In anticipation of the Best of Denver 2016, which lands on March 31, been rolling out lists that align with some of the categories on our Best of Denver 2016 Readers’ Poll. Yesterday, we served up the Twelve Best Restaurants on Colfax, and immediately heard from fans about places that…
The only thing better than noshing on food from sixteen of Denver’s top chefs is doing it in support of a great cause, and today is your chance to do just that. The 33rd annual Great Chefs of the West Gala, benefiting the National Kidney Foundation, will take place from…
This weekend, Molly’s Spirits in Lakeside is hosting a bottle-signing event with special guest Curtis James Jackson III. You may know him better as rapper 50 Cent. The star will be on hand from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 12, to sign bottles of Effen Vodka, a brand…
Is Englewood on the verge of a restaurant Renaissance? Here’s more evidence: Squeaky Bean founder and co-owner Johnny Ballen is moving into the south Denver suburb with a new eatery called Cochino, which he expects to open at 3495 South Downing Street by the end of April. Ballen’s still working…
Colfax Avenue is known for many things: dive bars, gritty urban street life, a thriving music scene, late-night action. Most striking though is the diverse roster of restaurants nearly as long as the street itself, with old-school greasy spoons and steakhouses, taquerias, walk-up windows, pizza joints, bakeries, coffeehouses and culinary samples…
Name confusion is a fact of life in the craft brewing industry these days, which is why there have been so many trademarks battles — and trademark resolutions — in the past few years. The folks at Prost Brewing in Denver and The Post Brewing in Lafayette have a more…
On Monday we shared the news that The Kitchen restaurant group will be moving into Cherry Creek with a new restaurant slated for a late summer opening. This will be the fifth Kitchen, including one in Chicago, for founders Kimbal Musk and Hugo Matheson, who got their start in Boulder…
In the 1500s in what is now Germany, there was a law that beer could only be made with three ingredients: water, barley and hops. But that was then and this is now. In the United States in the new Millennium, you can find beers made with just about any…
Clamato preparado, which takes the michelada theme and, skipping the beer, cranks the formula up to eleven, has hit town with a tomato-splattered splash. Part beverage, part snack and part base for your own adult beverage (if you’re packing beer, tequila or vodka), clamatos preparados have been popping up at…
To run a successful restaurant, you need to serve good food. Behind the scenes, you also need a good numbers guy, and Mark Reggiannini of Cafe Marmotte happens to be both. Reggiannini, who owns the casual French bistro with his wife, Mairen Reagan, got his start as a math major,…
Life can come at you pretty fast, so sometimes it’s nice to slow down, enjoy a leisurely stroll and experience life at 3mph. Today you have the opportunity to do just that by joining Walk2Connect Founder Jonathon Stalls for a northeast Park Hill walking tour that stretches from the Garden/Love,…
Chef and culinary instructor Stephen Kleinman, whose lengthy Denver career includes heading up Centerplate Catering and the food program for the Colorado Convention Center, has been out of restaurant kitchens for some time. But a visit to his son Ian Kleinman’s new dessert bar, the Inventing Room, last fall was…
Consumer Concept Group, which founded Smashburger in Denver in 2007, got a big win last week when a Denver City Council committee approved the proposal that CCG and partners Tivoli Brewing and Midfield Concession Enterprises had submitted to open a restaurant/brewery at the Westin at Denver International Airport, as well…
Southern food has been in the national culinary spotlight in recent years and Denver restaurants are responding with more and more examples of heartland cooking. Grind Kitchen + Watering Hole, which opens tonight in Cherry Creek North, isn’t what you’d call a Southern eatery, but chef/owner Preston Phillips draws inspiration…
Mondegreen Lime at Pon Pon Bar If Paul Garcia isn’t making cocktails at Pon Pon, he’s on the other side of the bar, spinning records. Garcia opened the arty cocktail lounge two months ago at 2528 Walnut Street, where you can listen to him play selections from his vinyl collection…
Canadians, for reasons unknown, love Clamato, especially in the version of the Bloody Mary known as the Caesar. My Canadian uncle used to mix beer and Clamato juice and call it a Red Eye. At first I couldn’t understood why anyone would want to drink a seafood-flavored beverage, but as…
The Best of Denver 2016 will land on March 31, and now’s your chance to bring out your personal best, in the second round of our Best of Denver 2016 Readers’ Poll. We’ve tallied the votes cast in the first round, and now we’d like you to vote for your…
Nothing tastes better than a beer at the end of a long, terrible day. But what if the beer itself has been through hell and high water? Find out this week when Upslope Brewing begins pouring Scottish Style Ale, a collaboration with Spirit Hound Distillers that was born in the…
This past Saturday marked the birthday of Momofuku Ando, inventor of instant ramen, and the debut of Slurp, a pop-up ramen event hosted by Ramen Mafia. The event was a collaboration of a few noodle lovers paying tribute to papa noodle. Distiller Jake Norris of Laws Whiskey House, artist Andrew…
Chefs around town are gearing up for spring by rolling out seasonal menu items, adding dishes inspired by travels or are taking a cue from an Oscar-winning movie. Here are three restaurants making menu changes this month. Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace 950 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-442-7771 For the…
Kimbal Musk and Hugo Matheson are extending their restaurant empire with a new iteration of The Kitchen in Cherry Creek North. This will be fifth Kitchen (the others are located in Boulder, downtown Denver, Fort Collins and Chicago) and the ninth establishment overall for the team, which also runs three…
A little more than eight years ago, two chefs who met while working at an upscale Italian eatery took a chance on a sandwich business. Justin Brunson and Steve Allee were working at Luca d’Italia (now just Luca) when they concocted a scheme to sell deli sandwiches out of a…
