It’s Labor Day weekend, and you know what that means: A Taste of Colorado, the annual eating orgy that’s also a tasty opportunity for people-watching, will fill Civic Center Park today through Monday, September 5. For complete info, go to www.atasteofcolorado.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town,…
Here’s a smokin’ deal: The third annual Smokin’ Brew BBQ will feature barbecue from championship teams from five states. It’s hosted by Parker Station and runs through Sunday, September 4 in Parker; call 303-596-6756 or visit www.smokinbrewbbq.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Food…
After serving alcohol to a minor three times in three months, Se7en, the Asian fusion restaurant located in the Beauvallon, has been slapped with a 25-day suspension of its liquor license. Rather than going nearly a month without selling alcohol, the restaurant has opted to stretch the sentence out, going…
You may not know it, but there’s a culinary revolution unfolding right under our noses. Right now, a man in a black chef’s coat and a green bandanna is standing in the courtyard of the World Trade Center at 16th and Court streets, handing packages to customers who’ve placed an…
While we especially love a greasy mess of eggs, green chile and chorizo wrapped in a tortilla when we’re combating the effects of a night of bad decisions, we’ll brake for breakfast burritos in this town any day of the week. And while it’s hard to mess up a breakfast…
Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, the Denver-born fast-casual chain, is opening its first location in Fort Collins today. This is the company’s thirteenth store, with another slated to open in Colorado Springs later in the month. Come 2012, Garbanzo hopes to award its first franchises and expand outside of Colorado. Currently, the…
It’s been the summer of frozen yogurt, and we’ve seen several shops open around town, most of which are the self-serve pay-by-the-ounce variety that offer dozens of flavors of yogurt plus a melange of toppings. Nova Yogurt is just that kind of shop, and it opened a couple of weeks…
Tickets for Harvest Week, an annual culinary bonanza that’s the innovation of EatDenver, a collection of locally owned, independent restaurants, go on sale today, but instead of Denver restaurants hosting the dinners, GrowHaus, an urban farm and marketplace at 4751 York Street (the farm recently won Maxwell House’s Drops of…
In June, GrowHaus won Maxwell House’s Drops of Good contest and $50,000, which it’s using to build a state-of-the-art hydroponic farm and create a market space. Yesterday, that space was celebrated with a group of volunteers, GrowHaus board members, Maxwell House and Rebuilding Together reps (with marquee volunteer Bronco Mark…
A long time ago, there was a Denver chicken joint called Okoboji Inn that was justifiably saluted for its broasted chicken, a method that combines high pressure cooking with deep frying. Okoboji is long gone, but broasted chicken is still alive and clucking, although you’ll have to head to the…
Pete List Beatrice & Woodsley 38 South Broadway 303-777-3505 www.beatriceandwoodsley.com This is part two of my interview with Pete List, exec chef of Beatrice & Woodsley. Part one of that chat ran yesterday. How do you go about conceptualizing and developing new menus? When I write a menu, I focus…
The restaurant industry is softening, according to the National Restaurant Association. But you wouldn’t know that from all the activity on the Denver dining scene, including two important openings –Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar and Wild Catch — at the very end of August, as well as the closing…
After two years in the works, Celebrity Lanes, the 50,000 square-foot family entertainment venue that’s something of an homage to the legendary Celebrity Sports Center, opened last weekend in Centennial. The facility sports 32 bowling lanes as well as two, four-lane VIP Suites with Avalanche and Denver Nuggets themes, the…
The news that the Spicy Pickle outpost near the University of Denver has closed came as no big surprise to readers. Fact is, many sandwich lovers think the spice went out of the Spicy Pickle long ago. EPL, for example: Bring back the Boars Head meats and maybe your shops…
Ah, Belgian beers: smooth, delicious and worth celebrating. Vine Street Pub & (Brewery) is hosting its first-ever Belgian Beer Month throughout September, featuring a Brewer’s Olympics, beer tastings, specialty house beers and more. For all the delicious details, call 303-388-2337 or visit www.mountainsunpub.com. For information on dozens of culinary events…
Tamales Moreno is housed in a dilapidated yellow building on the corner of Sheridan and Mississippi on a piece of real estate directly across the street from a cleaner — and busier — Tamale Kitchen. But as I discovered when visiting the place for this week’s review, skipping Tamales Moreno…
When the fish meets the land, you have Wild Catch, Justin Brunson’s urbanized house party celebrating sustainable sea creatures that opened this week in the former Tastes Wine Bar space at 1033 East 17th Avenue. Brunson’s food — pure, clean, confident and ingredient-driven — already has major buzz (on Sunday…
German beer makers like rules. They like them so much that in 1516, the state of Bavaria imposed the Reinheitsgebot, the beer purity law that prohibited using anything but water, barley and hops in brewing the national beverage. And while Reinheitsgebot (which is no longer in effect) is fun to…
That signless, faceless University Boulevard restaurant space was, until recently, occupied by an outpost of the Spicy Pickle, a Denver-based chain of sandwich shops that first opened in 1999 and has since expanded across the state and the country. But this University of Denver location has shuttered, and it’s not…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. While Pete and…
With Labor Day right around the corner, summer is officially drawing to a close. But there are still lots of warm, languid evenings to look forward to before we say hello to fall. And while you’ve clearly figured out that porch pounders are the perfect early evening sipper on a…
For the past five years, Cheeky Monk Belgian Beer Cafe owners James and Tina Pachorek have been showing Coloradans the Belgian specialty beers, some of which had rarely, if ever, been chugged in this square state. On Friday, the Belgians will honor James (what, no female knights?) for his service…
