The smoke continues to pour from new barbecue joints around town. GQue Championship BBQ opens at 11 a.m. today in Westminster serving Kansas City-style barbecue from competitive pit master Jason Ganahl. According to the company’s Facebook page, the kitchen will start out slowly, smoking enough meat for 200 customers today to…
The City Park Le Peep at York Street and 19th Avenue had seen better days when it closed in August; the white building with the green awnings was looking dated and shabby well before the last plate of pancakes sold. And once closed, it seemed destined for the wrecking ball,…
Talk about both tipping and raising the minimum wage is heating up. Famed New York restaurateur Danny Meyer announced last month that he’s going to end tipping in his restaurants, pay higher wages — and simply charge more for the food. At Denver’s Zoe Ma Ma, Edwin Zoe has taken…
On Wednesday we salute those who have served our country; a number of restaurants are offering free meals and discounts. But through the week there are deals and special events for all diners, all around town. Keep reading for more on all of the tasty events in this weeks calendar. …
In the past two weeks, two markets have closed and re-opened due to accidents. Last week a crane toppled and knocked a hole in the roof at the Source in River North, and this week a driver plowed his SUV into Marczyk Fine Foods on East Colfax Avenue. Let’s hope…
Chef/restaurateur Sean Kelly recently grabbed the building vacated by Table Top in Park Hill and, after a quick turnaround, opened Desmond Bar & Grill at 2230 Oneida Street on Wednesday. Kelly’s last Denver appearance was at LoHi SteakBar, but he’s also fondly remembered for his groundbreaking restaurants Aubergine Cafe (where Mizuna…
A new breakfast, lunch and dinner restaurant is coming to Sunnyside this month; Bacon Social House announced on its Facebook page that it will open on November 20 in the new Cobbler’s Corner project. But the name itself got us thinking about the basic, single-word monikers of the city’s favorite…
The citywide eating orgy official known as Denver Restaurant Week doesn’t start for another few months, but we don’t need to wait until the end of February to take advantage of a multitude of three-course, $30 meals. Boulder’s First Bite begins next Friday, November 13, with more than forty participating…
While there are plenty of independent restaurants hoping to get their doors open before the end of the year, they’ll have to move fast to beat the onslaught of chains both coming to Colorado, and growing in Colorado — which has earned a reputation as the birthplace of successful fast-casual…
Nick French has a dozen beehives on seventy acres of a Colorado hemp farm. With these bees, he has harnessed the power of three super foods to create his Colorado Hemp Honey. Containing whole CBD hemp extract, as well as essential oils for flavoring and aroma therapy, the locally grown…
Beer, bacon and rock-a-billy are all in the cards if you play your hand right — and that’s just on Saturday. The weekend also brings art events, free pancakes, chocolate, wine, cocktails and more. But do you really need more? Keep reading for a taste of what’s on the culinary…
No. 8: The Pretzel Dawg at CuredFriday lunch in Boulder features a completely different array of options from what you’d find in Denver. The compact city tucked up against the foothills has a reputation for crunchy offerings along the lines of vegan nibbles and organic everything, but there’s also a…
Authors like Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) changed the way we think about food. How were the animals treated? How were the vegetables grown? How much corn is hidden in that meal? Now Danny Meyer is changing the conversation about who makes and serves…
Globe Hall, a new barbecue joint and music hall in the former Sidewinder space, opened last night in Globeville. Fans of the Sidewinder needn’t worry much; owner Jeff Cornelius hasn’t changed the vintage dive bar much — a seat at the bar won’t feel much different than it did five,…
You can sometimes tell when a new restaurant is having its moment. For Bar Fausto, freshly popped open in early August on upper Larimer, that time is right about now. Fall looks good on its white brick and colorful wallpaper, and it looks even better when the space is bursting…
A construction crew went to work quickly to get Marczyk Fine Foods at 5100 East Colfax Avenue open less than 48 hours after an SUV plunged through the front doors. The store confirms that it will be business as usual starting at 8 a.m. this morning, A contractor on the…
This week Gretchen Kurtz reviews Fire, the restaurant in the Art hotel that opened this summer with relatively little fanfare. But maybe that’s good, because her meals there were uneven; chef Chris Jakubiec needs to light a fire under his crew if this place is going to last, she concludes…
Pizzeria Locale Boulder is hosting a special Apertivo Hour today from 4 to 6 p.m., in honor of special guests Mirco and Gary Snaidero, who are visiting from Italy. The father-and-son duo recently refurbished Locale’s VDF prosciutto slicer—the first slicer of its kind to be used here in the States—and…
We warned you that this week would be full of barbecue, with two barbecue joints opening today alone. The most eagerly anticipated is Globe Hall, a Texas-style smokehouse, dive bar and music hall that opens at 4 p.m. at 45th Avenue and Logan Street in Globeville, in the space where locals…
Southern Concepts, the franchise group that operates three Southern Hospitality restaurants along the Front Range, just launched a new fast-casual concept, Carve Barbecue. Carved opened at 11 a.m. today with a soft opening; the South Colorado Boulevard smokehouse, located in the space that was previously Bruxie (a Belgian waffle eatery),…
Black Shirt Brewing is mixing things up. The River North beer-makers said this week that it will begin tapping a keg of a new one-off beer every Wednesday at 5 p.m. “Often times, we incorporate ingredients into our beer that might be more familiar to a high end kitchen than…
Smokey Bandito at Butcher’s Bistro “I look at cocktails as cooking,” says Scott Bauer, co-owner of Butcher’s Bistro on Larimer Street. “It is cooking. You’re taking many different things and putting them together to make the palate play.” Bauer opened Butcher’s Bistro last year as a meat-centric restaurant with a…
