No. 57: Chorizo Breakfast Stew at DJ’s 9th Avenue Cafe Food doesn’t always have to be fancy or fussed over to be great. Sometimes it just needs to be the right dish at the right time. In cold and blustery weather, when stumbling into a cafe steamy with vapors from…
While LoDo is known for late-night douche-baggery, Jimmy’s Urban Bar & Grill, a family-run, neighborhood joint that just happens to be wedged into a stretch of blocks more known for last call than first cups of coffee, is a mid-morning reprieve from the bros and bro-ettes. On a quiet weekend…
With the incredible number of bars and restaurants that opened this past year, trend-following can lead you down a pretty deep rabbit hole. Sure, there was plenty of kale on Denver’s menus, but a big part of that is that kale is cheap and easy to grow in Colorado. But…
Move over, Brussels sprouts. Stand aside, kale. It’s time for another vegetable to be tapped as trendiest snack: shishito peppers. And we’re all for it, because unlike those other two veggies, these slender green peppers are proving themselves to be highly versatile, so that every bowl around town doesn’t taste…
Ethniche started in May as a deep dive into a different ethnic cuisine each month. Since then, I’ve traveled through Hawaii, Ethiopia, Greece, Thailand, the American South, India, Eastern Europe and back home to Colorado for four weeks of Den-Mex green chile in December. On my journeys, I’ve found that…
Our Backbeat blog shared the sad news yesterday: D Note, a mainstay in Arvada for a dozen years, will close on January 3. When the DeGraff family sold the spot two years ago to Dave and Mernie Rosenberg, live music became as integral to the spot as the pizza that…
If you’re antsy to start the end-of-the-year celebration, curb that craving at Adelitas Cocina y Cantina for Taco Tuesday. The cantina serves up $1 tacos from 11 a.m. to midnight every Tuesday; you can wash them down with the margs that won our Best House Margarita award in the Best…
After exactly one year, the vegan cafe and elixir bar Nectar House is closing its doors. Located inside the lobby of the Kindness Yoga Studio on South Broadway, the business was doing pretty well, according to co-owner Piper Rose, but she feels that it’s simply time to move on. The…
Beast + Bottle 719 East 17th Avenue 303-623-3223 The staff at Beast + Bottle regularly visits local farms and breweries to taste fresh products, which eventually find their way on to the farm-to-table restaurant’s dinner and drink menus. One of those farms supplies watercress, which fell into the hands of…
Winter Park Resort, which turns 75 this year, has struck a deal with the state’s largest craft brewer that will guarantee plenty of Mary Jane Ale for the foreseeable future. As part of the arrangement, New Belgium Brewing will make a certain number of barrels of the beer per year…
After one of the biggest drinking days of the year, ringing in the new year with a hearty meal at one of Denver’s finest brunch spots is a must. Whether you’re rolling out of bed with a raging hangover or raring to get a head start on those resolutions, usher…
This year has seen some almighty good food trends from paleo-inspired, wood-grilled meats to the proliferation of pop-up restaurants, citrus everywhere and DIY foods, more global tastes than ever before, and even a ramen renaissance. But like every year, 2014 had its share of downer-grade food fails, and plenty of…
Denver has given birth to many fast-casual efforts, from the giant Chipotle to Smashburger to the just-opened, one-of-a-kind Biju’s Little Curry House. But after we rounded up the ten best new fast-casual spots in Denver last week, some readers made it clear they don’t find the fast-casual concept very appetizing…
There’s an explosion of events on the culinary calendar for New Year’s Eve, everything from big parties to intimate dinners. Keep reading for a taste of what’s on the culinary calendar this week. See also: Year-End Trends: A Second Helping of Cafe Society, December 22-26…
While Cafe Society writers have been looking back over the past year, would-be restaurateurs are still scrambling to get their spots open and grab some of the last holiday business before the January doldrums hit. City Stacks, a bookstore/coffeehouse, has started a new chapter in LoDo. Waffle Brothers finally opened…
The Star Bar in Ballpark proudly serves no food whatsoever, paying more attention to compiling a robust list of local brews and spirits — and a pile of regulars. It’s been successful enough that it seems like a decades-old juice joint despite its relative youth, perhaps because that’s exactly what…
Sean Nook is serious about making good beer. But he doesn’t take himself too seriously when it comes to marketing or selling it — which is why his place, Black Bottle Brewery in Fort Collins, takes an irreverent approach to its everyday operations. Last year, for instance, Nook came up…
No. 58: Diavola Pizza at Pizzeria Locale 3484 West 32nd Avenue, 303-302-2451 550 Broadway, 720-508-8828 Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson and Bobby Stuckey, owners of Frasca and the original Pizzeria Locale in Boulder, didn’t skimp when they decided to open a fast-casual version of their traditional Neapolitan pizza place on Broadway almost two…
Jason McGovern has been serving up deep-dish pizza out of a window at the back of the Bar Car for a couple of years, but he’s finally getting his own place. His stand-alone Denver Deep Dish opens tomorrow in Lower Highland on a stretch of West 38th Avenue that’s seeing…
Now that the eight days of excuses to eat fried food (also known as Hanukkah) have come and gone, you may be craving something that will satisfy your inner East Coaster: a good New York City bagel. Yes, we know that Denver is not New York, and for any NY…
There are plenty of trendy eats and drinks from the entire decade of the 1990s that we either don’t miss or that just won’t die so we can miss them — like spinach-artichoke dip, weirdo fruity martinis, molten chocolate cake, chicken Caesar salads and sun-dried tomatoes on everything. But there…
It’s been a long haul, but partner John Power says the new Waffle Brothers will open this morning at First Avenue and Washington Street — and the crew is excited to get those doors open. They were working late on Christmas Day, putting in the finishing touches on the renovated…
