Avanti Food & Beverage opened yesterday in Lower Highland, and we’re profiling all seven of the eateries inside the two-story food hall over the next week. The dish featured above comes from Brava Pizzeria, a more permanent incarnation of Dave Bravdica’s mostly mobile Neapolitan pizza empire. Bravdica operates a wood-burning oven on the…

When chef Robert Grant accepted an offer from restaurateur Dory Ford to help open Baur’s Restaurant & Listening Lounge in a historic downtown space, it marked Grant’s return to Denver after a decade. He had grown up in Aurora and attended culinary school at Johnson & Wales University before heading…

You won’t find much Malaysian food in Denver. A few restaurants offer snapshots of the cuisine in menu tours of Southeast Asia — like the shrimp and octopus laksa (a spicy noodle soup) that was recently on Cho77’s rotating roster or the handful of offerings at Jaya Asian Grill. But…

While the big news in fast-casual this week is the opening of Avanti Food & Beverage in LoHi, even with seven food counters under one roof, there’s one thing you won’t find there: mac and cheese. For that you’ll have to turn to one of Denver’s industry veterans, Noodles &…

Avanti Food & Beverage opens today at 11 a.m., so this week we’ll offering a close-up look at each of the seven eateries inside, starting with Farmer Girl, chef/owner Tim Payne’s farm-centered concept built around local and sustainable ingredients. Farmer Girl’s menu will change frequently, especially in the summer when…

Avanti Food & Beverage, the creation of Patrick O’Neill and Rob Hahn, opens on Monday, July 13 in Lower Highland. Described as a food hall, a stand-alone food court, a food-truck rally minus the exhaust fumes and a food-and-booze lover’s heaven, it packs seven restaurant concepts from seven different chefs…

Brothers Kris and Jason Wallenta are ready to start slinging tacos and drinks at Dos Santos Taqueria de Mexico, their Uptown eatery that will open at 5 p.m. Saturday, July 11 in the East 17th Avenue space formerly occupied by D Bar. Chef Kris Wallenta already operates two restaurants in Cozumel,…

Beast + Bottle owners Paul C. Reilly and Aileen V. Reilly have been killing it with great food and service since day one just over two years ago, when they opened their tiny nose-to-tail eatery on East 17th Avenue. But as intimate and cozy as the current space is, it’s…

For small restaurants that rely on the seasonal availability of meats and proteins to shape their menus, summer means a big shift in theme and ingredients. Warming winter dishes give way to lighter, brighter fare, but there are also a few surprises that don’t necessarily seem summery unless you’re tapped…

The Flatirons Food Film Festival is entering its third season of culinary-themed movies and guest appearances. While tickets have yet to go on sale for the series, which runs from October 21 to 25, you can get an early start on pairing cuisine and cinema while also chipping in to…

When Avanti Food & Beverage opens the doors to its LoHi food hall this month, one of the eateries inside will be MiJo, an Asian-influenced concept from Bones executive chef Jonny DePierro and sous chef Michael Nevarez. Noodle bowls will be the primary focus of the menu, with plenty of options for diners…

In mid-June, Michael Long — a founding partner of Opus Restaurant and the current executive chef at Le Central — presented the first farm dinner at Snow Creek Ranch in Larkspur; owners Joe and Michelle Kopriva plan on making the dinners a regular summer occurrence. Long cooked up a meal…

In the United States, Sudan is known mostly as the place the Lost Boys fled and as the most recent country to bifurcate into two separate nations, with South Sudan becoming the newest country in the world. But Sudanese food is mostly an unknown quantity, especially here in Denver. Sudan…

The Vietnamese restaurants along Federal Boulevard are like hermit crabs exchanging shells for the best fit. No sooner did Wonderbowl shut down at the corner of Federal and Kentucky Avenue than Pho Duy shed its two-decade-old shell, shuffling one address north into the bigger, more modern space — where it’s…

After a one-month turnaround, Ignite Ale House & Kitchen opens today in a former Woody’s Tavern in Aurora. This is the second Ignite from Concept Restaurants, the group that also runs Humboldt, Stout Street Social, the Rialto Cafe and several other restaurants around town. Expect this version of the group’s…

Before you tune out for the Independence Day holiday weekend, there are a couple of things you might want to know, especially if you’re planning on heading to Old Major next week — or if you happen to like hot dogs. Old Major has been consistently packing the house since…

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issued a recall today on Natural Grocers brand Caribbean Nut & Fruit Mix due to potential salmonella contamination of the macadamia nuts in the mix. No illnesses have been reported so far, according to the agency’s web page. The affected product was…

The Berkeley neighborhood’s historic watering hole, the Rosa Mia Inn, which opened in 1966, recently sold and will reopen as the Nip & Sip Neighborhood Lounge. The new ownership group includes J.D. Dossett, Margaret Moore, and Leigh Jones — of Jonesy’s Eatbar fame, who also runs the Horseshoe Lounge, Inga’s…

The restaurant scene did some shuffling in June, with Taste of Thailand moving from its longtime Englewood location to a new spot in Denver on South Broadway, Pho Duy moving one storefront north (into the short-lived Wonderbowl space), and Blue Pan Pizza bringing Detroit-style pies to West 32nd Avenue after…