Bill Miner and Brian Albano finally got the go-ahead from the city yesterday afternoon, so their new deli and market, Il Porcellino, is officially in business today. The doors of the shrine to swine will open at 10:30 a.m. In addition to a range of house-cured meats, cheeses and packaged…
Restaurateurs Juan Padró and Katie O’Shea Padró and chef-partner Max MacKissock are putting their new Italian eatery, Bar Dough, through its paces this week with a couple of friends-and-family lunch and dinner services before they swing the doors open to the public on Monday, October 26. The restaurant, located next…
Brothers Kris and Jason Wallenta have turned the space that once held D Bar into Dos Santos, opening their upscale, Uptown taqueria this summer. The place already has a legion of fans — and Gretchen Kurtz joins them with her review of Dos Santos this week. Says Megan: Seriously deeeeeelish Adds Judi:…
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to lose your sight and experience the world in a completely different way? Today you can during the Boulder Blind Cafe. And Boulder will also be the site of the Boulder Burgundy Festival that starts today. Keep reading for the details…..
Yesterday we reported that a new eatery called Rusty Bucket Restaurant & Tavern will be coming to the Lower Highland neighborhood on the ground floor of a new apartment complex being built there. There are already plenty of Rusty Buckets around — nineteen and counting throughout Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and…
Last week we dished up five places to get a great bowl of gumbo on National Gumbo Day, to honor Cajun and Creole chef Paul Prudhomme, who passed away earlier this month. Reader suggestions followed, one of which was Red Roux — but it turns out that Red Roux isn’t the name of the…
What’s in a name? Plenty of trouble, when a restaurant with a trademark discovers that another spot with a similar-sounding — and sometimes even identical — name pops up in the same town. The Wazee Supper Club waged a long-running battle when Wazoo’s opened up down the street; sibling restaurant…
Ali Benetka, who became one of the first female head brewers in Colorado when she took over operations at Renegade Brewing in 2013, has returned to Colorado from Alaska, where she head a seasonal job, to take a brewing position at Ratio Beerworks in RiNo. A Denver-area native, Benetka earned…
The news yesterday that Lower48 Kitchen will be shutting down on November 7 at the corner of 21st and Lawrence streets brought with it curiosity about the situation of the Inventing Room, scheduled to open on October 31 in a space that was once Lower48’s Service Bar concept. “Does this…
Several Mexican grocery stores around town also feature little eateries — but few advertise their services as graphically as Carniceria la Sierra at 3170 West Alameda Avenue, one of several taquerias Mark Antonation featured in his story about three spots where you can get your groceries and tacos in one…
I’m supposed to be writing about chilaquiles. Instead, I’m eating them. Oh, I tried to sit at the computer and soldier on. Tried hard, in fact. But in the end, all those thoughts about cumin, serranos and lime got to me. So I did what any hungry critic would do:…
Whether you’re looking to add a little culture to your week with the Five Points Food, Wine and Jazz Festival, or you’re just trying to give back to your community while picking up dinner, we’ve got you covered. Here are today’s culinary events. The Five Points Food, Wine and…
When Lower48 Kitchen opened in 2013, it immediately grabbed the attention of our food and drink staff, winning our Best New Restaurant award for that year. Over the next two years, owner Mario Nocifera and chef Alex Figura proved with innovative dishes, top-notch hospitality and commitment to quality that the…
What was until recently the Mile High United Way headquarters in Lower Highland is currently a gaping hole in the ground, but before long it will become the 18th & Central Apartment Community — and with it will come ground-floor retail space. Southern Land Company, developers of the property, have already…
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau has made a point recently of checking in on kombucha producers to make sure they’re keeping their brews to less than .5 percent alcohol by volume, the legal limit above which beverages are subject to the bureau’s regulations. At alcohol levels that…
Snooze Fashioned at Snooze It’s not just Mimosas anymore. If you’re putting down some pancakes with friends at brunch these days in Denver, there are a lot more day-drinking options than just the usual orange juice mixed with sparkling wine. At Snooze, the barons of brunch have created a slew…
In a heartfelt message to all of its fans, Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe announced yesterday that it will close on October 30 — after more than thirty years on West 33rd Avenue — and the comments have been pouring in. “We’re calling it a retirement,” says Oscar Aguirre, the eldest…
The neighborhood many are calling LoHi these days hasn’t always been the epicenter of hip, destination dining out. Before Old Major, Uncle, Williams & Graham and Highland Tap & Burger set up shop, the area was a modest, heavily Hispanic neighborhood with a few old Victorians and Denver Squares rising…
The Flatirons Food Film Festival got under way yesterday in Boulder, where it will be serving up appetite-inducing films and more through the weekend. But there’s also a cornucopia of food events in Denver today; here’s a taste: You can help We Don’t Waste in its mission to reduce…
It has been a hurry-up-and-wait situation for chef-inventor Ian Kleinman, who’s been champing at the bit to get his dessert emporium, the Inventing Room, open ever since he announced plans for a brick-and-mortar space to hold his laboratory of sweet experiments. But the big day is finally coming: The Inventing…
It’s the end of an era. Just over thirty years ago, Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe opened in a storefront at 2005 West 33rd Avenue. And about five minutes after that, an artist whose studio was in the then-decidedly lowbrow Lower Highland neighborhood called Westword to say that he’d just found Denver’s…
Neighborhood bistro Table 6 has been churning out elevated American cuisine since 2004, and despite being in business for more than a decade with a few chef changes along the way, it’s still holding strong as one of the most consistently recommended restaurants in Denver. One of the OG pioneers…
