The northeast corner of Alameda Avenue and Downing street has been home to a string of Asian restaurants since the late 1990s. What originally opened as Stir Crazy quickly changed names to the Crazy Asian Cafe, which survived until 2012, when new owners took over and gave it the name…
A new concept in beverage service kicks off tonight when First Draft will unveil its self-service beer system in RiNo. First Draft opens at 5 p.m. today with a wall of forty tap handles and an electronic system built by iPourIt that allows customers to pour their own beers (measured down to…
Saint Louis native Jason Ganahl has barbecue sauce running through his veins. After moving to Colorado, he missed the smokehouse meats of his hometown and decided to perfect his own recipes by entering the competitive barbecue circuit more than five years ago. since then, as a member of the Rocky…
Historic Denver has weighed in on plans for a new, mixed-use, eight-story project that would be built on the 1.5 acre site of the current Tavern Uptown, at 538 East 17th Avenue, complete with a brand-new Tavern occupying the same ground-floor corner of the block — but with a rooftop…
Roaming Buffalo Bar-B-Que opened this past winter, bringing some heat to the city’s often disappointing barbecue scene. Gretchen Kurtz found a few smoking’ dishes when she recently reviewed Roaming Buffalo Bar-B-Que. But where there’s smoke, there’s ire — and readers are once again debating the merits of barbecue in Denver, including the…
No. 32: Chicken Gizzards at Catfish King Admittedly, chicken gizzards aren’t everyone’s idea of a pleasing appetizer. You don’t want to even think about what part of a chicken the gizzard is (mostly muscle, it’s the organ that helps the chicken grind up food for digestion, in case you were…
Last week Chris Utterback rounded up the town’s Ten Best Happy Hour Dishes, a roster that ranged from the mussels at Ophelia’s to the deviled eggs at Steuben’s. But we missed a major item, says Sara: For happy hour I have always enjoyed booze. Timeless classic. What happy hours around…
Table Top opened just over a year ago in a sleepy shopping center at East 23rd Avenue and Oneida Street. With a neighborhood hungry for local restaurants, a spacious patio/beer garden and a menu aimed at drawing attention without approaching cleverness, the eatery owned by a group of area residents…
The best barbecue comes at the hands of pit masters, right? Not necessarily. Long before Coy Webb opened Roaming Buffalo Bar-B-Que with his wife, Rachael, he cut his chops as a chef, graduating from the Cordon Bleu in Scottsdale and working in professional kitchens for nearly two decades. Why would…
WaterCourse Foods has experienced many big changes since opening seventeen years ago, moving from 13th to 17th Avenue among them, but this year marks the biggest — if least noticeable to casual observers. Shortly after the restaurant celebrated one year as a fully vegan establishment in April, founder and owner Dan…
Charcoal opened in 2011 in the Golden Triangle with a unique concept and menu: Scandinavian accents from chef Patrik Landberg, combined with coal-fired cooking over a custom-made Japanese bincho grill. While Charcoal is only four years old, the menu has evolved to fit the dining desires of the neighborhood and…
This isn’t a barbecue town. But while we may not have a nationally recognized style, Denver diners have strong opinions about the ’cue they do find here. Carolina transplants grumble about ketchupy sauces. Uprooted Texans mutter about any kind of sauce, ketchupy or otherwise, poured over their brisket. Barbecue lovers…
Since Brian Coppom took over as director of the Boulder County Farmers’ Market toward the end of last year, he has put a lot of thought into ways of empowering local farmers and increasing the overall viability of the market. His influence was evident almost from the moment he took…
The venerable Briarwood Inn in Golden hired a new chef in May. But rather than hire an industry veteran to turn out prime rib and buffet dinners for weddings, owner Lisa Paterson — who purchased the property from her father’s estate after he passed away several years ago — decided…
At Cho77, which Gretchen Kurtz just reviewed, she found many good dishes — but uneven service. Calling her assessment “dead on,” one reader advised that diners sit at the bar, the better to avoid the surly servers. (The bar also puts you closer to those good drinks.) But Cho77 isn’t…
If you know where to look, Jamaican cuisine lurks on various menus around Denver. The Welton Street Cafe has a selection of the Jamaican meat pies called patties along with its soul food offerings, and the Caribbean Bakery on East Colfax Avenue offers specialties from Jamaica and Trinidad. But for a…
The corner joint that was most recently 1301 Santa Fe Tavern & Grill — and the Hoffbrau for years before that — has reopened closing almost exactly a year ago. There wasn’t much evidence of activity other than a few neon signs in the windows, but now there’s a banner…
Sometimes, you just want to get dolled up and splurge for brunch. And the place to do that? Panzano, located in the swanky Hotel Monaco downtown. This timeless Italian rendezvous has been garnering accolades a Mile High since opening more than fifteen years ago. And like a fine wine, this…
The vision of Rebel Restaurant owners Bo Porytko and Dan Lasiy is finally a reality. The reinvention of the longtime dive bar on Brighton Boulevard and 38th Street began last March on Kickstarter as a plan for a restaurant inside Black Shirt Brewing and and came to fruition on Thursday in the RiNo…
All last week Mark Antonation profiled the seven eating options at Avanti Food & Beverage, the new hipster food court that opened last Monday at 32nd Pecos Street in the LoHi neighborhood. But parking was already tough in the hot dining destination, and tempers got hot, too, when the city suddenly…
Street food ruled this week as the Avanti Food & Beverage collective opened its food hall on Monday and restaurant critic Gretchen Kurtz dug her chopsticks into the Southeast Asian bowls and stir-fries at Cho77. Mark Antonation got in on the action, too, with bites of curry and crispy anchovies…
Ramen is king noodle in Denver right now, but chefs Johnny DePierro and Michael Nevarez are out to dethrone the popular Japanese dish with udon — which they’re serving several different ways at MiJo inside Avanti Food & Beverage. The two have been mastering their Asian chops at Frank Bonanno’s…
