American Grind started its life as a mobile food vendor in the summer of 2014, serving diner-style burgers and milkshakes. But owner Jared Schwartz says he had to “put that idea to sleep for a while” as he was busy opening the Way Back with fellow Linger alumni Chad Michael…
There’s no shortage of Colorado-born burger bars: With Illegal Burger, Crave Real Burgers, TAG Burger Bar, Larkburger, Park Burger and Smashburger all based here, no cow is safe in this state. Even Red Robin and Good Times have local ties. But meat lovers still crave the burgers of their home towns or…
John Broening has been a torchbearer for Denver’s culinary community for the better part of the last two decades. In addition to stints at Brasserie Rouge, Le Grand Bistro and Argyll, he and his wife, pastry maven Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, owned and operated Duo — a leader in Denver’s nascent New…
A new coffeehouse with a mission to empower women could soon be coming to the former home of Rooster & Moon at 955 Bannock in the Golden Triangle. Called 8th Day Coffee, the planned enterprise won’t be your average coffee shop: It will have a goal of employing at-risk women in Denver,…
Mell’s Cheese carved out a new restaurant space at West 30th Avenue and Zuni Street in the fall of 2015, but made it only a year before closing up shop. The building has been vacant since November but will soon have a new tenant. Kathy Knight, co-owner of Crepes ‘n…
You can find corner markets with innocuous names that offer little indication of their contents all over Denver and its surrounding suburbs. The European Market, for example, is wedged into a strip-mall spot between a nail salon and a dollar-a-scoop Chinese joint in Lakewood. Europe’s a pretty broad category for…
Some restaurants feel timeless, as if they’ve been around forever but somehow maintain the energy and attraction of a brand-new eatery. Such is the case with Fruition, chef/owner Alex Seidel’s tribute to Colorado’s changing seasons that draws heavily from the farm he maintains just outside of Larkspur. Next month, Fruition…
Of all the tacos served and eaten at our Mexican street-food festival, Tacolandia, last summer, some of the most memorable came from a food truck called Roxie’s Tacos, which topped fresh flour tortillas with a variety of Indian fillings, from chana masala chick peas to its aromatic Red Oven Chicken…
Denver needs more more small, chef-driven restaurants in 2017 and fewer “concepts,” says this reader.
Last year was a busy one for restaurant openings, with more than 220 debuting in metro Denver in 2016. And so far, 2017 is looking to keep pace. Two eateries opened this week; many more are scheduled to arrive in January and the months ahead. Here are the two that got out of the gate fast this week, along with eight more to look forward to.
A new year begins, and with it, the count of restaurant openings and closings resets. We’re already off to a good start, especially where familiar breakfast joints are concerned. The team behind the two DJ’s Cafe locations (in Berkeley and on Lincoln Street) opened a third on East Colfax Avenue,…
Black Pearl restaurant closed at 1529 South Pearl last summer, leaving a note on its website that read: “In partnership with friends, neighbors, and our fellow local restaurateur, we have an exciting new concept for our location.” Just down the street, Gaia Bistro’s days were numbered as the cottage-turned-eatery was…
With so many new restaurants opening in the past few years and unemployment dropping to its lowest since 2008, finding qualified line and prep cooks has become increasingly difficult for restaurant owners. But a recent endeavor at the Emily Griffith Technical College is addressing the issue by getting service-industry hopefuls…
Would you stand in line for an hour on the coldest night of the winter — just to get even colder? That’s what plenty of ice cream fanatics did last night at Little Man Ice Cream, which dropped the price of a pint of its finest flavors to $1 to…
The words fresh and seasonal both come to mind when contemplating Italian cooking. While Colorado winters can make it tough to find great seasonal dishes in Denver, here are two Italian restaurants finding creative ways to add cold-weather fare. Read what these two new Italian eateries are doing to combat…
The first new restaurant of 2017 isn’t exactly new to Denver. Instead, it’s the third location of a familiar breakfast eatery. DJ’s Colfax Cafe opened on January 2 at 1490 Eudora Street in the restaurant space that was most recently Red Octave. This marks the third DJ’s, after the original…
No. 29 & 28: Comfort Food at Ohana Island Kitchen and the Kitchen Table Lunch is an excellent time for exploring the local, the mom-and-pop, the hole-in-the-wall joints. Expectations are set for good food without the bells and whistles; you can save the wow-factor of expensive decor and ingratiating service…
A little over a year ago, we were reporting on the transformation of what was then Hamburger Mary’s into M Uptown, a new face for a decade-old business at 700 East 17th Avenue after its owners decided to scrap the Mary’s franchise for an independent, local and, most important, still…
We’ve all been faced with the “Where should we go?” question. Sometimes the answer is obvious, but other times we need help. Whether it’s finding the perfect place to celebrate the right occasion, determining what kitchen can accommodate an unusual dietary restriction, or maybe just discovering a new place to…
McCormick’s Fish House & Bar at 17th and Wazee Streets served New Year’s Eve dinner downtown and then called it quits. But the thirty-year-old seafood restaurant attached to the Oxford Hotel wasn’t the only establishment on the corner to go dark at the end of the year. Across the street,…
Happy 2017, Denver! Here’s round two of our interview with local chefs and hospitality professionals, wherein they share their opinions and predictions on rising stars, old favorites, the service-industry labor shortage and the rise of gratuity-free restaurants. Read part one of the Q & A, which includes pleas for better…
Last fall chef/restaurateur Jennifer Jasinski announced that she and business partner Beth Gruitch would be adding a Spanish-style tapas bar called Ultreia to their roster of downtown restaurants, joining Stoic & Genuine at Union Station. As the plans shape up, a few changes to their other eateries — under the…
