ABC’s hit TV show Shark Tank pits inventors and small-business hopefuls against one another to battle for investment dollars in front of a panel of ruthless judges. Here in Colorado, the concept has been translated into something a little less, well, cutthroat. The Metro Denver Small Business Development Center is calling…
The combination of the words “blood” and “sausage” isn’t exactly an appetite stimulant for most Americans — but call blood sausage morcilla, as Spanish speakers do, or kiszka, for Polish speakers, and you have a less threatening moniker that refers to something most cultures make in various forms. Leña on Broadway,…
This week has been a melancholy one for Denver’s restaurant scene, as both favorite old-timer Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe and bold youngster Lower48 Kitchen announced they would be closing up shop in Lower Highland and Ballpark, respectively. And River North Brewing will pour its last beers this weekend in its…
Crave Real Burgers has been slinging patties out of it’s original Castle Rock burger bar since 2010 and has since added locations in Colorado Springs and Highlands Ranch. But one of the region’s best burgers is now available in Denver: Crave opened today at 1550 Blake Street with its list…
No. 10: Pierogi of the Day at Rebel Restaurant Rebel Restaurant in River North isn’t a Ukrainian Restaurant; owners Bo Porytko and Dan Lasiy have way too much up their culinary sleeves to settle on one style of food — but they certainly know their way around Slavic specialties. So while…
There’s nothing wrong with faithfully recreated Neapolitan classics, but sometimes you want to add a little fun to your pizza routine. At Denver’s two Pizzeria Locale eateries — at 550 Broadway and 3484 West 32nd Avenue — culinary director Jordan Wallace is mixing things up a little This month, the fast-casual…
Bill Miner and Brian Albano finally got the go-ahead from the city yesterday afternoon, so their new deli and market, Il Porcellino, is officially in business today. The doors of the shrine to swine will open at 10:30 a.m. In addition to a range of house-cured meats, cheeses and packaged…
Restaurateurs Juan Padró and Katie O’Shea Padró and chef-partner Max MacKissock are putting their new Italian eatery, Bar Dough, through its paces this week with a couple of friends-and-family lunch and dinner services before they swing the doors open to the public on Monday, October 26. The restaurant, located next…
Yesterday we reported that a new eatery called Rusty Bucket Restaurant & Tavern will be coming to the Lower Highland neighborhood on the ground floor of a new apartment complex being built there. There are already plenty of Rusty Buckets around — nineteen and counting throughout Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and…
Last week we dished up five places to get a great bowl of gumbo on National Gumbo Day, to honor Cajun and Creole chef Paul Prudhomme, who passed away earlier this month. Reader suggestions followed, one of which was Red Roux — but it turns out that Red Roux isn’t the name of the…
The news yesterday that Lower48 Kitchen will be shutting down on November 7 at the corner of 21st and Lawrence streets brought with it curiosity about the situation of the Inventing Room, scheduled to open on October 31 in a space that was once Lower48’s Service Bar concept. “Does this…
When Lower48 Kitchen opened in 2013, it immediately grabbed the attention of our food and drink staff, winning our Best New Restaurant award for that year. Over the next two years, owner Mario Nocifera and chef Alex Figura proved with innovative dishes, top-notch hospitality and commitment to quality that the…
What was until recently the Mile High United Way headquarters in Lower Highland is currently a gaping hole in the ground, but before long it will become the 18th & Central Apartment Community — and with it will come ground-floor retail space. Southern Land Company, developers of the property, have already…
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau has made a point recently of checking in on kombucha producers to make sure they’re keeping their brews to less than .5 percent alcohol by volume, the legal limit above which beverages are subject to the bureau’s regulations. At alcohol levels that…
The neighborhood many are calling LoHi these days hasn’t always been the epicenter of hip, destination dining out. Before Old Major, Uncle, Williams & Graham and Highland Tap & Burger set up shop, the area was a modest, heavily Hispanic neighborhood with a few old Victorians and Denver Squares rising…
It has been a hurry-up-and-wait situation for chef-inventor Ian Kleinman, who’s been champing at the bit to get his dessert emporium, the Inventing Room, open ever since he announced plans for a brick-and-mortar space to hold his laboratory of sweet experiments. But the big day is finally coming: The Inventing…
A secret really isn’t much of a secret if it’s plastered on signs all over town, but sometimes the message gets lost among the many distractions of urban strip malls advertising everything from foot massages to children’s dental clinics. But if you look closely and pay attention, the word “taqueria”…
Allegro Coffee Company has been a staple for Colorado coffee drinkers for decades; the company started in Boulder in 1977 and began importing and roasting its own beans in 1985. And while Allegro coffee has been available at plenty of coffee shops, restaurants and grocery stores, until now there hasn’t…
Restaurateur Christopher Sargent, who opened Brazen on West 38th Avenue a year ago, is bringing his second eatery, Telegraph, to the former home of Cafe|Bar and the Grey Cactus. Telegraph opens to the public tonight night at 5 p.m., featuring what Sargent describes as “flavorful and approachable” food from executive chef Brian…
Salati means savory or salted in Italian, and a new eatery called Salati Italian Street Food is bringing savory Mediterranean bites to Northfield Stapleton. Salati opened today at 11 a.m. (in the space that was formerly Euro Cafe) with a concept built around piadina and other street fare that owner…
Planet Sub opened on California Street just off the 16th Street Mall in January 2014. But the sandwiches never caught on and now signs are up on the door announcing that this location has closed. Planet Sub originated in Lawrence, Kansas in 1998 but traces its roots back to a…
Mell’s Cheese is now open at 3000 Zuni Street in Lower Highland — but you’ll find far more than cheese here. Owner Paula Dick has created a sunny cafe and wine bar to go along with a tantalizing selection of imported and American artisan cheeses and meats. Mell’s — named for…
