On Sunday, September 20, Westword will host DISH, its twenty-first annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, in Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, where more than forty favorite restaurants of Westword food writers and readers will be sampling delectable dishes. Here’s what Cracovia Polish-American Restaurant & Bar will be…
Welcome back, Ototo. The space at 1501 South Pearl Street that debuted five years ago as Ototo Food and Wine Bar is returning as a new incarnation of Ototo, with an intimate dining room and the same signature raw bar and sashimi of the Den Corner. For the next three weeks,…
Baum has gone through several incarnations since it first opened on Capitol Hill as a bakery specializing in Japanese baum cakes. It morphed into a bakery/cafe, then a sushi bar/bakery, then back to a bakery/cafe. But the current incarnation of Baum will close at 6 p.m. today, and the fiery…
KRUPS, the coffee- and espresso-machine maker, just launched the KRUPS Best Brew Awards 2015, the company’s fifth annual competition to find the best coffee shops in select cities across the country — and for the first time, Denver is included on that list. Through September 29 (National Coffee Day), you…
School may have started, but at least there’s recess, and Recess Beer Garden — which includes a restaurant, a 38-foot bar and a huge, 4,000-square-foot beer garden — opens this weekend at 2715 17th Street in a former book-binding warehouse in Lower Highland. Recess will be open from 10 a.m…
No. 18: Pink Lady Roll at Sushi Sasa Don your leather pants and pink coat and get ready for a superb ride of flavor when you order the Pink Lady Roll at Sushi Sasa. It sings with rich omega-three and well-balanced heat, and has a pleasing texture thanks to the…
The sad news spread quickly yesterday: After 34 years, Robert Tournier is retiring, and closing Le Central, “the affordable French restaurant” he opened at Eighth and Lincoln back in 1980 and has been running ever since. Says Joseph: The neighborhood is losing a gem. Really sad to see this go. Adds…
Like the exquisite, twenty-layered baum cakes that have been spinning inside its imported rotisserie oven – affectionately dubbed the Red Dragon — the past few years, Glaze is a restaurant with many strata. It opened as a bakery, became a joint sushi bar-bakery for a brief period, then earlier this…
No. 19: Mongolian BBQ Duck Buns at Linger Though Linger is housed in what used to be part of the Olinger Mortuary, these Mongolian BBQ duck buns are anything but deadly. In fact, you might consider them life-savers, especially if you indulge in the $5 order available found during happy…
Although New Belgium has long made 3.2 beer for festivals, the brewery will now be selling 3.2 Fat Tire — which means 4 percent alcohol by volume, or 3.2 percent alcohol by weight — in cans and bottles in order to enter states like Utah, with specific liquor requirements. As a byproduct…
Eating dessert after a bowl of ramen is like ordering a brownie fudge sundae after downing a milkshake. It’s excess with a capital E, a feat best left to competitive eaters who swallow 62 hot dogs while the rest of us gawk in horror. That’s because these famously rich Japanese…
An affordable French restaurant? Mais ouis. Le Central charmed Denver from the moment that Robert Tournier opened his restaurant at Eighth and Lincoln — and for the next 34 years, Le Central stayed true to its goal of serving good, inexpensive French fare in surroundings as accessible as the price…
Last week Mark Antonation visited the Chowder Room at 560 South Broadway, to talk with owners Matt and Carrie Stein about how two New Yorkers (and former high-school sweethearts) wound up in landlocked Denver with a seafood restaurant. And a seafood restaurant that local diners are definitely sweet on, judging by this…
Euro Crepes just opened at 1842 South Broadway, and the restaurant held a grand opening bash filled with crepes, sounds, fashion…and crepes this past Sunday, with griddles working full time both inside and outside the eatery. We sent photographer Danielle Lirette to the party, and she brought back this taste…
No. 20: Colorado Striped Bass Crudo at Beatrice & Woodsley When you think about eating fish in land-locked Denver, you may not think about eating local fish — especially not raw, local fish. One bite of chef Travis Messervey’s Colorado striped bass crudo at Beatrice & Woodsley, though, and all…
Kyle Foster, chef de cuisine of Colt & Gray, has taken on a new challenge at Rebel Restaurant, which opened earlier this summer in RiNo. While he’s still in charge of the charcuterie program at Colt & Gray, he approached Rebel owners Dan Lasiy and Bo Porytko asking for more culinary…
Will and Coral Frischkorn opened Cured in 2011 with two ideas in mind for their business. The first was that “we wanted a place with what we eat for dinner six nights a week,” says Will. The second was simply this: “Passion.” Four years later, those two ideas have produced…
Bars and restaurants have been rushing to open their doors before the end of summer, the better to snag as much fall business as possible in the busy weeks leading up to the holidays. September looks to be particularly busy, but plenty of places got their doors open, or reopened,…
On Friday Pullman Rail Journeys made its first stop in Denver at Union Station, bringing three restored vintage passenger cars full of riders from Chicago. But it’s not only the cars that are a throwback to the 1940s and 1950s, when trains were a common mode of transportation: The menus speak…
There’s a lot of action these days on Capitol Hill, with much of it centering on East 13th Avenue and Pearl Street, which is about to see three new bars. One of them is Hudson Hill, a concept brought to Denver by Jake Soffes, a New York native who moved…
In a Denver dining scene full of rotating doors, mere survival is an accomplishment — and not only surviving, but thriving for thirty-plus years is a real accomplishment. One of the OG diners in the city, Racines is the go-to place for a predictably solid brunch, where you can reminisce…
South Parker Road, especially the stretch in east Denver before it crosses into Aurora, isn’t exactly one of the city’s focal points for Mexican eateries. If you want to find the kind of restaurant density it takes to do a proper taqueria crawl (you know what I mean: at least…
