Whether you call it Antique Row or the Green Mile, the stretch of South Broadway from Mississippi to Evans avenues is seeing a business renaissance fueled in part by the recreational marijuana industry and in part by sky-high rent rates pushing small-business owners toward previously neglected neighborhoods. Mehdi and Crystal…
In honor of Denver Biscuit Company’s new outpost on Tennyson Street, we decided to brave the craziness and hit up the original location on Colfax Avenue. Just as hopping as ever with crowds spilling out all the way into the street, DBC has solidified itself as a Denver brunch staple,…
When Uncle owner Tommy Lee staked a claim on a building at 3500 Larimer Street at the beginning of the year, it got tagged with the temporary moniker Bar Uncle, for lack of an official name. But a new website and Faceboolk page are now up, announcing that when the place opens…
The tickets for the Great American Beer Festival were gone almost as soon as sales started, but there will be plenty of other beery activities around town both before and after the event fills the Colorado Convention Hall from September 24 through 26. Still, some readers wish that locals had a…
When the T-Wa Inn, the first Vietnamese restaurant in Denver, closed on Federal Boulevard last year, I felt empathy for the owners of the place, who right up to the very end provided warm hospitality and a menu equally fluent in the lively flavors of Southeast Asian ingredients and the…
Last week, we reported the sad news that Griff’s Hamburgers would be pulling out of Colorado to focus on its markets in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico. The Arvada location was already dark at that point, but the South Broadway branch was still peddling burgers and fries, even as a…
No. 25: Baked rice with pork chop at Hong Kong Cafe Rice, tomato sauce, a breaded pork chop and a broiled layer of generic orange cheese: Maybe it’s a casserole mom threw together on the weekend from what she had on hand in the kitchen, or something in a Midwestern…
This week Gretchen Kurtz visited bubu Lowry, where she particularly liked the veggie ramen. But the real star was the happy hour she found there, with prices “low enough to also lower expectations for the nibbles we paired with our drinks,” she writes in her bubu Lowry review. But then, she didn’t…
After six months in the making, sisters Vanessa Tuel and Sara Harris and their mom, Robin Harris, opened Revelry Kitchen this morning in the space that was formerly Indulge French Bistro. The quaint, homey spot will serve breakfast and lunch daily from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., with a menu…
The news that Billy’s Gourmet Hot Dogs on East Colfax has closed (the Ballpark and South Broadway locations remain open) didn’t bother one reader — but it did make her think about another hot-dog joint further east on Colfax that has food to die for. Says Anna: Meh… Billy’s kinda sucked, anyway…
Sometimes it seems like you need to eat a small meal before braving the wait list at some brunch establishments around Denver. If your taste buds have ever been treated to brunch at Devil’s Food Bakery & Cookery, you know just how long the wait can be on the weekend,…
No. 26: Xiaolongbao soup dumplings at Shanghai KitchenIn strip malls and shopping centers from the city’s heart to the suburbs, Denver is peppered with Chinese restaurants — but certain dishes are hard to find among the hundreds of plates of kung pao chicken, sweet-and=sour shrimp and beef with broccoli. Other…
The 16th Street Mall is in the news these days. The same day that Patricia Calhoun’s list of ten reasons to love the 16th Street Mall went live, two tourists from California dining at the Rock Bottom Brewery wound up beaten up by a crowd of still unidentified miscreants. But…
If Troy Guard’s combination of Pop Rocks and yellowtail sashimi at TAG hinted that he was a magician, his treatment of TAG|Raw Bar just down Larimer Street confirmed it. One day the subterranean space was TAG|Raw Bar, and then, before we could blink, he’d waved his wand and turned it…
We recently spotted banners hanging from the side of the Valverde Country Club, at 1319 West Alameda Avenue, announcing two conflicting messages: that the kitchen is now open and that the building is for sale. Since the Country Club is not on our regular rotation (we prefer less posh digs…
When Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, restaurateur Justin Cucci’s latest carnival of colors and flavors, opened this past spring at 1215 20th Street, Louise Vigil suddenly started getting phone calls from trendsetters trying to make reservations — before they realized they were dialing the wrong Ophelia’s. Instead of reaching the hip new…
It’s still baseball season, if anyone cares, and baseball season means hot dogs. And while the Billy’s Gourmet Hot Dogs in the Ballpark neighborhood is still going strong thanks in part to fans who continue to pack Coors Field (for completely unknown reasons), the same can’t be said for the…
How sweet it is! Yesterday Lauren Monitz served up the Seven Best Sweet Brunch Dishes in Denver — some of the Mile High City’s top sugar highs. But for sugar lovers, there’s always room for more. Says Jessica: This list is amazing but I am afraid it has a glaring omission:…
Honor Society, chef/restaurateur Justin Brunson’s latest enterprise, opens today at 10:30 a.m. for lunch and dinner on the stretch of 16th Street between Union Station and the Millennium Bridge. The “fast fine” eatery combines counter service with a chef-designed menu to deliver farm-fresh food (from the same sources as Brunson’s…
The Denver Caffeine Crawl poured its way through the city Saturday, hitting up four favorite local roasters who are helping to brew the local craft-coffee scene. Although this was the 36th annual crawl, that scene has been growing fast over the last five years, exploding much like the microbrewery business. …
Restaurateur Alan Zizmor closed Hideaway Kitchen & Bar in Genesee last winter for a makeover, reopening in April with not just a new look, but also a new chef: the young but seasoned Nick Shankland. The chef, who has done time in some of Denver’s top kitchens, quickly installed a…
Habit Doughnut Dispensary and Carbon Beverage Cafe opened on Platte Street this morning, in the former home of longtime cool-kid hangout Paris on the Platte, which closed early this year. While Habit features bright colors and bold street art in a space that falls somewhere between a convenience store and…
