Denver City Council last night approved $5 million in tax-increment financing for a new Target store — only the second in Denver — that will be built at the former home of Tamarac Square. But some people will be more interested in another facet of this $40 million development: a…
We’re down to the Final Four in our Street 16 menu matchup. And one of the contests is very tough: Boulder versus South Federal Boulevard. The “foodiest” town in America versus Denver’s ethnic strip. Yesterday, one reader was so torn he wondered how to split his vote. But no more…
Every Wednesday, Cured, 1825 Pearl Street in Boulder, encourages you to cook for yourself by offering up an idea for dinner and also the ingredients to make it. And once a month, the specialty shop asks a local restaurant to help…
Matt and Rosemary Lopez have owned Taza de Cafe on 44th Avenue for six years, where they’ve hawked a variety of coffee-based treats — including a horchatte, a latte made with horchata. Two years ago, they started thinking about adding another business to their portfolio, and they began looking around…
The gather and huddle in the early afternoon, often under the threat of ominous skies threatening to dump buckets of snow in their champagne flutes and on their foie gras. But that doesn’t stop the hearty oenophiles and gastronauts from making the airborne gondola pilgrimage to the mountaintop picnic on…
Green chile-heads, I’ve noticed, divide into a couple of camps when it comes to debating who makes this city’s best version of a food that graces just about every Mexican restaurant’s menu in town: half swear by the Colorado-style gravy-like green; the others won’t touch it if it’s not in…
Yesterday, while driving down Hampden, I noticed a sign for a forthcoming Texas Roadhouse, just one of many chains that gang the River Point at Sheridan, a mega-mall sprawl at Hampden and Santa Fe that gives shoppers at Super Target and Costco the opportunity to chow at Chili’s, Subway, Panera…
Despite the proliferation of restaurants in the Lower Highland neighborhood over the last couple of years, the area still isn’t quite ready to call Uncle. In fact, we keep getting word of new projects going into the area, including a restaurant actually called Uncle…
Standing in front of the beer cooler in Colorado, the Napa Valley of Beer, can be a little overwhelming. Okay, it can be a lot overwhelming. There are dozens of styles — from IPAs, stouts and sours to Belgian saisons bocks and barrel-aged brews — from a confounding number of…
Ken Kodys is no stranger to victory. In 2009, the Boston native, who was then tending bar at Bacaro, in Boulder, created a memorable cocktail ironically called Amnesia that took the whole kit and caboodle in the DeKuyper Mix Master Bartender contest at the Denver Food & Wine Festival. Earlier…
Lower Highland solidly won against Capitol Hill in the round of 8 in our restaurant neighborhood tournament, and Tennyson squeaked by the favorited Upper Larimer, due to some serious campaigning on social media. In this match-up of Tennyson and LoHi, who you got? Vote below!…
If this thing had bulging eyes, insists my kid, it would look like Jaws. That’s a bit of a stretch, but the mouth, which opens to a clear pond of fresh coconut water, is a bit creepy. As far as I know, there’s no restaurant in Denver proper that serves…
Eating Mexican food as a vegetarian isn’t easy, and as a vegan? You might as well forget it unless you’re at a plant-based restaurant. Or at Old Blinking Light Kitchen & Cocktails in Highlands Ranch…
Our Street 16 menu matchup is down to the final four, with the first face-off between South Federal Boulevard and Boulder. These are both great restaurant neighborhoods — even if their restaurants have almost nothing in common…
Great Divide Brewing, 2201 Arapahoe Street, will host its popular monthly beer-and-cheese pairing tonight. The event takes place in the Great Divide tap room and costs $24, which includes tax and gratuity. An RSVP is required; e-mail Great Divide to grab a spot. For information on dozens of culinary events…
There’s no restaurant review this week as a result of our Best of Denver 2012 issue going to press. What are you waiting for? Check out our 2012 Best of Denver Food & Drink picks…
HDNet’s Drinking Made Easy hosts Zane Lamprey and Steve McKenna spend their days traveling across the country and drinking on camera, using their show as a medium to showcase the local drinking culture of towns from all over the map. On next week’s episode — which airs Wednesday, April 4…
Centro Latin Kitchen chef Ian Clark was on a bus from Sayulita, Mexico, over the holidays when he got a phone call from work. “Someone in the company asked me if I wanted to go back down to Mexico,” he recalls. “I said, ‘Sure, why not?'” A few weeks later,…
A serious bartending scene in Denver has culminated in dozens of cocktail contests, many of which propel our local bar men and women to a national spotlight, where they go up against the country’s best. And tonight, one of the biggest contests of 2012 is going down at Green Russell:…
Alex Waters, the owner/chef of Bistro One, is taking a sabbatical, albeit a short one. “My kids and I are heading to the mountains today for a little break, and then it’s back to work,” says Waters, who will close Bistro One, his four-year-old restaurant, on Thursday and reopen it…
Colorado chefs cook their asses off — not just in their respective restaurants but at culinary events all over the city, and last night was no exception, as thirty chefs from Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs convened at the Colorado Convention Center to cook at Colorado Chefs Up Front, a…
As we’ve been doing for a few weeks now, Cafe Society is out to find the single-best neighborhood for eating-out in Denver with our Street 16 tournament. Size doesn’t matter, but restaurants do. We started with sixteen areas of metro Denver and now we’re down to four. In the first…
