Big dinner plates are risky business these days; modern diners are looking for other options that won’t put a hole in their pocketbooks. Lunch is a great way to experience a chef’s expertise on the cheap, so we’ve got a new one for you on this week’s Watch List. There’s…
Central Bistro and Bar, the bustling urban eatery that has helped anchor the LoHi dining scene since opening in 2102, will serve its last customers this weekend before closing for three weeks to convert to a new concept from current owner Isiah Salazar and chef Jesse Vega. The two will…
Denver was definitely ready for the arrival of Detroit-style pies when Blue Pan Pizza opened at 3930 West 32nd Avenue in the summer of 2015. The tiny shop has been hopping since day one, and business partners Jeff Smokevitch and Giles Flanagin knew almost immediately that there was enough demand for…
Glazed & Confuzed has opened the doors of its new doughnut digs inside the Stanley Marketplace at 2501 Dallas Street in Aurora, where it will be open daily from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., only a month after leaving its original location on Leetsdale Drive. Owner Josh Schwab promises to serve his customers the same…
Saucy Bombay, the fast-casual Indian eatery from Bombay Clay Oven owners Rohini and Marshall Miranda, opens today at 2600 East Colfax Avenue on a stretch ripe for new lunch and dinner options. Saucy Bombay will begin serving Indian cuisine today at 10:45 a.m., right across the street from East High School…
Colorado has a new liquid asset. A bottled water company based in RiNo is running an all-Colorado operation, from the source to the store. “There are other Colorado bottled water companies, but they are not truly native-owned,” says Dan Rogers, a salesman at Colorado STRAIGHT UP!, which is owned by Colorado Springs-based MSP, Inc.
Restaurateur Brian Rossi is expanding the footprint of his Mexican food-and-drink business at the corner of South Broadway and Louisiana Avenue. With Adelitas Cocina y Cantina going strong and the newer Palenque Mezcaleria earning admiration for its mezcal and tequila list, Rossi is turning the duo into a trio with the…
Chef Luke Bergman of Concourse Restaurant Moderne chats about his macrobiotic-vegan upbringing, how some of New York City’s most prolific chefs coached him to victory in a prestigious global competition, and why he was ready to trade the Big Apple and South Florida for Colorado living.
Tex-Mex gets thrown around frequently as a general descriptor of Mexican food that doesn’t fit people’s notions of “authentic,” but there’s a long tradition of Mexican cooks making great food in Texas, dating back long before the Lone Star State gained admission into the United States. What that translates to…
Trattoria Stella on West 32nd Avenue has been serving up a unique style of Italian cooking since 1999, and its younger sibling on East Colfax Avenue, which original opened as Cafe Star, has been doing the same for nearly ten years, adopting the Trattoria Stella name and style in 2008…
The first Chipotle opened in 1993 at 1644 East Evans in Denver and eventually spawned a company that today oversees more than 2,300 locations — and counting — around the world. It also inspired countless copycats and hungry entrepreneurs to rush into what would soon be dubbed the “fast-casual” segment of the restaurant industry, radically reshaping how Americans eat in the process.
Charcoal Bistro, a new American bistro that opened in fall 2016 on South Gaylord Street, seems to be straddling two worlds: not quite casual enough to draw in the hordes of socializing neighbors, not quite polished enough for special occasions.
Señor Bear, located in the space formerly occupied by Jezebel’s Southern Bistro at 3301 Tejon Street, is finally ready to open and will debut this Friday, June 9, after a week of soft-opening nights. The newest restaurant from Juan Padro and Katie O’Shea-Padro will bring the flavors of multiple Latin American cuisines…
Brunch is Denver’s favorite meal, with long lines at the most popular joints, and green chile more common than ketchup. But one reader thinks brunch crowds are a one-world problem.
We recently brought you our list of the twenty hottest restaurants to open so far in 2017 — and we’re quite certain you’ve worked your way through those and are looking for something even fresher. We’re looking ahead for what’s coming soon, so here are ten openings that have us on…
This was a slow week for restaurant openings, but overall the pace for May picked up speed compared to the rest of 2017 so far. Not as fast as the sale of doughnuts in Aurora, though. Doughnut lovers took advantage of National Doughnut day today and completely bought out the…
If you’re a jazz fan in Denver, you probably spent some time at Dazzle, where live music kept the Golden Triangle and Capitol Hill neighborhoods swinging for nearly twenty years. But the hip hangout closed in May, leaving a void in the scene — that is, until last night, when…
The corner restaurant spaces at 15th and Arapahoe streets downtown seem to have revolving doors — at least when it comes to the establishments serving food. Less than a year has passed since Cool River Cafe moved in at 1480 Arapahoe Street, while III Forks Steakhouse moved in next door…
Riff Roasters Coffee wants to teach you the right way to drink your coffee: slurping it, in the name of science. Generally, it’s considered rude to slurp your drinks or food — but according to Riff, co-founders and owners Dave Lash and Matt Schaefer, who actually encourage the practice. In…
A couple of weeks ago, we noticed that the space at 1134 Broadway bore new signs announcing that Element Kitchen & Cocktail would soon be opening in what was once part of the City Hall space. A few clues on the company’s Facebook page indicated that Dallas chef/restaurateur John Tesar…
Jeff Bolton grew up in Arvada, in a time when “downtown Denver was not a place that you went,” he recalls. Now he’s running the kitchen at Kachina, Sage Restaurant Group’s restaurant in the Maven hotel downtown.
JJ Chinese Seafood, at 2500 West Alameda Avenue, was once a go-to restaurant for Denver’s off-duty chefs, a status it earned with its adventurous Cantonese menu, live seafood and relatively late hours that allowed many in the service industry to slip in for a meal before its midnight closing. But…
