Food & Drink

Tengu, one of the first in the recent wave of noodle bars to wash up in Denver, closed quietly last week. Was it a victim of a city awash in other options? High prices? Or just poor signage? Says Jeanie:  I ate ramen when we were young and broke; why…

Although there was a lot of restaurant action in Boulder this week, including the opening of Hosea Rosenberg’s Blackbelly Butcher. But there’s food new in other areas as well: The November ballot in Boulder may include a measure that calls for an vice tax on sugary beverages such as soda and…

Happy Doors Open Denver! Today and tomorrow, you can tour dozens of historic and architectural marvels around Denver….but you might want to eat at home before you head downtown, because the brunch lines are long. Snooze at Union Station — where Doors Open Denver is headquartered — is on a…

There was plenty of news coming out of Boulder this week, as three popular metro-area eateries opened new outposts in the city. Local brewery/restaurant Bru Handbuilt Ales & Eats took over the space next door for Heifer and the Hen, an upscale ice cream shop with creative, seasonal flavors. And…

At the end of March, the Edible Beats restaurant group, which consists of Root Down, Linger and Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox (with others on the way), announced that Jeremy Kittelson was taking over as culinary director for the entire group and that chef Daniel Asher was stepping away from the role…

Spring means growth and change, sometimes so much that it’s hard to keep up with. So here’s a look at three restaurants with changes afoot, including a new lunch slate from Arcana in Boulder to go with a chef shuffle in the kitchen, the Way Back’s new dinner menu, and…

All aboard! The train to the plane officially pulls out of the station this weekend, with free rides from Union Station to Denver International Airport today and tomorrow. But the airport isn’t the only place you can get on the A line; as Jonathan Shikes points out in his Ten…

The Palm Restaurant came to Denver in 1996 and it’s not difficult to imagine that some regular customers have enjoyed weekly, maybe even daily, power lunches over martinis and filet mignon for the past twenty years. So when the storied steakhouse, which got its start in New York City in…

Sam Slade grew up around cakes and other baked goods at her family’s bakeries in Chicago, so batter is in her blood. At the beginning of the year, she launched Valhalla Cakes inside the Temple Bakery in the Curtis Park neighborhood to test the market for her own creations. And…

Denver’s dining scene is booming, and while neighborhoods like RiNo and Berkeley are exploding, suburbs outside the city limits are getting interesting new restaurants, too. In response to the news that Zomo will move in where El Tepehuan moved out, Jan says: Who’d a’thunk that downtown Englewood could become a…

Is the ramen honeymoon finally over in Denver? Despite a rash of noodle shop openings over the last eighteen months or so, at least one has slipped through the cracks. Tengu, which opened in December 2014 in the Industry building on Brighton Boulevard, is now closed. Tengu initially closed for…

Curry lovers in Denver know where to go for a fiery fix: Biju’s Little Curry Shop in RiNo, which chef Biju Thomas opened in a tiny, hidden spot at 26th and Walnut streets at the end of 2014. And with new spot at 4279 Tennyson Street that just opened earlier this…

The Squeaky Bean has always been a little out there (with Saturday Bingo Brunch and celebrity cocktail shrines as evidence), but soon the downtown farm-centered restaurant could soon be taking its creativity to new heights. Partner and chief bean farmer Josh Olsen is working with a team of high school…

Boulder shoppers looking for quality meat cuts, pre-made foods and a quick breakfast or lunch have known about the tiny nook inside chef-restaurateur Hosea Rosenberg’s Blackbelly restaurant in east Boulder for some time, but because of space limitations, the chef’s vision for a complete, meat-centered market was never fully realized…

Woody’s Wings N Things occupies an easy-to-miss space in a Westminster strip mall. But as Mark Antonation advises in this week’s Ethniche, you do not want to miss this spot, an independent restaurant that has some American standards (corn dogs) but also incredible Asian dishes. In fact, he says, the Things…

Restaurants have been popping up in non-traditional spaces for years now, housed in everything from shipping containers to repurposed industrial buildings. But a restaurant inside a library? That’s a head-turner. When Seeds Library Cafe opened last year inside the Boulder Public Library, it served a much-needed purpose: giving patrons a…