Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, will host the second annual Sprout Down to benefit Sprout City Farms, the nation’s first on-site farm-to-cafeteria growing space. Tonight’s festivities will include live music from Fingers of the Sun and Steve Rothenberg, speakers, performances by students and a silent auction; admission is based on…
The text from Mandi Clement read, “Please call me when you get a moment. Fairly urgent.” Thirty minutes later, I was at Roam, the Uptown restaurant that Daniel Kuhlman owns with his wife, Kristel — the same restaurant that originally opened as Wild Catch, an upscale sustainable seafood den that…
Three years ago, after searching for but never finding some of her favorite foods from Argentina, Buenos Aires native Lorena Cantarovici opened a Denver-area catering company that used her mother’s recipes for empanadas, tartas and dulce de leche…
It may be a bit brisk for outdoor dining but as of this morning, spring has official sprung. For us, that means it’s time to make an excuse to get out of the office for an extended lunch, grabbing a seat on a patio and enjoying some time in the…
Luciano’s Pizza and Wings has a number of signs on its windows, letting potential customers know that the restaurant is no longer open on Mondays. There is also a different kind of sign that lets people know Luciano’s will not be open on any day that ends in a “y”:…
Great Divide Brewing will release its second new beer of the year in July, Wolfgang, a big, malty dopplebock that will replace Smoked Baltic Porter in the brewery’s seasonal lineup. Wolfgang is the first beer that was designed and tested on Great Divide’s new seven-barrel pilot brewing system, which was…
Next Wednesday, when our Best of Denver® 2012 issue hits red kiosks all over Denver, we’ll reveal our pick for the city’s best French fries. In the meantime, chew on these spuds, which are most definitely fries to live — and die — by. Can you guess where I’m eating?…
You’re gonna need a scorecard to identify your almost-all-new Colorado Rockies this season, but the team isn’t the only entity shaking things up at Coors Field. During the Rockies’ April 9 home opener, Blue Moon Brewery @ the Sandlot will debut Farmhouse Red, a sour-style beer that may challenge the…
Uptown — home to some restaurants that focus on the trendy side of life and a few bars where a single drink will have you seeing double. On the other side of the metro area is South Federal, home to a myriad of ethnic options — Vietnamese, Chinese and Mexican,…
Last week, when Cinque Soldi Salumeria, the Italian deli, market and exclusive retailer of Il Mondo Vecchio’s cured meats and fresh sausages, was putting the final touches on its South Pearl Street salumeria, a guy from Boston stopped dead in his tracks. “He came in off the street and said,…
On the frontier of urban homesteading, you frequently encounter uncharted territory. James Bertini, the founder of Denver Urban Homesteading, recently ran into a gray area in the state law regarding raw milk…
Lose some, win some. Last August the original Bombay Bowl in Englewood closed rather than pay a rent increase, but the remaining Denver location was recently featured in the the New York Times. And despite the off-hour of our visit — 3:30 p.m. on a Sunday — business was steady…
Small produce growers will now be able to sell their products directly to consumers, thanks to a bill signed by Governor John Hickenlooper. Dubbed the “Local Foods, Local Jobs Act,” the bill exempts home kitchens from certain health inspections. Its purpose is twofold, sponsor Senator Gail Schwartz says: to boost…
The first round of our Street 16 menu matchup has taken a sharp chef’s knife to the original sixteen neighborhood contestants, whittling them down to eight. And the contest between Larimer Square and Tennyson, backed by the powerful Berkeley neighborhood, has some people calling for the ref…
TAG, 1441 Larimer Street, is hosting the last of its winter brewery dinner series tonight, with five courses featuring lamb from M.T.H. Farms paired with five beers from Great Divide Brewing Co. Representatives from both the farm and the brewery will be on hand to answer questions; the dinner costs…
Almost every culinary culture embraces the delicious concept of filling a pastry shell with meat and/or vegetables, then serving it up as a snack: The Chinese have pork-stuffed bao, the British make meat-and-gravy pasties, India puts potatoes in samosas, and in America we heat up Hot Pockets — which were…
As Denver’s coffee culture expands, Travis Gilbert and Greg Gerken, both coffee shop veterans, want to give consumers the chance to go deeper into exactly what they like about their cups of Joe because, claims Gilbert, “a lot of people don’t know much about why they like coffee.”…
If they want to celebrate today’s news, Denver residents don’t have to spend like Peyton Manning in order to cash in on the newest Bronco’s impending arrival. As soon as it was reported that Frank Tripucka’s retired number 18 could be on Manning’s back this fall, restaurants and bar specials…
One of Denver’s most iconic hometown heroes was Bruce Randolph Senior, a Five Points restaurateur who ran a soul food restaurant, Daddy Bruce’s, and a legacy that has endured for nearly fifty years. Randolph Senior, considered one of the godfathers of barbecue in Denver, got his start using a self-engineered…
In February, the James Beard Foundation released the names of the chef, restaurateur and restaurant semi-finalists vying for a coveted spot as a James Beard finalist. And today, just minutes ago, the Foundation announced its 2012 finalists…and guess who’s in it to win it?…
Tomorrow morning, Hugo Matheson, Kimbal Musk and Jen Lewin will open the doors to the The Kitchen Denver, the Mile High City outpost of their expanding empire which started in Boulder eight years ago. The new restaurant — which features a massive bar, three patios and several nooks and crannies…
Dorina Miller, Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, the pastry chef at Duo and Olivea, and her husband, John Broening, executive chef of both restaurants, quietly re-opened Spuntino last week, the Italian cafe that Miller co-owned with Simone Parisi, who bowed out of Spuntino to concentrate on Parisi and Firenze a Tavola, his two…
