Beer Calendar: Collaborations, Collab Fest and a New Brewery

Colorado’s craft breweries will kick off one of the most interesting, most unusual weeks of the year on Saturday when Collaboration Fest gets the ball rolling for Colorado Craft Beer Week. Sure, you might say that every week is craft-beer week in Colorado, but this one is a little different…

Corrida, Now Open in Boulder, Pays Homage to Spain and the Steer

In the fourteen months since Bryan Dayton, owner of Oak at Fourteenth, Acorn and Brider, first announced that he was planning a restaurant for the top floor of the Pearl West development in downtown Boulder, he and chef Amos Watts have been on a journey to define exactly what that…

Patsy’s Replacement Has a New Name: Acova

Patsy’s, one of Denver’s oldest Italian restaurants, closed in August 2016 after 95 years of serving red sauce in northwest Denver. Several months later, the liquor license at 3651 Navajo Street was transferred to Paul Greaves and Sean Workman, who run the Hornet at 76 Broadway. The restaurant name listed on the…

Maandeeq Holds Its Own With Somali Cuisine in Aurora

My hands were shaking as I entered the dimly lit Maandeeq East African Restaurant and Café (1535 South Havana), with three tall Somali men coming in right behind me. Safety wasn’t my concern; I was just nervous about how I, a short, winter-white blonde gal from suburbia, would be received…

Wayne’s Smoke Shack Doubles Restaurant Size in Superior

If it has been a while since you’ve been to Wayne’s Smoke Shack, the Texas-style barbecue joint that operates out of sprawling shopping center in the bedroom community of Superior, wedged inconspicuously between Boulder and Broomfield, you’ll want to swing by and see what’s changed. Owner Wayne Shelnutt recently reopened after…