No. 50: Bison Pastrami at To The Wind Bistro Well-edited. That’s how we’d describe To The Wind Bistro, the restaurant from husband-and-wife Royce Oliveira and Leanne Adamson. The space is snug but smartly appointed, the wine list short but well-curated, and the menu brief but long on winners — no…
Tickets for the fifth annual Festivus — a festival for Denver-only breweries — went on sale last week; this year, more than 65 breweries have been invited to participate. Organized by Two Parts, the festival takes place December 17 at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Lowry…
Four months after the Colorado Brewers Guild was ruptured by a dispute over leadership, membership and direction, the two sides have agreed, at leasts in principle, to reconcile their differences. But first, the CBG will need to get at least 51 percent of its 220 or so members to agree to the…
Is the space at 1575 Boulder Street in the Olinger Mortuary complex haunted? That’s what some neighbors wondered as they walked past the crowds lined up at Little Man Ice Cream, or waited for a table at Linger or Lola. Meanwhile, just down the street, Vita often seemed as quiet as…
As a cool breeze blows across Eric Skokan’s land, the chef and farmer gears up for what could be the first frost of the season. Near the sheep fields, crates full of squashes — spaghetti, acorn, butternut and the trumpet-shaped tromboncino — line the shed, and over at his second…
New breweries in Denver face a lot of peaks and valleys. But for 14er Brewing, which only began brewing and canning in July, it’s been mostly peaks: On Saturday, the brewery, which is still searching for a taproom location, won a gold medal for its chile beer at the Great…
In China, one of the more popular ways to dine out with friends is to hit a hot-pot restaurant. At these often raucous halls, you order a bubbling cauldron of broth — in Sichuan, it’ll be spicy; northerners tend to like milder lamb broth — and then dump in a…
The gang was all beer at the 35th annual Great American Beer Festival, a three-day, sold-out celebration of suds at the Colorado Convention Center this past weekend. By the end of Saturday, 60,000 people had poured through the festival, sampling 3,500 beers from 800 breweries. Photographer Brandon Marshall took it…
No. 51: Gold Miner’s Breakfast at River and Woods On an intricate brunch menu full of all sorts of breakfast delicacies, the basic eggs, bacon and toast are often overlooked. Don’t let this happen if you’re dining at that new Boulder hot spot, River and Woods. The Gold Miner’s Breakfast…
Flour, water, salt and yeast: the four ingredients needed to make a loaf of bread, by the standard modern reckoning. But you can scratch one of those ingredients off the list: According to a few top bakers in Denver and Boulder counties, yeast isn’t needed. At least not in the…
While the United States is doing more losing than winning when it comes to politics these day, the Great American Beer Festival, which wrapped up its 35th year in Denver on Saturday night, is a clear winner. The fact that a beer called Trump Hands, from Cannonball Creek, won a…
The Flatirons Food Film Festival is coming to Boulder for its fourth year on October 20, with a basketful of great food movies and plenty of culinary activities. Highlights of this year’s four-day festival include a screening of City of Gold on October 22, a documentary about Los Angeles food critic…
No. 52: PB&B Acai Bowl at ProsperOatsFew foods have attained the kind of cult worship currently reserved for acai: The Brazilian fruit has been lauded for its antioxidant properties, making its way onto lists of ingredients that supposedly cure all kinds of ills. But while we practice healthy skepticism when it…
Lorenzo Nunez, owner of El Chingon Mexican Bistro at 4326 Tennyson Street, says it took about a year after the restaurant’s opening in 2013 for Berkeley neighbors to catch on to what he and chef Robert Lopez (Nunez’s nephew) were trying to do. Many assumed the place (whose moniker is Spanish…
This week you can sink your teeth into a couple of wine dinners, a free lunch prepared by a James Beard award-winning chef, or the last brews at Denver International Airport’s Beer Flights. Keep reading for all the tasty details. Monday, October 10 MiNDFUL is hosting its Fourth Annual Mother’s High…
The news had the kick of a Southern Mule: Jezebel’s Southern Bistro and Bar will close at the end of service on Sunday, October 9. Chef Scott Durrah and his wife, Wanda James, opened the restaurant in late 2012 at 3301 Tejon Street, in the original home of the Squeaky Bean,…
After Gretchen Kurtz’s review of Mas Kaos (where pasta and pizza share equal billing with tacos and guacamole), and with Columbus Day just around the corner, we have Italian cuisine on our minds. Looking back over our coverage of the local restaurant scene over the past few months, we noticed just…
Gretchen Kurtz just reviewed Mas Kaos, Patrick Mangold-White’s new restaurant in the Berkeley neighborhood that specializes in both pizza and tacos — and tequila. Drink enough of that and the combination seems completely reasonable (and as Mark Antonation discovered, other restaurants around town specialize in the Mexican-Italian combo). But even…
The news this week has been mostly beery, as thousands of brew-lovers descended on Denver for the Great American Beer Festival, which continues through tomorrow night at the Colorado Convention Center. Our beer man, Jonathan Shikes, has been valiantly sipping his way through local brews and out-of-state suds to help you…
Elliot Strathmann, co-owner of Spuntino, at 2639 West 32nd Avenue, has been rooting around the woods of Colorado looking for specific ingredients, with the help of professional forager Graham Steinruck, founder of Hunt & Gather, a company that provides foraged mushrooms and other produce to Denver restaurants. Strathmann has been stocking…
Restaurateur Richard Sandoval’s thirteen-year old Zengo was cutting edge when it opened at 1610 Little Raven Street and still retained a swank, neo-’70s air into 2016 despite its relative age. But stagnation equals death in the hip downtown restaurant scene, so Sandoval shut down the Latin-Asian fusion eatery last month…
This week Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Mas Kaos, a Mexican-Italian mashup on Tennyson Street that defies the logic many restaurants focus on, to focus on one cuisine and executie it properly. Instead, at Mas Kaos, Kurtz found herself doing what everyone else was doing: “chasing a few chile-soaked tacos with a…
