It’s difficult to write about There without lapsing into “Who’s on first?” territory. There is a bar and restaurant in Telluride opened by three industry veterans five and a half years ago. And There will be a second location for partners Andrew Tyler, Oren Cohen and Enrique Margulis when it…

The Colorado Restaurant Association recently announced the winners of its annual Industry Spotlight Awards, which are given to chefs, restaurateurs and others in the Colorado food-service industry for excellence in a variety of categories. In addition to recognizing superstars in the restaurant world at an awards dinner on May 10, the…

When last we checked in with chef Scott Parker, whose resume includes ten years at Table 6 and time at several Vail and Telluride restaurants, he was overseeing doughnut sandwich ops at the Habit/Carbon dual doughnut dispensary and coffee house. That was nearly a year ago though and Parker has…

Fans of the hip Korean barbecue joint, Dae Gee, which got its start in Westminster and came to 827 Colorado Boulevard in 2014, have a new place to pig out. Dae Gee’s third location is now open at 460 Broadway, complete with tabletop grills, a full liquor license and a…

Landry’s Inc., owner of an alarming number of steak and seafood restaurants here in Denver (and across the country), announced the closing of Willie G’s Seafood & Steaks on the 16th Street Mall yesterday. Willie G’s has been a part of the Mall scenery — and a regular stopping point…

If you see shakshuka on a menu anywhere in Denver, there are two very good reasons why you should order it — even if you’re not sure what you’re getting. First, the combination of soft sibilance and hard k, twice in one word, is simply fun to say. Second, unless…

There’s a sign up at Chubby’s at 1231 West 38th Avenue that reads “Open During Construction” — which is more or less true. But when we dropped in earlier this morning, that construction may have been the cause of a power outage that had employees scrambling. Another sign quickly went…

A fire broke out overnight in an apartment above Roseberg’s Bagels & Deli at 725 East 26th Avenue in Five Points. One person was found dead in the apartment, according to the Denver Fire Department, but the cause of death is not yet known.  Reports indicate that the fire broke…

Jim Pittenger, owner of Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs, has been restructuring his mini-empire this spring. After going in on Pop’s Place with chef Stephen Kleinman on Lawrence Street (in the former Lower48 Kitchen space), Pittenger hit one into the ballpark, opening a Biker Jim’s on the third level concourse at…

April Started out with a bang, with six bar and restaurants opening in the first two days. Since then, a number of promising eateries have debuted, including two artisan ice cream shops: Frozen Matter in Uptown and Heifer and the Hen in Boulder. Chef/restaurateur Biju Thomas launched two more outposts…

Almost exactly a year ago, a wet spring hailstorm caused water damage to the roof and interior of the venerable Taco House at 1390 West Littleton Boulevard. At the time, minor repairs were being made to the roof of the building, which originally constructed as a burger joint in 1961;…

West-side pizza aficionados will finally be able to get their fix of Neopolitan pie when the third outpost of Racca’s Pizzeria Napoletana fires up the wood-burning oven and swings open its doors at the Colorado Mills shopping center on West Colfax Avenue on Monday. If the name doesn’t quite ring…

The name Winston Hill will mean something to you if you’re a lifelong fan of the New York Jets — or if you’ve been an even more die-hard fan of Denver barbecue over the past several decades. Hill, a former all-star offensive lineman who helped keep quarterback Joe Namath safe…

In 1986, Patrick McGaughran and a couple of friends from Texas decided to open a Mexican bar and grill centered on margaritas and food like they’d grown up with in the Houston area. They named the tiny joint, located on College Avenue in Fort Collins,  the Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant and…

At the end of January, Ballpark neighborhood watering hole DADA Art Bar went dark, and Iain Chisholm, chef/owner of Americatus just around the corner, told us that he had sold his share of the bar to his partners, who were expecting to reopen under new management. But the DADA space…

Kathy Lee has been cooking up jams and other preserves for her company, Modern Gingham, since 2012, and the fruits of her labor are beginning to ripen. Her raspberry-violet jam, made with organic berries and crème de violet from Colorado’s Golden Moon Distilling, won a national Good Food award earlier…

Is there such a thing as Colorado-style barbecue? Anna and Jonathon Ortlieb, the couple behind Happy Camper BBQ, think so — because they say they’ve invented it. The two plan to have their mobile barbecue kitchen open by the beginning of June serving smoked pork with a Colorado twist: Instead…

Inside Silvana Mondo, Silvana Vukadin-Hoitt’s Tennyson Street art and antiques gallery, a low table surrounded by five cushioned stools that are barely higher than the floor itself awaits a group of guests, the tabletop set with a spread of dates, almonds, Turkish delight, a bottle of Bosnian sljivovic plum brandy,…

No 82: Shakshuka at Stowaway Coffee + KitchenRestaurant breakfasts are generally pretty tasty, but they’re rarely relaxing; the best places fill up quickly, and the morning meal becomes a rushed, noisy affair over a cluttered table where the speed-pouring of coffee becomes a spectator sport. Even the breezy, sun-drenched Stowaway…

There’s an award-winning pizza crust here in Denver and you can find it at more than one restaurant — including eateries already known for great pizza, like the Good Son, Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria, the Crafty Fox, Denver Deep Dish and Silvi’s Kitchens. The Gluten Free Explorer, a Denver…