Now that development of the historic Stapleton Airport control tower is about to take off — come spring 2016, it will hold the city’s second Punch Bowl Social — only a few iconic buildings in this city still sit empty. In RiNo, once-decrepit warehouses are being turned around daily. An…
In the early 2000s, Denver was all about the creative class. Author/big thinker Richard Florida had labeled the metro area one of the top creative spots in the country, an honor that John Hickenlooper used to promote the city that had just elected him mayor. Fifteen years before, he’d been…
Gretchen Kurtz recently visited Butcher’s Bistro, where a butcher’s counter up-front displays the cut of the day you may later see on your plate. But without any sauce, she writes in her review of Butcher’s Bistro, that cut looked pretty lonely. Fortunately, the restaurant has since added sauces that are…
Comments have been pouring out about one of this year’s Super Bowl commercials, a Budweiser ad that drew special attention from the 3,200 craft breweries across the country — and the people who drink their beer. “Brewed the Hard Way” began with the words “Proudly a macro beer” spelled out…
Kobe An just moved to Cherry Creek, after many years in Lakewood. Longtime Creek favorite Cucina Colore recently expanded. And many other new restaurants will soon open in Cherry Creek. Decades, this neighborhood was Denver’s hottest dining destination — is it heating up again? See also: Cherry Creek Set for…
Residents of the southern suburbs were excited when chef Mary Nguyen, who’d gained a strong following at Parallel Seventeen (now P17, and celebrating its tenth birthday this year), opened Street Kitchen Asian Bistro in the Vallagio development in Englewood in January 2011. But since then Nguyen has added Olive &…
Yelp released its second annual list of the Top 100 Places to Eat in the U.S. last month, compiling user data of the most popular and well-reviewed eateries of 2014. And according to Yelp users, the one place in all of Colorado worthy of national attention is the Kitchen Table…
Chef’s counters are becoming increasingly important features at local restaurants, including Brazen Neighborhood Eatery, the new restaurant in northwest Denver that Gretchen Kurtz reviews this week. In fact, Brazen rates our list of the twelve best chef’s counters in Denver, which we rolled out yesterday. But did we miss one?…
The sign outside Bruxie promised “Sweet Treats,” but the waffle sandwich shop, one of our ten best new fast-casual restaurants in 2014, just met a sour end. Bruxie has closed up shop on Colorado Boulevard “due to unforeseen circumstances,” according to a message you reach when you dial the place…
The Denver ramen scene has been heating up, with high-profile noodle-house openings late last year, and more to come soon. But in Aurora, a deep demand for Japanese noodle bowls has apparently been bubbling beneath the surface, because when Katsu Ramen opened Monday at the corner of Havana Street and…
The Inuit have more than fifty words for snow — including pukak and matsaaruti — but you’d need more than fifty words to describe the amazing things done with cabbage at Dae Gee, which Gretchen Kurtz just reviewed. In the process, she offered a few tips about traditional Korean food…
The New York Times served up a “36 Hours in Denver” feature last week, filled with suggestions for what to see and eat in Denver — including New York-style bagels at Rosenberg’s Bagels & Delicatessen, the incredibly popular new spot on Welton Street. Some readers liked the Times’s suggestions, others…
The New York Times just served up “36 Hours in Denver,” a feature on what a visitor should see and eat during a short trip to the Mile High City. The piece included standard must-go spots (Denver Art Museum, Biker Jim’s) and some surprises (sending New Yorkers to Rosenberg’s Bagels…
Peruvian-born Marjorie Silva opened Azucar Bakery in 2006 to fill a hole in a town more accustomed to cupcakes and pie than flan and Suspiro de Limeña. But while she’s giving Denver diners a good taste of South American delicacies from her shiny, pink-frosted space on South Broadway, she’s also…
Every April Fool’s Day, Brad Evans, founder of the Denver Cruiser Ride, rolls out an elaborate prank. In 2013, he listed fictitious themes for that season’s rides, including “Skid Marks & Seaman Stains.” And on the morning of April 1, 2014, the B-rad 4 Denver Mayor campaign popped up on…
When Gustavo Arellano, author of Ask a Mexican, was researching his 2012 book Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, he discovered that in 1886 Buffalo Bill had opened what might have been the first Mexican restaurant in the country, a pop-up place outside of Madison Square Garden in New…
Even before Paris on the Platte, a Denver institution for almost three decades, poured its last cup of coffee on Saturday, the memories were pouring out. This is where artists would hang after last call at My Brother’s Bar in the late ’80, where teens from the suburbs would smoke…
Happy Martin Luther King Day! After the Marade, which kicks off this morning in City Park, you should have plenty of time to enjoy the good weather, maybe sit on a patio in the January sunshine and have a brew or two. Some of those patios will even encourage you…
UPDATE: Paris on the Platte closed out its run by selling off memorabilia in what the owners dubbed a “nostalgia sale”, unloading everything from fixtures to furniture. Denver will lose another institution today, when Paris on the Platte closes this afternoon. The wine bar poured its last glass of vino…
On Wednesday we made our annual pilgrimage to the National Western Stock Show, which always includes a visit to the Cowboy Bar, the temporary watering hole that sets up in the basement of the Hall of Education, right by the stalls where the steers are getting all spiffed up for…
Last week Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Amass, the bistro that took over the Corner House space in Jefferson Park. For this week’s review, she went across town to northeast Denver, home of The Bistro at Stapleton. The two neighborhoods are very different, but the two restaurants have one thing in common:…
“The dog park has always been my favorite place to hang,” says Christine Peters. “It’s that zen feeling, all your problems go away and you’re just hanging out watching dogs play. They have no ego, no issues, no agendas.” Unlike people. Since Peters opened the Bark Bar in West Highland,…
