High Plains Bison maintains the second-largest herd of bison in the world, according to Kevin Lamar, chief customer officer for the bison company’s new weight-management branch, Plainsmart. So it’s no wonder that when the company decided to jump into the weight-loss industry, it built a menu making its own bison meat…
Gene Tang hired Joseph Arena as 1515 Restaurant’s new executive chef in February, a move that reflected his penchant for bringing in young talent that appreciates the restaurant’s combination of classical fine-dining technique with modern culinary sleight of hand. Back in 1997, when Tang opened 1515 in the century-old storefront…
A friend recently returned from Peru extolling the quality of the Andean nation’s cuisine, including alpaca, something I’d never considered as a potential protein source. Hearing this, I wondered if, given the chance, I would order alpaca pot roast or loin of llama. After all, llamas, alpacas and their kin…
The Denver Taco Festival provided an entire weekend of tacos, with a street festival, street food and street fighting — OK, maybe just staged wrestling — on Saturday and Sunday in River North. Hundreds of hungry taco lovers sampled bites from more than thirty food vendors. Oh, and there was…
It took Mother Nature a while to come around, but summer is now in full swing and a few restaurants around town are making up for lost time. Here are a few options to help celebrate the sun and Colorado’s finest summer bounty. In Boulder, Blackbelly Market officially kicked off its…
Session Kitchen opened in late 2013 at 1518 South Pearl Street, after a complicated property swap between the Breckenridge-Wynkoop group and the Kizaki brothers. In that deal, Breck-Wynkoop acquired the building at 1518 South Pearl, built as the original home of Izakaya Den; meanwhile, the Kizakis gained the space at…
You may remember Provisions Chophaus & Drinkery, the downtown restaurant that was open for only eleven days last summer. The space it so briefly occupied — at 1550 Blake Street — seems to carry a curse, having sat vacant for nearly a year in a booming restaurant market after seeing T|ACO…
The Bindery on Blake building in River North will soon be home to a trio of new food and beverage establishments, notably the new location of the Rackhouse Pub (after owner Chris Rippe’s original spot was closed to make way for the expansion of Stranahan’s distillery), and Bierstadt Lagerhaus, a brewery…
You may have noticed the Taja Indian sign above the space that was until recently Bombay Bowl in the shopping center at Broadway and Sixth Avenue. While it may seem odd that one fast-casual Indian restaurant would take the place of another, Taja is under the same ownership as its…
Oskar Blues founder Dale Katechis is no stranger to innovation, having kicked off the craft-beer-in-a-can revolution in 2002. Now he’s launching a similar concept, only with coffee. This week Hotbox Roasters started selling its first batch of fair-trade coffee beans, packaged in the brewery’s “crowlers” — the resealable growler cans…
In just over a year, the Ethniche column has covered more than fifty restaurants and the food of a dozen cultures and regional styles, from the starting point in Hawaii sampling fried Spam and tuna poke to this month’s tour of the city’s Peruvian cuisine. In that time, there have…
Summer means a bounty of produce and plenty of work for farms and ranches, which are now in full swing after a rainy spring. One of those ranches, the Snow Creek Ranch near Larkspur, is hosting a chef’s dinner to celebrate the season’s vegetables and Snow Creek’s own beef. Tickets…
Utah-based bread specialist Kneaders Bakery Cafe is opening its third Colorado location in Arvada this Friday. Kneaders was founded in Utah in 1997 by Gary and Colleen Worthington and the company has been slowly spreading since then, with 34 other cafes in Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado and Texas. James Worthington, CEO…
This nondescript apartment complex tucked behind a K-Mart and a Dollar Tree on South Cherokee Street doesn’t look too impressive now, but once open, Denizen (as it will be called) will be mere steps away from the Alameda light rail station. So it makes sense for a cafe and bar…
Erik and Shannon Duffy were born and raised in a small Iowa town, and their grandfather raised hogs on the nearby family farm, so when they founded Tender Belly in 2010, they were returning to their roots — even if the brothers called Arizona and Colorado home at the time…
Llamas are to Peru what longhorn cattle are to Texas (except that Peruvians don’t drive around with llama skulls mounted on the front of their Cadillacs). When you see a llama, whether in a painting of the animals grazing in the highlands above Machu Picchu or a near-life-size stuffed model…
Pastry chef Jessica La Forge has been making desserts in professional kitchens since her first baking job at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs when she was sixteen. Most recently, she was in charge of the ice cream at 5280 Ice Cream, the confectionery arm of 5280 Burger Bar in…
The building at 2715 17th Street in Lower Highland was once a book binding warehouse, but is currently being converted into retail spaces, one of which will soon open as Recess Beer Garden. Owners William Frankland and Owen Olson have been working on the space since late last year and hope…
Will Tuggle made the move from executive chef at Stout Street Social to Humboldt recently and has begun adding new dishes to both the lunch and dinner menus while outgoing chef, DJ Nagle, transitions to his new role as executive chef at Blue Island Oyster House, scheduled to open later…
Great news for downtown revelers looking for a watering hole during the weekend’s PrideFest activities: The Greedy Hamster has reopened after closing for two days due to a shower of bricks that dislodged from the building’s facade on Monday. While the structure is robed in temporary construction boarding, the Hamster is serving…
Gerald Vevelhymer opened the original Taco House on Federal Boulevard in 1958. Not long afterward —1961, to be exact — a building housing a burger joint went up on Littleton Boulevard. It soon turned into a Taco House franchise and since then, not much has changed. Different owners have come…
Blue Pan Pizza opened last night on West 32nd Avenue, filling its twenty-seat dining room with neighborhood pizza lovers looking to try the Detroit-style pies that owner/chef Jeff Smokevitch has already popularized at his Telluride pizzeria, Brown Dog. Takeout orders also kept the kitchen busy in the new space across…
