On Saturday, when a restaurant-industry pal was craving tater tots for his 25th birthday breakfast, we headed to Highland Tavern, renowned for its homemade tater tots — and very long brunch lines. A wait that was originally estimated at half an hour translated to ninety minutes before we finally got…
Frank Schultz of Tavern Hospitality Group has a lot on his plate. He and his wife just had a baby boy last week, around the same time THG finally broke ground on the Tavern Platt Park, which is going into the old home of India’s Pearl at 1475 South Pearl…
Entrepreneur alert: Denver needs more brunch places. Make that more good brunch places. The spot we stopped by shortly after noon on Saturday is definitely a good brunch place — with a waiting list for tables that stretched ninety minutes. But the chicken-fried steak was definitely worth the wait. Can…
As the sun rose this morning — reflecting off the blue-and-orange-hued Elitch Gardens Ferris wheel and the still-glowing Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium — the real show was just over downtown……
Yes, it’s another brewery opening in Denver — this one Alpine Dog Brewing, which Gardiner Hammond, a former brewer at the Old Mill in Littleton, plans to open this spring in part of the space on East Colfax Avenue that once housed Independent Records. And Alpine is just one of…
Editor’s note: Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day — a federal holiday. The Westword office is closed, but we’ll be posting occasional updates on westword.com today. The country’s largest parade in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. — the Marade — will kick off this morning by the MLK…
Updated numbers below: After yesterday’s Denver Bronco win, everyone in this city is plenty high. But for those who’d like to augment that euphoria, there are now 33 fully licensed retail pot shops in Denver. Late Friday, the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses updated its list of the establishments…
American Mustang, which had its local premiere in November at the Denver International Film Festival, is galloping back into town for an extended run that starts today and continues through January 24 at UA Denver West Village Stadium 12, 14225 West Colfax Avenue in Lakewood, just in time for the…
Omaha! Omaha! Bronco-related deals and decor are popping up all over town in anticipation of this Sunday’s big game. We spotted this fan at a restaurant better known for its green chile than its orange-and-blue devotion. Can you guess where we’re eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
Yesterday we released our updated list of the best dives in the metro area, and the comments have been fast and furious. Mostly furious. Some people are peeved we included their favorite bars — which means they’ll be more crowded — and others are irritated that we ignored their favorite…
Mark Antonation has been eating his way along Federal Boulevard for over a year for our Federal Case series, but even as he moves up the street, new places open behind him. Lotus Vegetarian joined the lineup a few months ago, and now Pho Market Vietnamese will be going into…
What are the iconic tastes and culinary institutions of this city? For our 2014 Denver Bucket List, which we’ve been filling this week on Cafe Society, we looked to some time-honored traditions: a martini at the cruise room, a burger at Bud’s, a turkey leg at the Taste of Colorado,…
The Denver FIVE is Leigh Sullivan’s “passion project,” and she’s just introduced the seventh FIVE class of featured chefs — and for the first time, all five are women: Nadine Donovan (Old Major), Aniedra Nichols (Elway’s Cherry Creek), Carrie Shores (Table 6), Elise Wiggins (Panzano) and Jenna Johansen (Epicurean Group)…
Should Westword resolve to lock up the term “hipster” in our grandma’s hope chest in 2014? We just reposted on Facebook our list of the ten best hipster restaurants in Denver , and the concept has gone from hip to hip replacements in just five weeks. See also: Ten best…
One of the new restaurants opening in Denver this year has old roots that stretch deep in the local dining scene. Chester Stephen Morey was a veteran of the Civil War who came to Colorado in 1872; he started a cattle business, then established the Denver sales headquarters of the…
Udi Bar-on and his family got into the food business with the Sandwich Man, a long-defunct shop that opened in 1994. That was the start of Udi’s Foods, which grew so big that the family sold the company for $125 million in 2012. But they kept their group of Udi’s…
The old Hill-Top Bar just north of I-70, at 4907 Lowell Boulevard, was one of the tiniest dives in town — but it had a big group of fans, and that small spot produced a lot of memories. Now the bar is about to be resurrected: as the Rocky Top…
A discussion that started with freezer-burned bread has fermented into a discussion on the nature of reviewing in general — and how it’s changing with technology. Says one reader, “These days (well, since the beginning of restaurant history, but certainly more so in the internet age), a restaurant should be…
Lori Midson has been writing about food longer than a certain decades-old deli has been serving, so when she stopped by this former Best of Denver award-winner for lunch and was presented with a sandwich featuring bread straight from the freezer (see above), it left her cold…and she shared her…
Regulate marijuana like alcohol? Why not celebrate it with alcohol? That’s what West Flanders Brewing in Boulder did last week, changing the name of one of its beers from Woodshed Smoked Porter to Recreational Smoke to celebrate the end of pot prohibition — and help bring competing bud/beer factions together…
Despite obvious interest across the country, Colorado’s big tourism boosters are still shying away from any reference to recreational marijuana: On Colorado.com, the Colorado Tourism Office’s otherwise expansive site, and Coloradoski.com, Colorado Ski Country USA’s site, searching for “marijuana” nets you exactly…nothing. But some tourism businesses see the possibilities: “We’re…
On January 2, we posted our Restaurant Roll Call for 2013, listing the hundreds of restaurants and bars that had opened in 2013 — and the dozens of restaurants and bars that had closed. One of those that shut its doors: Cebiche. No, not the Cebiche on West 32nd Avenue…
