The Inventing Room’s Ian Kleinman is equal parts chef and scientist, serving up wild and wonderful treats at his Ballpark neighborhood dessert bar. You can stop in and enjoy liquid-nitrogen ice cream, exploding whipped cream and housemade cotton candy in unusual flavors just for the pure pleasure of it —…
Depending on how you think about it, Solitaire on West 32nd Avenue could be a stormy portent of new Denver or a warm reminder of the old. Owners Andrea Faulisi Ferguson and Mark Ferguson bought the space that housed neighborhood standard Highland Garden Cafe since 1994 and transformed it into…
Since Lakewood’s venerable White Fence Farm changed hands almost two years ago, the new owners have started a farm team, opening fried-chicken outlets in the Pepsi Center and at Green Valley Ranch. Now they’re expanding into Capitol Hill and onto the 16th Street Mall — and a White Fence Farm…
Triplets Jill, Jessica and Jennifer Emich, also known as “The Blissful Sisters,” certainly know their way around healthy foods. The trio first opened the popular Trilogy Wine Bar in Boulder, which had a ten-year run before the sisters sold the spot in 2008. Their next venture into restaurants was Shine…
Civic Center Eats, the food-truck convergence on the main plaza at Civic Center Park that’s now in its eleventh season, kicked off earlier this month to better weather than last year, when May saw rain on all but one day of the month. This year, the rally has added a…
Brazilian fast casual from Missoula, Montana, with a name that sounds like a Central City roulette strategy? That’s Five on Black, which opened its first Colorado location in Boulder in late April and is set to debut in Denver at 1617 California Street (in the former Planet Sub location) this summer…
Everybody’s favorite fried-chicken-joint-slash-petting-zoo, White Fence Farm, is making urban inroads. After Craig Caldwell and Tom Piercy bought the Lakewood family restaurant from founder Charlie Wilson in 2014, they’ve had as a goal growing the business with several quick-service outposts. The first opened in Green Valley Ranch at the end of last…
Ska Brewing in Durango has added a new seven-barrel pilot brewing system at its World Headquarters, where it will be able to focus on experimental and one-off beers. The new system will free up the brewery’s primary system for its mainline beers, like Modus Hoperendi and Mexican Logger. Ska says…
When news broke that Oskar Blues is opening a restaurant, beer hall and music venue at 1624 Market Street, Chris Black, owner of the nearby Falling Rock — which had the very first Oskar Blues handle outside of Boulder — pulled Oskar Blues’s beer off his lines, and penned an “open…
Few chefs have done as much for a cuisine as Julia Child, who convinced a generation of Americans to put down their can openers and make coq au vin. But Nobu Matsuhisa is in the same category: The charming chef and restaurateur revolutionized Japanese food thirty years ago and continues…
Chef Pino Saverino opened Pino’s Neighborhood Pizzeria & Wine Bar in Cherry Hills Village in 2011 and the little eatery has served as a neighborhood gathering spot at 1400 East Hampden Avenue, with wine, pizza and housemade pasta drawing customers and Saverino’s old-world hospitality keeping them coming back. Now the…
At the corner of West 32nd Avenue and Pecos Street in Lower Highland there’s an eatery built from a repurposed, semi-industrial building with a spacious outdoor patio, great views of downtown and a dozen beers on tap. Oh, and it has its own parking lot, so no, it’s not Avanti…
The Hawthorne at LoHi SteakBar When he worked at a tequila bar, Stephen Malling enjoyed pairing tequila with blood-orange juice. But LoHi SteakBar, where he’s been running the bar for nearly a year, leans more toward whiskey than tequila. And that’s just fine with Malling. “I wanted to have a…
Last night’s sunset revealed a particularly lovely sight: The signs of the Dirty Duck are again glowing. An April 1 fire at the abandoned Rockies Inn next door had forced the temporary closure of the Dirty Duck at 4780 East Evans Avenue, and seven weeks later the burned hulk of the motel…
You’ve mastered single-malt and bested craft beer; you’ve even solved the mysteries of mezcal and speak reasonable rum. But what of that clear — and clearly baffling — Japanese rice beverage called sake? Most of us vaguely remember blurry nights filled with dragon rolls and rounds of hot sake, sometimes…
Last year at Sports Authority Field, Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, the second-ranked professional eater in the country, ate 14.25 pounds of burritos in just ten minutes to take home the title of World Burrito Eating Champion. Besides the championship, that monster feat earned Chestnut a new world burrito-eating record, beating out…
Highland Tap & Burger at 2219 West 32nd Avenue is known for, you guessed it, beer and burgers. But Juan Padro, who owns the lively bar with his wife, Katie O’Shea Padro, grew up eating his family’s Puerto Rican cooking and visits the Caribbean island regularly, so it’s his prerogative as…
Chris Black’s passion for craft beer and the people who make, sell and drink it dates back for more than thirty years to his time as a salesman and later as the founder of Falling Rock Taphouse, which serves not just as Denver’s pre-eminent beer bar, but also as the…
When Avanti Food & Beverage opened last summer in Lower Highland, the concept was to use the seven shipping-containers-turned-kitchens inside as incubators for chefs and entrepreneurs, where they could test restaurant ideas and new menus in a cheaper alternative to a full brick-and-mortar build. The initial leases were short-term, with…
Pica’s Mexican Taqueria in Boulder has become an integral part of the east Boulder restaurant scene since opening in 2010, making the intersection of Arapahoe Avenue and 55th Street a mini-destination for seekers of quality eats and drinks, along with Bru Handbuilt Ales & Eats, Blackbelly, Ozo Coffee and Snarf’s…
A year or two ago, most Denverites had no idea that such a thing as Detroit-style pizza existed. Now the city has an embarrassment of the doughy riches. And last week, Blue Pan Pizza — which has been a big hit since it debuted last June at 3930 West 32nd…
Memorial Day weekend is days away, but you can start the celebrations early. This week you can cram your face with Illegal Pete’s burritos at the World Burrito Eating Championship, give to the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, kick off summer with a rad 80s party, or visit TheBigWonderful at a new…
