Built in 1917 by the same person who designed the Bluebird Theater, the Ogden Theatre has gone through a few incarnations since then, including being home to vaudeville acts before becoming a movie theater in 1937. In the early ’90s, Doug Kauffman of Nobody in Particular Presents turned it into a music venue. In recent […]
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Chef John Broening scores again with another beautiful little neighborhood place in another neighborhood badly in need of just his kind of cuisine. Here it’s Spanish/Italian/Mediterranean food with a little bit of French thrown in for good measure — a restaurant that does small plates with huge flavors and big plates with a restraint and […]
After a five-year stint cooking in San Sebastian and Barcelona, Curt and Deicy Steinbecker moved back to Denver and decided to start a restaurant. They picked up the subterranean space in Cherry Creek North that had been French 250, gave the perpetually dark spot a shot of warmth with golds and reds, and opened Ondo’s […]
In the afternoons, you might have Opal all to yourself — which means all the more offerings for you. The laundry list of specials includes two-for-one deals on nigiri and hand rolls, two-for-one hot sake, four-dollar martinis, three-dollar champagne, big Kirins for just $2.50 — and the incongruous dollar Coronas. Don’t ask why, just enjoy. […]
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In June 2012, Opus left its original home in Littleton and moved to Cherry Creek, where it joined forces with Aria to become Opus Restaurant & Wine bar. Since then, renovations have merged the two entities and expanded the bar area. The menu at Opus emphasizes elegant preparations of local produce (some from the restaurant’s […]
Julian Cordova is the grandson of Stella Cordova, who bought what had been the Chubby Burger Drive Inn in 1969, added her Mexican specials to the menu and turned the place into Chubby’s, a national legend. Several of Stella’s grandchildren have gone into the family business, including Julian. In 1987, he opened the first Original […]
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After nearly a decade, chef/owner Mary Nguyen decided to transform her popular Vietnamese restaurant Parallel 17 into P17, a European bistro that reflects how popular the Uptown neighborhood has become – and how much it could use a neighborhood hangout. Nguyen’s visits to Europe, specifically to the modest bistros that are so ubiquitous there, inspired […]
In this world of hurry up and wait, personal digital devices have become our steady companions – but not at Pablo’s Coffee on Sixth Avenue. While phones are as ubiquitous here as anywhere, this Denver coffee shop’s absence of wi-fi means more talking, more laughing and more staring into the eyes of your Tinder date […]
In this world of hurry up and wait, personal digital devices have become our steady companions – but not at Pablo’s Coffee on Cap Hill. While phones are as ubiquitous here as anywhere, this Denver coffee shop’s absence of wi-fi means more talking, more laughing and more staring into the eyes of your Tinder date […]
Owner: Miles (who’d prefer his last name not be used!) Owner’s statement: “To provide our patients with a better quality of life.” Opened: November 2008; in current location since March. Patient services: On-site doctor evaluations, home delivery, patient referrals. (Pain Management of Colorado also operates clinics or provides service in Aspen, Boulder, Breckenridge, Colorado Springs, […]
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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 […]
The surprising thing about the food at the very hip, very urban Parallel Seventeen is how traditional it is, how Frenchy-Asian, how rigorously grounded in generations of history. Mary Nguyen’s kitchen serves an authentic cuisine that’s little known outside of Hue or the dining rooms of Denver’s Vietnamese immigrants, offering it up to crowds of […]