Bierstadt Lagerhaus

Ashleigh Carter and Bill Eye opened this brewery in 2016. It specializes in lager beers, including three core brews: its helles, its dunkel and – perhaps the most lauded beer in Colorado – its Slow Pour Pils. Beyond Bierstadt’s propensity for making some of the best craft beers in the state, it boasts a comfortable, […]

Big Bill’s New York Pizza

Fugeddaboutit! Big Bill’s is the kind of place that sparks instant nostalgia, whether you’ve been going there for years or you’re making your first visit. “Big” Bill Ficke grew up in New York but moved to Denver in the ’70s. He once did a stint as an assistant coach for the Nuggets, and also owned […]

Big Choice Brewing

Boulder County boys Tyler Ruse and Nathaniel Miller filled the craft-beer gap in the Highway 36 corridor with Big Choice, a 2,500-square-foot tasting room and brewery with eight beers on tap and a late-’80s/early-’90s music, movies and skateboarding theme.

Big Mama’s Burritos

It’s hard to miss the chuckwagon-style drive-up just east of Kipling on 44th Avenue in Wheat Ridge — especially in the mornings, when there’s a crowd clamoring for the cheap but filling breakfast burritos that Big Mama’s is known for. The eatery opens early and closes by 2 p.m., catering exclusively to breakfast and lunch […]

Big Trouble

How do you know when you’re in Big Trouble? Just ascend the sweeping wooden staircase until you see a sign that reads “You’re in Big Trouble.” This mezzanine-level bar is Kiss + Ride’s more upscale counterpart, boasting an Asian-alley theme and some almost futuristic drink options. The highball, for example, is served from a Suntory […]

Bigsby’s Folly

In a cavernous brick building that was once a factory, Chad and Marla Yetka built a winery and wine bar named after their departed golden retriever, Bigsby. The wine list at Bigsby’s Folly isn’t lengthy or built on big-name vintages; instead, you’ll find a selection of varietals made from California-grown grapes, some created on site […]

Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs

Biker Jim, aka Jim Pittenger, a former repo man who slings Denver’s best wieners from his polished stainless-steel carts, knew he’d struck culinary gold when acerbic food mouthpiece Tony Bourdain declared publicly, to a full audience at the Temple Buell Theater, that he’d “been to the mountaintop and found enlightenment” at Jim’s stand at 16th […]

Billy’s Gourmet Hot Dogs

Hot dogs are high art at Billy’s Gourmet Hot Dogs, which brings a taste of Chicago to the Ballpark neighborhood. Billy’s serves all-beef Vienna dogs, homemade sausage, veggie and even salmon dogs spruced up with an array of fixings, from traditional kraut, onions and mustard to hot peppers, cheeses and chili. One of many house […]

Billy’s Inn

If you’ve got a thirsty throng on your hands, lead them to the bar at the resurrected Billy’s Inn, where you can swoop in for a cheap glass of wine or suds, a potent margarita or sangria, and still have enough spare coinage to feed your pie hole. Snare a spare seat at the community […]

The Bindery

Linda Hampsten Fox opened her LoHi eatery – part market, part all-day dining destination – in 2017. Seven years later, the menu continues to show off her passion for highlighting seasonal ingredients in unexpected ways as she composes dishes inspired by memories from her childhood, her travels and a thirty-year-plus career in restaurants.

Birdcall

The story of Birdcall is captivating. Launched in 2017 by the crew behind Park Burger and Homegrown Tap & Dough, the owners solved the dilemma of how to turn a profit in the increasingly competitive food industry by replacing humans with bright-yellow ordering kiosks. With a few taps on a touch screen to answer on-screen […]

Bistro Barbes

Jon Robbins combined his experience as Mizuna’s chef de cuisine and his time in Michelin-starred French kitchens to launch Bistro Barbès in Park Hill in 2014. The tiny eatery transcends neighborhood-joint status with a menu that touts exacting French technique while experimenting with ingredients introduced to Parisian fare by North African immigrants. Over the past […]