Be careful about making assumptions next time you meet a woman at a beer festival. Warns Ashleigh Carter: “You might be looking at the brewer — not the secretary.” Or the girlfriend, or any number of other stereotypical labels that people may hang on women working for breweries. And that’s…
When the Boulder County Farmers’ Market — just named Best Farmers’ Market in the Best of Denver 2014 — opens for the season tomorrow, customers will find that many things remain the same: the jubilation with which vendors and visitors greet each other on the first day, celebrating the coming…
It’s Opening Day, and Coors Field has a new amenity. No, not a pitching staff, but the $10 million Rooftop, a two-story deck that features a Tavern Ballpark with a bar 52.80 feet long, as well as an outpost of CHUburger. And on a lower level, there’s a Rio Grande…
After you celebrate Opening Day and the first First Friday of spring, you have a couple of opportunities to give back to our community. Whether the culinary event is helping out a local school or making sure that everyone has access to healthy, affordable meals, dining out this weekend can…
April is a high-pollen month, particularly in the northwestern part of Colorado Springs, where the winds blow hard around Trinity Brewing. It’s the kind of month when you can find all kinds of things floating in the air, things that make people sneeze, swell their eyes shut — and maybe,…
Good things come in small packages. That’s certainly the case at Lower48 Kitchen, winner of the Best New Restaurant title in our recent Best of Denver issue. As I wrote in this week’s review of Lower48, it was what came in the small packages dubbed “each” that gave me the…
Baseball fans are in for a few new treats when they return to Coors Field this weekend — although if they’re not careful, those treats will get the fans too drunk to remember what they were. Team owner Dick Monfort led several dozen media members on a walking tour of…
The northern suburbs just got another ethnic option when Babajoon’s Kabobs opened Westminster. We sent photographer Ursula Romaine to capture a taste of this fresh, fast-casual Middle Eastern food spot. See also: First look: Mayan Manjar Yucateco opens in the former Maria Empanada space…
Despite last night’s blast of arctic air and snow, the vibe inside this pizzeria was wonderfully cozy, and while the white pizza we ordered — with bacon, naturally — was excellent in every way, the real showstopper was an employee who suddenly appeared in the dining room and began tossing,…
Shoni Jones Root Down C Concourse, Denver International Airport 303-342-6959 rootdowndenver.com This is part two of my interview with Shoni Jones, exec chef of Root Down at DIA; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. What do you enjoy most about your craft? Making snacks for people to enjoy, connecting…
As someone who doesn’t eat any meat, I should know more than I do about cooking vegetables. I can make a salad, and I know how to saute, but I’ve never done much with grilling or roasting — and while I’d heard the term “blanch,” I wasn’t entirely sure how…
Sergio Romero, John Broening, Anika Zappe, Andrew Parr — all big, bold industry heavyweights who have shared in the success of restaurateur Robert Thompson, owner of Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar and Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink , which originated in Denver and now has a second…
If you live in Colorado, chances are good that brunch is your favorite meal — whether you’re a yuppie, hipster or human who eschews labels. And metro Denver is full of great places to eat brunch, including Fooducopia, which just snagged the Best Brunch award in the Best of Denver…
Tonight at Cora Faye’s, Slow Food Denver is hosting an evening with sou- food scholar and author Adrian Miller, a finalist for the James Beard Foundation award for his book Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time. See also: The ten best culinary…
This week, Gretchen Kurtz reviews our 2014 winner for Best New Restaurant: Lower48 Kitchen, now serving in the Ballpark neighborhood. Read her review, now posted on the Cafe Society blog, to see what prompted our selection…
This week, Gretchen Kurtz ventured to Mecca Grill, a longtime go-to spot in Wash Park for Lebanese food. She found that the restaurant’s new owners are turning the focus to Morocco. Find out more about the changes in her review of Mecca Grill, now posted on Cafe Society…
Steven Redzikowski was having lunch with his parents in Boulder when his phone beeped. “My mom and dad and I were having lunch at Brasserie Ten Ten in Boulder, and then I got the text,” says Redzikowski, executive chef of Acorn at the Source and Oak at Fourteenth in Boulder…
A lot of restaurants, including this one, have “secret” menus, and on this particular in-the-know menu, there’s a clone of the Big Mac, only this version, heaped with shaved steak, melted American cheese, lettuce, pickles and onions, is way better than anything that comes out of the kitchen from the…
The Brewers Association released its annual accounting this week of the top fifty craft brewers in the nation as base on sales, as well as the top fifty brewers altogether. In Colorado, New Belgium, Oskar Blues, Odell, Left Hand, Boulder Beer and Craftworks — which owns the Rock Bottom and…
Regrets? We’ve had a few. And over the past 35 years, so, too, has Boulder Beer, the state’s oldest craft brewery. But a mistake made by a brewer in 2011 isn’t one of them, and the company will use that fortuitous mishap next month to celebrate its birthday. Boulder Beer…
April brings new hope every year to the Colorado Rockies — and new beers to the Blue Moon Brewing Company at the Sandlot, the in-stadium brewery owned by Coors. This year, the Sandlot has two new beers lined up for Opening Day at Coors Field, which is Friday, April 4,…
After nearly six years at WaterCourse Foods, last week exec chef Rachel Kesley was let go. “It’s complicated, but ultimately it came down to direction,” she says. “I always gave 150 percent to my job….I put my heart and soul into that place, and it’s actually really sad.” What will…
