Feeling a little under the weather this morning? How about a heaping helping of Mexican food? Gustavo Arellano, author of the weekly column “Ask a Mexican” as well as the book Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, recently tackled a question about whether the Mexican diet is healthy. It once…
Changes are coming to Englewood. The venerable El Tepehuan closed last year, and transferred operations to a food truck while the owners rehab the restaurant’s next location down the street at 3495 South Broadway, which will be called El Tep. And in February, Phil and Erika Zierke, both Englewood restaurants,…
This week, Mark Antonation took a tour of the Denver Tech Center, where three new restaurants — Pollo Lima, Bawarchi Biryani Point and Burnt End BBQ — are dishing out tasty international and regional cookery. Pollo Lima moved in where Chicago Mike’s Beef & Dogs had moved out, but we neglected…
In December 2011, Jerry Feld sold Club 404 — the bar he’d bought six decades before, when he was too young to even have a liquor license. But since then, the spot at 404 Broadway has seen some tough times. Initially it was turned into the Denver Wheel Club 404,…
The annual feeding frenzy known as Denver Restaurant Week is nearly upon us, and Visit Denver — the organization that heads up the ten-day event — has published menus for more than 150 of the participating restaurants so that you can plan out your reservations. This year’s Restaurant Week runs…
Does Denver need Texans coming to Colorado to take over the taco trade? Only if they’re “damn good.” Austin-based Torchy’s Tacos hopes Denverites will agree with the company’s motto when it opens at 1085 Broadway on Tuesday, February 2 — the first of five Torchy’s planned for the Front Range…
Hearing that the Barker Lounge had closed after a series of other high-profile restaurant and bar closings around town, a reader lamented that all of the cool places in Denver are vanishing. But these readers disagree. Says Tony: Native here. If anything uncool is happening, it’s self-pity. Change is inevitable. We…
Quiznos, the homegrown toasted-sub company, is growing up: It just opened Quiznos Grill at 1147 Broadway, a few blocks from where Jimmy Lambatos opened the first Quiznos at 1275 Grant Street back in 1981. The brand has had a bumpy ride over the past 35 years, and occasionally got toasted…
Traditional Thai cuisine is not hard to find in Denver, from flamethrowers like Thai Monkey Club and US Thai to practioners of the fresh and sophisticated like Taste of Thailand. But Aloy Modern Thai, set to open Monday (February 1) in the former Trillium space on Larimer Street, promises something…
DADA Art Bar at Broadway and Larimer Street has looked a little vacant over the past few days, but there are no signs indicating anything is otherwise amiss. We checked with Iain Chisholm, chef-owner of Americatus around the corner, who opened Dada two years ago as a neighborhood hangout for…
The parent company that operates Katie Mullen’s Irish Pub on the 16th Street Mall and its younger sibling, Wee Katie’s in LoHi, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on January 26, according to the Denver Business Journal. Northwest Bars Inc. opened Katie Mullen’s in 2008, Wee Katie’s nearly a year ago,…
Teague Bohlen recently ticked off a list of seven things that make Stapleton residents really, really mad — and ticked off many of those residents in the process. But it appears that he barely scratched the surface of the irritants; among other things, readers sent in complaints about a lack…
When Park House opened on East Colfax Avenue in 2012, it impressed us quickly with its homey atmosphere and laid-back live music scene — enough so that the place landed on our list of the ten best new bars to open that year. But while Park House continued to attract…
No. 95: Schweinshaxe at Rhein Haus A LoDo restaurant specializing in beers by the liter and indoor bocce ball hardly seems like the kind of place to run into proper, traditional German fare. Nighttime crowds in the club-heavy zone are typically more interested in two-for-one drinks and loud music than…
It’s time to bring out your best! At noon today, our 2016 Best of Denver Readers’ Poll goes live, asking your opinion on everything from the best new restaurant to the best chef to the best burger. As we’ve been eating our our way around town, we served up a…
Kline’s Beer Hall, the latest project from bar pros Lenka Juchelkova and Mike Huggins, opened last Thursday night in Olde Town Arvada. This is the second bar in the neighborhood from the team, which also runs the Arvada Tavern just a block away. While the Arvada Tavern specializes in cocktails, Kline’s main…
Some longtime Denver restaurants — Andre’s Confiserie Suisse, Le Central, Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe — closed in 2015, and Denver’s losing some of its newer favorites, too — places that people with pets were particularly partial to. After a year of doggie drama, the Bark Bar closed last January, and…
The Denver Tech Center (and nearby blocks that tend to get lumped in under that moniker) is interlaced with shopping centers and strip malls that attract corporate crowds at lunch on weekdays, even if the area clears out by nightfall and becomes a ghost town on the weekends. Restaurants regularly…
Not much beats a cinnamon roll and a cup of coffee from the Duffeyroll Cafe on South Pearl Street to get the morning going. But sinful sweetness is a rare morning treat; better instead to stick with the healthy stuff for the first meal of the day. Sometimes, though the…
What was once a crumbling former synagogue at 24th and Curtis streets has found new life as a multi-use building called the Temple, with art space, a ‘zine library and several business offices. The newest tenant is Temple Bakery, a project launched by Shauna Lott, owner of Long i Pie,…
If you’ve ever have one of those days when you have to drag yourself out of the house to get food (because the only thing in the god-forsaken fridge is flat champagne), but you’re so hung over you don’t want to see or be seen by anyone, then you know…
Native Foods Cafe, which got its start in California in 1994, came into Colorado strong two decades later, winning our Best Vegetarian Restaurant award in the Best of Denver 2014. But over the last year three of its local locations have closed — including spots on the 16th Street Mall…
