Coffee started as a hobby for Phil Goodlaxson, owner of Corvus Coffee. “I have a business degree, I did the corporate life for a bit, and when I’d had enough of that, I started looking for something that would be an artisan craft. I started getting more and more interested…
When Justin Lloyd inked the deal on Star Bar almost two years ago, he hadn’t been behind a bar for fifteen years. His bartending skills, he admits, were a little rusty. “I bought Star Bar because I wanted to be in charge of my own destiny, but without being on…
JoeAnn and John Falco took on the stunning Brittany Hill property in Thornton over two years ago, planning to restore the space that was once a landmark restaurant and open an eatery/special events center there. They got to work on upgrades, but the spot never reopened — and at the…
The address on Sixth Avenue and Downing that’s home to Campagna is one of Denver’s cursed locations, losing a slew of restaurants over the course of the last few decades. Owner Alex Gurevich is determined to make it work, though — even if that means ditching his salumeria and pizzeria…
There’s no limit to our love for salted and cured meat, so we’re as happy as pigs at the feeding trough that some variation of the charcuterie plate has worked its way onto just about every menu in this town. But as more and more restaurants fill out their menu…
For my review in this week’s Westword, I landed at Crimson Canary, the newest concept from Joey Newman and brothers Andre and Aaron Lobato, the trio that brought Denver Interstate Kitchen & Bar. When they took over the old Mona’s address on South Broadway, they filled it with a concept…
It’s been just over a month since Bryan Dayton and Steve Redzikowski reopened the doors of Oak at Fourteenth, revealing the space they had to rebuild after fire destroyed the original restaurant last spring. “Things have been going really well,” Dayton says. “I mean, really well. It seems like everything…
It’s always onward and upward for Josh Wolkon, the restaurateur who brought this city Vesta Dipping Grill, Steuben’s and the Steuben’s Food Truck (better known as “Pearl”) with the help of his wife, Jen, and other cohorts, including Matt Selby, Brandon and Emily Biederman, and Jeff Bustos. Now Wolkon has…
Aaron Lobato says that he, his brother Andre and their business partner, Joey Newman, have several concepts already written should the perfect opportunity to open another restaurant come along. And last summer, a couple of years after they opened Interstate Kitchen & Bar on Santa Fe, they got the chance…
The burgers at Crave Real Burgers are monstrous creations, patties stacked so high with other ingredients — including things like pulled pork, duck and, um, hot dogs — that sometimes it’s hard to find the beef…
The Denver Tech Center is “an area distinctly lacking in interesting ethnic food,” I said in last week’s review of Street Kitchen Asian Bistro. In fact, I almost expanded that sentiment to cover everything south of Hampden Avenue, an area filled with fast-casual and upscale chains that tend to overshadow…
Hunched in a club-chair bar seat under the glow of multi-colored Christmas lights, I looked nervously at my boyfriend. “Where’s the rest of the noodle?” he asked, glaring. “You ate it, didn’t you? You’re supposed to be judicious with the noodle.” “But I liked the noodle,” I responded. “I liked…
Michael Cerretani, barman at Boulder’s Bitter Bar, has been bartending off and on for about a decade, but he didn’t start down the craft-cocktail path until he landed a job at Bitter Bar a few years ago…
When Mizuna alum Tony Clement and his wife, Mandi, took over the operations of Wild Catch after Justin Brunson and his team made an abrupt exit from the three-month-old spot, they brought new fare to the restaurant, changing out the seafood-focused menu for a list heavy on meat and game…
One year ago next week, Pizzeria Locale finally opened its doors, revealing the Napolitano pizzeria that Frasca owners Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson had been working on for months, pushing forward even after their custom-made oven was dismantled in customs…
Koan Goedman, one of the top-notch baristas at Crema Coffee House, has always wanted to own his own coffee shop. But after a trip to Coffee Fest in Seattle last year, he began pondering the idea of a roastery, too. “I started talking to the Diedrich’s roasters, who were there…
Late last summer, every Front Range location of Fatburger — the California-based burger chain that has expanded nationwide since it first started slinging patties in the early 1950s — abruptly parted ways with the parent company, becoming Epic Grill…
When I was growing up near the Tech Center, the place was something close to a culinary wasteland — there were few dining destinations worth seeking out, and most restaurant real estate was devoted to national chains. More ethnic options would be welcomed — as I noted in this week’s…
I headed south for this week’s review, to Street Kitchen Asian Bistro, the second restaurant from Mary Nguyen, who also owns the fantastic Parallel Seventeen. I’ve eaten several meals at Street Kitchen since it opened last January, encountering both hits and misses as I tried to navigate the expansive menu…
Denver was slated to get a tiki bar, Mauka Tiki, in 2011, but when the ball dropped at the end of the year, the space at 218 South Broadway was still dark. Owners Jay Dedrick and Brett Kimball are moving ahead with their plans, says Matty Durgin, who’ll be the…
Hawaiian places are hard to come by in our landlocked state, and the sun set on a couple of them in 2011…
Street Kitchen Asian Bistro opened in January 2011 — but it took me almost a year to find my way to a satisfying meal at this spot. A friend and I stopped in recently as the lunch rush was coming to a close, passing exiting groups of cubicle warriors as…
