Yes, it’s another brewery opening in Denver — this one Alpine Dog Brewing, which Gardiner Hammond, a former brewer at the Old Mill in Littleton, plans to open this spring in part of the space on East Colfax Avenue that once housed Independent Records. And Alpine is just one of…
Frasca Food and Wine will host another rendition of its famed Monday night wine dinners at 5:30 p.m. tonight. This edition will feature a flight of white and red wines presented by Craig Lewis, local wine distributor and avid cyclist. Lewis, along with Frasca’s Bobby Stuckey, will pour the wines…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Acorn, an offshoot of Oak at Fourteenth that opened last summer in The Source and has already come into its own. For Chef and Tell, Lori Midson talked with chef/co-owner Noah French about another new spot, Sugarmill, a sweet spot that is…
Dry Dock Brewing, which opened a new, 30,000-square-foot production brewery and packaging facility in Aurora last January, said today that it had nearly quadrupled in size over the past twelve months, going from 3,273 barrels in 2012 to 12,000 barrels in 2013. It also managed to can more than two…
How to grab the interest of future culinary masters? Hold an ice cream-creation contest, for which the winner gets a year’s worth of free ice cream. That’s what the Buell Children’s Museum and Cold Stone Creamery did in Pueblo last fall as part of the museum’s Math Carnival exhibition. Kids…
Steven Redzikowski, co-owner with Bryan Dayton of Oak at Fourteenth and Acorn, which the partners opened in The Source this summer, knew that Denver and Boulder were far more different than just a thirty-mile separation might suggest. Still, he was taken aback by just how adventurous Denver diners can be…
Everyone’s on the Denver Broncos bandwagon right now, but West Flanders Brewing in Boulder (which made news last week for naming a beer in honor of pot legalization) manged to find the line between enthusiasm and over-enthusiasm after it named a beer for the home team — only to have…
Gardiner Hammond, a former brewer at the Old Mill in Littleton, plans to open his own brewery this spring in a space that once housed Independent Records, next to the Ogden Theater on East Colfax Avenue. Part of the space was taken over by Angelo’s CDs in August, but the…
Distilleries are popping up all over Colorado, to help quench the thirst of drinkers crowding craft cocktail bars. But smaller distillers can face a challenge as they try to get their products into the hands of the bartenders who live, breathe, mix and drink booze every day. Now a new…
Omaha! Omaha! Bronco-related deals and decor are popping up all over town in anticipation of this Sunday’s big game. We spotted this fan at a restaurant better known for its green chile than its orange-and-blue devotion. Can you guess where we’re eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
Yesterday we released our updated list of the best dives in the metro area, and the comments have been fast and furious. Mostly furious. Some people are peeved we included their favorite bars — which means they’ll be more crowded — and others are irritated that we ignored their favorite…
This weekend, Estes Park will debut its newest event: The Whiskey Winter Warm Up. The festivities will stretch over four days and feature a mix of both family and adult-oriented activities, including whiskey tastings and a free-entrance day at Rocky Mountain National Park. The fun kicks off tonight with dinner…
Sweet Cow, an award-winning local enterprise devoted to ice cream, will open its third store today, this one in north Boulder. See also: Sweet Action is in a deep freeze until February 1…
Sure, it’s winter, but just because there’s a chill in the air doesn’t mean that we stop craving ice cream. For proof, just look in my freezer. Nonetheless, the crew from Sweet Action Ice Cream, one of the most popular ice cream spots in the city, is on a month-long…
One of the few cocktail innovations that Italy has managed to squeeze out in the past century, the Negroni is a proud member of the select group of iconic cocktails. Like the Martini and the Old-Fashioned, it’s now mandatory in any bar’s recipe book, and a talisman of Old World…
The dishes at this suburban strip mall restaurant are straight-ahead Americanized Chinese, which appeases my picky parents, who don’t have adventurous palates and always order their fish and meat at temperatures that would set a house ablaze. But while chicken feet, duck blood soup and fried cow stomach lining are…
Has Mayor Michael Hancock ever turned down a doughnut? In September, he was first in line when Dunkin’ Donuts opened out at Denver International Airport. And yesterday, he bit into a big one at Voodoo Doughnut, an offshoot of the Oregon-based cult shop that’s now rolling in dough on East…
Since the start of the new year, we’ve been filling our four blogs — Show and Tell, Backbeat, Cafe Society and the Latest Word — with a Colorado bucket list of the 100 things to do before you kick it. The final five Food and Drink contributions follow. See also:…
The Denver Bicycle Cafe — which has specialized in fixing bikes, serving coffee and pouring locally-brewed beers – will put a little less emphasis on the coffee and little more on the beer starting this week when it changes its structure and its hours. Beginning on February 1, the cool,…
Noah French Sugarmill 2461 Larimer Street 303-297-3540 sugarmilldesserts.com This is part two of my interview with Noah French, pastry chef and co-owner of Sugarmill; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Most underrated Denver restaurant: TAG|RAW BAR. It gets tons of awards and accolades, but somehow people still look at…
Are Denver’s dives an endangered species? Over the past year, two of the dives featured on last year’s list of the dozen best dive bars have lost their divey status — one, the Hill-Top, closed and just reopened this past weekend as the Rocky Top Tavern, and the Squire, while…
Mark Antonation has been eating his way along Federal Boulevard for over a year for our Federal Case series, but even as he moves up the street, new places open behind him. Lotus Vegetarian joined the lineup a few months ago, and now Pho Market Vietnamese will be going into…
