Yesterday, while sharing space at the bar with Jensen Cummings, the executive chef of Row 14, he couldn’t wipe the grin off his face. “This is going to be a big, very cool party, and you know why it’s going to be big and cool?” he asked. “We’re one of…
Since they first opened — and re-opened — then reopened Oak at Fourteenth, owners Bryan Dayton and chef Steve Redzikowski have tried to create a true neighborhood restaurant, pulling in crowds of regulars with their creative take on North American cuisine and an equally inventive beverage program. And starting April…
Breckenridge Ballpark Pub is undergoing its first renovation since it went into business in 1992, three years before Coors Field was built. The pub, which served as Breck’s primary brewing facility until 1996, closed March 18 and will reopen by April 9, Colorado Rockies Opening Day. “She’s twenty years old…
Long story short: Daniel Kuhlman, who abruptly shuttered Roam two days ago, leaving fourteen staff members bereft of jobs (including his former exec chef Tony Clement), and flipped out when yours truly photographed the crew he’d left high and dry, has sold the space to Gary Hvizda, one of the…
The choice was easy for many Cafe Society readers last week when they voted for Capitol Hill to beat out the Bluebird district in the first round of the Street 16 tournament. Now Cap Hill goes up against burgeoning LoHi in this elite eight match-up. Industry folks, eaters and supporters:…
Not long ago, searching for a decent meal at Denver International Airport was like trying to discern the literary value of the Twilight saga: it just didn’t exist. But over the past few years, the concourses have picked up a few decent options, including the Chophouse on Concourse A and…
“I could have kept it open for a few more weeks, but I was just done and wanted to get out,” admits Ghugi Singh, the owner of India House, which served its last meal in LoDo on Saturday night. Singh, who opened the elegant India House in 2007 in the…
Patrik Landberg Charcoal 43 West Ninth Avenue 303-454-0000 www.charcoaldining.com This is part two of my interview with Patrik Landberg, exec chef of Charcoal. Part one of our conversation ran in this space yesterday. Best thing about cooking in Denver: We’re on the cusp of being a bona fide food-centric city…
What’s the buzz? A more casual version of Denver’s Beehive restaurant, which once occupied the address that’s now home to Table 6, is slated to open this June in downtown Boulder, in the former home of Saxy’s Cafe. Beehive chef/owner Janice Henning, who lives in Boulder, bought the space at…
While fingers and tongues keep wagging over all the recent action at Roam (read dozens of comments here), there are plenty of other fights around town. For example, the current Street 16 menu matchup between Upper Larimer — that hot-hot area stretching up from 20th Street in the Ballpark neighborhood…
As part of a month-long campaign to support Water for People, a Denver-based nonprofit, Freshcraft, 1530 Blake Street, will host a beer-pairing dinner this evening. The campaign is called All Hopped Up for Water, and its goal is to raise awareness for the global water crisis. For more details or…
There has been no sentimentality in the Spicy Pickle chain’s fall from grace — no extra effort to save the shop that started it all. While much of the rest of the city was pretending to be Irish and getting plowed, the original Spicy Pickle location at 988 Lincoln Street…
Chris Dailey — owner of Boulder Creek Events and a pair of Flatiron Crossing restaurants, Street Legal Pizza and Street Legal Burgers – has had a lifelong fascination with America in the ’50s. So when he found an open spot in Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street project (soon to be the…
I wanted to weep with joy the first time I bit into an empanada at Maria Empanada, the subject of this week’s review. Years ago, I accepted the fact that I was never going to find an authentic Argentine empanada in this country — but at Lorena Cantarovici’s tiny shop,…
When the Broncos announced that Peyton Manning had signed a five-year, $96 million contract, the Colorado Tourism Office sent out a note asking if any local businesses were featuring deals or packages with a Manning connection that the state could market. While Denver Applebee’s and Lodo’s Bar and Grill locations…
As you may have noticed, spring has been threatening to commence here in Denver for the past several weeks. In spite of the fact that our split-personality-disorder-of-a-weather-pattern may at any moment revert to what we should have been subjected to since February, our seasonal wine drinking habits don’t seem to…
After the “holy shitstorm!” came the holy guacamole! Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll receive an EatDenver dining…
Coming off a big upset of Larimer Square in the first round, the Tennyson neighborhood and its backers now face hot Upper Larimer (which also beat out establishment-favorite Cherry Creek) in the second round. Below are our endorsements of each neighborhood, let us know which is the best with your…
On Tuesday, beer-makers from five Colorado breweries gathered at Funkwerks in Fort Collins to whip up a special beer to commemorate the late Danny Williams and to raise money so that his family can keep his one-of-a-kind gold mine beer cellar. “We pow-wowed on the recipe, and it came together…
This is part one of my interview with Patrik Landberg, exec chef of Charcoal. Part two of our conversation will run in this space tomorrow. Patrik Landberg Charcoal 43 West Ninth Avenue 303-454-0000 www.charcoaldining.com Patrik Landberg had no choice: It was either learn how to cook or succumb to a…
Always eat Colorado! Every month the Colorado Department of Agriculture releases a new Colorado Proud recipe by chef Jason Morse, now the executive chef of the Douglas County School District. The March offering sounds like a perfect snack for gourmands watching March Madness games. It’s Buffalo Sausage Flatbread Pizza, featuring…
Win some, lose some. Roam got a rave review in the Denver Post today — too bad the restaurant is no longer open. As Lori Midson reported late yesterday, Daniel Kuhlman, the owner of 1033 East 17th Avenue — which started out as the wine bar Tastes, then became Wild…
