Those clever Swedes just keep finding ways to get people in their store, and reasonably-priced, all-you-can-eat buffets of dishes dusted with dill and sweet marzipan cakes will have eager Denverites over a herring barrel, stuffed to the gills. IKEA Centennial is holding a holiday smorgasbord or “julbord” party at 5…
Love it or hate it, there’s no shortage of opinions about the Squeaky Bean. And yesterday, when the announcement came down that the restaurant had found a new home in LoDo — in a renovated warehouse (above) where owner Johnny Ballen can put an actual kitchen for chef Max MacKissock…
Carroll Kemp, owner/winemaker of Red Car Wines, will be on hand for tonight’s wine dinner at Ya Ya’s, 8310 East Belleview Avenue in Greenwood Village. Six courses will each be paired with a Red Car wine. The dinner starts at 6 p.m. and costs $125; reservations are required. To make…
No sooner had we posted the Restaurant roll call for November, recapping the restaurants that had opened (many of them) and closed (very few) last month, than we got news of another spot that had closed its doors. The web site for Generous Servings says simply, “After four wonderful years,…
A year after he started running the bar at Boulder’s Salt, Evan Faber sat down with the restaurant’s owner, Bradford Heap, and divulged a dream. “I told him, ‘One thing I would like to do is open a distillery,'” Faber says. To his surprise, Heap, who also owns Bradford Heap…
Wazee Wood Fire Pizza, Charlie Palmer’s new piehole emporium, opens Monday, December 12, directly next door to District Meats, Palmer’s shrine to off-cuts that he opened November 21 in the former Big Game space at 1631 Wazee Street…
‘Tis the season to eat, dink, make merry and give generously, and tonight, at Steuben’s, you have the opportunity to kill four turtle doves with one toy…
Happy Repeal Day, Denver. In celebration of the day in 1933 when United States citizens could finally booze legally again, you might consider raising a pre-Prohibition era cocktail — like a dry Martini, made with equal parts gin and vermouth, or a bittered sling (the old-fashioned Old Fashioned) — to…
Our prayers to the gods and goddesses of things that squeak have been been fulfilled: After shuttering in June, following a break-down in lease negotiations between Squeaky Bean head bean counter Johnny Ballen and his landlord, the owners of Rosa Linda’s, the Bean is re-sprouting. “We’re puttin’ the Bean back…
There’s plenty for java junkies this week, with events celebrating new coffee partnerships and expansions in our great state. But that’s just start of the food fun, which also includes the annual Candy Cane Festival and much more. Here’s a taste of what’s on the menu:…
Denver Bicycle Cafe, which rolled onto the scene on November 22, is the town’s first bikecentric coffeeshop, combining food, drink and a little bike grease. “Business has been steady,” says Jessica Caouette, one of the owners. “We’re still just getting to know the neighborhood. It’s been nice and slow, so…
UPDATE: We have the full scoop on the new Squeaky Bean — including its location — right here. They’re baacckkk! Johnny Ballen, owner of the Squeaky Bean, which closed several months ago when lease negotiations broke down between him and his landlord, has finally (thank God) signed a least on…
We, as well as the rest of the Denver community, were beyond shocked and heartbroken to learn that Noel Cunningham, chef/owner of Strings, and one of this city’s most altruistic humanitarians, died unexpectedly last Thursday. Cunningham, whose life was cut way too short — he was just 62 when he…
Restaurateurs: The clock is ticking on the deadline for listings in our New Year’s Eve Guide. If you have a special meal/party/event slated for December 31, please send us the details ASAP. Our New Year’s Eve Guide will include comprehensive listings of activities around town (and still more will be…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. Rice is always popular in a stir-fry dish, but why not give another grain a chance? This tropical entree will make you…
Cafe Society served up four Guess where contests last week, ranging from a Bloody Mary during the Bronco game at Sam’s No. 3 to a plate of charcuterie from Cafe Brazil to the buffalo carpaccio above. For correctly identifying it as coming from Bittersweet, Elwood wins an EatDenver deck…
Brrr! As the temperature plummeted last week, Laura Shunk quickly pulled together a warming list of “Denver’s five best restaurant fireplaces”, including the one at Barolo Grill (above). But because we wanted to post that list in time to heat up that night’s dinner reservations, we didn’t have photos of…
Warm up for Denver Gives on December 6 by doing some good today: From 5 to 10 p.m. tonight, Marlowe’s will donate 10 percent of all dinner sales to the Denver Voice, the paper that not only covers the homeless community, but helps the homeless make money by working as…
If you’ve never been to one of the pairing dinners that Elway’s Downtown, 1881 Curtis Street, puts together, it’s time to find our what you’re missing. At 6:30 p.m. tonight, the restaurant will host the Paul Hobbs Winery Pairing Dinner, with four selections from the winery each paired with a…
The sad news that Noel Cunningham has passed away continues to reverberate not just through the Denver restaurant scene, but around the world, where Cunningham worked so passionately to help those in need. Strings, the restaurant he started in 1986, remains open, a gathering place for those mourning his loss…
Every year, EatDenver, the city’s network of independent restaurants, releases a dining deck of killer meal deals — a collection of 52 gift cards worth $10 each to spend at some of the best grub houses in Denver. And last week, we posted a contest, wherein we promised to give…
Six years ago, Seattle-born brothers Tommy and Tim Thwaites borrowed some money from their parents to launch Coda Coffee, a metro Denver roaster that drew on the their combined three decades of experience in the industry. A year or two into their venture, the brothers started focusing more on the…
