Restaurants

Aspen real estate may be even pricier than here in Denver. So when the building that houses Zocalito Bistro was scheduled to be demolished in the mountain town, chef/owner Michael Beary didn’t waste much time looking for a new Aspen spot. Instead, he looked to Denver and found the perfect…

Karen D’Onofrio has studied theology and religion throughout her adult life, but when she finally found herself working in a church, it was as a chocolatier using a church’s kitchen to make candy. After more than a year of operating out of the basement of Christ the King church, D’Onofrio just…

With so many new and exciting places to eat in Denver, it’s easy to overlook old favorites and neighborhood standbys…and that can be deadly for those restaurants. Increased competition and shifting demographics, trends and neighborhood needs can mean the demise of eateries that previously attracted crowds. Here are the ten…

Tucked beneath a modern residential building in LoHi resides There…, a restaurant that now serves fresh gelato under the name Bici. The idea, says co-owner Oren Cohen, is to provide an array of housemade “adult snack food”: hummus, roasted nuts and dipping sauces, for example. It also includes a whole…

Isabel Ranney, who took over the burners at Bremen’s in August, talks about her drive to consider the planet in her cooking, working at a woman-owned, women-run restaurant, and the herbs you should be eating now.

As a Puerto Rican, chef Jesse Vega of Candela Latin Kitchen knew he had to do something to help his fellow borinqueños recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria. Sending money didn’t seem like enough — and he wasn’t sure which organization would best utilize any donation he might…

Arugula, at 2785 Iris Avenue, has been a fixture of the Boulder dining scene for the past nine years under chef/proprietor Alec Schuler. But the restaurant’s lease expires next summer and Schuler plans to close his eatery rather than renew at a higher rate. The news was announced in Arugula’s…

Denver history is worn into the formica tabletops and vinyl booths of timeless diners scattered across the city. The scent of coffee, fried potatoes and burger grease wafts through the murmuring dining rooms, carrying with it memories of meals past. Places like the Breakfast King, Lookin’ Good and Swift’s Breakfast…

Angry Chicken’s soft opening on December 6, 2017, was hugely anticipated by the neighborhood — so much so that the restaurant ran out of chicken after just five hours. “We didn’t expect the first day to be so busy,” says John Kim, owner of the first Korean-based Angry Chicken franchise…

After nearly a decade at 950 Broadway, Tony’s Market is pulling out of downtown for a new home in south Denver. The company, headed by CEO/president Daniel Rosacci (son of founder Tony Rosacci), will close up shop on December 31 and open in the spring of 2018 in a new…

Some readers support Birdcall, but others agree with Gretchen Kurtz’s assessment that its chicken sandwiches won’t fly.

Here’s our complete list of bar and restaurant openings and closing for the week of December 11-17, 2017.

Have you seen that luminous new skyscraper poking up from the cityscape at 15th and Lawrence streets downtown? The one that looks just a little bit like a giant glass toaster on top? The building is called 1144 Fifteenth and it’s still vacant until construction is completed, but one of…

When the Panzano executive-chef position opened up, Nic Lebas leaped at the opportunity to move to Denver and to draw from his French roots to refine the Italian menu of the Hotel Monaco restaurant.

Those who have followed good cooking in Denver over the past decade will recognize the name Samir Mohammad, a chef who quietly wowed diners on Old South Pearl at The Village Cork and later at Black Pearl (well before it closed). Mohammad took off for a stint in Indonesia before returning…

Sometimes a new food and beverage “concept” is more difficult to describe than it is to experience. Such is the case with Beckon|Call, a new dual-identity cafe and restaurant at 2845 Larimer Street. After poking your head inside Call, the white cottage on the right half of the property (Beckon…

The Reuben sandwich is said to have been invented just over a hundred years ago, in either Omaha, Nebraska, or New York City (depending on whose story you believe). The hot sandwich is an imposing stack of corned beef (or, less frequently, pastrami), sauerkraut, Russian dressing, melted Swiss cheese and…

Birdcall is fast. It’s affordable. And it’s where the future is headed, given the pinch of high labor costs. But is it good food?

Thanks to Comal Heritage Food Incubator, we now have one more culinary word in our lexicon. The lunchtime restaurant at 3455 Ringsby Court in the Taxi development is named for the large, flat cooking surface used to cook tortillas and other Mexican fare. But starting this Thursday, December 14, we…