There was a little monkey business last night as the Infinite Monkey Theorem unveiled its new wine bar inside the Stanley Marketplace. This is the second Colorado tasting room for IMT, which was founded by winemaker Ben Parsons in 2008. The company’s main winery and tasting room is located at…
Bravo’s Top Chef will come to Colorado to film season 15 of the popular show; here are ten ideas we think the show should incorporate to make cooking challenges a little more local.
Go bald or go home this weekend with a head-shaving event for charity. There’s food and drink on the calendar, too, whether you’re looking for hearty German fare and crisp beers to match, a community dinner in Boulder with the added bonus of Laws Whiskey, or one of the top…
Seoul, South Korea is one of the best eating cities in the world: Women hawk spicy rice cakes from teeming market stalls, tiny parlors put out tasty fried dumplings at breath-taking speed, and restaurants are often laser-focused on serving a perfect version of just one or two dishes, be that…
Nick Rellas and Justin Robinson founded Drizly in Boston in 2012 with the goal of making booze shopping easier by partnering with liquor stores to have beer, wine and spirits delivered straight to the homes of Drizly app users. Denver, apparently, has embraced the concept with gusto; numbers over St…
No. 9: Two Vegetable Dishes at Old Major Old Major has built a reputation with pork and other meats, displaying its mastery of steakhouse cuts, cured Italian salumi and nose-to-tail cookery. But Justin Brunson’s four-year-old LoHi restaurant is more than just a one-trick piggy; it’s a destination eatery where diners…
I’ve spent a fair bit of time at the Horseshoe Lounge. My old roommate is a regular who invites me there for a drink frequently, and I’ve been there on dates. I also once found myself there for a Meetup group that my friend was a part of — I…
The time has come to change our state’s “Welcome to Colorado” signs to “Welcome to Culinary Colorado,” because Bravo Media is bringing one of its most popular TV shows to town. Season 15 of Top Chef will begin filming in Denver, Boulder and Telluride this spring with now-familiar host Padma Lakshmi…
When Wednesday’s Pie opened in 2010 as the front for chef/restaurateur Frank Bonanno’s speakeasy, Green Russell, beneath Larimer Square, pies were only sold on Wednesdays (as the name suggests). After minor adjustments over the past seven years, though, the little diner-style foyer is now open daily for those looking to…
In previous years, the Colorado Brewers Guild had asked the breweries participating in Collaboration Fest to hold off on tapping their beers until after the festival — in order to keep the surprise. But in its fourth iteration, the nonprofit, which represents more than two hundred Colorado craft breweries, decided…
No. 10: Tuesday Night Thai Chicken at Cho77 Cho77 recently unveiled a couple of weekly specials to entice South Broadway denizens in the door on traditionally slow nights in a district more known for its weekend nightlife. On Tuesday nights, the deal is Thai fried chicken, which includes a couple…
Brothers Jason and Kris Wallenta started talking about opening a restaurant together before they were of legal drinking age. For a long time, they imagined that their eatery would be a pizzeria, but they first went with a taco joint: Dos Santos. Now they’re about to open White Pie.
We’ve all been faced with the “Where should we go?” question. Sometimes the answer is obvious, but other times we need help. Whether it’s finding the perfect place to celebrate the right occasion, determining what kitchen can accommodate an unusual dietary restriction, or maybe just discovering a new place to…
A kitchen fire closed the Cherry Cricket, an iconic Denver burger joint, on Thanksgiving Eve. Five months later, the 71-year old Cricket has announced plans to reopen on April 11.
Chefs often find new ways to play with food, to escape the tedium of doing the same thing one too many times. Cooking over gas burners, for example, must become absolutely mind-numbing after the first several thousand times you baste a steak in butter or arc a panful of sizzling…
Que Bueno Suerte! was designed to bring modern Mexican to Old South Pearl. But there’s just no escaping the feeling that you should be getting more for your money.
Seven months after longtime Colorado Brewers Guild director John Carlson stepped down in the midst of a dispute among its brewery members, the nonprofit organization has hired a new leader. Washington, D.C. attorney Andres Gil Zaldana will take over as executive director of the Guild, which advocates for and represents…
With an amazing depth and breadth of breweries, Fort Collins is one of the oldest and best craft beer towns, not just in Colorado, but anywhere in the United States. There are roughly twenty breweries in operation there, including New Belgium and Odell, which are among the top fifty largest…
No. 11: Bone Marrow With Short Rib Marmalade at Vesta After longtime Vesta chef Brandon Foster departed to become the executive chef of Project Angel Heart last year, Nicholas Kayser took over the kitchen at the twenty-year-old LoDo favorite, dreaming up a new slate of dishes to usher in a…
Sae Jong Kwan was a mainstay of Korean barbecue in Aurora for more than a decade; when Jason Sheehan first reviewed it ten years ago, he remarked on its bright vibrancy and its crowds, and loved especially the restaurant’s oxtail soup. By the time I got to it four years…
While pork-lovers celebrated the swine at Cochon555 on Sunday, March 19, a few protesters interrupted the event to speak out for animal equality. The interruption was short-lived, as the demonstrators, possibly representing Direct Action Everywhere, were quickly ushered out by event security. That left the rest of Sunday evening for…
Chef/restaurateur Justin Brunson opened Masterpiece Kitchen in Lowry a year ago as a kind of fancy diner, but when that concept proved less than successful, he decided to retool the entire menu.
