What’s the Best New Restaurant in Denver? After months of eating and weighing the merits of hundreds of eateries that opened in 2014, we tapped Mercantile Dining & Provision for top honors in the Best of Denver 2015, which came out last week. People stop at Mercantile to grab coffee…
Our annual Best of Denver edition hit the streets — and the Internet — on Wednesday, giving a thorough rundown of the finest that our city’s service industry has to offer, with everything from Best New Restaurant and Best Chef — Mercantile Dining & Provision and Steven Redzikowski of Oak…
Every March, a crew of chefs and others in the restaurant business meet up at White Fence Farm to celebrate birthdays and the start of spring. This hip group’s most recent visit was this past Sunday, and “It was great,” says Patrick Kneese, manager of Lola. “At a table full…
It may not be your traditional hair of the dog (or any type of hangover cure for that matter), but by our estimation, a glass of wine with breakfast on the weekend offers just the right buzz to put some pep in your step and get a move on the…
When you find yourself in a paradox of craving something comforting yet healthy at the same time, but you don’t want to compromise taste and nutrition, don’t give up and settle for another lackluster veggie burger. You CAN have it all. Formerly known as Jonsey’s, The Centennial Tavern is one…
When he moved from Poland to Denver a decade ago, Cezary Grosfeld realized that few places served the food of his home country, and he jumped into that gap. He opened Polished Tavern in 2011 and also launched a food truck, Pierogies Factory, that visits farmers’ markets. And now he’s…
When Jet’s Pizza opened in Littleton last summer, it introduced something that most Denverites didn’t even know existed: Detroit-style pizza. While a growing number of pizza parlors in Detroit and the surrounding area have been attracting praise ever since Buddy’s Rendezvous started dishing up square pies baked in auto-parts pans in…
The Corral family has been serving combo platters and Mexican breakfasts at El Tepehuan, an Englewood institution, since 1978. But now the restaurant is moving down the block to a bigger corner spot, and the family is officially changing the eatery’s name to El Tep, the nickname that many regulars…
Bloody Mary bars just keep getting bigger and better. Punch Bowl Social took Best Bloody Mary Bar honors for the second year running — but Lou’s Food Bar just introduced a beer brunch to go with its Bloody Mary bar that makes this place ook like a real contender for next year…
If you think doughnut madness is getting a little out of hand in Denver, keep in mind that we don’t even crack the top dozen cities in the country when it comes to doughnut shops per capita. Top honors go to East Coast cities like Providence, Rhode Island, Portland, Maine,…
Polished Tavern owner Cezary Grosfeld moved from Poland to Denver ten years ago and noticed that there were very few places in town that served the food of his home country. Despite having a Master’s degree in software engineering, Grosfeld decided to jump into the food service industry, opening Kinga’s Lounge…
Our 32nd Best of Denver issue is about to hit the streets — and the web. Over the years, some categories have disappeared and others have grown, reflecting the boom and bust of fads. But one trend that shows no signs of imploding is Colorado’s craft-beer industry, and there will…
The wok has been fired up and the kitchen is ready to go for next Monday’s highly anticipated opening of Cho77, chef and restaurateur Lon Symensma’s tribute to Southeast Asian street food located in a long and narrow space on South Broadway. Roaming across Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia (with…
For a chance to enjoy a spectacular six-course dinner spearheaded by some of Denver’s top kitchen talent while benefiting an environmental cause, tickets are now on sale for Dine Out for Earth, presented by Rock the Earth, a nonprofit organization that partners with the music industry to protect and defend…
With a special Beer Brunch series launched over the weekend, Lou’s Food Bar offers a three-course tasting menu paired with brews from a different local brewery each month for $30. The series kicked off with porters and Kölsch from Elevation Beer Co. in Poncha Springs, goat cheese and green chile crepes…
For taco hunters seeking rare and regional styles, Boulder’s Centro Latin Kitchen just updated its menu, with a section devoted to tacos perrones, a specialty of a single taqueria in Tijuana, Mexico (actually nearby Rosarito, to be more specific). Although the style has spread to other taco stands in Baja…
Is it possible to have too many pizza joints in northwest Denver? That’s what a reader wondered after we reported that one of the owners of Brown Dog Pizza in Telluride and a partner will be opening Blue Pan Pizza in Highland, serving Detroit-style pizza. Responds Tony: Relax reader… yuppies…
Past a Subway sandwich shop, a Qdoba and a Tokyo Joe’s, Babajoon’s Kabobs doesn’t exactly stand out in its Westminster strip-mall home. And on a March Madness weekend, the parking lot is packed with the cars of college basketball fans headed to the Hooter’s next door (at least, I assume…
Tocabe American Indian Eatery, which debuted in northwest Denver years ago, has finally opened a second outpost, on East Arapahoe Road. And with the new location comes an expanded menu — and the addition of bannock bread. But you can still get our favorite shredded bison at both spots. Is…
The U Baron Group, which operates the Silvi’s Kitchen restaurants in the metro area (along with all of the other former Udi’s eateries and bakeries), closed the Colfax Silvi’s last fall with plans to reopen with a new name and theme. Tomorrow the Baron family will open the Good Son,…
This week in Westword Food & Drink, Gretchen Kurtz visited Table 6 to see if the decade-old restaurant still lived up to its reputation as one of the early shapers of Denver’s restaurant scene. Mark Antonation took a fun detour in his tour of Denver’s Middle Eastern cuisine with a…
The history of a restaurant can get a little complicated. This photo, for example, shows a new restaurant with the self-explanatory name Authentic Greek Cuisine. But the address, 8 South Broadway, has been known to locals as Swift’s Steakhouse #4 since 1960, even if the family that owned steakhouses 1…
