Erik and Shannon Duffy were born and raised in a small Iowa town, and their grandfather raised hogs on the nearby family farm, so when they founded Tender Belly in 2010, they were returning to their roots — even if the brothers called Arizona and Colorado home at the time…
Littleton Taco House — one of only three locations in a homegrown chain that got its start in 1958 — has been closed for weeks since a roof-repair job turned into a major project. The eatery occupies a mid-century modern building that Colorado preservationists want to save — and Mexican…
Llamas are to Peru what longhorn cattle are to Texas (except that Peruvians don’t drive around with llama skulls mounted on the front of their Cadillacs). When you see a llama, whether in a painting of the animals grazing in the highlands above Machu Picchu or a near-life-size stuffed model…
Pastry chef Jessica La Forge has been making desserts in professional kitchens since her first baking job at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs when she was sixteen. Most recently, she was in charge of the ice cream at 5280 Ice Cream, the confectionery arm of 5280 Burger Bar in…
Will Tuggle made the move from executive chef at Stout Street Social to Humboldt recently and has begun adding new dishes to both the lunch and dinner menus while outgoing chef, DJ Nagle, transitions to his new role as executive chef at Blue Island Oyster House, scheduled to open later…
A little bit UK, a little bit kitsch, and a lot a bit boozy, Argyll is your friendly neighborhood gastropub that’s been transported across the pond. The place to brunch with a British twist, grab a traditional English breakfast, enjoy the people watching along 17th Avenue and sip on a…
Even before summer officially started, our great green chile debate of 2015 heated up across the Southwest, with an Albuquerque TV station reporting on the fiery feud and Top Chef winner and Blackbelly Market owner Hosea Rosenberg weighing in. (He comes by his preference for New Mexico’s green chile naturally: He…
Great news for downtown revelers looking for a watering hole during the weekend’s PrideFest activities: The Greedy Hamster has reopened after closing for two days due to a shower of bricks that dislodged from the building’s facade on Monday. While the structure is robed in temporary construction boarding, the Hamster is serving…
Linger is known for an eclectic mix of dishes from all over the world. You can, for example, load up on falafel while your dining partner picks at a bento box. It’s a place for just about any taste preference and the staff is incredibly accommodating to allergies and diet…
Brik on York owner Travis Gee threw open the doors yesterday to welcome customers to his new wine bar and eatery featuring an imported Italian wood-burning oven and a menu designed by executive chef Shoshana Frost. Gee’s approach to designing the space was to honor the building’s history and bones…
Gerald Vevelhymer opened the original Taco House on Federal Boulevard in 1958. Not long afterward —1961, to be exact — a building housing a burger joint went up on Littleton Boulevard. It soon turned into a Taco House franchise and since then, not much has changed. Different owners have come…
Blue Pan Pizza opened last night on West 32nd Avenue, filling its twenty-seat dining room with neighborhood pizza lovers looking to try the Detroit-style pies that owner/chef Jeff Smokevitch has already popularized at his Telluride pizzeria, Brown Dog. Takeout orders also kept the kitchen busy in the new space across…
For more than two decades, Taste of Thailand served up some of the town’s best Thai food from a small storefront in Englewood. But with that building slated for demolition, Noy and Rick Farrell started looking for a new location — and found a great one at the corner of…
The Italian wood-burning oven is fired up and the wine is flowing; Brik on York, Denver’s newest wine bar, opens today at 3:30 pm. on East Colfax Avenue. Owner and sommelier Travis Gee took over the former Tulper’s watch repair shop and converted it into a airy and welcoming space…
Nothing says summer like sangria. Cucina Colore, the Cherry Creek mainstay that I review this week, serves both red and white versions. I’m partial to the white, with cantaloupe, mango, pineapple and papaya that all pack a fruity punch from the brandy, orange curacao and peach schnapps in which they’re…
There was a lot to love at Latke Love, but the Park Hill eatery closed at the end of May 2014. Now it’s getting ready to make a comeback, at a location that has not yet divulged. And when Latke Love does return this summer, it will not only have…
The Art Hotel opened yesterday on Broadway in the Golden Triangle, on the same block as the Hamilton wing of the Denver Art Museum and the Clyfford Still Museum. The hotel’s restaurant, Fire, is now open too, featuring a menu from executive chef Chris Jakubiec (most recently of Plume, inside…
Dough expert Jeff Smokevitch of Blue Pan Pizza recently earned high honors for a gluten-free pizza at the World Pizza Championship in Parma, Italy, where he competed with scores of other pizza pros from around the globe. It turns out that the dough for the pizza that helped him win…
The comments have been coming fast and furious — mostly furious — since we posted our list of the ten best green chiles in Denver two weeks ago. Readers argued over what we’d included on the list — one called it “yuppie bullshit” — and what we hadn’t: Where was…
Cucina Colore has had an enviable run. As other restaurants in Cherry Creek North have come and gone, this beloved Italian eatery, with its big windows and landscaped patios, has kept cooking for more than twenty years. Founded by chef-owner Venanzio Momo, who once owned a coterie of Colore-branded outfits,…
When the Englewood building in which Noy and Rick Farrell had opened Taste of Thailand in 1994 was scheduled for demolition, rather than throw in the towel, they decided to pack up the kitchen and find a new home. After several months of construction and a brief closure (although the…
Brik on York’s Shoshana Frost is training the staff on the Acunto Mario Classico wood-fired oven that was shipped from Italy, then installed and put through an eight-day curing process after a month at sea. Frost is no stranger to Acunto ovens; this handmade brick model will be the centerpiece…
