As the Denver sausage business goes, this is some of the most exciting news for fans of locally made salumi and other cured meats: Mark DeNittis is putting the apron back on and teaming up with Americatus chef/owner Iain Chisholm to start a new company called Americatus Artisan Provisions. Chisholm…
Biju Thomas, founder of Biju’s Little Curry Shop, says he only has two speeds; the hand gestures he uses to indicate them translate to “full-speed ahead” and “full stop.” And because he’s only one man (although with all his appearances at local and national events, we sometimes wonder), he surrounds…
Along with every other kind of edifice springing up in RiNo these days, there are at least a couple of hotels expected to open in the near future. One of them is the Source Hotel at 3350 Brighton Boulevard, part of the overall Source Hotel & Market project (of which…
Masterpiece Delicatessen’s younger sibling at 1710 Sherman Street in the Uptown neighborhood got a name change and menu overhaul earlier this year, turning into Masterpiece Luncheonette. But that wasn’t enough to boost sales to meet the expectations of chef/owner Justin Brunson and his business partners, so they’ve closed the eatery…
Keith Arnold and Stephanie Bonin, owners of Highland neighborhood restaurant Duo, announced last week that they’d be implementing a new 2-percent “kitchen livable wage surcharge” on Friday, June 16. And after a weekend of dinner service with the new fee, intended to provide additional income for non-tipped restaurant employees, Arnold…
The wait is over: Bremen’s Wine & Tap opens today in the former Rosa Linda’s space at 2005 West 33rd Avenue. Owner Dina Castillo has been working on her new restaurant for more than a year and has transformed the three-room Mexican cafe into an open, airy eatery and bar…
Chicken sandwiches are fryer-hot in San Diego, just as they are in Denver. But changing laws can make it tough for a mobile kitchen to find a stable place to roost. After two years feeding the San Diego brewery circuit, Chicken Rebel owner Lydie Lovett found herself displaced by a…
Southern cooking may be hotter than a buttermilk biscuit right now, but Southern Hospitality is on the skids — at least in Denver. The two locations of Southern Hospitality, at 1433 17th Street downtown and 7431 Park Meadows Drive in Lone Tree, have gone dark, along with parent company Southern…
Denver and Boulder have their share of big-name chef/restaurateurs who have built up the dining scene over the past decade or more, but there are also the people with ideas and money who keep the gears turning behind the scenes. Most Front Range restaurant-goers haven’t heard the name Ben Kaplan,…
Our first taste of the Colombian street food of La Chiva came at Civic Center Eats two summers ago, when chef/owner Jorge Aguirre would park his brightly colored truck and hand out light, crispy empanadas made from scratch. By then, the truck had been operating for a year and Aguirre…
When Denver Beer Co. opened at 1695 Platte Street back in 2011, there were very few craft breweries within Denver city limits. But even then founders Charlie Berger and Patrick Crawford realized that things were about to change. “We were the third brewery that summer,” Berger recalls, “and we were…
With so many hot, trendy places popping up in RiNo (as areas from Globeville to Five Points are now being called), opening reports start to seem like another small-plates-this, a craft-cocktails-that or, even more often, an artisan-brewery-everything. So when something truly different comes along, it catches our attention. That’s the…
Finding the right mix of flavors and prices to fit the neighborhood can be tricky business for a new restaurant — and it can be even tougher when a chef is trying to introduce something unique. Residents in the Platte Park neighborhood surrounding Old South Pearl were slow to respond…
We’ve heard of LoDo, RiNo and LoHi — and recently even SloHi. But where, might you ask, is SoDo? Maybe it’s not the city’s trendiest new neighborhood, but folks who live on South Downing Street are surely enjoying the new food trend hitting the blocks just south of Evans Avenue…
For meat lovers, carne al pastor is an object of beauty. A vertical cone of marinated pork — usually shoulder sliced thin and stacked on a skewer — spins slowly in front of a red-hot burner; a pineapple or an onion (or sometimes a chunk of pork fat) skewered at…
Central Bistro and Bar, the bustling urban eatery that has helped anchor the LoHi dining scene since opening in 2102, will serve its last customers this weekend before closing for three weeks to convert to a new concept from current owner Isiah Salazar and chef Jesse Vega. The two will…
Denver was definitely ready for the arrival of Detroit-style pies when Blue Pan Pizza opened at 3930 West 32nd Avenue in the summer of 2015. The tiny shop has been hopping since day one, and business partners Jeff Smokevitch and Giles Flanagin knew almost immediately that there was enough demand for…
Saucy Bombay, the fast-casual Indian eatery from Bombay Clay Oven owners Rohini and Marshall Miranda, opens today at 2600 East Colfax Avenue on a stretch ripe for new lunch and dinner options. Saucy Bombay will begin serving Indian cuisine today at 10:45 a.m., right across the street from East High School…
Restaurateur Brian Rossi is expanding the footprint of his Mexican food-and-drink business at the corner of South Broadway and Louisiana Avenue. With Adelitas Cocina y Cantina going strong and the newer Palenque Mezcaleria earning admiration for its mezcal and tequila list, Rossi is turning the duo into a trio with the…
Trattoria Stella on West 32nd Avenue has been serving up a unique style of Italian cooking since 1999, and its younger sibling on East Colfax Avenue, which original opened as Cafe Star, has been doing the same for nearly ten years, adopting the Trattoria Stella name and style in 2008…
A couple of weeks ago, we noticed that the space at 1134 Broadway bore new signs announcing that Element Kitchen & Cocktail would soon be opening in what was once part of the City Hall space. A few clues on the company’s Facebook page indicated that Dallas chef/restaurateur John Tesar…
JJ Chinese Seafood, at 2500 West Alameda Avenue, was once a go-to restaurant for Denver’s off-duty chefs, a status it earned with its adventurous Cantonese menu, live seafood and relatively late hours that allowed many in the service industry to slip in for a meal before its midnight closing. But…
