Don’t worry about the snow outside: After two days of cooking at home, you deserve to get out out of the house this weekend. Let someone else serve you — or just do some cooking in a more exotic setting than your own kitchen. Here’s a tastytrio of events on…
Most of us can’t sing unless we’ve had a couple of pints, which means that the Fort Collins-area brewers who got together to sing this jingle at Horse & Dragon Brewing may have had a couple. The singing Christmas card was organized by the Colorado Brewers Festival and the Downtown…
The red and black colors of a new Ink Coffee cafe adorn the former Cash From Clutter building at 2851 Larimer Street, across the street from the neighborhood’s five-year veteran, Crema Coffee House. At first, the addition made me wince: on a street that has small, local businesses popping up…
The Sandoval family has been making Christmas a little tastier at Tamales by La Casita since 1975. What seems like a simple corn wrapper filled with a little corn masa and pork actually requires a team of cooks to make enough tamales to keep north Denverites happy. Videographer Andrew Bateman…
By now the family is all here and the cooking for tomorrow has began — which means that tonight is a perfect time to go out, sit back and let someone else do the cooking for you. Restaurants and bars across town will be serving up special holiday menus and…
This was a year of big changes. I went from writing a weekly blog post about Federal Boulevard to covering the Denver food scene every day as a full-time job — and there has been plenty to cover. I was lucky enough to land the gig in the middle of…
I ate hundreds of restaurant meals this past year, comprising thousands of dishes. Narrowing those down to the ten best dishes I ate in 2014 wasn’t easy — especially when you consider the energy coming out of the 300-plus bars and restaurants that opened over the past twelve months and…
Crema Coffee House is arguably one of the pioneers of the River North neighborhood. Owner Noah Price opened the hole in the wall cafe at Larimer and 29th streets five years ago. At the time, the the tiny space fit a dozen or so people comfortably; the rest of the…
Broken Shovels Farm is a working goat dairy that turns out a wide array of artisan cheeses, yogurt and even goat butter. This weekend the dairy hosted its annual Holiday Open House and Market, where guests mingled with the goats while selecting from holiday treats from local vendors. Photographer Danielle…
On the northwest corner of 44th Avenue and Federal Boulevard, there’s a liquor store, a Heads of State and La Fuente Mexican restaurant. La Fuente is barely noticeable but for a few banners and signs advertising breakfast and tamales. The restaurant looks like it’s been there forever, slowly accumulating those…
In a year jam-packed with bar and restaurant openings, it was sometimes a relief to find comfort in familiar favorites. But even a few of these took advantage of the favorable economic climate to improve on already successful formulas. Two of them closed and remodeled; reopening as larger versions of…
Copper Kettle Brewing is counting down the days until Christmas with its 12 Firkins of Christmas — twelve unique casks themed around the holiday carol, “12 Days of Christmas.” And it’s down to the penultimate brew today. See also: Five of the Best — and Worst — Specialty Holiday Foods…
If you were ever doubtful that a Welton Street renaissance would arrive in Five Points, Dunbar Kitchen and Tap House will relieve those worries. The new restaurant with classic cocktails, shelves of local liquor, a brick-and-wood décor and Southern-tinged menu is a surprise in the mainly quiet Welton Street strip…
RiNo Yacht Club 3350 Brighton Boulevard 720-443-1135 Much of what we perceive as flavor, say scientists who study such things, is actually aroma. We’ve all had that experience of being sucked back into a memory where we first caught the scent of a lemon, fresh-baked bread, the ocean. For McLain…
Josh Epps and Christina Smith, owners of the two Jelly Cafes in Denver (the original on Colfax Avenue and Jelly U near the University of Denver), live in the Berkeley neighborhood and wanted a family-friendly restaurant to take their kids for a reasonably priced dinner. The solution? They decided to…
Every holiday season brings consumers a big, mixed Santa bag of Christmas-themed nibbles and sips, and it’s pretty much a guarantee that at least a few of them are gonna be memorably good, while the rest will be the nightmare during Christmas. This year at least we have some better-sounding…
Basil Doc’s has been turning out pizza since 1996 under the direction of owner Mike Miller. While the Crestmoor location isn’t the original store (the first Basil Doc’s, near Washington Park, is still turning out pizzas), Miller is now focusing his attentions on the little spot tucked in a row…
With the year drawing to a close, it’s time to look back on the top trends of 2014. The most important — the one driving all the other trends — is sheer growth. More than 300 bars and restaurants flung open their doors this year in the metro area, enough…
A record number of restaurants opened in metro Denver in 2014. Although a few more could sneak in before the ball drops on 2015, last week we took a look back over the restaurant action of the past year and served up our Fifteen Best New Restaurants of Metro Denver…
Christmas has finally arrived and this week many in Denver will be celebrating with family and friends, but if you’re not feeling up for cooking for yours this week there are still plenty of options for eating out on Christmas and Christmas eve as well as a few other tasty…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz was transported back to the Reagan years with hearty, unpretentious breakfasts at Sunrise Sunset. We spotted a doughnut shop that will soon open on South Colorado Boulevard called the Fractured Prune that has become our new frontrunner for the worst restaurant name in…
Denver has been an incubator for fast-casual restaurants ever since Chipotle made a big splash with its first store in the mid-’90s. But the evolution of the concept has gone far beyond burritos and sandwiches. Fast and casual doesn’t have to mean cheap and greasy. Quite a few eateries opened…
