Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of Highland Tap and Burger — but you’ll have to wait until October 5 to really celebrate. Although the party was originally scheduled for September 17, the start of football season and events booked during the Great American Beer Festival with the likes of Left…

Head to any Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard store and you’ll find four items showcasing green chile. And not just any green chile, but green chile from Santiago’s, now featured on Good Times’s chile cheese fries, cheeseburger burrito, chicken drunken burrito and green chile slider. The Green Chile Lover’s…

Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, the Denver-born fast-casual chain, is opening its first location in Fort Collins today. This is the company’s thirteenth store, with another slated to open in Colorado Springs later in the month. Come 2012, Garbanzo hopes to award its first franchises and expand outside of Colorado. Currently, the…

In June, GrowHaus won Maxwell House’s Drops of Good contest and $50,000, which it’s using to build a state-of-the-art hydroponic farm and create a market space. Yesterday, that space was celebrated with a group of volunteers, GrowHaus board members, Maxwell House and Rebuilding Together reps (with marquee volunteer Bronco Mark…

“Wanting more time to work out the kinks,” Cebiche Authentic Peruvian Dining will be sticking to its abbreviated menu for a little longer than expected, says Colleen Hutt, manager and wife of owner Sergio Iraola. Initially, this Cebiche — which is not to be confused with the Cebiche on West…

Eden is the latest revamp of the capacious space at 3090 Downing Street that previously held Swallows, Blackberries Bar and Tosh’s Hacienda, among others. Opened by the folks behind Tracks, who now own the building, Eden is designed as a lesbian bar. “We appreciate the spectrum, of course,” says general…

Cebiche, the Peruvian restaurant that opened last Saturday at 7000 West 38th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, does not have the same ownership as the Peruvian restaurant also named Cebiche that reopened on West 32nd Avenue a few months ago. Sergio Iraola, the chef/owner of the West 38th Avenue Cebiche, once…

The USA Pro Cycling Challenge, formerly (and briefly) known as the Quiznos Pro Challenge, kicked off Monday in Colorado Springs and comes to Denver on the race’s final leg Sunday. The finish line will be on Broadway next to the State Capitol, but the last leg of the route will…

You’re at a restaurant. The menu is big and overwhelming, and all you want to know is, “What’s good?” Forkly, a free iPhone app that launched today, wants to answer that question — as well as the even more elusive “What will I like?” “Martin and I like to build…

Michel Escoffier, great-grandson of the high priest of French cooking, Auguste Escoffier, arrived in Boulder this week to meet students at the newly renamed Culinary School of the Rockies. Auguste Escoffier, the former chef at the Savoy and Carlton hotels in London, has been called “the king of chefs and…

Colorado creameries Fruition Farms Dairy and Creamery, Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy and Avalanche Cheese Company took home prizes from the American Cheese Society’s annual competition held last weekend in, of all places, Montreal, Canada. With 1,676 cheeses and other dairy-derived products (like butter and yogurt) entered into more than 100…

Real “Thai spicy.” That’s what owner and Chiang Mai native Joy Phom promises at Thai Monkey Club, opening on Saturday at 102 South Broadway, in the Baker neighborhood. To celebrate (and bring more folks through the door), she’s offering a buy-one-get-one-free special up to $10 that’s applicable to anything on…