This week’s Arctic blast and snow flurries shoved aside our Indian summer in a hurry. But fall’s close doesn’t have to mean the end of Denver’s sunny patio time. So that you’re not relegated to the indoors all winter, we compiled a list of wintry patios — some enclosed, some…
Bobby Stuckey, co-owner of Boulder’s Frasca Food and Wine, is a certified Master Sommelier, one of the most difficult professional certifications to earn in any line of work. Since the first Master Sommelier examination was held in 1969, only 135 North Americans have passed. Stuckey’s influence on the renowned restaurant’s…
Last week Mark Antonation compared a barbacoa Chipotle burrito to a barbacoa Qdoba burrito — and found that despite Qdoba’s new, no-charge-for-extras policy, the Chipotle burrito was a better deal. When we shared the experiment on our news blog yesterday, more than a hundred readers weighed in, serving up opinions…
Edgewater, with a population of just over 5,200, may have the highest ratio of Thai restaurants per capita of any spot in Colorado. Fans of Thai cuisine in the metro area are already familiar with the vibrant flavors and tongue-melting heat of U.S. Thai, but newcomer Thailicious, open less than…
Bites of China opened recently in a tidy Aurora shopping center on East Alameda Avenue, where residents are no strangers to an array of ethnic eating options. Photographer Danielle Lirette stopped in to see what was cooking, and found that what looks like a standard counter-service Chinese eatery has a…
With several breweries scheduled to open in Denver this month, 2014 is shaping up as a record-breaking year for new craft-beer enterprises. At least a dozen breweries have opened since January, and by the end of the year there could be close to fifty breweries operating within Denver city limits…
Fried Chicken from the Post Brewing Co. 105 West Emma Street, Lafayette 303-593-2066 Fried chicken should be easy. After all, there are only two things to get right: the chicken and the breading. But the truth is, fried chicken is one of the easiest dishes for a restaurant to get…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed the District and thought the best thing on the menu was the deep-fried peanut butter sandwich. Mark Antonation talked to Chris Thompson, executive chef of the Nickel in the Hotel Teatro, about his new job overseeing food service for an entire hotel…
Yak & Yeti is familiar to those with a thirst for craft beer and a hunger for Nepalese and Indian food. The beers, like the award-winning Chai Milk Stout, show up at tap rooms around town, while the Tibetan and Nepalese specialties are rare enough in the metro area that…
Eating local doesn’t get sweeter than a visit to Hammond’s Candies, Denver’s 94-year-old candy factory, now immortalized in a History Press book, “Hammond’s Candies: History Handmade in Denver.” See also: Best Bargain Sweets Denver 2011 – The Oops Room…
Pete Turner has made his decision: The Illegal Pete’s name will be on the new store, his seventh location, when it opens in Fort Collins next week. He posted a lengthy explanation of his rationale on illegalpetes.com late Wednesday afternoon — to the dismay of critics and the rejoicing of…
It doesn’t take a late-night raid of leftover Halloween candy to make you feel like a kid again. At the District, which I review this week, you can relive your lunchbox days with a better peanut-butter-and-jelly than Mom ever packed. This Uptown eatery serves the sandwich beer-battered and fried, with…
Denverites certainly aren’t lacking when it comes to fast-casual options. In fact, our city has spawned chains ranging from Chipotle to Smashburger, which have gone not just national but international. Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, a quick Mediterreanean concept founded by Alon Mor seven years ago, has brought falafel, pita, grilled meats…
Dunkin’ Donuts returned to the Denver area over the past year, opening stores from Denver International Airport to Edgewater, Boulder to Colorado Springs. Fans of the chain on the East Coast have welcomed Dunkin’ with open arms (and mouths, and wallets), while others just wish they’d go home. Here’s just…
Qdoba recently announced that its restaurants would no longer be charging for add-on items like guacamole, fajita vegetables and queso — both the three-cheese queso and the queso diablo. The new, simplified pricing structure features two price points based on the protein order: one for vegetables, ground beef and chicken,…
On the morning after Halloween, my friends and I had three requirements for brunch: somewhere that served alcohol (in quantity), somewhere with elevated dishes but where we could get away with wearing yoga pants and last night’s makeup, and somewhere we could walk right in with no wait at whatever…
When restaurateur Alex Gurevich opened Ay Caramba! in Cherry Creek North in early 2013, it was a bit of surprise, considering that most of Denver’s tortas joints are of the hole-in-the-wall variety in lower-rent neighborhoods. There was much speculation as to whether Creekers would even know what a torta was,…
The Nickel 1100 14th Street 720-889-2128 thenickeldenver.com Chris Thompson moved with his mother from Long Beach, California, to Telluride when he was a kid, and quickly adapted to mountain-town life. He’d always had a love of the outdoors, engendered by camping, hiking and fishing trips with his dad in the…
Row 14 was ambitious — perhaps too ambitious for its location right across from the Colorado Convention Center, where business was either feast or famine, depending on which group had been booked into the facility. When visitors are eager to try Bubba Gump’s, you know a more upscale restaurant is…
The District 1320 East 17th Avenue 303-813-6688 I don’t live in the district that is home to The District, the historic area in Uptown that inspired the restaurant’s name. But I drive by often, so it’s been easy to keep tabs on the place. At the start of summer, I…
The Village Cork opened its doors to customers last night for the first time in four months, when the tiny Platt Park wine bar and bistro closed for a remodel. The space is still charming and rustic, but now there’s a little more space — for the cooks as well…
The Nacho Tuna Maki at new Boulder fast-casual Japanese eatery Motomaki is almost as big as a Chipotle burrito (and even comes wrapped in foil); it has the word “nacho” in the name, which generally indicates good things to come; and it seems somehow healthy and audacious at the same…
