Prodigy Coffee opens this weekend at 3801 East 40th Avenue with a staff like no other coffee shop in Denver. The nonprofit coffeehouse has taken a group of at-risk youth through a barista training course and hired them on as employees. That’s just the beginning of what Prodigy, run by…
No. 76: Duck Confit at Table 6 Duck confit — duck that’s been cured with salt and spices and slow-cooked in its own fat — pops up on menus all over town. You’ll see duck-confit tacos; shreds of the tender duck perched atop grits; duck confit eggs Benedict; and all…
Brunch is Denver’s favorite meal, and this weekend there are sure to be long lines outside this town’s most popular spots — lines that can translate into hour-long waits at places like Snooze. But there are other eateries that offer worthy morning meals and are relatively undiscovered — undiscovered, that…
Today is National Chicken Wing Day, and Buffalo Wild Wings is celebrating by giving you half-price wings all day long; fly off to the nearest B-Dubs to cash in on the deal. But there are plenty of other tasty happenings around town this weekend — from the Denver County Fair…
The hip-hop booming from Los Chingones fades into ’80s AOR as you enter Sugarmill. Though conjoined physically as well as spiritually as part of Troy Guard’s TAG Restaurant Group, the two restaurants take very different places in the TAG empire. Chingones is loud, spicy, lascivious. Sugarmill is forthright and laid…
We like what we like when it comes to dining out, but sometimes we’re faced with a little too much of what someone else likes. Restaurant trends spread quickly based on what will bring in the cash, the customers and the thumbs-up reviews, but sometimes restaurateurs don’t know when to…
Last month, Lonni Byrd and Caronne Porter announced that they’ll be losing the lease on their cozy vegan soul-food eatery, Love, Peace & Sol Cafe, at 3435 Albion Street later this summer. That day is drawing near, as the cafe will shutter after August 7. At the time, Byrd was…
Robert Thompson’s Punch Bowl Social team continues to add some of Denver’s top culinary talent. Earlier this summer, chef Matt Selby signed on as the regional executive chef for the growing brand, and now Christopher Cina has come aboard as national culinary director. Cina will oversee the culinary teams at…
Chef Bradford Heap, owner of Salt and Colterra in Boulder, unveiled his sustainable seafood eatery, Wild Standard, at 1043 Pearl Street last fall with a clever, dim-sum-style service model that allowed guests to pick and choose from items on a rolling cart and trays brought through the dining room. Successful…
You might think winning Top Chef could top a career, but seven years after his win Hosea Rosenberg is having the time of his life — as his Chef and Tell interview makes clear. He’s always keeping very, very busy as he expands the Blackberry empire, experiments with cooking with cannabis,…
Tasty Colfax Eats & Beats, a restaurant and pub crawl presented by Colfax on the Hill, spans the stretch of East Colfax Avenue between York Street and Colorado Boulevard. Last night, crawlers paid $30 each to sample the best food and beverages from 17 bars and restaurants in the Bluebird…
The Boulder-based Brewers Association — the not-for-profit trade group representing craft brewers — said this week that craft beer production volume increased by eight percent during the first half of the year, a slowdown from previous years. But the volume numbers aren’t the best indicator of growth since the BA…
If you’re not paying attention, it’s easy to blow right past the tiny cottage at 2328 Pearl Street in Boulder. The facade sits slightly below street level after decades of progressive road improvements, and most of the building slopes down and is hidden by trees on either side, giving little…
Since closing Restaurant Kelly Liken in May, 2015, chef Kelly Liken has been pretty quiet on the culinary scene, until now. At the end of June she launched Harvest by Kelly Liken, a laid-back, seasonal eatery located right off the Sonnenalp Club’s golf course. “Opening Harvest in Edwards seemed like…
The restaurant business is a notoriously hard one. The job is physically demanding, hours are long, and shifts fall on nights and weekends, when everyone else is off. Most people wouldn’t call this fun. But Hosea Rosenberg isn’t most people — and not just because he’s one of the rare…
A century-old bakery is finding new life as a cocktail bar in the mountain town of Silver Plume. Bread Bar will host its grand opening on Saturday, July 30, at 1010 Main Street and then will maintain regular hours of 4 to 10 p.m on Fridays and 2 to 10…
No. 77: Corn Mezzaluna at Bar Dough Pizza, pasta, a handful of entrees and a collection of appetizers: not much to grab your attention on the menu at Bar Dough, right? Italian joints are scattered across Denver’s culinary landscape like flecks and clumps of shaker cheese atop a bowl of…
In a city searching for authenticity and identity amid the constant barrage of shiny condo buildings springing up out of the skeletons of old hospitals and storefronts, new breweries opening on a seemingly daily basis, and a plethora of hipster restaurants opening in old warehouses, neighborhood bars are comforting reminders…
Blue Moon Brewing Company, a subsidiary of MillerCoors, has been pouring beer at the Sandlot inside Coors Field since the ballpark opened in 1995. Twenty years later, Blue Moon just opened its own brewery and restaurant at 3750 Chestnut Street in the River North neighborhood. Notes Robert: With all the modern…
Denver seems to have a love-hate relationship with Middle Eastern cuisine, stemming in part from confusion over the term “Middle Eastern” itself. This nebulous geopolitical label has little to do with the borderless culinary world, where dishes transform and evolve over generations and from region to region. Here in Denver,…
Last week, we talked to Aileen V. Reilly and her brother, chef Paul C. Reilly, the owners of Beast + Bottle who have been getting ready to open Coperta, their new Italian eatery at East 20th Avenue and Logan Street. Even as late as last Friday, the two didn’t have…
The Highland neighborhood is changing, and changing fast. At the start of the year, tenants at Dickinson Plaza suddenly learned that Henry Dickinson had sold the complex at West 32nd Avenue and Tejon Street that had been in his family for 115 years — long before the area was dubbed…
