KJ’s Coffee Bar opened last summer at 1710 East 25th Avenue, but it finally held its grand opening celebration on May 23. And KJ’s could soon have more reason to celebrate. This community gathering place for the Whittier neighborhood is going for a beer/wine liquor license, with a hearing slated…
RESTAURANT OPENINGS IN MAY Belemonti’s Pizzeria, 644 Santa Fe Drive Otto’s Grill, 2200 Market Street Pho on 6th, 1312 East Sixth Avenue Olivea, 719 East 17th Avenue Buffalo Wild Wings, 15570 West 64th Avenue, Arvada Recovery Room, 819 Colorado Boulevard Pizza Republica, 5375 Landmark Place, Greenwood Village Gelato Spot, 607…
Smart Start Toasted Oat Kellogg’s Rating: Two-and-a-half spoons out of four Cereal description: Heavy, dark oat flakes that ripple and curl like shingles that should have been replaced a few decades earlier. They’re supplemented by rolled oats, wheat, rice and God knows what else bound together in light-hued wads that…
Tonight, at 5:30 p.m., Frasca Food & Wine, at 1738 Pearl Street in Boulder, is hosting a winemaker dinner with Jean Georges porn star exec pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini, who also did time in several other celebrated New York kitchens, including Payard and Restaurant Daniel. Iuzzini, along with Frasca exec…
This Sunday, from 3 to 6 p.m., the Tavern Tech Center, 5336 DTC Boulevard, celebrates its first anniversary with Shock Top Belgian White beers for a mere dollar and a complimentary buffet featuring Kobe beef sliders, among other foodstuffs, all of which will be served on the Tavern’s easy, breezy…
This month, the Colorado Restaurant Association inducted three people into its Hall of Fame, an honor bestowed on those who’ve had a huge impact on the local restaurant scene. The CRA also awarded the Richard P. Ayers Award for Distinguished Service to Dick Weil. Weil’s restaurant career began humbly, when…
With the Boulder Bolder over, it’s safe to head back up I-36 — particularly if you’re bound for the Black Cat Bistro, at 1964 13th Street in Boulder. Owner/chef Eric Skokan is continuing his Sunday “Dirt Dinner” series that focuses on ingredients grown in his own garden; the May 31…
What you might have missed on this week’s Cafe Society:Just in time for the warm weather, we found 10 of our favorite patios.Joe Biden stopped by and got himself some Jason-Sheehan-approved barbecue.The Squeaky Bean got its share of praise from hipster Highland folks.We enjoyed our beer from a schooner.Drinking and…
So I’m walking around over at Tony’s, just trying to get a feel for the place and the lay of the land. And it’s nice, sure. There’s ten kinds of barbecue sauce, so many different kinds of mustard that the shelving unit looks like my fridge at home on a…
Perhaps, in the distant past, beer drinkers looked down their red, shiny noses at alfalfa sprout-munching yoga lovers, while those body-mind-and-soul spiritual types disdainfully ignored the smelly hopheads. But not anymore. The Bristol Brewing Company has created a place for everyone to come together, first in the downward dog position…
This week’s review of China Jade gave me another excuse to bounce around the cuisine and culture of a faraway land without having to worry about the attendant shots, jet-lag or passport issues. More important, it gave me yet more examples of the myriad ways in which pigs can be…
In apparent anticipation of The Hangover, a new movie going straight to DVD coming to a theater near you on June 5, the Northglenn-based Allied Advertising and Public Relations Group is trying to convince us that after lubricating ourselves with booze tonight, we’re going to wake up tomorrow morning (presumably…
MiniBAR, the subterranean Cherry Creek hot spot recently opened by Bill Ward and Michel Wahaltere at 222 Columbine Street, is holding its patio launch party tonight from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., but the tiny bar with the really big patio is also doubling as a Denver Nuggets fan bar…
Happening right now: The Counter at Park Meadows (a California-based chain, natch) is offering a free burger to the first fifty people willing to sell out their local team and say “Go Lakers!” Me? I couldn’t care less about basketball, but I do love burgers, so I say go for…
Yesterday, we told you about a host of Belgian beer releases in Colorado, but the brew news just won’t quit… Tonight, Boulder’s newest brewery, Upslope Brewing Company, will hold a grand opening for its tap room, at 1501 Lee Hill Road in Boulder. Upslope, which cans its beers, will have…
If you stop in at any of the 29 Einstein Bros Bagel locations throughout the state today before 11 a.m, you’ll get a free bagel just for rolling in. The complimentary bagels are part of the homegrown chain’s month-long free bagel Friday promotion, which ends today. The bagels won’t cost…
The billboard that appeared a few weeks ago was just a tease; as this morning’s drive-by view of the future LoHi SteakBar shows, the project has a long way to go before chef/partner Sean Kelly can serve up a nice, medium-rare sirloin in the building at 3200 Tejon Street that…
The burrito wars are heating up on North Federal Boulevard, with a new Santiago’s and Jack-n-Grill duking it out in the 2500 block, and Taqueria Mi Pueblo offering $1.99 breakfast burritos, as well as other authentic Mexican fare, just two blocks away at 2300 Federal. And Mi Pueblo could soon…
As ambassadors of good will, good drinks and good food, Vesta Dipping Grill, 1822 Blake Street, recently awarded free happy hours to thirty local businesses and non-profits, which, as you can imagine, made for some damn happy employees who’ll get a few more hours of happy time at Vesta’s bar…
We reported this morning about today’s liquor-license hearing for the new Snooze location at 700 Colorado Boulevard. And now, I thought I’d pass along the good news to all you pancake junkies in the neighborhood: It looks like all systems are go. I just got off the phone with Jon…
Ooh, la la. The Cheeses of France Marketing Council is putting on a 2009 “Springtime in Paris” contest, in which you could win a five-day trip for two to Paris, complete with a wine-and-cheese tasting and dinner at a Parisian restaurant, an artisanal cheesemaking experience and $500 in spending money…
Spring is the saison for Belgian-style ales, in particular because the lighter, citrusy sweet flavors – which accompany many Belgian beer types — go so well served cold after a warm, flower-fragranced day. A couple of Colorado breweries have just released their seasonal Belgians, while a couple more are on…
