There was plenty of news coming out of Boulder this week, as three popular metro-area eateries opened new outposts in the city. Local brewery/restaurant Bru Handbuilt Ales & Eats took over the space next door for Heifer and the Hen, an upscale ice cream shop with creative, seasonal flavors. And…

At the end of March, the Edible Beats restaurant group, which consists of Root Down, Linger and Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox (with others on the way), announced that Jeremy Kittelson was taking over as culinary director for the entire group and that chef Daniel Asher was stepping away from the role…

Spring means growth and change, sometimes so much that it’s hard to keep up with. So here’s a look at three restaurants with changes afoot, including a new lunch slate from Arcana in Boulder to go with a chef shuffle in the kitchen, the Way Back’s new dinner menu, and…

The Palm Restaurant came to Denver in 1996 and it’s not difficult to imagine that some regular customers have enjoyed weekly, maybe even daily, power lunches over martinis and filet mignon for the past twenty years. So when the storied steakhouse, which got its start in New York City in…

Sam Slade grew up around cakes and other baked goods at her family’s bakeries in Chicago, so batter is in her blood. At the beginning of the year, she launched Valhalla Cakes inside the Temple Bakery in the Curtis Park neighborhood to test the market for her own creations. And…

Is the ramen honeymoon finally over in Denver? Despite a rash of noodle shop openings over the last eighteen months or so, at least one has slipped through the cracks. Tengu, which opened in December 2014 in the Industry building on Brighton Boulevard, is now closed. Tengu initially closed for…

Curry lovers in Denver know where to go for a fiery fix: Biju’s Little Curry Shop in RiNo, which chef Biju Thomas opened in a tiny, hidden spot at 26th and Walnut streets at the end of 2014. And with new spot at 4279 Tennyson Street that just opened earlier this…

The Squeaky Bean has always been a little out there (with Saturday Bingo Brunch and celebrity cocktail shrines as evidence), but soon the downtown farm-centered restaurant could soon be taking its creativity to new heights. Partner and chief bean farmer Josh Olsen is working with a team of high school…

Boulder shoppers looking for quality meat cuts, pre-made foods and a quick breakfast or lunch have known about the tiny nook inside chef-restaurateur Hosea Rosenberg’s Blackbelly restaurant in east Boulder for some time, but because of space limitations, the chef’s vision for a complete, meat-centered market was never fully realized…

Sometimes experience is the only good teacher. You can read about something, look at photos, have someone explain it to you (maybe even draw you diagrams), but until your own senses have taken everything in, what you’ve been told is merely a shadow on a wall compared to the reality…

At the end of February, Ian Clark, the chef-owner of Bru Handbuilt Ales and Eats, told us he’d be opening a new ice cream shop called Heifer and the Hen next door to his brewery-restaurant on Arapahoe Avenue in east Boulder. Clark is a self-professed ice cream addict who had…

A recent rash of Denver restaurant break-ins has spread to the Berkeley neighborhood. Il Porcellino (4324 West 41st Avenue) owners Bryan Albano and Bill Miner were greeted this morning by a smashed-in front door and a missing cash register; nothing else was taken and the register was empty, they report…

This week was a comeback week for several eateries around town. Leña and School House Kitchen & Libations both reopened on Tuesday after fires forced them to close earlier in the spring. That’s good news for the employees who decided to stay on as well as for customers. And an…

Fans of the wood-fired cooking of Leña have been missing the eatery’s Latin American menu since a kitchen fire closed the Broadway restaurant on March 30. But Leña reopened last night with new menu items to usher in it’s rises from the ashes. The restaurant posted this note on its…

No. 83: The Meatball Hero at Lil’ Ricci’s New York Pizzeria In 1999, there was one Lil’ Ricci’s New York Pizzeria, and it was located in a strip mall behind Tamarac Square on East Hampden Avenue. The original Lil’ Ricci’s is long gone now, as is the entire Tamarac Square…

Mornings grew a little sadder when the Kolache Factory closed on Wadsworth Boulevard three years ago. Fans of the baked buns stuffed with all manner of sweet and savory fillings made do for a time with the Kolache Cabin, which peddled breakfast and lunch pastries from a mobile hut at…

An electrical fire closed School House Kitchen & Libations at 5560 Olde Wadsworth Boulevard at the end of February, and while no employees or customers were injured in the blaze, damage to the kitchen was extensive enough to keep the place closed since then. But repairs and inspections are finally…

Project Angel Heart, a non-profit organization that provides nutritious meals to clients coping with life-threatening illnesses,  has become well known to Denver restaurant-goers and the food -service community for its high-profile fundraisers, Dining Out for Life and Taste for Life, which partner with many of the city’s best chefs and…

I’m always fascinated by the migration of specific dishes from one region to another and the transformations that take place ov er time and distance. A couple of weeks ago, I discovered the jajangmyeon noodles at P & Y Cafe, 2769 South Parker Road in Aurora. Researching the dish’s history,…

There’s a new place in town if you want to get treated coldly: Frozen Matter is now serving icy treats at 530 East 19th Avenue in Uptown. The ice cream shop was created by Geraldine Kim and Josh Gertzen, who installed a pasteurizer and full kitchen in the space so that…