Chef/restaurateur JW Lee, the owner of Menya Noodle Bar at 951 16th Street downtown, says his ramen shop serves an average of more than 400 customers a day. That’s a lot of noodles. But Lee isn’t resting easy; he just opened another downtown Menya at 1590 Little Raven Street. The…
Slow food is coming to Denver this weekend with a three-day festival called Slow Food Nations. But the Events page of the Slow Food Nations website presents a mind-boggling barrage of lectures, tours, demos, tastings, dinners and outdoor markets. Here are some of the best.
After years of bringing smoked meats to the barbecue-loving masses of Denver, Rolling Smoke BBQ has opened a permanent home in Stanley Marketplace. The 2501 Dallas Street location marks the first non-mobile restaurant for owner Terry Walsh, who launched the Rolling Smoke food truck four years ago. The new menu…
SoBo 151, at 151 South Broadway (hence the name), is one of my longstanding favorites in Baker; it’s an unpretentious and welcoming bar with a varied crowd and not one but three excellent karaoke nights. Ttasty Czech and American bar food — with bratwurst, goulash and schnitzel sharing the menu alongside…
On Monday, July 17, Frank and Jacqueline Bonanno will unlock the doors to French 75 at 717 17th Street, bestowing downtown Denver with their rendition of a French bistro. This is a project that’s been officially in the works for three years, when the Bonannos were approached by the owner…
Liquid Mechanics Brewing cleaned up at the 2017 US Open Beer Championship, held last weekend in Oxford, Ohio. The Lafayette brewery won four medals: a gold for its highly regarded peanut-butter porter (for more on that, see our list of Eight Sticky Colorado Peanut Butter Beers), a silver for its Kolsch, and…
Corey Ferguson is now running the kitchen at Justin Cucci’s El Five; putting his experience at a holistic-health institute in California and during a year in Spain to work.
Las Delicias, the forty-year old Mexican restaurant in Uptown that closed in 2015 for a major remodel, is opening for two reservation-only events on July 12 and July 17 before throwing its doors open to the public next week.
One of Denver’s oldest and most esteemed Vietnamese bakeries will soon be serving banh mi sandwiches in a spot that exemplifies the new face of Denver. Vinh Xuong Bakery, owned by the Huynh family, will open its third location inside Zeppelin Station, a multi-use space slated to debut in late 2017…
Cafe Marmotte was opened by Mark Reggiannini and Mairen Reagan nearly two years ago at 290 South Downing Street, but the French cafe has been under new ownership since early spring. Maria Katsaros and her brother, Stratis, are now in charge of the eatery, which won our Best French Restaurant award this year…
Linda Appel Lipsius learned sales from her family’s OrangeGlo and Oxiclean business, and with Teatulia she’s using modern marketing to push tea, a beverage steeped in tradition, and help the economy of Bangladesh in the process.
American barbecue encompasses many regional variations, but even so, the confines of tradition make for a fairly narrow range of choices, especially in Denver’s smokehouses. Here, styles tend to be blurred, sides conform to picnicky favorites, and sauces are mostly of the tangy-sweet kind with varying levels of heat. But…
So many food events, so little time! Denver’s culinary calendar is overflowing with special dinners, markets, beer festivals and more. We know you can’t hit them all, so here’s a taste of some of the action this past weekend, with links to our slide shows.
Stapleton Tap House, which opened in 2014 as an oasis in the craft-beer desert that was the Stapleton neighborhood, will close on Friday, July 21. Tucked into a strip of eateries and shops at 8286 Northfield Boulevard, alongside the Harkins Northfield 18 movie theater, the small tap house will continue…
Beer is big business in Colorado — a business that can be a gateway to greater involvement in the community who’s supporting you by purchasing your beer. John Hickenlooper was one of the first to see the potential in the small-scale brewpub model when he opened Wynkoop Brewing Company in…
Where to eat slow food in Denver and Boulder.
Despite the generally accepted wisdom, we actually think dinner is the most important meal of the day. It’s certainly the most diverse (you can have pancakes for dinner, after all), and it’s still the only meal where it’s acceptable to unabashedly break out some adult beverages (you’ve got to rename…
Denverites love their breakfast. Although they’ll have to wait a few more days to try Hashtag, there are plenty of other options.
The country marked National Fried Chicken Day this week, but chicken is what’s for dinner — and breakfast, and lunch, and late-night snacks — every day in Denver. Here are five recent stories.
If you have to be first, here are two restaurants set to open today and Monday. Armed with our recommendations, you’ll be able to stride in and confidently state your order for a first course that will elicit an “excellent choice” from your server. Or start out your day first…
Zephyr Brewing is leaving RiNo after two and a half years to move into a larger north Denver space that will give the owners space to add a packaging line and more brewing capacity.
Hedge Row is the Kitchen restaurant group’s new concept: a casual, wood-fired eatery that will open Monday, July 10, at 100 Steele Street in Cherry Creek.
