Today you can help Atticus celebrate one year of serving a more grown-up menu to the bar-food-saturated University of Denver neighborhood, or head to Boulder to see how Pizzeria Locale is going beyond the pie as the kitchen there cooks up traditional southern Italian cooking “al forno.” Keep reading for…
Renegade Brewing isn’t yet cooking malt and hops at its huge new production and packaging facility on First Avenue and Santa Fe Drive, but it has opened the building for public tours — along with pints. Tours will be offered from 4 to 7 p.m. on Fridays and 1 to…
I’m not the cursing type, but when the hostess at The Post Brewing Company told us it would be 45 minutes before two seats opened up, even at one of the four long community counters, a bleep-worthy word raced through…
Change is coming — and we think you’ll like it. Westword.com is under construction, and we won’t be posting any new content to Cafe Society, or the rest of the website, between 10 p.m. Monday, February 9 and mid-morning Tuesday, February 10, when we’ll roll out a new version with…
After dark, certain stretches of Denver’s suburbs might as well be rural farmland; what few lights there are appear distant and twinkling, and the black silhouettes of trees stand in for strip malls and rows of houses in more populous areas of town. A half-hour drive down Santa Fe Drive…
For years, Sunnyside — the neighborhood bounded by 38th Avenue, Federal Boulevard, Interstate 70 and Inca Street — was a food desert, with only a couple of notable Denver favorites, like the original Chubby’s, amid a handful of other taco joints and tortillerias. The growing popularity of the nearby Highland…
Winter Cocktail – A Arvada Tavern 5707 Olde Wadsworth Boulevard 303-690-6269 It’s all about balance. When you’re making cocktails, it’s best not to let harsh ingredients overpower a drink, or worse, serve a syrupy sugar bomb. At the Arvada Tavern, Adam Douglas is doing just that: crafting cocktails the way…
The never-ending market niche for unconventional food and drink preparation gadgets occasionally has a balls-out month or two, and lately it’s giving us all some of THE most unfathomable creations — and not all of the products are good. Matter of fact, most of them are creepy, crazy and mind-blowingly…
Restaurateur Troy Guard’s second incarnation of Bubu opens tomorrow in the Hangar 2 development in Lowry, just a few months after the original opened in the former home of TAG| Raw Bar off Larimer Square. This newest member of the TAG restaurant group has a brighter, more lively dining room…
It may be too late to snag a reservation at your favorite romantic restaurant, but there are still plenty of lovely options for Valentine’s Day. Read on for some of the hottest parties, dinners and even anti-V-Day events. See also: From Cookies to Cooking Lessons, Nine Tasty Events on This…
Get ready for Valentine’s Day by making your sweetie a cookie today, or sign up for a couple’s cooking class later this week. And for those who simply want a lovely time this week, with or without a mate, there are plenty of appetizing events on the culinary calendar. Keep…
Two local favorites that presaged the Denver restaurant boom by several years and garnered early attention for the city’s national dining reputation reopened this week after makeovers. Rioja swung open the doors on Wednesday to a refresh which modernized the space after ten years on Larimer Square. Fruition is doing…
No. 50: Smothered Breakfast Burritos at Chickee’s Lil Kitchen 4340 Zuni Street 720-329-3980 In a cute neighborhood with a perky name like Sunnyside, what could be more appropriate than a breakfast and lunch eatery so small you have to order from a walk-up window? Owner Harriett Sanchez might be willing…
For two decades, Taste of Thailand has been serving delicious Thai cuisine to healthcare workers, neighbors and other regulars, who all flock to the cozy dining room in Englewood; fans swear by chef/owner Noy Farrell’s “flu shot soup” to ward of winter malaise. She and and her husband, Rick Farrell,…
When you’re looking for a hearty dish that will fill you up without that, “yuck, I just ate my body weight in something I shouldn’t have” feeling, look no further than the sweet potato gnocchi at Harman’s Eat + Drink in Cherry Creek North. This seasonal dish from chef John…
Famous chefs are all over this weekend, duking it out Iron Chef-style in Cherry Creek and in your living rooms on PBS. But if you’re preoccupied by Valentine’s Day blues, Blackbird has a casual event for singles that might just lighten your mood. And on Saturday, get your chance to…
Two new cafes have opened on the west side of town, one in Lakewood and one in an appendage of Denver that pokes into the spawling suburb just off Sheridan Boulevard. The French Press Cafe and Bakery (the second branch of the original in Aurora) was forced to close in…
When it opened almost three decades ago, Paris on the Platte was a bright light on a very dim stretch. Over the years, Paris grew from a coffee house to a wine bar to a music venue to a favorite gathering place — and this block of Platte Street grew,…
Not all steaks need sauce. But some do: Filets, for example, often benefit from the added flavor. And even if a steak doesn’t need a pick-me-up, sometimes you want one anyway — just because. That’s why Butcher’s Bistro, which I just reviewed, took a step in the right direction when…
Chinese New Year falls on February 19 this year; celebrations and feasts traditionally last for two weeks (at least in China), making February the perfect month to sample your way through the city’s best noodle houses, wok kitchens and dim sum eateries. Although two of our favorites, Chef Liu’s Authentic…
Star power definitely influences our restaurant choices. Knowingly or not, names like Frank Bonanno and Jennifer Jasinski are big neon signs in our minds, flashing “Quality.” And there are few bigger stars in this town’s scene than Keegan Gerhard, by virtue of having appeared in millions of living rooms on…
Scott Spears, Arvada native and owner of Scrumptious Ice Cream, just opened School House Kitchen and Libations on Tuesday in Olde Town Arvada in a former school house originally built in 1882. The spacious bar and restaurant features a towering bar of whiskeys with bottles that line shelves all the…
