Bloody Mary bars just keep getting bigger and better. Punch Bowl Social took Best Bloody Mary Bar honors for the second year running — but Lou’s Food Bar just introduced a beer brunch to go with its Bloody Mary bar that makes this place ook like a real contender for next year…
Our 32nd Best of Denver issue is about to hit the streets — and the web. Over the years, some categories have disappeared and others have grown, reflecting the boom and bust of fads. But one trend that shows no signs of imploding is Colorado’s craft-beer industry, and there will…
The Denver dining scene has changed a lot since Table 6 was the new kid on the block eleven years ago. The young upstart earned fast notice in Esquire, but in the intervening decade many more much-lauded restaurants have opened in the city. For her current review, Gretchen Kurtz returned…
The Best of Denver 2015 is just a week away, and voting in our Best of Denver Readers’ Poll ends tonight. We’re down to the five finalists in almost two hundred categories, and busy counting all the votes. It’s enough to drive you to drink….but at what brewery? Says Justin: The…
What’s the Best Annual Festival? The Best Denver Arts District? The Best Club Night? You tell us: Voting ends at 11:59 tonight in our Best of Denver 2015 Readers’ Poll. In the first round, which started in January, we asked readers for their favorites in almost two hundred categories. In…
“We’re pretty excited,” says chef Matt Selby of Central Bistro & Bar’s new look and new menu. “It’s coming down to the wires, as always.” The restaurant at the edge of LoHi, where Selby landed a year ago after leaving Corner House, has been popular since Isiah Salazar opened the…
With Wurstküche coming to town last month from California, joining such local favorites as Biker Jim’s, Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs and Mustard’s Last Stand, this city is rolling in sausages — which inspired our list of the Ten Best Places for Sausage in Denver. And after all the expected jokes (“my…
Colorado Business Committee for the Arts celebrated its thirtieth anniversary on March 11 at its annual luncheon in the Seawell Ballroom — an add-on to the Denver Performing Arts Complex that didn’t exist when CBCA got its start. And back in 1978, when Americans for the Arts held its convention…
This week Gretchen Kurtz reviewed the Village Cork, which has evolved a great deal from when it first opened on Old South Pearl fourteen years ago. Last summer Lisa Lapp closed her place in order to do a major renovation, one that expanded the kitchen and added a chef’s counter,…
Now that development of the historic Stapleton Airport control tower is about to take off — come spring 2016, it will hold the city’s second Punch Bowl Social — only a few iconic buildings in this city still sit empty. In RiNo, once-decrepit warehouses are being turned around daily. An…
Giles Flanigan and Jeffrey Smokevitch found success serving Detroit-style pizza in Telluride, at Brown Dog Pizza — but when they tried bringing the Brown Dog concept to Denver four years ago, they met with heated opposition from East Washington Park neighbors. Now they’re trying Denver again. This time, they’re naming…
The city’s mascots — the dreaded Dinger with his belly still hanging out, the Big Blue Bear looking strangely small, and a few more walking fake fur balls in need of a good vacuuming — all gathered around Mayor Michael Hancock at Monday’s grand-opening festivities for the new, high-tech Tourism…
Are bros and hipsters headed to Stapleton? That’s what readers predict with the news that Robert Thompson’s Seasoned Development will open another Punch Bowl Social in the former Stapleton airport control tower, a landmark in that neighborhood that’s been empty for twenty years. The city needed a tenant for a…
We’ve started the second round of voting in our Best of Denver 2015 Readers’ Poll, which now includes the five finalists in each category — as chosen by the readers. The five Best Burger finalists inspired several snarky comments. Says Willie: Glad to see Highland Tap continuing to bribe customers into voting for…
The second round of voting in the Best of Denver 2015 Readers’ Poll is now under way. We’ve tallied all the online ballots filled out by readers, and identified the top five finalists in more than a hundred categories. You can see them all here, where you can also vote in…
Yesterday the Fabulous MarkT pointed out a vicious cycle in the Denver dining scene: “Folks say, ‘Oh, Denver’s food scene sucks, ’cause there’s no good X food in town.’ Then a good X restaurant opens, and no one goes to it. So then it closes, and once again we hear,…
One of the most common complaints about Denver’s dining scene is the lack of good barbecue joints here. When CJ Johnson opened Kings BBQ last year in Wheat Ridge, he was trying his best to help fill that gap with juicy brisket and ribs — but Kings recently closed. Says theFabulousMarkT: It’s…
At the end of the week, we’ll post our Restaurant Roll Call for February, a compendium of the openings and closings over the past month. There’s been plenty of action on the local drinking and dining scene — including last call for the Rustic Tavern, a fixture on our Ten…
Denver’s going to the dogs! Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs is celebrating its tenth anniversary this weekend with a variety of specials and freebies, and then on Monday, February 23, Wurstkuche will finally open at 2036 Broadway. Joseph Pitruzzelli and Tyler Wilson already have two locations of their modern take on a German…
In the early 2000s, Denver was all about the creative class. Author/big thinker Richard Florida had labeled the metro area one of the top creative spots in the country, an honor that John Hickenlooper used to promote the city that had just elected him mayor. Fifteen years before, he’d been…
Denver takes its fast-casual seriously — very seriously. In fact, some of the country’s biggest fast-casual chains have gotten their start in this city. There’s Chipotle, of course; founder Steve Ells opened his first store at 1644 East Evans Avenue more than twenty years ago. But Denver has also given…
Katie Mullen’s just marked its sixth anniversary on the 16th Street Mall this week and now that giant Irish bar is about to get a baby sister. A wee baby sister. After putting plenty of money and effort into creating a four-part, 550-seat Irish pub in the Sheraton, the owners…
