The Tavern Hospitality Group launched the latest in its string of bar-and-grill-style eateries yesterday when the Tavern Platt Park opened on Old South Pearl Street. The newest Tavern joins Izakaya Den next door and Fourteen Seventy-Two across the street to make the block one of the city’s prime indoor-outdoor destinations, since each…
The intersection of South Federal Boulevard and West Evans Avenue is only a few blocks from my house, so I drive past Cowbobas Steakhouse and Boba Smoothies nearly every day — often wondering how much longer everyone’s favorite Vietnamese steakhouse can survive. So last night when I saw a cherry…
A big, loud, flamboyant and insanely popular taco shop landed in the Golden Triangle last month. The dazzling sign of Torchy’s Tacos lights up the night like a marquee looming over that other Broadway (the one in New York City), and a line of curious taco-philes stretches from the order…
The sixth location of Lucile’s Creole Cafe, a Southern-comfort institution that got its start in Boulder almost forty years ago, just opened at 999 East Evans Avenue. Since this was the first time the Richards family that owns Lucile’s had taken over a non-restaurant space — most recently, the stand-alone…
In 2008, pig was big — everyone was makin’ bacon. That was the year Cochon 555 kicked of its national parade of pork, not to get more folks eating “the other white meat,” but to prove that there’s more to pork than pallid cuts of flavorless tenderloin. The multi-city tour…
Last summer, the Richards family began work on the sixth outpost of their popular breakfast and lunch kitchen, Lucile’s Creole Cafe, which got its start in Boulder more than 35 years ago. The new Lucile’s is now open at 999 East Evans Avenue, with the same great menu of New…
Weekends are generally a busy time on Federal Boulevard, with parking lots packed at every Vietnamese and Mexican joint on the strip — even the ones with empty dining rooms during the week. But as the sun set on Federal on Sunday night, the lights didn’t come on at Playa…
We’re about to post our Restaurant Roll Call for February, a compendium of all the openings and closings in the metro area over the past month. And while several spots opened, there were also some notable places that threw in the kitchen towel, including the Slotted Spoon, the fast-casual meatball…
The weather’s beautiful, and people all over Denver will be in the parks and on patios today. But what about their pets? While several restaurants — including Racines — have dog-friendly patios, some of town’s most pooch-oriented places have closed over the past year, including the Barker Lounge, which shuttered…
The fate of the Your Choice Colorado — the proposal to allow full-strength beer and wine sales at supermarkets — won’t be decided until November, but the Super Target in Glendale isn’t waiting around. With tough competition from the King Soopers down the street (the only King Soopers in the state…
There’s a new chef at Zengo, and he’s giving the upscale fusion eatery a more Asian bent. Gretchen Kurtz chatted with chef Robert Juan about growing up in Hawaii and cooking Filipino cuisine. Zengo may be moving away from some of its original Mexican flavors, but Mark Antonation moved in…
Bronx native Joseph Gerace has been running East Coast Joe’s food truck with Alli Evans for the past three years, serving lobster rolls, crab cakes and other culinary favorites from the Atlantic seaboard. But when the couple decided to open a second food truck, they took their inspiration from another…
No 91: The Signature Bowl from the Churn & Burn Food Truck So you love barbecue and everything that comes with it: cornbread, some tangy slaw, a drizzle of sauce —and don’t forget the scoop of creamy mac and cheese. But when you’re at a food-truck rally, craft brewery or festival, finding…
How long does a restaurant have to last before its closure sets off a wave of nostalgia? That’s one question that’s emerged from the recent round of bad news, including the imminent loss of the Gypsy House Cafe, which is a dozen years old. But nostalgia over a neighborhood spot closing is…
Medical marijuana’s CBD craze has shown no signs of slowing down, with high-CBD strains and pure-CBD oils in almost every dispensary in Colorado — but where are the CBD edibles? A Denver area couple says they’re ready to fill that void, and they don’t need a dispensary — or even…
Fillmore Street between Second and Third avenues in Cherry Creek will soon undergo a major change, as demolition on a row of retail shops on the east side of the street begins. The replacement will be an eight-story office and retail complex being developed by Schnitzer West. Of course, that…
Neighborhood Peruvian eatery Limón closed at the end of 2015, but owner Alex Gurevich didn’t give up the space. Instead, he and managing partner Larry Lane converted it into a Southern eatery and whiskey bar called Bread-N-Butter, which opened on Tuesday night in Uptown. The biggest changes to the interior are…
We’ve been eating our way through town as we make our choices for the Best of Denver 2016, which will land on March 31. Our hunt for the Best Chinese Restaurant has led us all over the metro area; we outlined some of our finds in our recent list of…
If you’ve dined at the Palm Restaurant, you’ve no doubt noticed the caricatures of guests that adorn the walls throughout the bar and dining rooms — and if you’ve dined at the Palm enough to be a regular, you might have noticed your own caricature among those faces. Now that…
Ian Clark opened BRU Handbuilt Ales & Eats in Boulder in the summer of 2013, bringing his career as a chef and his passion for small-batch brewing together under one roof. But Clark has another passion that has threaded its way through his life in the kitchen, a passion that’s…
The Denver dining scene has seen a spate of closings lately, and the news just keeps coming. Gypsy House Cafe must vacate its space at 1279 Marion Street next month; word is the eclectic neighborhood spot will be replaced by a sushi restaurant — and the trademark mural outside will be…
Hawaii might be an island paradise, but when opportunity came knocking for Robert Juan, he didn’t hesitate to swap the ocean for the mountains. “I miss the sand and the sunrise on the beach,” says Juan, who joined Zengo as chef de cuisine this fall. “But if you have to…
