This weekend we say goodbye to April and welcome May. Close out this month and start the next on a tasty note by attending a few of this weekend’s culinary events. There’s something for everyone, from classes to fundraisers to a beer and food extravaganza; keep reading for all the…
The name Winston Hill will mean something to you if you’re a lifelong fan of the New York Jets — or if you’ve been an even more die-hard fan of Denver barbecue over the past several decades. Hill, a former all-star offensive lineman who helped keep quarterback Joe Namath safe…
In 1986, Patrick McGaughran and a couple of friends from Texas decided to open a Mexican bar and grill centered on margaritas and food like they’d grown up with in the Houston area. They named the tiny joint, located on College Avenue in Fort Collins, the Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant and…
After school, my friends and I used to run to the convenience store for the candy and sodas we were denied at home. When the lunch bell rang, we’d pile into a friend’s SUV and try to get a few Double Stacks before class started up again. A plea to…
Lola has been a proponent of Mexican seafood from the day it opened in its original location on Old South Pearl Street in 2002 to its current spot in Lower Highland (where it’s already a revered old-timer), so welcoming Baja California chef/restaurateur Javier Plascencia for a guest lunch and dinner seemed…
The past few months have been brutal for music fans. It seems like the Grim Reaper is purposefully swinging his scythe at some of the greatest icons in the music industry: Bowie, Lemmy and now Prince. If the recent loss of talent has got you down and ready to drink about…
Cafe Aion chef/owner Dakota Soifer has been showing up at the food court of the Boulder County Farmers’ Market with his super-sized paella pan on Saturday mornings all season, and he’s looking forward to the first Wednesday market on May 4 — and anticipating a slightly different atmosphere. “The Wednesday…
Laura Lodge needs a beer. A big beer. After several months of stress and of searching for a new location for one of Colorado’s marquis beer festivals, Lodge and her brother, Bill, have found a new home at the Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center in Breckenridge. That means that…
At the end of January, Ballpark neighborhood watering hole DADA Art Bar went dark, and Iain Chisholm, chef/owner of Americatus just around the corner, told us that he had sold his share of the bar to his partners, who were expecting to reopen under new management. But the DADA space…
Joyride Brewing in Edgewater has hired Chris Marchio, formerly of Fiction Beer Company, as its new head brewer. Marchio, who was featured in a recent Westword story about hazy, New England-style IPAs, will be tasked with helping to expand the already large lineup of beers at Joyride. “We are thrilled to…
Kathy Lee has been cooking up jams and other preserves for her company, Modern Gingham, since 2012, and the fruits of her labor are beginning to ripen. Her raspberry-violet jam, made with organic berries and crème de violet from Colorado’s Golden Moon Distilling, won a national Good Food award earlier…
Big Red F and Lola welcome guest chef Javier Plascencia, a Baja star brought to Denver by Big Red F founder Dave Query and founding Lola chef Jamey Fader, who visited him in Mexico last month, for a special collaboration dinner tonight. Chef Plascencia, who has appeared on No Reservations with…
As a certain aging rocker likes to sing, every picture tells a story. But restaurants do, too, and the one told by Stowaway Coffee + Kitchen is largely autobiographical. Launched this winter by Amy Cohen and her husband, Hayden Barnie, Stowaway draws together strands of Cohen’s life. There are influences…
Is there such a thing as Colorado-style barbecue? Anna and Jonathon Ortlieb, the couple behind Happy Camper BBQ, think so — because they say they’ve invented it. The two plan to have their mobile barbecue kitchen open by the beginning of June serving smoked pork with a Colorado twist: Instead…
When Rob Kevwitch opened Grist Brewing in late 2013, he picked Highlands Ranch for one reason: “I grew up here,” he says, and “this neighborhood needed a brewery, dammit. I was so tired of driving to Denver.” But even after two successful years, an expansion and the implementation of rigorous…
Que Bueno Suerte!, a restaurant featuring upscale, modern Mexican cuisine, will open this summer at 1518 South Pearl Street. We thought the saga of this building had everything — and then its new owner, Mission Yogurt Inc., signed colorful, talented Dana Rodriguez, founding chef at Work & Class (and chef at…
Indian Summer at Adrift Last Autumn, Paul Larkin was playing around with cocktail recipes for a new drink menu at Adrift, experimenting with flavors in the South Broadway bar’s tiny kitchen as the line cooks were setting up for dinner service. They told him to make a drink out of…
Inside Silvana Mondo, Silvana Vukadin-Hoitt’s Tennyson Street art and antiques gallery, a low table surrounded by five cushioned stools that are barely higher than the floor itself awaits a group of guests, the tabletop set with a spread of dates, almonds, Turkish delight, a bottle of Bosnian sljivovic plum brandy,…
A week ago, after weathering the disappointment over the cancellation of the Official 4/20 Rally at Civic Center Park on April 16, Denver was high on all the celebrations for 4/20 that were actually taking place. Nearby businesses and food trucks were also high on the business they were about…
No 82: Shakshuka at Stowaway Coffee + KitchenRestaurant breakfasts are generally pretty tasty, but they’re rarely relaxing; the best places fill up quickly, and the morning meal becomes a rushed, noisy affair over a cluttered table where the speed-pouring of coffee becomes a spectator sport. Even the breezy, sun-drenched Stowaway…
There’s an award-winning pizza crust here in Denver and you can find it at more than one restaurant — including eateries already known for great pizza, like the Good Son, Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria, the Crafty Fox, Denver Deep Dish and Silvi’s Kitchens. The Gluten Free Explorer, a Denver…
What was until recently an office for American Family Insurance will soon become another restaurant on a stretch of Tennyson Street that has turned into a dining destination so quickly that it helped earn Berkeley our Best New Restaurant Neighborhood in this year’s Best of Denver. The stately brick building…
