Two Denver Broncos players are getting a little jerky — beef jerky, that is. The world of celebrity endorsements can get very weird (remember when Joe Namath wore pantyhose and Joe DiMaggio shilled for Mr. Coffee?), but this may be the first time that two players on the same team…
The 23rd annual Stout Month kicked off this week at the Vine Street Pub & Brewery in Denver and at the rest of the Mountain Sun Pubs group’s breweries and restaurants in Boulder and Longmont. The yearly tradition has continued to grow over the years and there are now a…
Colorado can hold its own when it comes to craft beer, artisan liquors and homemade hot sauces, but now the state is getting noticed for its legit bean-to-bar chocolate. One of the newest companies to enter the grind (well, company might be a stretch) is two-month-old Fortuna Chocolate, comprised of three…
Arandano Frizzante at Bittersweet When Nicholas Wermaling was putting together his new winter drink menu at Bittersweet, he found that it was lacking one thing: tequila. “There seems to be a lack of tequila-based winter drinks,” he says, “so I wanted to get that in there. I like to have…
Brrr, it’s cold outside. Wouldn’t you like to get your hands on some nice, warm haggis? That oft-joked about, seldom-eaten national dish of Scotland made a rare Denver appearance at the 16th annual Burns Night dinner put on by the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Capitol Hill to honor the birthday…
From a hillside overlooking downtown Denver, La Loma has been slinging green chile for more than forty decades. That green chile is from a recipe created by grandma Savina Mendoza, and it became the focal point of the modest Mexican restaurant that the Mendoza family opened in 1973 in a…
Kent Denver School will host the seventh annual “Give Your Love to Breakthrough” to benefit Breakthrough Kent Denver, a non-profit education program for highly motivated but underserved Denver Public School middle-school students. This year’s event features an authentic Southern meal prepared by chef, author, television host and James Beard Award-winner John…
“All I remember was hearing ‘Firestone Walker,’ and then everyone around us suddenly start screaming in our faces.” That’s what Brandon Proff, co-owner of Our Mutual Friend Brewing, wrote in a blog about the moment when his brewery won a silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival last September…
Despite the brutal wind chill and pelting snow, Denverites were out in full force (some with shooters in hand and some even wearing shorts) last night to welcome the long-awaited Torchy’s Tacos with proper Mile High gusto. More than 4,200 people RSVP’d to #TorchysDoesDenver on the Texas taco chain’s Facebook…
Is Denver’s brewery boom slowing down? It’s hard to tell: While there certainly aren’t as many small independent breweries on the horizon as there were at this time last year, there is still plenty of action on the new-brewery front. The list of anticipated openings in 2016 include three breweries…
January was a seesaw of openings and closings; with the shuttering of one restaurant came the unveiling of another. While California-based vegan chain Native Foods Cafe closed two of its fast-casual locations (most prominently, the 16th Street Mall store), a cozy, locally owned plant-based joint called the Handy Diner opened…
After 115 years in Denver, Dickinson Plaza is no longer owned by the Dickinson family — and, in fact, the building at West 32nd and Tejon Street will soon be razed for a project that calls for a five-story apartment complex. In the process, nine businesses will lose their homes…
Korean restaurants of all sorts are popping up around town — well, mostly in Aurora, but a new branch of the popular Dae Gee BBQ is set to open soon at 460 Broadway. Korean barbecue joints like Dae Gee are the most common Korean restaurants in Denver — and the…
Dive into the world of sommeliers during a screening of SOMM: Into the Bottle at the Sie FilmCenter at 6 p.m. tonight. Denver Food and Wine and the Denver Film Society have teamed up to bring guests an evening of food, film and fermentation. The night will start with a reception featuring…
After the initial sadness of saying goodbye to Tom’s Home Cookin’ when the celebrated Southern lunch counter closed abruptly in December, curiosity took hold: Who would be the next tenant to bring something new to the Five Points neighborhood in a way that would spark appetites and admiration — as…
A snowy day marked the perfect occasion for the opening of a new Vietnamese soup specialist; Fee Fi Pho Fum began ladling broth Monday morning on South Broadway, sharing a wall and an owner — Jason Tietjen — with the Dive Inn next door. The restaurant is the first in what…
Haggis, the oft-joked about, seldom eaten national dish of Scotland, made a rare Denver appearance on Saturday night at the 16th annual Burns Night dinner put on by the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Capitol Hill to honor the birthday of Scottish poet, gentleman farmer and epicurean Robert Burns. The…
Movies are a way to escape reality, but some are so cool you just wish they could happen in real life. One of those for me? Night at the Museum. I’ve always been jealous of Ben Stiller’s romp through the history books, but the Art Hotel, wedged into the Golden Triangle’s…
The much-anticipated Torchy’s Tacos will open at 1085 Broadway at 7 a.m. tomorrow — but first, the first Colorado link in this Austin-based chain will throw an opening party from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight, with free tacos, chips and dips, and drinks. And according to one reader, this opening…
Black Black Coffee expanded this week when the TAXI-building coffee shop took over the space in which Refuel had been residing. Now, in addition to pour-over coffee from a variety of roasters, Black Black serves food. Rebranded as Black Black Coffee + Kitchen, the new menu addition consists of breakfast…
Dickinson Plaza at the corner of West 32nd Avenue and Tejon Street had been in Henry Dickinson’s family for 115 years — until he sold the .8 acre property to Trammell Crow Residential on January 13 for a cool $6.8 million. The Texas company’s plan? To tear down the building…
February in Denver is all about stouts and oysters.You can sip and slurp your way through the next four weeks with Oyster Month at all Jax locations, and Stout Month at all the Mountain Sun Pub spots, including Vine Street, Mountain Sun and Southern Sun. But you can also sink…
