When attempting to tease apart the strands of American cooking that weave together soul food and Southern food, there’s no better source than Adrian Miller, author of the James Beard-award winning Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time. Miller’s book is a great…
The Denver FIVE, just like the famous Magnificent Seven of western lore, are a varied bunch of mercenary chefs fighting for the survival and honor of their home town. Both groups teamed up for a greater cause but the Denver FIVE will be slinging chocolaty goodness around the west rather…
Grateful Bread is already one of our favorite bakeries in town, earning the Best Bread award in our Best of Denver 2015 edition — and owners Jeff Cleary and Kathy Mullen are about to make things even better. Starting in August, they’ll be milling their own specialty flours on a…
As a University of Colorado graduate, huge Buffs fan (which has been a little masochistic in recent years) and active participant in alumni organizations, I always feel like a bit of a traitor heading up to Fort Collins — a holdover from the rivalry with Colorado State from college days…
Burgers may be big business in many parts of Denver, but one place where they can’t seem to find favor is on the 700 block of Colorado Boulevard. Little H Burger moved into a shopping center across the street from Snooze in 2011, but didn’t last long, as parent H…
Attorney Sana Hamelin had a dream: to open a cat cafe, one of the first in the country. She found the purrfect spot at 3929 Tennyson Street, and late last year opened the Denver Cat Company, which immediately started attracting fans of coffee and kitties. And those fans came out…
Another chapter in Denver’s northwest side story ended when Elitch Lanes closed last night, after a weekend-long goodbye. “If you’ve been around northwest Denver, you know: The people who come in here are so much nicer than the average person,” owner Cal Eichinger had told us back in December, when he…
Stretch your stomach in anticipation of all those Memorial Day barbecues at beer dinners, cooking classes, benefits and other entertaining events — including the return of the Denver FIVE. Keep reading for a taste of what’s on the culinary calendar over the next few days. Monday, May 18 Frasca Food…
With weather looking better this week, at least before afternoon storms roll in, it’s the perfect weekend to roll out of bed and check out some of the restaurants on our list of the ten best brunches in Denver. If eggs and mimosas aren’t you’re thing, oysters and Anchorman-themed cocktails…
Darren “Big Country” Byrd came to Colorado from Texas to attend culinary school at Colorado Mountan College and opened a barbecue joint in Keystone in 2007. But he grew tired of nine months of winter a year and so moved his operation to Denver, where he’s been running a fleet…
When Blackbelly Market opened in east Boulder last fall, chef/owner Hosea Rosenberg had grand plans for offering the Front Range a full market, butcher shop, breakfast and lunch counter, and destination dining establishment. Those plans have all come together and Rosenberg’s kitchen is in full swing, offering a meat-centric menu…
After being served with a lawsuit last week over an alleged cat bite, the Denver Cat Company has received an outpouring of community support. Sana Hamelin, owner of the Denver Cat Company, one of only a few cat cafes in the country, wrote an emotional and frustrated Facebook post after being served…
Gretchen Kurtz did not have great experiences at Lo Stella Ristorante, which last fall moved into a space in the Golden Triangle that has swallowed up several other restaurants. And as she writes in her review this week, Kurtz found several things hard to swallow at Lo Stella, including the fact…
Doughnuts, golf, whiskey, beer and picnics: If that’s not the makings of a great weekend, then we don’t know what is. The culinary calendar is chock full of tasty events, including version 2.0 of Whiskey Throwdown, Doughnut Showdown, the first-ever Oskar Blues golf tournament, the kick-off to a summer picnic…
To win Alton Brown’s Cutthroat Kitchen on the Food Network last year, chef Dakota Soifer of Boulder’s Cafe Aion had to run a maze of red velvet ropes and make a red velvet cake using beets for color. It was, he says, “really fun and really cool, but I wouldn’t…
On Mother’s Day, we gave a collective shout-out to the moms in our lives. But mothers aren’t the only ones who help us reach our potential. Last week I wrote about the impact that well-known chef Max MacKissock had on Joshua Bitz, who worked with MacKissock for seven years and…
Jerry and Laura Lasco just opened a location of Max’s Wine Dive, their Texas-based chain, at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Sherman Street, but they’re into more than fried chicken and champagne. Diving into healthier eating as a way to combat high blood pressure and other health issues, they…
Like Highland Tap & Burger, the happy hour at Angelo’s Taverna has been freshly crowned as a neighborhood sensation. In this densely residential area that condo builders insist on calling Governor’s Park, it’s not hard to see why residents are treating the two-year-old Angelo’s as a default hangout. And by…
“When a distiller gets married, you want to bring some special things,” says Todd Leopold, “because that’s what your family and friends are going to expect.” The wedding he’s referring to was actually his own, and the special thing that he brought was a bitter, scarlet-colored aperitif that he distilled…
Sommelier and world traveler Travis Gee is nearly ready to open Brik on York, his wine bar and restaurant in a former watch repair store, antique furniture shop and movie theater on East Colfax Avenue. The old wood and stucco facade has been removed to reveal the underlying brick that…
Mark Antonation is eating at soul-food restaurants for this month’s Ethniche, and his travels recently took him to Kirk’s Soul Kitchen in Aurora, where the restaurant occupies the former home of a payday loan. And given the setting, Kirk’s serves up some unusual stories along with authentic soul food. Says Joshua:…
Steve Horner, go back to your corner. Eight years ago, members of this city’s bar/restaurant industry felt like they were being held hostage by Steve Horner. The onetime radio personality/self-published author had filed one of the first major claims that ladies’ nights were discriminatory in his home state of Minnesota,…
