Boulder Beer Company is Colorado’s oldest craft brewery — founded in 1979 — but it has never been the city’s most prominent. The brewery’s beautiful restaurant and taproom are hidden in an out-of-the-way east Boulder business park on Wilderness Place. That will change in July though, when Boulder Beer takes…
Café Byblos Mediterranean Grill, at 400 Corona Street, has been a neighborhood staple since 2013, but recently it’s gotten a new lease on life. New owners, a completely new menu and a bit of a remodel have given the Greek/Lebanese cafe a cool new vibe. Cousins Yousef (Joe) and Justin…
He came, he saw, he ate some chicken and brewed some GABF-award winning beers, and now he’s leaving. Bryan Selders, who became the founding brewmaster at The Post Brewing in Lafayette in 2013 after nine years as the head brewer and reality-TV star at Dogfish Head Brewing, is heading back…
In case you’ve forgotten (or your dad didn’t remind you), Sunday is Mother’s Day; hopefully, you’ve already solidified your plans with mom — see our recent list of Mother’s Day events for ideas. But what to do the rest of the weekend? From high tea to an encore performance by…
Ratio Beerworks, which opened its doors in February 2014, has temporarily closed those doors while it sorts out a paperwork issue with both the city and the state licensing authorities. The intensely popular River North brewery didn’t say how long it intends to be closed or whether it will reopen…
Denver has been craving the creative confections of chef Ian Kleinman ever since he had to close the Inventing Room at 2201 Lawrence Street last fall. A four-day doughnut pop-up at Fruition last month sated our sweet tooth temporarily, but a person can only go so long without exploding whipped…
Oskar Blues Brewery, which purchased Florida craft-beer darling Cigar City Brewing last year, will begin rolling out Cigar City’s beers in Colorado next week. Oskar Blues and its financial backer, Fireman Capital Partners, also own Michigan’s Perrin Brewing and the Squatters and Wasatch breweries, both in Utah. Colorado is the…
Dina Castillo has been working on overhauling the former Rosa Linda’s Cafe space at 2005 West 32nd Avenue for the better part of the year, and now she’s nearly ready to unveil her new Highland neighborhood eatery, Bremen’s Wine & Tap. One of the last steps before opening was hiring…
The stretch of South Broadway near Evans Avenue continues to add new restaurants in a variety of styles. The latest is Turtle Boat, which bills itself as a specialist in “Colorado-style poki salad.” Chef/owner Jeremy Song says the spelling of poke as poki is intentional, to help Coloradans get past…
In the heart of Capitol Hill, Charlie Brown’s Bar and Grill has been serving booze since the Prohibition era. Notable Denver characters, new and old, have made the bar their own over the years. The history of this classic bar starts with Judge Earnest Colburn, a mine owner who made…
Every week is craft-beer week in Colorado — but it wasn’t always like that, and some states are still fighting against laws that limit homebrewers, taprooms and other pillars of the independent beer company. Which is why it’s good to remember, even in taproom-loaded Denver, that American Craft Beer Week…
Chef George Eder founded Pizza Republica in 2009, a difficult economic time for restaurateurs — and nearly everyone else in Denver. Eder’s partners, the Jet Entertainment Group, dropped out of deal in those lean economic years, but Eder soldiered on at two locations, at 890 14th Street downtown and at…
Señor Bear — the Tejon Street Latin American restaurant from Bar Dough crew Max MacKissock, Blake Edmunds and Juan Padro and Katie O’Shea Padro — should open imminently: the restaurant is waiting for one more permit sign-off from the city, and then the crew will take possession of the space…
When Nick Kayser took control of the kitchen at Vesta last year, he became just the third chef to fill the role in the restaurant’s two-decade run. This was no maintenance job: Owner Josh Wolkon tasked Kayser with overhauling Vesta’s menu, preserving its global roots and penchant for bold flavors while jettisoning the focus on dipping sauces. W
Talk to Lon Symensma for even a minute or two and you’ll realize the guy’s got energy — and that he’s a very busy chef and restaurant owner. The pace of conversation gets dialed up a notch when the founder of ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro, who has gone on to…
When Zengo and La Güera closed last week, they ended a thirteen-year run in Riverfront Park and vacated some prime restaurant real estate on Little Raven Street. So it’s no surprise that the spaces aren’t going to stay empty for long: Way Back and American Grind partners Chad Michael George, Kade Gianinetti…
Mother’s Day is just around the corner, which means you’re probably looking for a way to impress mom while getting out of making a meal for the whole family. Here are ten ideas for lunch, brunch, dinner and a good time on Satruday, May 13, and Sunday, May 14 -…
Not many restaurateurs reach the ten-year mark. Il Posto did, and chef/restaurant Andrea Frizzi marked the celebration by moving Il Posto to RiNo, where it’s better than ever and now Denver’s Best Italian Restaurant.
The palette of Denver’s palate deepens and broadens today when Goed Zuur opens in Five Points, serving not just a vast spectrum of complex sour and wild ales, but a sophisticated range of small plates and unusual dishes. Set inside a 120-year-old brick building with a carefully restored 1930s-era mural…
Gone are the days when drinking wine at a restaurant meant getting a workout just paging through a hefty wine menu and proving your knowledge to a snobbish server. These days great wine can be enjoyed in casual settings or in Denver-chic eateries that put together a good spread without…
A year and a half have passed since the sign went up for Villagran, at 1512 West Alameda Avenue. At the time, it looked like Maria Garcia and Marco Angeles, who’d operated the Villa Real food truck at the same address for years, would open their brick-and-mortar restaurant any day. Finally, Villagran turned on the open sign and welcomed customers on May 1.
The culinary calendar offers a few options to help move the work week along. Start out with a funky beer-bar opening, and by the time Friday rolls around, you’ll be ready for the sweet, sweet prospect of a chocolate-filled weekend. Round out the rest of your week with a brand-new…
