When we revealed the readers’ choices for the five finalists in the Best Italian Restaurant category for the Best of Denver 2015, red-sauce fans weren’t happy with the lack of spots in northwest Denver. A few mentioned places that had closed years ago, while others offered shout-outs to Lechuga’s (which…
Sunday is Easter, and that means the masses will be flocking to the best brunch spots along the Front Range and beyond. But if you’re not into bunnies and eggs, there are plenty of other events you can sink your teeth into this weekend. Friday, April 3 BookCliff Vineyards is…
The Colorado Rockies are getting a breath of fresh air in center field this season – and that may have the rest of the outfield thinking about beer. Sometime later this spring, the grounds crew will add about a half-dozen hops plants to the bucolic flora that lies just below the…
Pierogi prince and restaurateur Cezary Grosfeld opened Pierogies Factory, his fast-casual tribute to hearty Polish cuisine, today in Wheat Ridge at 39th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard in the former home of a Bubba Chinos. Pierogies Factory is open for pastries and Dazbog coffee starting at 6:30 a.m. and serves the savory…
Denver’s fast-paced growth means the restaurant industry is still at full sprint trying to keep up with demand.Last year was one of the biggest year’s in the city’s history for sheer volume of restaurant openings, as well as variety, and it looks like 2015 will see, if not the quantity…
Even though it’s been one of Frank Bonnano’s longest running restaurants, serving solid Italian food since 2003, Luca only just launched an afternoon happy hour in March, meaning it’s the new flavor on the block once again — a block already held down by happy hour heavyweights Vesper Lounge, Benny’s,…
At the end of 2012, Zanzibar Billiards received a visit from Spike TV show Bar Rescue and its host John Taffer, who transformed the ailing Ballpark pool hall into Solids & Stripes Badass Billiards. Taffer gave the bar a patriotic theme in red, white and blue to hammer home the stars and…
Says Michele: YES! YES! and YES to more public restrooms! I went into McDonald’s one morning and was about to tinckle on myself, and the lady took forever, and I was like, “So, I plan to order a bacon biscuit, but can I please use the restroom, first?”, and she…
Feminism & Co., a weekly lecture series that “explores contemporary culture through issues relating to women and gender,” has returned to the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver for 2015. From 7 to 8:30 p.m. tonight, the topic of discussion will be the role of gender in the food industry. This Star Chefs…
Call To Arms Brewing, which plans to open late this year at 4526 Tennyson Street, has launched an unusual crowdfunding progam that allows friends and fans to become financial supporters by sponsoring pieces of the brewery’s furniture. Altogether, there are about eighty pieces of furniture, including table chairs ($150), bar…
Food & Wine just announced the People’s Best New Chef nominees in ten U.S. regions, as voted by the magazine’s readers and website visitors. And out of ten chefs nominated as People’s Best New Chef in the Southwest Region, Denver has two on the list: Alex Figura of Lower48 Kitchen and…
In addition to its memorable name, Devil’s Food Bakery &Cookery stands out as a unique gem in the Denver dining scene for its homey food reminiscent of an entirely different era that somehow manages to defy Wash Park pretension, its well-planned brunch menu that consistently draws long lines on weekends, and…
Wade Kirwan is back in a LoDo kitchen. The chef was a fixture at Vesta Dipping Grill from 1999 to 2010, and after that “bounced around quite a bit,” he remembers. He worked at Solera, helped a friend open Crash 45 — which is now turning into Fort Greene —…
While living in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, Bretton Scott rented out his apartment for a week via Airbnb to a French woman who designed restaurants. She told him should design a restaurant like his living room. That’s essentially what he’ll be doing with his new restaurant and bar,…
When chef Cindhura Reddy and front-of-the-house manager Elliot Strathmann purchased Spuntino from John Broening and Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, another husband-and-wife pair, last September, whatever jitters they had quickly disappeared as they got back to business with the crew that had already coalesced at Spuntino. Strathmann had been working the dining room…
The U Baron Group, which operates the Silvi’s Kitchen restaurants in the metro area (along with all of the other former Udi’s eateries and bakeries), closed the Colfax Silvi’s last fall with plans to reopen with a new name and theme. The result was revealed last month. The name? The Good…
You never know where you’re going to find good food these days. It could be in a food truck. It could be in a converted shipping container, or a train station, or a strip mall. So I didn’t bat an eyelash when I pulled up in front of Will Call,…
Zengo is launching a new Test Kitchen Menu today that features flavors from Indonesia and Argentina. Rather than fuse the cuisine of one Latin and one Asian country into a Latin-Asian hybrid, the kitchen at Zengo will create separate dishes featuring ingredients from each country. The Test Kitchen Menu is a…
The wave of new restaurant openings has definitely subsided since the frenetic pace set last fall and winter. Still, March had its share of big-name openings as well as a couple of surprises. The Baron family (founders of the Udi’s brand) shuttered Sylvi’s Kitchen in the Lowenstein complex at the…
The Crumb Cafe took over the space at 217 South Holly Street that opened up when the Adagio Baking Company closed in Hilltop earlier this year. After a soft opening over the weekend, the Crumb, a sibling to Cake Crumbs Bakery and the Denver Cupcake Truck, is ready for its…
Colorado continues to count six of its beer-makers among the fifty largest craft breweries in the country, but some of their positions on that list slid in 2014. thanks to a rule change from the Boulder-based Brewers Association: Breweries that use corn as a beer adjunct – but still produce fewer…
While Denver is approaching the big fifty when it comes to the number of breweries in the city, the outlying brewing scene continues to boom as well, whether it’s new spots in the southern suburbs or those setting up shop just past our western border in Lakewood or the eastern…
