A new concept in beverage service kicks off tonight when First Draft will unveil its self-service beer system in RiNo. First Draft opens at 5 p.m. today with a wall of forty tap handles and an electronic system built by iPourIt that allows customers to pour their own beers (measured down to…
Saint Louis native Jason Ganahl has barbecue sauce running through his veins. After moving to Colorado, he missed the smokehouse meats of his hometown and decided to perfect his own recipes by entering the competitive barbecue circuit more than five years ago. since then, as a member of the Rocky…
No. 32: Chicken Gizzards at Catfish King Admittedly, chicken gizzards aren’t everyone’s idea of a pleasing appetizer. You don’t want to even think about what part of a chicken the gizzard is (mostly muscle, it’s the organ that helps the chicken grind up food for digestion, in case you were…
Table Top opened just over a year ago in a sleepy shopping center at East 23rd Avenue and Oneida Street. With a neighborhood hungry for local restaurants, a spacious patio/beer garden and a menu aimed at drawing attention without approaching cleverness, the eatery owned by a group of area residents…
Charcoal opened in 2011 in the Golden Triangle with a unique concept and menu: Scandinavian accents from chef Patrik Landberg, combined with coal-fired cooking over a custom-made Japanese bincho grill. While Charcoal is only four years old, the menu has evolved to fit the dining desires of the neighborhood and…
The retail duplex on West 38th Avenue that at one point housed El Alamo Mexican restaurant now has a liquor store on the left-hand side and a vacant space on the right. But the owner of Cana Liquors, Kamran Bhatti, is taking advantage of that vacancy: He’ll be opening Mr…
Restaurant veterans Brandon Bortles and Barry Dobesh — known to their friends as “the Bs” — are putting their collective experience and collective nickname to use in a new restaurant called Abejas that they’re opening in Golden later this summer. Abeja is Spanish for “bee” and although the restaurant won’t…
The venerable Briarwood Inn in Golden hired a new chef in May. But rather than hire an industry veteran to turn out prime rib and buffet dinners for weddings, owner Lisa Paterson — who purchased the property from her father’s estate after he passed away several years ago — decided…
If you know where to look, Jamaican cuisine lurks on various menus around Denver. The Welton Street Cafe has a selection of the Jamaican meat pies called patties along with its soul food offerings, and the Caribbean Bakery on East Colfax Avenue offers specialties from Jamaica and Trinidad. But for a…
The corner joint that was most recently 1301 Santa Fe Tavern & Grill — and the Hoffbrau for years before that — has reopened closing almost exactly a year ago. There wasn’t much evidence of activity other than a few neon signs in the windows, but now there’s a banner…
Earlier this month, Highland Tap & Burger owner Juan Padro stated that he was focusing on employee training and that “our plan is to grow the Tap brand.” In the context of talking about the upcoming Bar Dough that he’s opening with Chef Max MacKissock right next door to his…
Residents of Baker and West Washington Park no longer have an easy place to visit for all their refractometer and microscope needs, not since the Science Company moved to West Hampden Avenue, but at least the building at the corner of First Avenue and Lincoln Street will soon be put…
Street food ruled this week as the Avanti Food & Beverage collective opened its food hall on Monday and restaurant critic Gretchen Kurtz dug her chopsticks into the Southeast Asian bowls and stir-fries at Cho77. Mark Antonation got in on the action, too, with bites of curry and crispy anchovies…
Ramen is king noodle in Denver right now, but chefs Johnny DePierro and Michael Nevarez are out to dethrone the popular Japanese dish with udon — which they’re serving several different ways at MiJo inside Avanti Food & Beverage. The two have been mastering their Asian chops at Frank Bonanno’s…
If you haven’t stood in line for one of the Venezuelan street-food sandwiches known as arepas at the Quiero Arepas food truck, you haven’t experienced the anticipation of sinking your teeth into one of the best bites in town — mobile or not. Now that owners Igor and Beckie Panasewicz have…
Despite being partially hidden by a tree, the newest restaurant sign to sprout on South Broadway is hard to miss: giant all-caps spelling out Fee Fi Pho Fum above a small storefront just north of Arkansas Avenue. It’s a silly name for sure, but it makes a little more sense…
When chef and cookbook author Biju Thomas opened Biju’s Little Curry Shop in River North last December, he made it clear that he had bigger plans than just a single fast-casual Indian joint. And now with that first eatery all but maxed out in kitchen space and with more customers…
Chef Marco Gonzales was born and raised in Mexico City but went to culinary school at L’Institut Paul Bocuse in Lyon, France, and worked in many Michelin-starred restaurants in Europe before returning to Mexico. “I went back to my country to try and get in touch with the food of my roots,”…
Bistro Barbes opened last year in the North Park Hill neighborhood, serving French cuisine touched with North African brushstrokes. The menu is refined and evocative at the tiny eatery, so much so that it won our Best French Restaurant honor this year. Now chef-owner Jon Robbins has opened a second,…
Whether you’ve been to Frasca Food and Wine in Boulder once for a special occasion or count yourself as a regular, you’ve experienced the professional, personal service that’s such an integral part of the restaurant’s success. Even if you’ve only eaten dinner there a couple of times, you’ll have encountered…
Pinche Taqueria was an instant hit when chef-owner Kevin Morrison upgraded from a food truck to a full-fledged cantina in 2012. Tacos and tequila are the stars there, but happy-hour sliders also have their fans. Those sliders are the closest thing you’ll find to tortas at Morrison’s eateries (he opened…
Tasty Colfax kicks off tonight with its seventh annual food crawl in the Bluebird District, including stops at twenty restaurants — but not Mezcal, which closed on June 7 for a massive overhaul and won’t reopen until the end of summer. But there’s quite a consolation prize: a new cheese shop that…
