The first full week of December brought an arctic blast and an eggnog roundup of ten Denver bars and restaurants embracing the holiday spirit. To break through the icy chill, the kitchen at Que Bueno Suerte is getting fired up for its grand opening on Sunday, December 11; we got…
South Broadway was closed to traffic at Louisiana Avenue this morning as Denver firefighters rushed to put out flames at Pasquini’s Pizzeria, a longtime neighborhood joint. The Denver Fire Department noted that there were no injuries on its Twitter page at 8:17 a.m. this morning. A call to the restaurant…
Pie master and baker John Hinman opened his own bakery in north Park Hill just over a year ago and has been steadily acquiring new accounts for his rolls, buns, baguettes and desserts. If you’ve made the trek to the Post Brewing Company in Lafayette, you’ve probably tasted his award-winning…
When Jane Knauf and Brett Shaheen set out to create their Italian restaurant, the Wooden Table, in 2011, it took them only three months to remodel a vacant space in Cherry Hills Village and throw open the doors to the public. But progress was a little slower when the two decided…
No. 36: Banh Mi Tacos at Vital Root When Justin Cucci opened Vital Root in the Berkeley neighborhood this past June, little did we know how hungry the city was for some solid, healthy and innovative vegetarian and vegan fare. Sure, we have other options, but it’s been a while…
The best lesson learned in working for a corporation is the importance of quality and consistency. The downside is a lack of creativity given to employees. Former P.F. Chang’s corporate employees Scott Lucas and Fred Garcia experienced both while running a string of Pei Wei Asian Diners in Colorado. After…
When developers Eric Kramer and Randy Nichols approached Oak at Fourteenth, Acorn and Brider owners Bryan Dayton and Steve Redzikowski about opening a restaurant in PearlWest, the project at 1023 Walnut Street that sits on the old site of the Daily Camera building, Dayton’s first instinct was to pass. Then he…
When the temperature drops into the teens and single digits and snow swirls around in the wind, all we want is a warm blanket and some comforting, home-style food, like soup and a grilled cheese sandwich. Thankfully, Coperta — named after the Italian word for blanket — has you covered…
Las Delicias has been a Denver institution since the Torres family opened its first Mexican restaurant at 439 East 19th Avenue in 1976. But the place closed sooner than expected in September 2015, ahead of a scheduled remodel. Things didn’t look promising for the return of the neighborhood green chile…
When Elise Wiggins stepped away from the burners at Panzano — the acclaimed restaurant in the Kimpton Hotel Monaco Denver that she’d overseen for twelve years after taking over for Jennifer Jasinski — the search was on for a chef who could build on her legacy. Enter heavy hitter Patrick…
After nearly a year since Mission Yogurt Inc. founder Rod Tafoya, who runs a stable of food concessions at Denver International Airport, purchased the restaurant space that was previously Session Kitchen, Que Bueno Suerte is ready for its public debut on Sunday, December 11. The newest eatery to arrive on Old…
Denver has no shortage of traditional Asian eateries, from the longstanding strip of Vietnamese restaurants along Federal Boulevard to the more recent explosion of Korean barbecue places in Aurora. There’s a sushi bar in nearly every suburban strip mall, even if full-fledged Japanese menus are much harder to find. And…
No. 37: Smoked Lamb Shank at Roaming Buffalo Bar-B-Que Coy and Rachael Webb have been putting a little Colorado into traditional smokehouse barbecue since opening in early 2015. That means lamb and bison — as well as the occasional elk sausage special — in addition to more the more typical…
Corvus Coffee Roasters is spreading the coffee love down south as the Broadway coffee house opened the doors to its second location over the weekend. Located at 4925 South Newport Street (just off I-25 and East Belleview Avenue), the Denver roaster is now giving DTC coffee lovers easier access to the highly…
Sometimes it takes just one bite to change your future. As a rule, Greg Jones did not eat Cajun food outside the borders of Louisiana. So when his son dragged him “kicking and screaming” to The Lost Cajun in Breckenridge, this born-and-bred Louisianan was skeptical. Cajun food in a ski…
On the night before Thanksgiving, the Cherry Cricket — the iconic, seventy-year-old burger joint in Cherry Creek — suffered a kitchen fire that shuttered the Cricket. And while the current owner, Breckenridge-Wynkoop Holdings, was already in the process of turning Breck on Blake, a former brewpub at 2200 Blake Street, into…
The thrill of so many exciting restaurant openings — and there were plenty this fall — can be tempered by news that one of our favorites didn’t make it. But things other than bad food or bad business can doom an eatery. A kitchen fire shuttered the Cherry Cricket —…
This week we chomped our way through more than our share of fried chicken, as Gretchen Kurtz’s mouthwatering description of the bird at Steuben’s Arvada, which she reviewed this week, prompted us to update our list of the ten best fried chicken joints in town. Chicken also tempted us through…
This week our Beer Man, Jonathan Shikes, let us know that Cheluna Brewing would be holding a soft opening on Thursday, December 1, at the mammoth Stanley Marketplace. We headed over for a beer to check out the new brewery, which sports a Oaxacan theme and flavors, thanks to owners Javier…
Anticipation for the opening of Mizu Izakaya has been building over the last several months, in part because of the new restaurant’s prominent location — right at the corner of 16th and Boulder streets in the heart of LoHi — and in part because of the construction delays that have…
The restaurant space at 472 South Federal Boulevard that has served as home to two Vietnamese-Cajun eateries over the past several year, first Red Claw and then Vietnam Bay, is now a coffeehouse and karaoke bar called Giot Dang Cafe. The name translates to “bitter drops” in English, a reference…
Restaurant openings in November started out slow but then came on strong, far outpacing the closings. But there were a few surprise shutterings, including the Cherry Cricket and the Inventing Room, both of which plan to reopen in 2017. Here’s our complete list of restaurant and bar openings and closing…
