Colorado’s booze industry has been a growing scene for years now. From long-running favorites such as Woody Creek Distillers, Leopold Bros. Distillery and Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey; to new players like Longtucky Spirits and Denver Distillery, there are plenty of quality bottles to choose from. Now, there’s a service that ties…
Stone Brewing is suing MillerCoors over its rebranding of Keystone. Here are seven options that could pull big beer from the brink.
Kristen Heeres’s fourth-grade class at Valdez Elementary School, a DPS Dual Language school, is learning what it means to review restaurants.
Chef Alon Shaya is planning on opening a restaurant, Safta, in the Source Hotel that’s slated to open later this spring at 3350 Brighton Boulevard.
Brother and sister duo Aileen Reilly and Paul Reilly are coming up on the five-year anniversary of their Uptown eatery, Beast + Bottle. The restaurant’s birthday falls on Friday, March 16, so the siblings are planning a celebratory bash — and they’re inviting friends to pitch in. The dinner will…
The fourteenth annual Denver Restaurant Week kicks off this Friday, February 23, with two weeks of discounted menus at more than 250 restaurants through March 4. The celebration of the city’s culinary scene offers special multi-course menus for either $25, $35 or $45. If you’re a vegan, you don’t have…
The smells of sizzling meats and spices spill out of the compact headquarters of Beltran’s Carniceria & Grill at 11920 Washington Street in Northglenn. Two things will almost certainly happen when you pass through the front door of the immaculate butcher shop: Someone will say “hello” (most likely the clerk…
When the Way Back first opened on West 38th Avenue in the spring of 2016, it quickly captured an enthusiastic audience, who applauded its localavore ethos, ambitious bar and inventive menu, which was even more remarkable for the fact that all dishes came out of a food truck parked behind…
Chef Goose Sorensen has been the heart and soul of Solera Restaurant & Wine Bar (5410 East Colfax Avenue) since the restaurant opened in 2002; he eventually bought the building and became the sole owner and proprietor, adding a welcome taste of upscale Spanish/Mediterranean cuisine to a stretch of Colfax that…
Friday is the only day of the week that La Fiesta is open for dinner, but that wasn’t always the case. Back in the 1960s when the place first opened — converted from a Safeway by founder Michael Herrera in 1964 — La Fiesta was packed to the rafters (or…
If you’re looking for a unique tea house that captures the spirit of its neighborhood, look no further than the just-opened TeaLee’s Tea House & Bookstore at 611 22nd Street in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood. Located in newly refurbished 105-year-old Melbourne building, TeaLee’s provides a traditional tea experience in a…
Denver Restaurant Week starts February 23, and there are other big events on the calendar for the last full week of February 2018.
Denver diners love fried chicken, but they didn’t love the takeout operations from White Fence Farm.
What decade is this again? With the opening of Tony Roma’s downtown (in one of the biggest restaurant black holes in the city), we’re having flashbacks to the ’80s — when baby back ribs were one of the hottest restaurant trends. The 46-year-old restaurant chain make its first appearance in…
“I shouldn’t like this!” I said to myself as I bit off huge, hasty mouthfuls of the torta Cubana at Taqueria El Gallito (403 Havana Street). I’ve never bothered with any kind of sandwich when visiting Mexican eateries in the past, since baguette-like bread doesn’t (at least to me) seem…
Huckleberry Roasters became the newest addition to Dairy Block at 18th and Wazee streets when it opened on January 31. Huckleberry, a staple in Sunnyside since 2011, made a name for itself as a neighborhood gathering place with quality coffee. Owner Koan Goedman made the decision to add the second…
One of the unfortunate consequences of continued rising real estate prices in this town is that our beloved neighborhood dives are under threat: Unable to compete with the trendier cocktail lairs and breweries going in around them, many are simply drying up. Occasionally, though, these bars get new life, when…
The beer is the thing at Colorado’s four hundred or so breweries, but if you like presentation as well — and most of us do — then you’re going to appreciate the extra mile that some breweries go to make their suds look good. From custom-built metal taster trays in…
There’s plenty to do over the 2018 Presidents’ Day weekend in Denver.
This morning, the James Beard Foundation released its 2018 list of James Beard Award semi-finalists, an annual occurrence that always has us excited and proud of Colorado’s restaurant scene — at least until the winners are announced (which will be on May 7 in Chicago this year) and we’re blanked…
You don’t have to cross the Continental Divide to visit Colorado’s 2018 Winery of the Year; Creekside Cellars, at 28036 Bear Creek Road in Evergreen, is just a half hour from metro Denver. Awarded the distinction by the Colorado Association for Viticulture and Enology (CAVE), the cozy winery on Evergreen’s…
The Newman family promised to keep things business as usual when they bought My Brother’s Bar.
