After years of watching our porches rot and rebar poke through the driveway, I find myself in the middle of a big landscape project. To some, this might be the stuff of dreams. We’re picking out plants, buying mulch, putting gardens where the gravel pit of a driveway used to…
Rocko’s Tacos and Margaritas, the latest outpost in the Little Pub Company’s string of neighborhood pubs, opened late last month in the Belmar Shopping Center. The restaurant serves up ten different types of meat on its burrito, taco and appetizer menus, and all of its tacos are made with organic…
Great Divide Brewing has been teasing fans of its highly-regarded, highly-sought after Yeti line of imperial stouts with news about a new flavor of Yeti coming out this year. It turns out that elusive new Yeti will be Oatmeal Yeti, made with rolled oats to “soften Yeti’s notoriously roasty backbone,”…
Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year — which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn’t it? But all…
Factotum Brewhouse, which plans to open this fall in the Sunnyside neighborhood, is trying to raise $8,000 on Kickstarter so that it can “improve its current industrial vibe and make the taproom more fun and comfortable for customers.” So far, it has about 40 percent of that goal, with 32…
Get the chicken wings, insisted our server, who pronounced them the best wings in Denver. I’m not sure I’d fly that far, but the wings, crisp and slicked with fish sauce and chiles, were way, way better than the gumbo, a dish that disappointed me once before and showed no…
Gerard Strong Central Bistro & Bar 1691 Central Street 303-477-4582 centralbistrobar.com This is part one of my interview with Gerard Strong, exec chef of Central Bistro & Bar; part two of our chat will run in this space tomorrow. I’m a Scorpio, and I’m pretty proud of that,” volunteers Gerard…
In liquor stores full of new and ever-rotating cans and bottles of beer, how can a startup brewery — or one that is new to packaging — stand out from the pack? That’s the question that local graphic designer Josh Emrich asked himself when he sat down to create a…
In A Federal Case, I’ll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard — south to north — within Denver city limits. I’ll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I’ll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here’s the…
Tony P’s closed in Cherry Creek this past weekend, and while owner Tony Pasquini has certainly had a tough couple of years, his family feud might have been less a factor in the restaurant’s closing than the location of this Tony P’s: Cherry Creek. That’s the theory of one reader,…
Lucky Pie Pizza and Tap House, 1610 16th Street, will host a five-course, seasonal farm-to-table dinner paired with beers from Odell Brewing Co. this evening at 5:30 p.m. There will also be a welcoming gathering with representatives from the brewery. See also: – Beer Calendar: Party with Great Divide, Avery,…
America’s extremism with bacon mania continues this weekend, when more than 4,000 pounds of rashers will be hauled up to Keystone for the Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour, a two-day feast created for junkies who can’t get enough of the salty, sweet swine. See also: – Bacon, beer and Justin Brunson:…
Izakaya Den and Sushi Den aren’t the only sibling restaurants on Old South Pearl Street — or the only family-owned enterprise that’s growing along that stretch. Patrick Mangold-White is slated to open Uno Mas, a taqueria, in the former home of Budapest Bistro, on Sunday — so it seemed like…
Starting in late July, one of our favorite watering holes — Star Bar — will host its first Battle of the Nontenders, a guest bartending cocktail challenge designed for those of us who have no experience whatsoever slinging drinks behind the stick. “It can be challenging to get behind an…
Tony Pasquini has had a rough ride in Cherry Creek, where he closed the first Tony P’s this past weekend. He’d initially opened the place in early 2012 as a Pasquini’s, but he had to change that last August after he got into a legal wrangle with his sister, who…
Not all sandwiches require a litany of ingredients that reach skyscraping heights. In fact, sometimes simple is better, as in the case of this sandwich, which is nothing more than Brie and prosciutto…and a little fig jam. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
When it opens in December, Joyride Brewing hopes to use a little bit of Edgewater’s history to help propel the little town on the edge of Sloan’s Lake into the future. Created by friends Dave Bergen, Brent Smith and Grant Babb, Joyride will be located at the corner of 25th…
There’s a cooking contest at the Boulder Farmers’ Market today. A week earlier, Elizabeth Marsden and Cacy Britton had bested several other students in a competition at Boulder’s Escoffier School of Culinary Arts, and they are now facing off against each other at one of the market stalls, surrounded by…
Evergreen as a town has a lot to recommend it, from the beautiful lake (ice skating! paddleboats!) to the shopping. Vegetarians might not immediately know where to turn, though, when they’re seeking out sustenance in the downtown area — but there are plenty of options for the non-meat-minded, including the…
Summertime, and the living is easy…but finding good guacamole is not. The tortas were not the only disappointing dish at Ay Caramba!, which Gretchen Kurtz reviewed last week; the guac was also bland and boring. Who serves the best guacamole in town? One reader is on a hunt for that…
Ace, 501 East 17th Avenue, not only serves up food and drink every day, it hosts a table-tennis tournament from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Tuesday. See also: – Photos: Ace lobs up vegan bao buns and jungle curry for spring – Photos: Sipping and sampling from Ace’s 64 happy-hour…
While the rest of you were in Denver, languishing in the beat of the summer heat, thousands of culinary cognoscenti, many of them heeled in stilettos and outfitted in backless black dresses showcasing perfect spray tans, spent the weekend at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen hobnobbing with some…
