After several years of searching, Colorado’s second largest craft brewery has finally found the right location in Denver for a major operation. Longmont-based Oskar Blues Brewery said Tuesday that it is planning to open a two-level restaurant, beer bar and music venue at 1624 Market Street, in the space formerly…
A new bar with an old theme is coming to historic downtown Golden. Miners Saloon, a project from partners Dean and Aimee Valdez and Noah Heaney, will open in mid-June at 1109 Miners Alley. The partners explain that the new bar and restaurant will aim to reflect Golden’s history as…
Restaurateur Brian Rossi opened Adelitas Cocina y Cantina at 1294 South Broadway three years ago, giving the Platt Park neighborhood a taste of Mexican eats and great margaritas. After the first year, Rossi attempted to open El Guapo in the space behind the cantina, where a big patio and a…
The French Bulldog at Mercantile Dining & Provision “When I taste this cocktail, I want to be out on a patio,” says Daryl Prior, bartender at Mercantile Dining & Provision. “Preferably if I could get it in pitcher form, that would be the best way to go.” He’s referring to…
Caribbean cuisine is a rarity in Denver, probably with good reason. After all, moving to a city where frostbite is even a remote possibility couldn’t have much appeal for anyone who grew up on a tropical island. Still, a few folks from the Caribbean have found their way to our…
Illegal Pete’s finally opened last Friday in the former home of Mama’s Cafe (and an International House of Pancakes before that) at 2001 East Colfax Avenue — and it was definitely worth the wait. The original A-frame has been stripped to its bones and filled with a sleek kitchen and…
If you haven’t headed to Jefferson Park for your last supper at La Loma, you have another reprieve. Since 1981, the massive Mexican restaurant has been perched at 2527 West 26th Avenue — just down the hill from the little bungalow where Savina Mendoza opened her original spot in 1973…
The day is finally here; after thirteen months of remodeling and repairs after storm damage last spring, Don and Dora D’Andrea are welcoming guests back to their Littleton Taco House at 1390 West Littleton Boulevard. The doors opened at 11 a.m. for lunch and will be open from 11 a.m…
Denver has grown a lot in the twenty years since Great Divide Brewing began making a pale ale named for the city, and next month the beer will change with the times as well. Great Divide, which first brewed Denver Pale Ale in 1996, has completely revamped the recipe, updating…
One of Colorado’s favorite roadside attractions, the giant hot dog-shaped eatery known as Coney Island in Bailey, went up for sale last fall — and it now has a new owner who plans to restore it to its former glory. A Kickstarter campaign was started by John D. Wallace last…
Cool River Cafe, a longtime gathering place on East Belleview Avenue in Englewood, is coming downtown, slated to open by the end of May in the space at 1480 Arapahoe Street that’s currently occupied by Reunion Gastro Pub & Wine Bar (and Prime Steakhouse and Hickory Prime Steakhouse and 5280 Steakhouse and…
After nearly nine months of effort, Jake Soffes is nearly at the top of the hill — Capitol Hill, that is. His airy new bar, Hudson Hill, at 619 East 13th Avenue, is lacking only a final liquor license sign-off before the doors can open to the public. That should come today,…
Denver’s dining scene is blooming this week, with beer dinners, wine dinners and birthday celebrations. Here are the twelve tastiest events on the culinary calendar. Monday, May 16 Frasca Food and Wine will explore the wines of Walter Scott with Ken Pahlow at the restaurant’s Monday Night Wine Dinner. The Monday…
Rosenberg’s Bagels and Deli is still closed after a fire in the second-floor apartment last Sunday damaged the deli (a body was found in an apartment closet, and the fire is being investigated as an arson/murder). But while you won’t be able to grab a bagel at Rosenberg’s this weekend, you…
This week Brad Weismann served up memories of ten more long-gone Denver institutions, including such restaurants as the Yum Yum Tree —a forerunner of the food court — and the Denver Drumstick, which once had five locations around Denver. Says Chris: Thanks for this, Westword! It brings back so many fond…
Chefs were in the news this week as Mary Nguyen announced the imminent closing of her longtime Uptown neighborhood gem P17, to be balanced by the opening of a second Olive & Finch in Cherry Creek North. And Elise Wiggins ended her decade-plus run at Panzano, one of our favorite Italian restaurants…
Graduating East High School senior Evan Wells has a passion for film, but he never thought it would lead to a school project. But an assignment through East’s Gifted and Talented program led him to picking up a video camera for the first time to create a short film featuring…
Chef Elise Wiggins has been behind the burners at Panzano in the Hotel Monaco for the past twelve years, but now she’s ready to embark on a new chapter. The chef’s last day at Panzano was yesterday (May 12) and she’s now in the final stages of launching something new…
The Irish eyes of Katie Mullen are no longer smiling down on the 16th Street Mall; Katie Mullen’s Irish Restaurant & Pub shuttered for good on Wednesday night. The closure comes after Northwest Bars Inc., the owner of Katie Mullen’s, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January. A message on the…
What’s in a name? There — or “there…” — opened this week on the ground floor of the Lumina apartment building at West 33rd Avenue and Navajo Street; it’s the second outpost for a concept that got its start in Telluride, and is designed to let diners choose their own eating…
You know summer’s on the way when farmers’ markets begin popping up all along the Front Range; the Boulder and Cherry Creek markets are already under way, and South Pearl starts this Sunday. But there’s much more on the culinary calendar; keep reading for the tasty details. Friday,…
Illegal Pete’s took over an abandoned former IHOP at 2001 East Colfax Avenue two years ago and converted it into a towering cathedral of Colorado-style, fast-casual Mexican. The eighth Colorado Illegal Pete’s — and the ninth overall, including a new Tuscon, Arizona outpost — opens to the public tomorrow morning…
