Linger, Ophelia’s Electric Soap Box, Root Down and Root Down DIA are all operated under the umbrella of Justin Cucci’s Edible Beats family of restaurants devoted to fun, sustainable food — and great happy hours. It’s a supper syndicate, a culinary consortium, which sounds a little suspicious to me — a single…
Not long ago, foie gras was out. Not out like carbs were out in the ‘90s or gluten is out right now, but way out. So far out that chefs stopped putting it on menus for fear of being bad guys by association. How times have changed — in large part…
There’s so much construction going on in Cherry Creek North that it’s easy to overlook vacancies that would be glaring in any other neighborhood. Columbine Street, in particular, has been an obstacle course of orange cones and scaffolding as two major projects — an office building and a hotel, both…
The lead-up to A Taste for Life is one of the busiest times of the year for Project Angel Heart executive chef Jon Emanuel. The event brings together more than twenty restaurants and other local food and beverage companies in a gala fundraiser for the organization, which is dedicated to…
Today’s the deadline for companies to submit an application to open a brewery and bar in the new Westin airport hotel, as well as a few other food and drink outlets at DIA. “It’s a chance to be unique and do something that someone else hasn’t done,” says DIA senior vice…
Colorado has always led the way when it comes to canning innovations in the brewing industry, whether the latest brainstorm came from Coors, Ball Packaging, Oskar Blues, Wild Goose Canning or Mobile Canning Systems. But small craft breweries have pushed things forward as well, and one of those, Big Choice Brewing…
Yesterday, fast-food aficionados around the country celebrated not having to get out of bed before 10:30 a.m. if they wanted to order off the elusive McDonald’s breakfast menu. For many, a Sausage and Egg McMuffin was the only redeeming part of being up early — but the chain will now…
Do you remember the Lotus Room? So does Robert Autobee, co-author of The Lost Restaurants of Denver, who will be talking about the book with his wife, Kristen, on Monday, October 12, at the History Colorado Center. Since the couple published their history of Denver dining early this year, they’ve…
No. 13: Pimento Cheese Spread at Dunbar Kitchen & Tap Room Pimento cheese spread is one of those grocery store guilty pleasures that you reached for as a kid and hid in the shopping cart until it was too late for your mom to notice because the clerk had already…
You’ve had beer ice cream (and if you haven’t, you should try it), but now it’s time for ice cream beer. New Belgium Brewing, in conjunction with Ben & Jerry’s, will release Salted Caramel Brownie Ale this month — and mouths are likely watering. The brown ale was brewed for…
The brined, seasoned and fried chicken at the Post Brewing Co. in Lafayette is crackling good. So it’s natural that the recipe developed by executive chef Brett Smith and company would take roost in other parts of the metro area. Meet the new fried flock at GoodBird Kitchen, coming soon to Longmont…
ll Porcellino Salumi has hit a few rough spots, but this month owners Bill Minor and Brian Albano hope to finally get the doors at 4334 West 41st Avenue open — and they gave neighbors at last week’s First Friday on Tennyson Street a taste of what to expect. But Jacob isn’t…
There’s no shortage of craft beer at Denver International Airport. Passengers flying in and out can find outposts of New Belgium Brewing and Boulder Beer in the terminal, and a variety of local selections at bars and restaurants throughout the concourses; there’s also a kiosk in the B Concourse selling…
Michael Shiell created quite a stir when he picked the name for the restaurant that would mark his return to Denver after a three-year hiatus: It would be called Milk & Honey, after a biblical phrase synonymous with good times. It might have been more straightforward to call the place…
Caribou Coffee and Einstein Bros. Bagels opened their newest coffee and bagels concept in Aurora, at 16495 East 40th Circle Suite A, at 5 a.m. today. In celebration of the opening, the chain will be giving the first fifty guests in line a coupon booklet for a free medium coffee, bagel…
Tom’s Urban, the American diner on the corner of 15th and Larimer streets, is closed and the windows have been papered over. But a quick check of the restaurant’s Facebook page reveals the closure is only temporary. A post from September 24 reads “Tom’s Urban will be temporarily closed for…
Crazy Mountain Brewery, which took over the Breckenridge Brewery’s former headquarters at 471 Kalamath Street in August, plans to open a barbecue joint and tap room in cooperation with Beaver Creek’s Group970 Restaurants sometime this fall. Group970 runs Blue Moose Pizza locations in Vail and Beaver Creek, along with two…
Pop Skull at Syntax Physic Opera At Syntax Physic Opera, everything is entertainment. The South Broadway bar and restaurant is also a venue, drawing crowds for stand-up comedy, opera, live local music and burlesque. A stage sits front and center in the dining room, where live performance is woven into the…
Competitive barbecue pit man Jason Ganahl is juggling two major meat feats this month: Not only is he on his way to Bentonville, Arkansas for a national barbecue championship on October 10, but he’s in the final stages of opening GQue Championship Barbecue, the smokehouse and restaurant that he hopes…
Move over Slim Jim, there’s a new beef jerky in town. Enter Uncle Andy’s Jerky, the all-natural, sustainable snack created in Fort Collins by Andy Hanenberg. The 32-year-old entrepreneur from New Jersey started in the jerky world in 2012, inspired by CrossFit and meat-focused paleo diets. “I started looking at jerky…
It has been nine months since Seth Rubin baked his last biscuit — at least for paying customers — after shutting down his two Rise & Shine Biscuit Kitchen and Cafes, the breakfast eateries he operated inside Basil Doc’s Pizza branches in the West Highland and Hilltop neighborhoods. Basil Doc’s…
The sad news came on Sunday: Gary Lee Bomar, the owner of Gary Lee’s Motor Club and Grub at 176 South Broadway, had passed away after sustaining a head injury on a trip to Mexico. A gofundme campaign to pay for his treatment there and his return to Swedish Medical…
