When Kyle and Angelique Moyer decided to open a craft beer bar on Fox Street, a name was immediately at hand: the Crafty Fox. And now the Moyers are set to open the Crafty Fox this weekend on the eastern edge of the Sunnyside neighborhood near what will soon be a…
Delaware-based Jake’s Hamburgers has changed its name twice in its 25-year history; once in 2010 to Jake’s Wayback Burgers and again in 2014 to simply Wayback Burgers. Along the way, the eatery has expanded from a single burger shack to a chain with more than 100 locations — including a…
The usual karaoke experience in Denver involves stumbling into some dim dive bar just before last call and wailing a few tunes in front of cringing strangers. Maybe you dragged a few friends along, but it’s hardly a social experience, but rather something akin to a round of Guitar Hero…
Noodle bars, noodle houses, noodle joints: Call them what you will — as long as you call them addictive and delicious. Most also offer a selection of small plates, soups and stir-fries, but the noodles are always the main attraction — a bouncy nest of ramen, a tangle of rice…
We’ve all been witness to the incredible gastronomic shock wave that has shaken up the Denver dining scene over the past several years. But much of it began more than a decade ago, when a bold group of chefs and restaurateurs introduced upscale eateries that could hold their own in…
West-siders will need to find a new stop for fried chicken: After 28 years, Jus Cookin’s Restaurant has served its last bird. The venerable home-style eatery was a favorite for years in Aurora before owners Steve and Char Modlich moved it to Lakewood in 2004. The farmhouse kitchen near the corner…
It has been more than a year since Humble Pie closed its tiny Baker neighborhood shop (now occupied by Waffle Up); since then, the bakery’s “frequent pie-ers” have had to content themselves with special orders. But now the wait is finally over for a new retail outlet: the The Humble Pie…
Five years may not seem like a long history for a bar, but in RiNo, which only received that nickname in 2005, half a decade slinging drinks on the same street makes a watering hole nearly an old-timer. When the Matchbox opened on Larimer Street five years ago, the neighborhood…
Pad Thai serves as nearly everyone’s introduction to Thai cuisine; the ubiquitous, peanut-y noodle dish is so common in this country that you can even find packaged versions on grocery-store shelves. Colorful curries come next in terms of popularity, but beyond those, Thai cuisine’s roster of rice and noodle bowls…
The restaurant space at 1560 Boulder Street hasn’t been very lucky for tenants. Churchill’s Public House was the first to occupy the corner spot. It opened in July 2013 and lasted just over a year, despite the neighborhood’s growth and reputation as a hot restaurant zone. Next came Cibo, a…
Chipotle Mexican Grill closed more than 1,900 of its stores nationwide for four hours on Monday, February 8, so that founder and co-CEO Steve Ells could address all employees in a town-hall style meeting intended to thank the company’s workers and explain its new food-safety policies. But satirist and host…
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal posted a piece by Julie Jargon — a former Westword staff writer — reporting on a trademark dispute between Kimbal Musk, co-founder of The Kitchen restaurant group, and restaurant heavyweight Wolfgang Puck, who currently runs more than fifty fine-dining, fast-casual and airport food operations around…
No 92: The Ocean Salad at Sushi-Rama A seat at the counter at Sushi-Rama can be a mesmerizing experience, with domed plates of sushi filing past on a conveyor belt like a miniature marching band blaring notes of flavor instead of music. If you freeze with indecision from the overwhelming…
Blackbird Public House has only been open for just over a year, but the Washington Park eatery has already lived through a decade’s worth of change. Since opening, the restaurant has seen a sewage system disaster that required replacing every inch of pipe under the building, a grease-trap explosion, a…
Boone’s Tavern has been a steadfast neighborhood sports bar near the University of Denver for years. Even after a makeover two years ago when the bar — named for DU Pioneer mascot Denver Boone — gave up part of its square footage so that the upscale eatery Atticus could open…
At Old Major, it’s pork for dinner and chicken for lunch — at least ever since chef/owner Justin Brunson launched Royal Rooster to feed fried chicken sandwiches to the Highland mid-day crowd. But if poultry doesn’t please you, Brunson is pleased to announce that the Rooster is now serving burgers…
A little secret has been building in Boulder that will soon be revealed. Although the restaurant that industry veterans Elliott and Annie Toan are nearly ready to open is still lacking a street-front sign, they will open the doors to Arcana on Monday, February 15, revealing a sumptuous dining room, a well-appointed…
Nocturne Jazz & Supper Club 1330 27th Street 303-295-3333 Nocturne has been churning through the hits for nearly a year, offering jazz-themed menus to accompany classic albums played in full by some of the city’s top combos. The kitchen has paired bites with vinyl platters from Dave Brubek, Sonny Rollins…
We just unveiled our 2016 list of the best Chinese restaurants in Denver last week, which included dim sum palaces, noodle houses and specialists from regions as far-flung as Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hong Kong and the island nation of Taiwan. Our goal was to not only find great cooking, but to highlight…
A sign reading “Grind” went up at 300 Fillmore Street in Cherry Creek just a few weeks ago, prompting us to speculate whether the new business would be a coffee shop or a sausage house. A new addition to the sign spelling out “kitchen + watering hole,” combined with a…
Soul food is often misconstrued as fat-heavy comfort food — or food that’s hard on the heart but good for the soul. But Lonni Byrd, chef and co-owner of Love, Peace & Sol Cafe, a new vegan soul-food eatery at the corner of 35th Avenue and Albion Street, has a…
No. 93 Zuppa Pomorodo at Parisi Italian Market & Deli Those who have frequented the eateries of Denver’s northwest neighborhoods for the past few decades will remember when Parisi was nothing more than a simple Italian deli with some of the best sandwiches in town and a few tables in…
