If you’ve ever read a series in real time, eager for the next book to be written, you’ll understand how I’ve felt the past few years, waiting for the sequel to ChoLon. It’s not that chef-owner Lon Symensma hasn’t been involved in other projects since he launched his flagship nearly…
It’s been a tough few months for anyone who plans outdoor events in Denver. But “that’s just the way it works in Colorado,” says Eric Dyce, a longtime local promoter who now runs the Marina at Cherry Creek State Park — the most visited state park in Colorado, he points…
Tasty Colfax kicks off tonight with its seventh annual food crawl in the Bluebird District, including stops at twenty restaurants — but not Mezcal, which closed on June 7 for a massive overhaul and won’t reopen until the end of summer. But there’s quite a consolation prize: a new cheese shop that…
Avanti Food & Beverage opened yesterday in Lower Highland, and we’re profiling all seven of the eateries inside the two-story food hall over the next week. The dish featured above comes from Brava Pizzeria, a more permanent incarnation of Dave Bravdica’s mostly mobile Neapolitan pizza empire. Bravdica operates a wood-burning oven on the…
The Great American Beer Festival has developed some significant stretch marks over the past few years as the craft-beer industry has exploded nationwide. To accommodate that growth, the Boulder-based Brewers Association, which organizes the fest, has tweaked a few things from time to time, while essentially keeping most things the…
The Ramos Gin Fizz at Union Lodge No. 1.Vintage cocktails like the Manhattan and Old Fashioned get a lot of attention these days. They allow barroom patrons to enjoy an archetype from the early days of America’s cocktail culture — along with modern adaptations by creative bartenders. But when Union Lodge…
Beer tourism is a booming industry in Colorado, but until recently, unless visitors to this state packed an extra suitcase for their canned and bottled loot, they didn’t have a way to take last-minute souvenirs back home for friends and family — or for their own refrigerators. That changed in…
When chef Robert Grant accepted an offer from restaurateur Dory Ford to help open Baur’s Restaurant & Listening Lounge in a historic downtown space, it marked Grant’s return to Denver after a decade. He had grown up in Aurora and attended culinary school at Johnson & Wales University before heading…
Driving along Federal Boulevard is a head-turning experience for anyone who follows the Denver dining scene, because restaurants along this stretch are frequently opening, closing or just trading spaces, as Pho Duy recently did when it took over the former home of Wonderbowl. And this past weekend, the storefront at 1703 Federal…
You won’t find much Malaysian food in Denver. A few restaurants offer snapshots of the cuisine in menu tours of Southeast Asia — like the shrimp and octopus laksa (a spicy noodle soup) that was recently on Cho77’s rotating roster or the handful of offerings at Jaya Asian Grill. But…
Twenty eateries will participate in an incredible movable feast from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. today: The seventh annual Tasty Colfax, presented by Colfax on the Hill, features stops at Annie’s Café, Bastiens, Denver Biscuit Company, Fat Sully’s,The Good Son, Goosetown Tavern, Heidi’s Deli, Hooked on Colfax, Humble Pie, Lula Rose General Store, Mezcal Café, New World Cheese, Parkhouse Tavern, Sie Film Center, Southside…
While the big news in fast-casual this week is the opening of Avanti Food & Beverage in LoHi, even with seven food counters under one roof, there’s one thing you won’t find there: mac and cheese. For that you’ll have to turn to one of Denver’s industry veterans, Noodles &…
Brunch at Angelo’s Taverna is much more than a standard weekend meal — it’s more of a summer Sunday soirée, complete with one of the restaurant’s main attractions: $1 oysters. If happy hour and late-night happy hour aren’t enough (hey, we’re not complaining), Angelo’s recently added a Sunday Oyster Social…
Avanti Food & Beverage opens today at 11 a.m., so this week we’ll offering a close-up look at each of the seven eateries inside, starting with Farmer Girl, chef/owner Tim Payne’s farm-centered concept built around local and sustainable ingredients. Farmer Girl’s menu will change frequently, especially in the summer when…
DISH, Westword’s 21st annual celebration of Denver’s dining scene, will fill Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex with food and fun from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 20. You’ll be able to try dishes from more than forty restaurants — all favorites of Westword food…
Bars and restaurants change fast along Federal Boulevard — but a transformation on Saturday may have set a record. Early in the afternoon, a sign on 1703 Federal promised the “grand opening” of El Patron Sports Bar in the space that had turned into El Luchador last summer. But that…
The long-awaited Avanti Food & Beverage opens at 11 a.m. today at 3200 Pecos Street, in a LoHi spot that features a terrific view of downtown. And that’s not all: This modern food court packs in seven restaurant concepts from seven different chefs into shipping-container kitchens on two floors with…
Summertime, and the eatin’ is easy. This week’s culinary events take you to locations as exotic as the Bastille and as eclectic as East Colfax; the menu includes everything from Veuve Cliquot to ginger beer. Keep reading for details on the fifteen tastiest events this week. Monday, July 13 You…
The big restaurant reveal comes Monday, when Avanti Food & Beverage opens at 3200 Pecos Street. But there’s been lots of other action on the Denver dining scene — so much that it’s spilled out of the Food section at westword.com, and on over into News. In Ask a Mexican, for…
Denver loves bacon. And tomorrow morning, when thousands of hungover hipsters sit down to brunch, they’ll be getting their bacon fix with eggs, in Bloody Marys, even on doughnuts, as Lauren Monitz reported in her list of Seven Dishes That Prove Bacon is Alive and Well — and Totally American…
Avanti Food & Beverage, the creation of Patrick O’Neill and Rob Hahn, opens on Monday, July 13 in Lower Highland. Described as a food hall, a stand-alone food court, a food-truck rally minus the exhaust fumes and a food-and-booze lover’s heaven, it packs seven restaurant concepts from seven different chefs…
Brothers Kris and Jason Wallenta are ready to start slinging tacos and drinks at Dos Santos Taqueria de Mexico, their Uptown eatery that will open at 5 p.m. Saturday, July 11 in the East 17th Avenue space formerly occupied by D Bar. Chef Kris Wallenta already operates two restaurants in Cozumel,…
