Kentucky Inn Reopens After Extensive Remodel

The Kentucky Inn, one of the oldest bars in the Washington Park West neighborhood, closed in July for a remodel and the installation of a new kitchen. As with every other construction project in the city, this one stretched on, but the wait is finally over. The bar, which originally…

Chef Samir Mohammad Moves Up the Mountain With Artisan 206

Those who have followed good cooking in Denver over the past decade will recognize the name Samir Mohammad, a chef who quietly wowed diners on Old South Pearl at The Village Cork and later at Black Pearl (well before it closed). Mohammad took off for a stint in Indonesia before returning…

Every Restaurant and Bar Opening and Closing This Week

Our metabolisms are slowing down, but our appetites aren’t. Thank god more restaurants keep cropping up to keep us fed and watered. Topping the list this week is Ultreia, the sumptuous new Iberian eatery in Union Station from the owners of Rioja and nearby Stoic & Genuine. On the casual…

Lon Symensma Takes Over the Block With Two New Projects

Chef Lon Symensma’s energy level clocks in somewhere between a welterweight boxer and a toddler on a sugar rush; he’s always moving, always looking at things from several angles at once. After launching two restaurants this year, Concourse Restaurant Moderne (which made our list of the best new restaurants this…

The Wait Is Over: Ultreia Opens Today at Union Station

One of the premier offerings on the opening menu at Ultrieia is Cinco Jotas Jamón Ibérico de Bellota, a cured Spanish ham aged for four years before being sold. With as many delays as owners Jennifer Jasinski and Beth Gruitch have experienced since announcing their plan to open a Spanish/Portuguese “gastroteka”…

Yellowbelly Chicken Makes It a Duo of December Openings

Yellowbelly Chicken is out to conquer the suburbs, one fast-casual chicken joint at a time. But this month the company is doing a two-fer by unveiling locations in Arvada and Lakewood within a week of each other. Yellowbelly was founded in Vail in 2012 by Michael Friedberg, Eric Wupperman and…

Sushi Ronin Commits to Late Night With New RiNo Izakaya

Denver has never been much of a late-night city outside of a few club zones, but with the influx of service industry employees moving to town to fill restaurant jobs, more and more Denver residents are looking for food and drink options past 10 p.m. Corey Baker, chef/partner of Sushi…

Troy Guard’s Latest Restaurant Could Open This Weekend

We’re all plagued by construction these days, with projects creating everything from road closures and traffic jams to the dust from a neighbor’s scrape-and-build and noise bouncing of the concrete canyons downtown. But when you’re trying to launch a new restaurant and the city tears up the sidewalks in front…

Spuntino Owners Will Launch South Indian Eatery at Zeppelin Station

The final piece in Zeppelin Station’s food hall has fallen into place; chef Cindhura Reddy and her husband, Elliot Strathmann, are adding Namkeen, a fast-casual counter that will focus on South Indian street food. You may have eaten Reddy’s cooking, but it probably wasn’t Indian —  unless you’re a friend…

Radical Sasquatch Takes Dumplings to the Street

There may not be a better name out there for a food-service company than Radical Sasquatch Dumpling Company. It simultaneously commands attention and creates a dumpling craving — just what founders Lucas Doverspike and Matt Faurot were hoping for. The two launched their food truck in August and have been…

New Shanghai-Style Restaurant Opens in Cherry Creek

More than a year has passed since Osaka Ramen closed its Cherry Creek outpost at 2817 East Third Avenue, and finally the void has been filled. Fortune Wok to Table opened earlier this month, serving lunch and dinner. Fortune specializes in Shanghai-style cuisine, with a brief lunch menu of just…

Q House Will Bring Modern Chinese Cuisine to Colfax Avenue

Christopher Lin and Jonathan Pinto have worked together in restaurants for years, but not in Denver. Although Pinto grew up in Colorado, he moved to New York City and worked front-of-house positions, where he met Lin, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, who…

New Leadership at SAME Cafe Paves the Way for Growth

On a crisp, sunny Wednesday afternoon in mid-November, the volunteers cleaning tables and chopping vegetables at SAME Cafe skew young: Rock Canyon High School students are here to learn about the restaurant business while helping the nonprofit eatery fulfill the mission captured in its acronym: So All May Eat. The…

Fourth-Generation Coloradan to Open Jewish Deli on Larimer Street

Jerrod Rosen has been immersed in Jewish deli food his entire life. He’s a fourth-generation Coloradan who grew up in Boulder; his father’s parents ran Rosen’s Grocery and his great-grandmother ran Rosen’s Kosher Deli, both in Denver. On his mom’s side of the family, his grandfather owned the Oasis Drive…

Three Places to Satisfy Your Turkey Cravings Before Thanksgiving

Turkey isn’t really a big deal most of the time, but as golden leaves crinkle underfoot and baking pies add wafts of cinnamon, apple and pumpkin to the air, images of a magnificent Thanksgiving feast enter our minds. Deli-style turkey can only substitute for so long before full-on Thanksgiving cravings…