A meal at Kachina, which opened in the Westin Westminster in the fall of 2012, is supposed to be “a magical trip through the Southwest,” according to its menu. The dining room is separated from the exhibition kitchen by a partition of pueblo-style niches; the space is lovely, if overdone. The menu needs some editing, […]
New American in Denver
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“I’ve worked in restaurants my whole life,” says Mario Nocifera, who co-owns Lower48 with business partner and executive chef Alex Figura; the pair met while working at Frasca Food and Wine. “I’ve always wanted to build a restaurant — that’s been my dream for years — and our goal is to continue to make Denver […]
In the summer of 2015, Larimer Square added another high-end option for diners: Milk & Honey Bar-Kitchen. Old-timers might remember chef-owner Michael Shiell as the name behind Michael’s of Cherry Creek, which had a long run in the ’90s. But there’s nothing old about Milk & Honey. Located in an elegantly remodeled subterranean space across […]
Pricey? Yes. Worth it? Absolutely. Chef Michael Long and company have taken fine dining up a notch in Littleton with their ever-changing menu and artistic presentations. And while the space itself seems strangely stilted and overly pretentious, you can easily forget all that when the food starts arriving. Brilliantly conceptualized dishes share the menu with […]
Denver musician Nathaniel Rateliff teamed up with a couple of his bandmembers and the owners of the hi-dive to take over the former Bushwacker’s Saloon and unveil it as the Overland in the summer of 2016. But don’t go here because you’re a fan of the Night Sweats; the team has created a bona fide […]
What Denver power brokers, money-drenched tourists and suited tots forced by their parents to adopt the Emily Post regimen would do without this bastion of elegance in the Brown Palace is anyone’s guess. The Palace Arms dances to Old World sensibilities and is one of the last high-end standbys in the city, where pinstripes and […]
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When Palettes opened, in 1997, heads turned. Not as much as they did years later to take in the Hamilton wing of the Denver Art Museum, with its shiny triangular facade and vertiginous stairs, but they turned all the same. Until then, dining was an afterthought to art, and hungry museum-goers in Denver were faced […]
Longtime Denver chef Stephen Kleinman and sausage impresario Jim Pittenger, founder of Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs, teamed up to open an all-day eatery in the Ballpark neighborhood on April 1, 2016 – a decision that Pittenger said would allow him to say “April Fool’s!” if things didn’t work out. But no foolin’, the duo is […]
Chef/owner John Platt creates eclectic dishes full of clever ingredient combinations that not only taste great but are visually stunning. The eatery sits in the historic Hotel Boulderado, and the service is suberb. Pay attention to the side dishes — Platt does.
With Restaurant Fourteen Seventy-Two, which opened in late summer 2012, owners Dave Chmura, Rob Young and Scott Bergin brought the low country to Denver — specifically, to a Victorian home in Platt Park that underwent drastic renovation, gaining a roof deck and two small dining rooms while retaining its family-style charm. Some of the recipes […]
The seasonal menus at Restaurant Kevin Taylor are poetry without a single word wasted. Chef Kevin Taylor’s namesake has come into its own and is deserving of the beautiful room, the fawning press and the exorbitant prices.
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David Schneider opened Row 14 in the Spire, a hip condominium high-rise, in March 2011, creating a New American concept well-suited to the upscale theater-district neighborhood. The deep, high-ceilinged dining room isn’t ostentatious, but it’s richly appointed and luxurious, with dark-wood tables, a massive bar beneath dark-gray walls, and gold curtains that divide more intimate […]
Sketch is an exercise in simplicity. There is no kitchen here, no real menu. But there is a sleek, comfortable dining room; a nice wine, liquor and beer selection (with bartenders who actually know a little something about the booze they’re pushing); a good downtown vibe; and a short, tight menu of cured meats, cheese […]
Solera’s kitchen has truly come into its own with a menu of solid, old-world dishes reinterpreted through chef Goose Sorensen’s worldly neo-classicism. Look for excellent modern translations of traditional French, Italian and Mediterranean dishes served in a comfortable, relaxed atmosphere by one of the most knowledgeable groups of servers in town. The lovely, lush patio […]
Owner Johnny Ballen unleashed The Squeaky Bean in Highland in May 2009, and it generated quite the following before shuttering two years later. The current iteration of the Bean, which opened in June 2012 in the historic Saddlery building in LoDo, is everything (and more) that Ballen envisioned, with the same convivial vibrancy, irreverent accents […]
The Ballpark neighborhood is experiencing a serious case of sugar shock now that Sugarmill has opened. The charming cafe, dinner joint, dessert bar and lounge – launched by Troy Guard in late 2013 – teases everyone who walks through the door with its extravagant display cases of cookies and cupcakes, French macarons and fat muffins, […]
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This Washington Park eatery is owner Christopher Sargent’s second restaurant. Like Brazen, Sargent’s initial foray into Denver’s restaurant scene, Telegraph boasts a small, tight menu – dinner tops out at thirteen offerings – with the bulk of the plates on the smaller side. Luckily for diners, Telegraph also echoes the elements that made Brazen so […]
Long before there was a renovated Union Station, even long before lower downtown was nicknamed LoDo, there was a Terminal Bar in the neighborhood. It was a down-and-dirty workingman’s joint, named for both the nearby Union Station and the long-gone Terminal Annex Post Office. Three happy hours a day — early morning, late afternoon and […]
Jeff Osaka’s twelve derives its name from its focus on monthly menus that highlight seasonality as far more fluid than just spring, summer, fall and winter. Seasonality wasn’t all that hot when Osaka opened twelve in late 2008; neither was the Ballpark neighborhood, where he turned an old storefront into a spare, elegant dining room […]