A torteria in Cherry Creek? That was the idea Alex Gurevich had when he opened Ay Caramba!, a full-service spot that focuses on the Mexican sandwiches. But while the neighborhood could certainly use more casual places, Ay Caramba! could also use some spice — according to both Gretchen Kurtz, who…
Scratch Burrito & Happy Tap opened on Tuesday in the former home of Shazz, and quickly inspired discussions of 1) the geographic boundaries of the Berkeley neighborhood, 2) how much a burrito should cost and 3) whether burritos are authentic Mexican fare. But ultimately, no matter the origins of the…
Sean Yontz’s job effectively ended at the end of service on May 3, when El Diablo and Sketch closed for good and he parted ways with Jesse Morreale, owner of the red-tagged First Avenue Hotel, after eight years in business together. After that, Yontz traveled some, and he’s now on…
Jamie Laurie makes music — and also political and social change. A founder of the Flobots, he was raised in Denver, where he grew from a comic-loving kid to an East High teacher sharing rap with students. Although still based here, Laurie promotes global issues through the nonprofit flobots.org. And…
Clay Markwell used to cook at TAG. Now he has a place of his own: Scratch Burrito & Happy Tap, which just opened yesterday in northwest Denver, in the former home of Shazz. The focus here is on burritos, big burritos, which “map back to different cultures and cuisines,” says…
“This new nonstop flight will be a gateway into Colorado for Japan and other Asian countries,” said Governor John Hickenlooper at yesterday’s send-off for the inaugural United flight direct from Denver International Airport to Japan. And then, after a sake toast, a dream team of Denver boosters (who’s running the…
Ristorante L, formerly Laudisio, closed on Saturday after almost 25 years in Boulder. Was the restaurant killed off by nearby chains? Or by independent restaurants that had raised the bar on what people now expect in Boulder? See also: – Laudisio, aka Ristorante L, closes in Boulder – Trader Joe’s…
With seventy of this state’s movers and shakers headed to Japan this week for an economic mission that includes a side trip to Denver’s sister city of Takayama, there should be lots of sibling revelry. But up in Boulder, the sister-city program founded by President Dwight Eisenhower more than fifty…
After a year of construction that carved out the original home of the Pearl Street Grill and replaced it with a modern, multi-level structure, the new Izakaya Den will officially open tomorrow right next to Sushi Den, a mainstay on South Pearl Street for close to three decades. Created by…
Denver International AirportElway’s at DIA starts serving this morning.”I swore I’d never get in the restaurant business,” John Elway told the crowd gathered for a private party last Thursday at the Elway’s at DIA. Today, of course, the Hall of Famer has four restaurants: the original Elway’s, which he opened…
Although we proclaimed the Boulder-based Glacier Ice Cream & Gelato the best ice cream in the area in our Best of Denver 2013 (in addition to Glacier’s several spots in Boulder, a Glacier outpost opened at 3455 South University Boulevard in February), there are many other great spots for ice…
This week Mark Antonation served up round three in his loo at Denver’s finest stretch of noodle bars, with a meal at Pho Duy. Gretchen Kurtz returned to Oak at Fourteenth in Boulder, a restaurant she reviewed two years ago before a disastrous fire, and found it bigger — and…
Tired DIA travelers were doing double-takes as they boarded the escalator heading down out of Concourse B last night, their eyes drawn to the right by the bright sign on a new restaurant — and then riveted by the sight of who was standing under that sign: John Elway. “There…
Oak at Fourteenth is a very good restaurant, and it earned raves from Gretchen Kurtz in her review this week. But even a very good restaurant can have very big problems with no-shows, as co-owner Bryan Dayton learned last month when several large parties failed to arrive on a weekend…
Buffalo Doughboy won the Best Bakery award in the Best of Denver 2010. Business boomed, and in April 2012 the bakery moved out of its tiny spot in a Victorian home off Broadway for a space three times as large, and a mile south on Broadway itself. But business in…
Mark Antonation has been eating his way up Federal Boulevard in A Federal Case, and yesterday he reached Pho Duy, the third spot in Denver’s trio of terrific noodle joints in one strip mall. You’d think that would be enough for some people…but no. See also: – Pho Duy: round…
Stake your claim in the latest residential hotspot,” urges the story in Saturday’s New Homes section in the Denver Post touting an open house at Century Communities at Candelas. A really hot spot: the half-life for plutonium is 24,000 years. Century isn’t the only home builder developing Candelas, a 2,000-acre…
Squeaky Bean won’t turn one until later this month, but already the restaurant has given LoDo a couple of presents: an outdoor patio with seating for sixteen, and a new happy hour that starts at 4 p.m. (an hour earlier than the restaurant used to open) and runs until 6…
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” said George Santayana, who condensed his moral code into The Life of Reason in 1951 — the same year the feds announced they was building a facility dedicated to fighting the Cold War sixteen miles northwest of Denver. The…
Pizza joints are popping up along Broadway, which lost a couple of Mexican mainstays last month. Although Adelita’s Cocina y Cantina opened a few weeks ago at 1294 South Broadway, that’s still a mile south of where Juanita’s and El Diablo closed their doors. Will the opening of a sixth…
Is it bye-bye for Boone? The once-official, now unofficial University of Denver mascot was all over the news at the end of May, when DU’s lacrosse team made it to the semi-finals in Philadelphia and ESPN2 showed many closeups of the Disney-designed character adopted by the school in 1968, booted…
The face of Broadway is changing — fast — and the stretch heading south from First Avenue saw plenty of changes in May. Sketch and El Diablo closed at the start of the month, ending one chapter of the long-running saga of the circa 1906 First Avenue Hotel. And at…
