This is the final installment of our three-part Beermuda Triangle series, which explores the Beer Depot, Tennyson’s Tap and the Berkeley Inn, three bars at the corner of West 38th Avenue and Tennyson Street that are as easy to get lost in as the mysterious waters of the Atlantic Ocean…
The owners of Denver Beer Co are planning to “create a bridge, rather than a wall” with their latest concept, a craft-beer bar serving ten Mexican-style beers and collaborations with Mexican breweries. Cerveceria Colorado, at 1635 Platte Street, will be located next door to Denver Beer Co in the space that…
It’s Valentine’s Day, and there is nothing more romantic that two souls finding each other and working together to create something bigger than the sum its parts — and by “something,” I mean…beer! The fifth annual Collaboration Fest takes place on March 31 at the Hyatt Regency downtown, when breweries…
While the original restaurant is going strong, the takeout locations that opened over the last few years are all closed.
Colorado seems like the perfect place to make alcoholic beverages; just look at the proliferation of breweries and distilleries around the state, and the growing number of wine and cider makers. So what if your drink of choice is sake? That shouldn’t make too much of a difference when it…
Eating out with little kids can be tough — on both parents and other diners. While older kids tend to have dining out down pat, a restaurant trip with the younger set can prove a challenge. But what if there was a place you could bring your child where you can enjoy…
Two Denver restaurants are expanding in different direction to accommodate customer demand and show off some kitchen favorites. The Kitchen Table is adding lunch hours, while Stowaway Kitchen is taking on dinner three nights a week. The Kitchen Table has been a favorite since 2013 for Midwesterners and others seeking…
Almost every brewery in Colorado makes an IPA, but that doesn’t mean every brewery makes a great IPA. Only a few of them brew IPAs that truly stand out, or stand above the rest. While much of that judgement is subjective, some of it is bolstered by numbers. Beer Advocate,…
Bacon has yet to experience its biggest moment in metro Denver. Bacon Social House, which opened at 2434 West 44th Avenue in the Sunnyside neighborhood in 2015, will expand this year with a new location in Littleton, according to owner David Dill. Dill says the new Bacon Social House will…
The new restaurant at the Kimpton Hotel Born has a spot for you.
Grits aren’t exactly a common find in Denver’s Mexican restaurants, but the flavor of ground corn is one of the anchors of Mesoamerican cooking, so fried rectangles of white grits feel right at home with other Mexican flavors at Que Bueno Suerte (1518 South Pearl Street). Chef Vicente Sosa makes…
Frisco’s Backcountry Brewery, which closed last November before being sold to a new owner, will get a new name, a new look and new beers when it reopens sometime this spring.
Let’s get one thing straight before we proceed with this list of the ten best Chinese restaurants in Denver: “Chinese food” is a bit of a misnomer. China is a massive country with distinct regions, each of which has its own ingrained culinary tradition. It’s more accurate to say Sichuan…
Bobsleds, beads, birds and, of course, beer — always beer — are on the menu this week. And yes, Valentine’s Day is coming right up. Here are our favorite food and drink events over the next five days, as well as others to put on your calendar for the weeks…
Fractured Prune, a chain with an awful name but good doughnuts, just opened at 9696A East Arapahoe Road in Greenwood Village. But some readers are pushing other spots.
In what may have been the slowest week on record over the past three or four years, only one establishment opened: a reboot of Fractured Prune Doughnuts.
Panzano and Ace Eat Serve are about as different as two restaurants can be. The first is an upscale hotel restaurant specializing in Italian cuisine and drawing a downtown clientele along with guests from the Hotel Monaco above, while the second is a breezy Uptown eatery specializing in pan-Asian comfort…
Chuck E. Cheese’s has the creepy mouse, Domino’s has the Noid and Little Caesar’s has the repetitious little emperor, but they don’t hold a candle to StevO’s Pizza & Ribs (800 South Havana Street), whose mascots sit outside the eatery and all come on four or more wheels. As you…
Two words for you, as you contemplate what to order at Señor Bear’s hora loca, or happy hour: Gordo Crunch. The Gordo is a flour-tortilla-swaddled crispy taco shell filled with juice-oozing chorizo and topped with shredded iceberg lettuce, jack cheese and a couple of racy chilies. It’s served embedded in…
Word on the street is that there’s a holiday honoring the patron saint of epilepsy coming up next week (on February 14) — but there are some more interesting celebrations happening from Friday, February 9, to Sunday, February 11. To find out how to honor National Pizza Day, Chinese New…
The closure of Fractured Prune Doughnuts at 4090 East Mississippi Avenue last year left a hole in the hearts of many Denver doughnut lovers, but the Maryland-based company didn’t stay away from Colorado for long. A new franchise owner, Mark Rothermel, has reopened Fractured Prune at a new location, 9696A…
Craft breweries have been experimenting with IPAs for decades, adding and subtracting hop varieties and malt bills, as well as changing up yeast strains and adjunct ingredients like fruit and spices. There have been Belgian-style IPAs, Cascadian (black) IPAs, red IPAs, wild IPAs, oak-aged IPAs, fruited IPAs (which was a…
