After nearly a decade at 950 Broadway, Tony’s Market is pulling out of downtown for a new home in south Denver. The company, headed by CEO/president Daniel Rosacci (son of founder Tony Rosacci), will close up shop on December 31 and open in the spring of 2018 in a new…

Here’s our complete list of bar and restaurant openings and closing for the week of December 11-17, 2017.

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…

Sometimes a new food and beverage “concept” is more difficult to describe than it is to experience. Such is the case with Beckon|Call, a new dual-identity cafe and restaurant at 2845 Larimer Street. After poking your head inside Call, the white cottage on the right half of the property (Beckon…

Thanks to Comal Heritage Food Incubator, we now have one more culinary word in our lexicon. The lunchtime restaurant at 3455 Ringsby Court in the Taxi development is named for the large, flat cooking surface used to cook tortillas and other Mexican fare. But starting this Thursday, December 14, we…

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…

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 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…

As if the avalanche of new eateries that have opened over the past eleven months hasn’t been enough for 2017, there are a few restaurants and bars that could squeeze in under the deadline. Look for these seven places to debut before the end of December — although some are…

“Red or green?” the server asks yet another customer during lunch service at Little Anita’s Foods of New Mexico, a Denver branch of an Albuquerque original that’s been smothering stacked enchiladas and burritos for more than forty years. She doesn’t have to ask the question of every diner; regulars blurt…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Bamboo Sushi came to Denver from Portland, Oregon in the summer of 2016, choosing to debut as a fast-casual counter inside Avanti Food & Beverage. But the company almost did itself a disservice presenting itself as a simplified version of the real deal, judging by the sophisticated new sushi bar…

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…

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…