While it’s squashed into a small mall overlooking a parking lot, the interior feel of Arugula is gracious, modern and warm – and the Northern Italian food turned out by chef/owner Alec Schuler has the same contemporary hominess. The seasonal menu features farm-to-table ingredients, many of them locally sourced; the roster is rich with such […]
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Showing 89 - 110 of 2375Kelly and Cary Floyd opened Arvada Beer Company in 2011 in a 95-year-old brick building that was gutted and restored. The airy spot now anchors a corner in Olde Town Arvada with a steady stream of regulars and newcomers who want to try the beers designed by Kelly, an award-winning homebrewer and one of the […]
The Arvada Tavern opened in 1933, not long after the repeal of Prohibition, and was issued the first liquor license in Arvada. A dive for decades, the tavern received a facelift in 2013 under new ownership while still holding on to the building’s vintage charm. More upscale now, it serves a variety of vintage cocktails […]
When you’re hoofin’ it to work on a brisk morning downtown, you don’t have time for a sit-down breakfast. Asada Rico, one of many street-food kiosks on the 16th Street Mall, has just what you need: express breakfast burritos stuffed with scrambled eggs, potatoes, green chile, cheese and a choice of meats. They’re a speedy […]
If you were asked to seamlessly blend East and West, Asian and Cajun probably wouldn’t be the first combination to come to mind – but that element of surprise is exactly what makes this oddball fusion cuisine so great. The Asian Cajun is really two restaurants in one: It offers year-round seafood boils and Cajun […]
Playing guinea pig to students learning the restaurant ropes isn’t painful when you do it in this tastefully decorated dining room. The service and food vary according to the caliber of the employees — students rotate through every possible position — but things generally run smoothly, and the prices are good for the quality.
For a chef who’s been in the restaurant business as long as he has, Radek Cerny still manages to bring a sense of fun and whimsy to some seriously French cuisine. At Atelier, you can luxuriate in rotating classics like rillettes, escargot, foie gras and lobster, but Cerny also has a way with Western favorites […]
The women who work at the Athenian are not there just to serve patrons; they want to get to know patrons. And so those servers see fit to get involved with every dinner decision, sometimes with persuasive forcefulness. They rarely err in their recommendations, though, smiling knowingly while delivering platters of gyros, hummus and saganaki, […]
What started as a hip mashup of pizza joint, retro-swank hang and Southern-style biscuit emporium on East Colfax Avenue has traveled to the far east – to Stanley Marketplace. This is a pared-down version of the food-and-drink trifecta that’s been winning hearts and minds in Denver proper for years: At this outpost, the bar and […]
From its early days as an East Colfax hipster bar to its current configuration of breakfast joint, pizzeria and retro-swank watering hole, Atomic Cowboy/Denver Biscuit Co./Fat Sully’s Pizza has evolved into one of Denver’s most gleefully indulgent stops for wallowing in comfort food and whiling away hours with friends. Not content to cater just to […]
From its early days as an East Colfax hipster bar to its current configuration of breakfast joint, pizzeria and retro-swank watering hole, Atomic Cowboy/Denver Biscuit Co./Fat Sully’s Pizza has evolved into one of Denver’s most gleefully indulgent stops for wallowing in comfort food and whiling away hours with friends. Not content to cater just to […]
From its early days as an East Colfax hipster bar to its current configuration of breakfast joint, pizzeria and retro-swank watering hole, Atomic Cowboy/Denver Biscuit Co./Fat Sully’s Pizza has evolved into one of Denver’s most gleefully indulgent stops for wallowing in comfort food and whiling away hours with friends. Not content to cater just to […]
The neighborhood around the University of Denver is home to many student-oriented hangouts — and Atticus, a new project by Table to Tavern, which also owns Boone’s Tavern next door, was originally conceived as “a bar with shared plates,” says Table to Tavern CEO Brian Midtbo. But after Atticus opened in February 2014, people kept […]
Snooze founder Jon Schlegel opened this Ballpark winery in January 2020 after spending time living in Italy. Italian for “a moment,” Attimo offers a peaceful reprieve from the bustle of downtown with wines made from grapes shipped directly from Italy and aged on site.
Since October 2015, Audrey Sherman has been slinging gigantic slices (seriously, they’re huge) and whole pies from a small spot tucked away on the back side of a shopping center. Those in the know wouldn’t dare make a trek through Boulder without a pit stop at the Garage, where slices come out hot and fast, […]
While the basic idea of combining food and a film is a good one, the Movie Tavern — part of a multi-unit, meals-and-movies chain out of Texas — is the McDonald’s, Olive Garden and T.G.I. Friday’s of the industry all rolled into one. That’s fine if your idea of a great flick is Independence Day […]
Avanti Food & Beverage was Denver’s first newfangled food hall, bringing together an ever-rotating cast of gastro-upstarts under one roof. Avanti quickly became a weekend-night and day-drinking mainstay of young professionals who are big fans of its anchor bar, which doles out a healthy mix of geeky beer and easy-drinking cocktails, plus a concise and […]
In February 2015, after 22 years in the same space, Avery Brewing Company closed its Arapahoe Avenue location in Boulder and opened a brand-new brewing facility, restaurant and taproom on 5.6 acres of land at 4910 Nautilus Court. Nearly as extensive as the beer selection, the all-day menu (served in both rooms) reaches well beyond […]