You really haven’t had ice cream until you’ve had Sweet Cow’s. Spike-haired Drew Honness, a young DIY-style entrepreneur who got his start in the ice cream business scooping for Springs-based Josh & John’s. The Aurora outpost boasts a friendly air that extends to kids and adults alike, and the ice cream is to die for, […]
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When Josh Pollack moved to Colorado from the East Coast, he lamented the lack of good bagels. Years later, after a short-lived career in the mortgage business and other entrepreneurial ventures, he decided to change that, and opened Rosenberg’s. Pollack is so obsessed with correct bagel-making technique that he reconfigures his water, adjusting the mineral […]
Mondo Market is steadily carving out spots in food halls around town (the Source in 2013, Stanley Marketplace in 2017), bringing them its blend of sit-down dining, high-end takeout and fancy groceries. That old adage about how you should never go food shopping while you’re hungry? Mondo has taken it to heart, saving shoppers from […]
Being a coffee shop inside Stanley Marketplace has its advantages and disadvantages. You have a captive audience of market-goers and looky-loos venturing into the cavernous space for shopping, dining and satisfying their curiosity; surely some of them will need a caffeine kick. But hanging out in what’s essentially a mall (a really cool reinvention of […]
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 […]
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The designation “Middle Eastern” is a vague and shifting notion that doesn’t exactly encapsulate the spectrum of cuisine cooked from Morocco to Pakistan, from Turkey to eastern Africa. So forgive us if Sudan Cafe doesn’t fit neatly into standard notions of where the Middle East begins and ends; you’ll understand once you try the kitchen’s […]
This spot is one of the best beer halls – Korean or otherwise – in town. You won’t find the words “Funny Plus” in English anywhere on the exterior of the restaurant, though the word “Hof” – a standard word used in Korea to designate drinking establishments – glows prominently on the eatery’s sign, and […]
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When Katsu Ramen opened in early 2015 in Aurora, it was greeted by long lines of ramen lovers. They found was milky-white tonkotsu ramen, cloudy with pork bones boiled for the better part of a day; sweet, nutty miso ramen; lighter shoyu, with a soy-flavored blend of chicken and pork stock; spicy chicken ramen, with […]
Altitude’s Aurora store is one of the rare dispensaries that occupies a building actually constructed to be a pot shop. You’ll find no confusing exits or hallways added to conform to regulations – but you might confuse the place for an art gallery after taking in the veiled lighting, canvases on the walls and decorated […]
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