coming out of Boulder this week, as three popular metro-area eateries opened new outposts in the city. Local brewery/restaurant Bru Handbuilt Ales & Eats took over the space next door for Heifer and the Hen, an upscale ice cream shop with creative, seasonal flavors. And…
At the end of March, the Edible Beats restaurant group, which consists of Root Down, Linger and Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox (with others on the way), announced that Jeremy Kittelson was taking over as culinary director for the entire group and that chef Daniel Asher was stepping away from the role…
Spring means growth and change, sometimes so much that it’s hard to keep up with. So here’s a look at three restaurants with changes afoot, including a new lunch slate from Arcana in Boulder to go with a chef shuffle in the kitchen, the Way Back’s new dinner menu, and…
All aboard! The train to the plane officially pulls out of the station this weekend, with free rides from Union Station to Denver International Airport today and tomorrow. But the airport isn’t the only place you can get on the A line; as Jonathan Shikes points out in his Ten…
The Palm Restaurant came to Denver in 1996 and it’s not difficult to imagine that some regular customers have enjoyed weekly, maybe even daily, power lunches over martinis and filet mignon for the past twenty years. So when the storied steakhouse, which got its start in New York City in…
Sam Slade grew up around cakes and other baked goods at her family’s bakeries in Chicago, so batter is in her blood. At the beginning of the year, she launched Valhalla Cakes inside the Temple Bakery in the Curtis Park neighborhood to test the market for her own creations. And…
Denver’s dining scene is booming, and while neighborhoods like RiNo and Berkeley are exploding, suburbs outside the city limits are getting interesting new restaurants, too. In response to the news that Zomo will move in where El Tepehuan moved out, Jan says: Who’d a’thunk that downtown Englewood could become a…
Is the ramen honeymoon finally over in Denver? Despite a rash of noodle shop openings over the last eighteen months or so, at least one has slipped through the cracks. Tengu, which opened in December 2014 in the Industry building on Brighton Boulevard, is now closed. Tengu initially closed for…
Curry lovers in Denver know where to go for a fiery fix: Biju’s Little Curry Shop in RiNo, which chef Biju Thomas opened in a tiny, hidden spot at 26th and Walnut streets at the end of 2014. And with new spot at 4279 Tennyson Street that just opened earlier this…
The Squeaky Bean has always been a little out there (with Saturday Bingo Brunch and celebrity cocktail shrines as evidence), but soon the downtown farm-centered restaurant could soon be taking its creativity to new heights. Partner and chief bean farmer Josh Olsen is working with a team of high school…
Boulder shoppers looking for quality meat cuts, pre-made foods and a quick breakfast or lunch have known about the tiny nook inside chef-restaurateur Hosea Rosenberg’s Blackbelly restaurant in east Boulder for some time, but because of space limitations, the chef’s vision for a complete, meat-centered market was never fully realized…
Woody’s Wings N Things occupies an easy-to-miss space in a Westminster strip mall. But as Mark Antonation advises in this week’s Ethniche, you do not want to miss this spot, an independent restaurant that has some American standards (corn dogs) but also incredible Asian dishes. In fact, he says, the Things…
Restaurants have been popping up in non-traditional spaces for years now, housed in everything from shipping containers to repurposed industrial buildings. But a restaurant inside a library? That’s a head-turner. When Seeds Library Cafe opened last year inside the Boulder Public Library, it served a much-needed purpose: giving patrons a…
Who knew? Just as Denverites warmly welcomed a spot dedicated to pierogies, the Pierogies Factory, when it opened last year in Wheat Ridge, they’re celebrating the return of Kolache Factory to Lakewood. Yes, Denver’s western suburbs are rolling in dough, and one reader is hungry for more. Says Becky: What is this…
Sometimes experience is the only good teacher. You can read about something, look at photos, have someone explain it to you (maybe even draw you diagrams), but until your own senses have taken everything in, what you’ve been told is merely a shadow on a wall compared to the reality…
Bob Berlute came to Denver last week to see the billboard that his father had painted decades ago on the side of 2801 Welton Street, a ghost sign that was uncovered in the process of developer Star Mesa Property’s restoration work on the building. The sign, too, has been restored,…
At the end of February, Ian Clark, the chef-owner of Bru Handbuilt Ales and Eats, told us he’d be opening a new ice cream shop called Heifer and the Hen next door to his brewery-restaurant on Arapahoe Avenue in east Boulder. Clark is a self-professed ice cream addict who had…
A recent rash of Denver restaurant break-ins has spread to the Berkeley neighborhood. Il Porcellino (4324 West 41st Avenue) owners Bryan Albano and Bill Miner were greeted this morning by a smashed-in front door and a missing cash register; nothing else was taken and the register was empty, they report…
In the Best of Denver 2016, we named Berkeley the Best New Restaurant Neighborhood — not just for the new restaurants moving into the area, but because the mix of new and old have made this area just past Highland in northwest Denver an increasingly vibrant dining destination. You can…
Despite all the warnings of another snowmageddon hitting the Front Range, most residents of Denver should have no trouble getting out and about in what added up to six or so inches of snow — and if they holed up yesterday in anticipation of the storm, they’ll be hungry to leave…
A snowy Denver day — the perfect time to find a bar stool where you can spend an hour….or ten. Last week we served up our list of the Ten Best Bars in Metro Denver, and one choice drew applause from many fans. Says Kristen: The PS Lounge has the…
