Denver is home to many fast-casual chains, including a couple that that focus on pizza: Pizzeria Locale (brought to us by the folks at Frasca in a partnership with Chipotle founder Steve Ells) and Live Basil (from the Smashburger team). Homegrown mini-chain Modmarket is emphasizing its pizza, too, and now…
Fall Sundays could be state holidays, as Denver Bronco fans flock to local watering holes to worship their team and drink plenty of beer. But there are still many people who’d rather keep the taps on and the TV off, and so last week we served up our five best…
We’re about to top 200 comments on our story on Denver’s first cat cafe, and dozens of people lobbed meatballs at our list of the ten best old-school Italian restaurants, rolled out for the Columbus Day weekend. And what worries this reader? See also: Four Appetizers So Good You Could…
Colorado was the first state to make Columbus Day an official holiday, in 1907. The federal government soon followed suit, and on Monday, state and federal offices will be closed to to mark the day, which will be celebrated with a Columbus Day Parade tomorrow. But while that parade was…
Casa Bonita turned forty this year, but time has not stood still in the Lakewood strip mall that holds the world’s weirdest Mexican restaurant. Just as Casa Bonita was marking its fortieth birthday in May, the JCRS shopping center was sold for $8 million. The new owners plan to rename…
It’s been a big year for Williams & Graham — and we’re not talking about the LoHi watering hole’s win for Best Contemporary Cocktail Bar in the Best of Denver 2014. Four months later, Williams & Graham was one of four finalists for the best bar in the country at…
Red-sauce joints have been closing all over town, but there are still plenty to celebrate. Still, our list of the ten best old-school Italian restaurants in Denver led to a lengthy discussion of changes in northwest Denver — officially Highland, but known for decades as the Northside, and once the…
Emily Griffith had been working as a substitute teacher for Denver Public Schools when she realized that some of her students were dropping out because their parents — many of them immigrants — didn’t recognize the value of education or simply needed their children at home or work. So in…
The West is not a place,” Jack A. “Papa” Weil, the founder of Rockmount Ranch Wear, was fond of saying. “It’s a state of mind.” Jack A. entered that state for good in 1928, when the then-27-year-old salesman for Paris Garters drove his brand-new Chrysler Roadster across the plains from…
Our list of Denver’s top old-school Italian restaurants inspired many memories of classic Northside red-sauce joints that have closed — Pagliacci’s, Little Pepina’s, Carbone’s, Longo’s Subway Tavern — and also a heated discussion of whether the people moving into what’s now generally called Highland (or LoHi) have ruined the neighborhood…
Can there ever be too much of a good thing? Our comparison of the brunch at the two downtown Snooze locations has led to a major discussion of that homegrown chain — as well as some other local restaurants that readers consider overrated. But now Snooze supporters are fighting back…
Denver has been losing a lot of its red-sauce Italian joints in recent years, but we still had no problem rounding ten favorite old-school Italian joints that are still serving up worthy spaghetti and meatballs (or meatball, in the case of Saucy Noodle). And although readers quibbled with a few…
Fall is here in full force, and that means an endless array of pumpkin products from now to Thanksgiving. Jenn Wohletz rounded up some of the best and the worst this week, ranging from pumpkin Pepperidge Farm cookies to pumpkin-flavored hummus. See also: Five of the Best — and Worst…
This week in Out to Brunch, Lauren Monitz compared the original Snooze in Ballpark to the new Snooze that opened this summer in Union Station. Although the spaces are different, they have the same sweet menu, the same vibe, the same very long waits — and the same very divided…
References to the Sand Creek Massacre are everywhere these days, including page 55 of the new AP United States History course, one of the most controversial — if unread — documents in Colorado and the focus of the proposed curriculum review committee that a few members of the Jefferson County…
The city will be flooded this week with people in town for the Great American Beer Festival, and the fun will spill over into brewpubs and bars around Denver. But great craft beer isn’t this state’s only amenity. Since January, recreational pot has been legal here — thanks to the…
When the Jeffco Public Schools Board of Education meets on Thursday, October 2, it will pick up the hot-potato topic — the Curriculum Review Committee — that has inspired student walk-outs across the district, creating an unofficial crash course in civil disobedience in the process. But when new boardmember Julie…
This summer saw a record number of eateries opening in metro Denver — but many restaurants also celebrated big anniversaries, including New York Deli News (25th anniversary), Briarwood Inn (35th anniversary) and Wazee Supper Club (40th anniversary). And all of those are relative newcomers compared to Saucy Noodle Ristorante, which…
The deadline is fast approaching for My Favorite Place in Denver, a program created by the Denver Department of Community Planning and Development that’s currently soliciting nominations for favorite places in town from residents and visitors alike. We’ve already weighed in on our least favorite places and my personal favorite:…
Last week we rounded up a dozen restaurants that have lasted at least fifty years in the same family’s hands. Compared to those long runs, the Wazee Supper Club is a relative newcomer: It just celebrated its fortieth birthday. And it changed hands more than a decade ago, moving from…
The homegrown Rio Grande chain just opened its first new location in almost ten years up in Summit County, at 182 Lusher Court in Frisco. It’s the perfect spot to stop after a leaf-peeping excursion this weekend. Because the gold in the hills isn’t just those aspen turning colors: There’s…
We’re on our way to a record-breaking year for new restaurants opening in Denver. With all the action, it’s easy to overlook some of the restaurants that have been around for years — almost a hundred years, in the case of Blue Parrot, which is still in the founding family’s…
