Start planning for the holidays by taking a cooking class or two and sampling what Whole Foods will be turning out this season. Or just start the celebration early at a wine-tasting or by trying some of Boulder’s best restaurants as that town’s restaurant week begins. Keep reading for a…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed the District and thought the best thing on the menu was the deep-fried peanut butter sandwich. Mark Antonation talked to Chris Thompson, executive chef of the Nickel in the Hotel Teatro, about his new job overseeing food service for an entire hotel…
Yak & Yeti is familiar to those with a thirst for craft beer and a hunger for Nepalese and Indian food. The beers, like the award-winning Chai Milk Stout, show up at tap rooms around town, while the Tibetan and Nepalese specialties are rare enough in the metro area that…
November is shaping up to be a huge month for brewery openings in Denver, as at least three — and possibly up to six — new beer makers get ready to pour. Mockery Brewing, Alpine Dog and Fermaentra Brewing have all set opening dates, while Zephyr Brewing, Goldspot and Declaration…
The empty space in the promenade that connects Larimer Street with the brick courtyard that currently serves as an entrance and front patio for Bistro Vendome isn’t very obvious. Apart from a couple of papered-over windows and an empty sunken patio, there’s not much evidence that Lime Cantina was once…
Eating local doesn’t get sweeter than a visit to Hammond’s Candies, Denver’s 94-year-old candy factory, now immortalized in a History Press book, “Hammond’s Candies: History Handmade in Denver.” See also: Best Bargain Sweets Denver 2011 – The Oops Room…
Update: We have a winner! Amber2013 came closest to the correct answer with 1,509. We’ll be in touch with you via email to let you know what you’ll need to do next to claim your seat at Bones. The actual number of bartender’s choice cocktails served at Green Russell in…
Pete Turner has made his decision: The Illegal Pete’s name will be on the new store, his seventh location, when it opens in Fort Collins next week. He posted a lengthy explanation of his rationale on illegalpetes.com late Wednesday afternoon — to the dismay of critics and the rejoicing of…
The weekend is full of celebrations — of breweries, of good causes, even of apple pie. Keep reading for a taste of what’s on the culinary calendar. See also: Win a Seat at a Punch-Making Class at Bones…
Project Angel Heart is a non-profit organization that delivers meals to people living with life-threatening illnesses. Since its mission is primarily food-based, it makes sense that the biggest fundraisers every year are centered around food. April’s Dining Out for Life brings in the most money for Project Angel Heart every…
Yes, there’s a new brewery getting ready to open its doors this weekend in the River North neighborhood, just across from the Source market. But no, that brewery isn’t Great Divide, which is building a huge complex there. Rather, it is Mockery Brewing, at 3501 Delgany Street, which will be…
It doesn’t take a late-night raid of leftover Halloween candy to make you feel like a kid again. At the District, which I review this week, you can relive your lunchbox days with a better peanut-butter-and-jelly than Mom ever packed. This Uptown eatery serves the sandwich beer-battered and fried, with…
Just around the corner from lavish CY Steak in the Diamond Cabaret — which to my relief and chagrin, does not offer a happy hour — is Cliff Young and his son Zachary’s other concept, Bar Red. Until recently known as BaRed, the restaurant revamped its menu and changed its…
Denverites certainly aren’t lacking when it comes to fast-casual options. In fact, our city has spawned chains ranging from Chipotle to Smashburger, which have gone not just national but international. Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, a quick Mediterreanean concept founded by Alon Mor seven years ago, has brought falafel, pita, grilled meats…
Dunkin’ Donuts returned to the Denver area over the past year, opening stores from Denver International Airport to Edgewater, Boulder to Colorado Springs. Fans of the chain on the East Coast have welcomed Dunkin’ with open arms (and mouths, and wallets), while others just wish they’d go home. Here’s just…
UPDATE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.Tony’s Market on Broadway has many notable features — including a bistro and a liquor license that covers the whole store, which means you can sip while you shop…and at great happy-hour prices, too. But there’s much more to Tony’s, and at tonight’s A Taste…
In what may be one of the most perfect meetings between Denver’s past and its future, the new makers of Tivoli Beer will open their own brewery, taproom and restaurant inside the historic former home of the original Tivoli Brewing Company on the Auraria Campus. Tivoli Brewing co-owner Corey Marshall…
Qdoba recently announced that its restaurants would no longer be charging for add-on items like guacamole, fajita vegetables and queso — both the three-cheese queso and the queso diablo. The new, simplified pricing structure features two price points based on the protein order: one for vegetables, ground beef and chicken,…
On the morning after Halloween, my friends and I had three requirements for brunch: somewhere that served alcohol (in quantity), somewhere with elevated dishes but where we could get away with wearing yoga pants and last night’s makeup, and somewhere we could walk right in with no wait at whatever…
Dry Dock Brewing debuted two whiskey-barrel-aged beers in its Signature Series last week, both in bottles and at its new tasting room, located inside the brewery’s production facility in north Aurora. The beers are Double Brown Ale, an 8 percent ABV English-style brown “with a nutty, caramel backbone and pronounced,…
When restaurateur Alex Gurevich opened Ay Caramba! in Cherry Creek North in early 2013, it was a bit of surprise, considering that most of Denver’s tortas joints are of the hole-in-the-wall variety in lower-rent neighborhoods. There was much speculation as to whether Creekers would even know what a torta was,…
The Nickel 1100 14th Street 720-889-2128 thenickeldenver.com Chris Thompson moved with his mother from Long Beach, California, to Telluride when he was a kid, and quickly adapted to mountain-town life. He’d always had a love of the outdoors, engendered by camping, hiking and fishing trips with his dad in the…
