You may not know it, but there’s a culinary revolution unfolding right under our noses. Right now, a man in a black chef’s coat and a green bandanna is standing in the courtyard of the World Trade Center at 16th and Court streets, handing packages to customers who’ve placed an…
While we especially love a greasy mess of eggs, green chile and chorizo wrapped in a tortilla when we’re combating the effects of a night of bad decisions, we’ll brake for breakfast burritos in this town any day of the week. And while it’s hard to mess up a breakfast…
It’s been the summer of frozen yogurt, and we’ve seen several shops open around town, most of which are the self-serve pay-by-the-ounce variety that offer dozens of flavors of yogurt plus a melange of toppings. Nova Yogurt is just that kind of shop, and it opened a couple of weeks…
Tamales Moreno is housed in a dilapidated yellow building on the corner of Sheridan and Mississippi on a piece of real estate directly across the street from a cleaner — and busier — Tamale Kitchen. But as I discovered when visiting the place for this week’s review, skipping Tamales Moreno…
That signless, faceless University Boulevard restaurant space was, until recently, occupied by an outpost of the Spicy Pickle, a Denver-based chain of sandwich shops that first opened in 1999 and has since expanded across the state and the country. But this University of Denver location has shuttered, and it’s not…
As I’ve eaten my way through restaurants, taquerias and parking lots where ladies open their coolers, I’ve been frequently burned in my search for the perfect corn-husk package…
In the nearly two decades since it first debuted on East Evans Avenue in Denver, Chipotle has run dozens of successful and creative advertising campaigns, reinventing radio spots, billboards and the very idea of word-of-mouth marketing. Now the company has made a movie — a very short movie — in…
We’re fairly short on New York-style delis in the Mile High City, and if your inclination was to head downtown to Mendelson’s Deli every time you were craving a bite of the Big Apple, you’re going to have to find an alternative…
During my many trips to Tamales Moreno, I couldn’t help but wonder about all the crowds packing into Tamale Kitchen right across the street. What was I missing? One day last week, I decided to find out. It was lunchtime, and the boxy building was, as usual, packed with people:…
Wait, Laura, which one is it?” There were two tamale joints at the intersection of Mississippi and Sheridan. Making a hopeful guess, Rob pulled into the full parking lot of the one on the right, a trim building with a clean facade. A smiling family was wandering up to the…
For decades, Gregg Pike has served breakfast, lunch and dinner to diners, drinkers and pool players at his joint on East Colfax in Aurora: Wolf’s Restaurant & Lounge. But now he’s calling it quits. Pike lost his lease on the building, and yesterday was Wolf’s last day. When the restaurant…
Nothing on the regular menu of the Kitchen [Next Door] climbs above $10. But if you want to eat and drink for really cheap at this new, pub-like Boulder spot, the best time to stop by is during the newly introduced Community Hour, when a special menu of snacks and…
When chef/owner Justin Cucci decided to follow the success of Root Down with a makeover of the old Olinger mortuary, the result was a breathtaking restaurant space, with decor in both the dining room and the second-floor bar that’s both gorgeous and amusing, full of subtle (and not-so-subtle) references to…
After exploring the reinvented hamburgers at both Crave and Highland Tap and Burger for this week’s reviews, I decided to belly up to the bar at the Keg in LoDo before a concert…
Denver could certainly use a few more good barbecue options, and we may get one more soon: One Republic’s Ryan Tedder has just become a franchisee of New York-based Southern Hospitality BBQ, which dishes up Memphis-style ‘cue. And Denver, where the singer is based, is on his list of cities…
“The staff wanted to make a whiskey,” explains Eric Dutton, bar manager at Vesta Dipping Grill. “It’s what we drink.” Dutton discussed that very sentiment with Todd Leopold of Leopold Brothers, and a casual desire soon turned into a full-scale restaurant project: Leopold invited the staff down to the distillery…
Instead of making food to pair with a specific beer, why not make a beer that pairs with a specific food? That was a question Peter Reinhart posed when he was filming Boulder’s Pizzeria Basta for Pizza Quest, his pizza blog. Patrick Rue, master brewer at The Bruery, happened to…
Boulder seems close to saturated with Italian restaurants, but someone in the market thinks there’s room for another entrant: a new eatery called Tossa is currently being built in the Arapahoe Village Shopping Center. The 56-seat space has just had its building permits approved and has applied for a hotel-restaurant…
This week’s review took me to Castle Rock, where Crave Real Burgers has reinterpreted the hamburger, using the ground beef patty as the basis for a variety of massive — and unique — creations. Here, to go with the review, is a little foodography. For more photos of Crave, check…
The recent Denver Burger Battle was more than just a sandwich showdown: The event was a snapshot of just how much the burger has evolved since its classic incarnation — ground-beef patty on a bun — became ubiquitous in the United States…
John Platt has owned and operated Q’s Restaurant in Boulder’s Hotel Boulderado for nearly two decades, which is about the same amount of time that Philip Shull’s BookEnd Cafe occupied a Pearl Street Mall slot just a few blocks away. After that coffeeshop shuttered a few months ago, the pair…
Last we heard, New Belgium Spoke — a cafe, newsstand and grab-and-go concession that would feature New Belgium beer on Concourse A — was slated to open early this fall, after delays pushed back the date from May. Early fall meant late summer: Laura Coale, spokeswoman for DIA, says the…
