It’s Fat Tuesday, and diners will be letting the good times roll all over town. But Tom’s Home Cookin’, a longtime Southern cooking mainstay in Five Points that was a regular on our list of the Best Southern Food Restaurants in Denver, closed at the end of 2015, and its…
A sign reading “Grind” went up at 300 Fillmore Street in Cherry Creek just a few weeks ago, prompting us to speculate whether the new business would be a coffee shop or a sausage house. A new addition to the sign spelling out “kitchen + watering hole,” combined with a…
Soul food is often misconstrued as fat-heavy comfort food — or food that’s hard on the heart but good for the soul. But Lonni Byrd, chef and co-owner of Love, Peace & Sol Cafe, a new vegan soul-food eatery at the corner of 35th Avenue and Albion Street, has a…
No. 93 Zuppa Pomorodo at Parisi Italian Market & Deli Those who have frequented the eateries of Denver’s northwest neighborhoods for the past few decades will remember when Parisi was nothing more than a simple Italian deli with some of the best sandwiches in town and a few tables in…
Big changes are afoot in northwest Denver. After four decades in the Jefferson Park neighborhood, La Loma will be moving downtown — and its home perched high on West 26th Avenue reportedly replaced by a fifteen-story story with 713 units. And Dickinson Plaza, at West 32nd Avenue and Tejon Street,…
There’s going to be a lot of pizza ordered today in Denver — much of it from Papa John’s, since Peyton Manning bought 21 Denver-area franchises back in 2012 (and since the chain is offering a free pizza tomorrow to anyone who spends at least $15 online with Papa John’s…
Neighborhoods around Denver are changing — and RiNo might be changing the fastest. The area is technically part of Five Points, and picked up the RiNo nickname — short for River North, since this section is bordered by the Platte — a decade ago. Since then, the area has rapidly…
We visited Torchy’s Tacos twice this week: once to give you a look inside the shiny new Texas taqueria and once to check out what kind of Denverite would stand in line for two hours in a snow storm for said tacos — even if they were free. After the Snowtacolypse,…
Here’s a trio of new menus to get you through the day, from hearty new brunch options at Steuben’s to a spiffed-up happy hour and bar menu at Panzano to a completely updated dinner slate at the intimate Black Pearl that looks forward to spring weather. Brunch at Steuben’s 523…
No. 94: Kimchi-Jeon at Seoul BBQ Pancakes for Sunday brunch are a time-honored tradition, but if you find yourself in Aurora looking for a midday meal, a different kind of pancake at Seoul BBQ beckons and could become a new weekend tradition. Once seated at this Havana Street mainstay, you’ll…
After forty years, La Loma is leaving Jefferson Park — but when the current location closes at 2527 West 26th Avenue, the building where La Loma has been since 1981, the restaurant will move to an as-yet-undisclosed location downtown. And in the spring of 2017, the owners plan to open…
In honor of the Year of the Monkey, which starts February 8, Mark Antonation just served up the Eleven Best Chinese Restaurants in Denver, with the number one spot going to the Best Chinese Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2015: JJ Chinese Seafood Restaurant. And Andy agrees with that…
How are property developers increasing the value of urban real estate? They’re scraping single-family homes, restaurants and other small businesses and replacing them with multi-unit dwellings, offices and concrete warrens of retail space. It makes good sense financially, even if it pisses off the preservationists and adds architecture of questionable…
Two Denver Broncos players are getting a little jerky — beef jerky, that is. The world of celebrity endorsements can get very weird (remember when Joe Namath wore pantyhose and Joe DiMaggio shilled for Mr. Coffee?), but this may be the first time that two players on the same team…
Colorado can hold its own when it comes to craft beer, artisan liquors and homemade hot sauces, but now the state is getting noticed for its legit bean-to-bar chocolate. One of the newest companies to enter the grind (well, company might be a stretch) is two-month-old Fortuna Chocolate, comprised of three…
Brrr, it’s cold outside. Wouldn’t you like to get your hands on some nice, warm haggis? That oft-joked about, seldom-eaten national dish of Scotland made a rare Denver appearance at the 16th annual Burns Night dinner put on by the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Capitol Hill to honor the birthday…
From a hillside overlooking downtown Denver, La Loma has been slinging green chile for more than forty decades. That green chile is from a recipe created by grandma Savina Mendoza, and it became the focal point of the modest Mexican restaurant that the Mendoza family opened in 1973 in a…
Despite the brutal wind chill and pelting snow, Denverites were out in full force (some with shooters in hand and some even wearing shorts) last night to welcome the long-awaited Torchy’s Tacos with proper Mile High gusto. More than 4,200 people RSVP’d to #TorchysDoesDenver on the Texas taco chain’s Facebook…
January was a seesaw of openings and closings; with the shuttering of one restaurant came the unveiling of another. While California-based vegan chain Native Foods Cafe closed two of its fast-casual locations (most prominently, the 16th Street Mall store), a cozy, locally owned plant-based joint called the Handy Diner opened…
After 115 years in Denver, Dickinson Plaza is no longer owned by the Dickinson family — and, in fact, the building at West 32nd and Tejon Street will soon be razed for a project that calls for a five-story apartment complex. In the process, nine businesses will lose their homes…
Korean restaurants of all sorts are popping up around town — well, mostly in Aurora, but a new branch of the popular Dae Gee BBQ is set to open soon at 460 Broadway. Korean barbecue joints like Dae Gee are the most common Korean restaurants in Denver — and the…
After the initial sadness of saying goodbye to Tom’s Home Cookin’ when the celebrated Southern lunch counter closed abruptly in December, curiosity took hold: Who would be the next tenant to bring something new to the Five Points neighborhood in a way that would spark appetites and admiration — as…
