When we revealed the readers’ choices for the five finalists in the Best Italian Restaurant category for the Best of Denver 2015, red-sauce fans weren’t happy with the lack of spots in northwest Denver. A few mentioned places that had closed years ago, while others offered shout-outs to Lechuga’s (which…
Pierogi prince and restaurateur Cezary Grosfeld opened Pierogies Factory, his fast-casual tribute to hearty Polish cuisine, today in Wheat Ridge at 39th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard in the former home of a Bubba Chinos. Pierogies Factory is open for pastries and Dazbog coffee starting at 6:30 a.m. and serves the savory…
At the end of 2012, Zanzibar Billiards received a visit from Spike TV show Bar Rescue and its host John Taffer, who transformed the ailing Ballpark pool hall into Solids & Stripes Badass Billiards. Taffer gave the bar a patriotic theme in red, white and blue to hammer home the stars and…
Says Michele: YES! YES! and YES to more public restrooms! I went into McDonald’s one morning and was about to tinckle on myself, and the lady took forever, and I was like, “So, I plan to order a bacon biscuit, but can I please use the restroom, first?”, and she…
Food & Wine just announced the People’s Best New Chef nominees in ten U.S. regions, as voted by the magazine’s readers and website visitors. And out of ten chefs nominated as People’s Best New Chef in the Southwest Region, Denver has two on the list: Alex Figura of Lower48 Kitchen and…
In addition to its memorable name, Devil’s Food Bakery &Cookery stands out as a unique gem in the Denver dining scene for its homey food reminiscent of an entirely different era that somehow manages to defy Wash Park pretension, its well-planned brunch menu that consistently draws long lines on weekends, and…
Wade Kirwan is back in a LoDo kitchen. The chef was a fixture at Vesta Dipping Grill from 1999 to 2010, and after that “bounced around quite a bit,” he remembers. He worked at Solera, helped a friend open Crash 45 — which is now turning into Fort Greene —…
While living in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, Bretton Scott rented out his apartment for a week via Airbnb to a French woman who designed restaurants. She told him should design a restaurant like his living room. That’s essentially what he’ll be doing with his new restaurant and bar,…
When chef Cindhura Reddy and front-of-the-house manager Elliot Strathmann purchased Spuntino from John Broening and Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, another husband-and-wife pair, last September, whatever jitters they had quickly disappeared as they got back to business with the crew that had already coalesced at Spuntino. Strathmann had been working the dining room…
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. The result was revealed last month. The name? The Good…
You never know where you’re going to find good food these days. It could be in a food truck. It could be in a converted shipping container, or a train station, or a strip mall. So I didn’t bat an eyelash when I pulled up in front of Will Call,…
The wave of new restaurant openings has definitely subsided since the frenetic pace set last fall and winter. Still, March had its share of big-name openings as well as a couple of surprises. The Baron family (founders of the Udi’s brand) shuttered Sylvi’s Kitchen in the Lowenstein complex at the…
The Crumb Cafe took over the space at 217 South Holly Street that opened up when the Adagio Baking Company closed in Hilltop earlier this year. After a soft opening over the weekend, the Crumb, a sibling to Cake Crumbs Bakery and the Denver Cupcake Truck, is ready for its…
Choosing the Best Burger in Denver always involves an orgy of eating as we try out new spots and return to old favorites, all in our quest to find the perfectly cooked patty. A good bun and great toppings help, too, and this year our Best Burger was the beefy…
The sign above the door at the Amira Bakery has been recently updated to read Amira Grill — the old sign was a simple vinyl banner, but the new one looks much more permanent — but the breads are still the main attraction at this Lebanese joint. Manaeesh (often spelled…
In case you’re heading over to the Source for dinner tonight, Acorn just posted a message on its Facebook page earlier today that the restaurant be closed from tonight through Thursday night for “repairs.” Acorn expects to be back open in time for lunch on Friday, April 3. You’ll want…
No. 40: Nachos al Pastor From the Tony Guacamole Food Truck One of the great things about the recent craft brewery explosion is that even if you’re not a fan of craft beer, you can still join in the patio-sitting, cornhole-playing fun without ever touching a brew. Just track your…
Aurora is awash lately with some of the most diverse ethnic cuisine in the Denver metro area, and the cultural landscape is primed with every kind of dining from the fine-ish to the loveable ratchet. Havana Street in particular is dotted with mom and pop eateries from Ethiopian food to…
When you imagine a traditional Easter brunch you probably picture a stuffy hotel buffet with the post-church crowd bathed in a slew of florals, pastels and oversized hats. Zzzz. How about instead of the tired, overpriced eggs-traveganzas, this year we celebrate with a feast of epic proportions at one of…
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…
