Tune in to the Cooking Channel at 8 p.m. MST tonight when the second season of Taco Trip kicks off with chef Aaron Sanchez’s visit to Denver. Sánchez is the chef/partner of Paloma in Stamford, Connecticut, and Johnny Sánchez in New Orleans and Baltimore, along with friend and partner John Besh…
Arizona-based bar and eatery Postino WineCafe will open the doors to its new space in Lower Highland tomorrow at 11 a.m. The sunny, mid-century modern restaurant is the first to open in the renovated Denver Book Bindery building, which will soon also include Recess Beer Garden. Postino features a menu…
No. 23: The Emma Farms Wagyu Burger at Edge Restaurant & BarEdge Restaurant & Bar is located in the Four Seasons Hotel downtown, where tourists and businessmen converge on Denver from all over the globe — but the beef that makes up the scrumptious house burger only travels about three…
Brandon Bortles and Barry Dobesh — “the Bs,” to their friends — have been working at a furious pace to open their new Golden restaurant, Abejas. The only thing missing was a liquor license, but with that now in hand, they’ll open the doors for business tonight at 5 p.m…
A third Denver Biscuit Company just opened in the Berkeley neighborhood. In honor of that, Lauren Monitz decided to return to the original Denver Biscuit Company in the first Atomic Cowboy on East Colfax Avenue for a delicious, biscuit-filled brunch. But even with three outlets of the Denver Biscuit Company, there’s…
Two teenagers became high-school sweethearts in Westchester County, New York, a few decades ago — but as happens with most young romances, they drifted apart. So how is it that years later, the two wound up running a seafood restaurant together in Denver? For Matt and Carrie Stein, owners of…
This week the Denver Art Museum is holding a few artful demos that you can really sink your teeth into. Paying homage to the In Bloom exhibit, which opened in July and features a bouquet of sixty paintings by Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh…
No. 24: A Hamburger at Bob’s Atomic Burger Bob’s Atomic Burgers in Golden doesn’t have a roster filled with goofy names and crazy ingredients. If you want a burger, it’s just called a hamburger. Extras are either free — like the tomato, onion and pickled jalapeños on the mountainous mouthful…
Whether you call it Antique Row or the Green Mile, the stretch of South Broadway from Mississippi to Evans avenues is seeing a business renaissance fueled in part by the recreational marijuana industry and in part by sky-high rent rates pushing small-business owners toward previously neglected neighborhoods. Mehdi and Crystal…
In honor of Denver Biscuit Company’s new outpost on Tennyson Street, we decided to brave the craziness and hit up the original location on Colfax Avenue. Just as hopping as ever with crowds spilling out all the way into the street, DBC has solidified itself as a Denver brunch staple,…
When Uncle owner Tommy Lee staked a claim on a building at 3500 Larimer Street at the beginning of the year, it got tagged with the temporary moniker Bar Uncle, for lack of an official name. But a new website and Faceboolk page are now up, announcing that when the place opens…
The tickets for the Great American Beer Festival were gone almost as soon as sales started, but there will be plenty of other beery activities around town both before and after the event fills the Colorado Convention Hall from September 24 through 26. Still, some readers wish that locals had a…
When the T-Wa Inn, the first Vietnamese restaurant in Denver, closed on Federal Boulevard last year, I felt empathy for the owners of the place, who right up to the very end provided warm hospitality and a menu equally fluent in the lively flavors of Southeast Asian ingredients and the…
This week you can explore the relationship between your food and blooms, bees…and beer, of course. The city will be buzzing with tasty culinary events; keep reading for all the delicious details. Monday, August 24 Frasca Food and Wine will explore the wines of Bodegas Muga with guest Steve Lewis at…
Last week, we reported the sad news that Griff’s Hamburgers would be pulling out of Colorado to focus on its markets in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico. The Arvada location was already dark at that point, but the South Broadway branch was still peddling burgers and fries, even as a…
No. 25: Baked rice with pork chop at Hong Kong Cafe Rice, tomato sauce, a breaded pork chop and a broiled layer of generic orange cheese: Maybe it’s a casserole mom threw together on the weekend from what she had on hand in the kitchen, or something in a Midwestern…
Forty-six years after the brew kettles dried up at the Tivoli Beer Company in Denver, the suds will officially flow again on Saturday, when the new Tivoli Brewing celebrates its grand opening inside the historic Tivoli Student Union on the Auraria campus. The Tivoli taphouse and restaurant will open the…
Finn’s Manor is nearly ready to open in River North. The food truck pod and craft cocktail bar on the 2900 block of Larimer Street (across the street from Ratio BeerWorks) is the creation of food industry veteran Noah Price, co-owner of the Populist and Crema Coffee House, Thomas Taylor…
This week Gretchen Kurtz visited bubu Lowry, where she particularly liked the veggie ramen. But the real star was the happy hour she found there, with prices “low enough to also lower expectations for the nibbles we paired with our drinks,” she writes in her bubu Lowry review. But then, she didn’t…
Get in condition for Labor Day at one of the many food and drink events in and around Denver and up in the mountains this weekend. From family-friendly events to international festivals to beer bashes, the culinary calendar is overflowing. Keep reading for details. Friday, August 21 Park Burger is…
Say the word “hydroponics” in Colorado, and only one industry comes to mind. But pot’s not the crop that Colin Clark is focused on at his indoor growhouse in Fort Collins. Instead, Clark is planning to use hydroponics for our state’s other favorite vice: craft beer. On Sunday, City Star…
The Nickel lives at the foot of the Tramway Building on 14th Street, roosting in a place with more than a century of rich history. The building was erected in 1911, where the former home of territorial Governor John Evans once stood, and soon became the heart of the city’s streetcar system…
