The next time you peruse the food trucks lined up in Civic Center Park on a Tuesday, you might notice a something a little different: quinoa. A food truck named Keenwah, CO is now roaming metro Denver, serving up dishes inspired by the seed (not an actual grain) long-loved by…
We all know the drill: Get in line, read the big menu board, shuffle along the counter pointing at toppings and condiments, pay at the end and grab our food. Or maybe we just pick from lists of ingredients or lunch styles — the wrap, the bowl, the sandwich –…
Eat Denver’s fifth annual Big Eat was the biggest and best yet. More than three dozen of Eat Denver’s 86 members — all independent restaurant operators in the metro area — were featured at the Thursday night bash at the Galleria at the Denver Performing Arts Complex . The event…
We all never seem to run out of wacky ideas for off-beat eats and drinks, and the beauty of social media is that every time Oreo brings forth some fresh-hellish cookie flavor, an R & D team creates new waffle-things, or some mad distiller concocts tomato booze, we get the…
When you ask a restaurant proprietor about the house specials, you usually hear a list of what they think sets their restaurant or bar apart — but sounds like the same not-so-special deals found at many other spots around town. But The Lobby American Grille offers something that definitely puts…
California’s Sierra Nevada Brewing, the nation’s second-largest craft beer maker, is nearing completion on a second production facility, this one near Asheville, North Carolina. And to celebrate, company founder Ken Grossman wanted to turn the spotlight on the craft brewing industry as a whole, rather than on Sierra Nevada by…
Friends on their way from New York to Grand Lake stopped in Denver last week, and we sent them on our recommended 2014 tourism circuit Thursday morning: what we call the Tumbleweed tour, a quick hit in the 1600 block of Wazee Street where you can see the old West…
Roughly 1,000 years ago in the highlands of Guatemala, a member of the Maya civilization lifted a clay vessel — adorned with an intricate jaguar figure — to his lips and took a slug of something. Beer? Corn liquor? Something else? Last May, two scientists from the Denver Museum of…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz visited Troy Guard’s “modern steakhouse,” Guard and Grace, which didn’t quite live up to expectations — or its hefty price tag. For Chef and Tell, Mark Antonation talked to Dave Query of the Big Red F about being the first owner of Q’s…
Finkel & Garf Brewing Company opened this week in Gunbarrel, adding its taps to a growing list of neighborhood beer makers in the towns and communities surrounding Boulder. The brewery, owned by Eric and Dan Garfinkel, derives its moniker derives from the lifelong nickname of both father and son. The…
After a hot day of hiking under the Colorado sun, the only thing more satisfying than ice cream is cheap ice cream. Not that we need an excuse to indulge, but this Sunday is National Ice Cream Day (according to the people who come up with all these national food…
No. 92 Pork Belly Confit at Solera Restaurant and Wine Bar 5410 East Colfax Avenue 303-388-8429 Solera has been a sole outpost of fine dining on Colfax Avenue between Colorado and Monaco for at least a dozen years, with chef Goose Sorensen heading the kitchen for nearly the entire stretch…
Brunch: it’s a time-honored tradition, a mingling of friends over bottomless mimosas for chatting and gluttonous gorging on pancake stacks and egg creations. If your typical Sunday morning debate goes back and forth between heading to the reliable greasy spoon or someplace new and trendy, indecision could have you growing…
UPDATE: Kolache Cabin is back. The mobile food cart received its zoning permit from the city on July 22, and two days later was back in its normal spot on Santa Fe. Kolache Cabin has pulled up stakes…for now. The mobile kolache kitchen, which first showed up in a vacant…
On a stretch of East Colfax Avenue known more for Ethiopian cuisine and dive bars than for destination dining, Chop Shop Casual Urban Eatery, a new take on fast-casual with a “steakhouse-inspired” menu, hopes to tap into the pent-up needs of Hale, Montclair and Park Hill residents. After opening soft…
Casa Bonita is Denver’s top tourist trap, according to Yahoo: “If you’re looking for a popular place to eat, you may get recommendations to visit Casa Bonita. The restaurant boasts cliff divers, escaping gorillas and an amusement arcade. Beware the bland Mexican food though because it isn’t authentic.” True, the…
Rosenberg’s Bagels and Delicatessen, the creation of finance-manager-turned-bagel-man Joshua Pollack, got rolling in Five Points this week. The grand opening won’t be celebrated until Saturday, July 26, but the place is already drawing a crowd — and with good reason. See also: Photos: Molecularly engineered water has New York-style bagels…
The weekend is full of delicious opportunities, including an offer by Uber to bring ice cream on demand today. In 144 cities today — including Denver — you can download an Uber app, request the “ice cream” option, and if a vehicle is nearby, it will deliver ice cream and…
At a recent dinner, the plates were being cleared when a utensil dropped and broth splattered all over my husband’s shirt. The busser apologized but didn’t offer to pay the dry-cleaning bill. Neither the server nor the general manager came over, so the matter ended there, with my husband blotting…
Ryan Skeels and Kevin Greer want to serve you a beer, and although the majority of their brewing equipment has been delayed, they’re tired of waiting. Which is why they decided to open Baere Brewing for business on Saturdays for the time being. “We didn’t want to start this small,…
If you’re an experienced happy-hour hustler, trolling the city for $3 wells and half-price burgers, you’re used to the routine: meager pours of booze, undercooked and indifferently presented food, and the kind of service doldrums that seem to arrive with happy hour — generally right around the end of everyone…
Whether it’s because the babysitter canceled at the last minute or because you want quality family time at a dinner you don’t have to cook, loading up the kids for a restaurant excursion can be fun for the whole gang, provided the destination is suitable for the young ones. We…
