This weekend is packed with food fun. You can pig out at Cochon 555; spend an evening shopping, eating, drinking and dancing at Denver’s newest local market, or overdose on chocolate. And that’s just the start of the tasty events on the culinary calendar. Keep reading for more. Friday, March…
After reporting this morning that Katie O’Shea Padró and Juan Padró have have sold their stake in Old Major back to the restaurant, we spoke with owner/executive chef Justin Brunson about what the move means to the restaurant, as well as his plans for the rest of 2015. In terms…
Everybody! Great news! It’s OK to open a taqueria now. Years after Pinche Tacos and its Mexican gourmet ilk caused a headache inducing frenzy for anything on a corn tortilla, the zeitgeist has turned its attention to other things. 1968 had the summer of love, 2011 boasted the summer of…
There’s a certain glamor in living your dream. But that wears off quickly when your dream is owning a restaurant and you’re starting up on a shoestring. Just ask Dave Kilroy, owner of Kitchen Table Café. “My January and February were just horrific,” he says, thinking back to a year…
Like a lot of other people, Danny Wang took to social media after seeing Budweiser’s now-infamous Super Bowl commercial, “Brewed the Hard Way,” which bashed craft breweries with the line: “Let them drink their pumpkin peach ale. We’ll be brewing us some golden suds.” He couldn’t believe that the megabrewer,…
Big news in LoHi: Juan Padró and Katie O’Shea Padró, owners of Highland Tap & Burger (a Best of Denver 2015 finalist for Best Hamburger) and major movers/investors in Old Major, which opened two years ago a few blocks away from their hopping neighborhood hangout, have sold their portion of the…
La Biblioteca will welcome Arta Tequila for this month’s Meet the Maker series, which is held on the first Thursday of every month. From 6 to 8 p.m. today, Arta will be offering complimentary tastings and pouring out plenty of tequila knowledge. There will also be a special cocktail featuring Arta…
The humble potato takes many forms in the culinary world, but the best results come from simple and straightforward techniques: boiling and mashing, baking or best of all, frying. French fries never go out of fashion (or fail to please, when done right), but recent years have seen a surge…
Left Hand Brewing’s Milk Stout Nitro made an appearance on HBO’s Girls last week, and although it wasn’t the most notable scene of this season — that happened a few minutes into episode one — it certainly made the Longmont brewery stand at attention. And while Left Hand is the…
Tap rooms can be intimidating for someone searching for the perfect beer. You don’t want to get stuck with a pint of something that’s not to your liking, but new breweries are pumping out beers at a pace faster than you can keep up with. Ideally, it would be great…
If you were going to live above a restaurant, would you choose the downtown Yard House? And by “live above,” we’re not talking about a second-floor apartment. We’re talking about the crawl space above the ceiling. But Stephen Graves apparently took the “House” in the restaurant’s name literally, and made himself…
Blake and Tracy Eliasson, owners of Settembre Cellars in Boulder, met at a wine bar while they were in college — and they weren’t even there for the wine. Trilogy Wine Bar was also a Boulder music venue, and the two went with friends to hear bluegrass. In hindsight, Tracy…
We’ve started the second round of voting in our Best of Denver 2015 Readers’ Poll, which now includes the five finalists in each category — as chosen by the readers. The five Best Burger finalists inspired several snarky comments. Says Willie: Glad to see Highland Tap continuing to bribe customers into voting for…
Yelp is a tool that users love, business owners hate, and the rest of us tolerate. I generally ignore Yelp; as a professional critic, I need to concentrate on my own opinions. But that changed last month, when Yelp released its list of the Top 100 Places to Eat in…
Here are four tasty events to help you get over the mid-week hump: Fat Jack’s Supersubs is now carrying Little Man ice cream, and in honor of the new partnership will be giving away 1,000 pints of the stuff. One free pint will be included with the purchase of a…
Trademark battles between craft breweries are no longer new, but they can have lasting effects on the companies involved. At the moment, at least three Colorado breweries are currently involved in new trademark disputes. The most recent is Zephyr Brewing in Denver, which is facing a trademark challenge from Rising…
It doesn’t seem quite fair that while breweries and wineries are legally allowed to serve food and alcoholic beverages from other producers at their production facilities, distilleries aren’t. Since distilleries play an increasingly large role in Colorado’s surge in artisan products, Representative Dan Pabon, a Denver Democrat, decided to level…
The epitome of your neighborhood bar and pub, Sloan’s has been going strong for ten-plus years in tiny Edgewater. With a homey, local vibe and a dining room that, upon first glance, doesn’t seem much different than any other bar and grille, Sloan’s seemingly effortless and casual decor belies the…
The Landmark development in Greenwood Village has had its ups and downs over the years, but has managed to attract a few long-term restaurant tenants the likes of Pizza Republica, Yanni’s, Ted’s Montana Grill and Ali Baba Grill. East West Partners took over management of the project in 2013 and…
Looking for something entirely different for Sunday brunch? Epernay Lounge just introduced a new Royal Brunch, featuring entertainment in the form of drag hostesses, an a la carte menu and bottomless mimosas for $20 on Sunday afternoons. But be careful what champagne you put in those mimosas, warns IsBoulder Better:…
Denver has quite a few restaurants that get lumped into the culinary catch-all of “Middle Eastern,” even though much of the food they serve comes from an area far larger than the Middle East itself. Morocco, for example, isn’t part of the Middle East; it’s as far from Iran as…
Last year Lower48 Kitchen won our Best New Restaurant 2014 award, and Acorn was a close contender. Tonight chefs Alex Figura of Lower48 and Steve Redzikowski (co-owner of Oak at Fourteenth and its offshoot, Acorn) will be at Lower48 cooking a collaboration dinner for Art Culinaire, “the international magazine in…
