Restaurants

ClusterTruck is showing Denverites a new way to experience delivery food. The restaurant’s delivery-only model offers an end to lukewarm food and soggy sandwiches…

“Red or green?” the server asks yet another customer during lunch service at Little Anita’s Foods of New Mexico, a Denver branch of an Albuquerque original that’s been smothering stacked enchiladas and burritos for more than forty years. She doesn’t have to ask the question of every diner; regulars blurt…

Customers looking for a hot breakfast and a cup of coffee at DJ’s 9th Avenue Cafe (865 Lincoln Street) this morning were instead greeted with note on the door explaining that the breakfast eatery is now closed. The sign reads “Thanks again for making the last 12 years of our lives…

News came down last week that Steve Ells is resigning from the CEO position at Chipotle, closing the door on a nearly 25-year chapter during which he grew the burrito company from a tiny shop on Evans Avenue — originally intended to be a cash cow for the fine dining…

Chef Pino Saverino remodeled his Italian restaurant, Pino’s Place (1400 East Hampden Avenue in Cherry Hill Village), just over a year ago, but in mid-October an allegedly drunk driver tried to do a little extra renovation. A minivan jumped the curb and punched a hole in the exterior wall of the…

In-N-Out Burger, a legendary chain that got its start in California seventy years ago, is finally coming to Colorado. But some readers aren’t rejoicing.

The restaurants keep coming, even if the rest of us just want to hibernate for the remainder of 2017. Fortunately for hungry bears looking to pack on some winter fat, there’s plenty of variety for foraging: sushi and other more esoteric Japanese cuisine, comfort food with a little rock ‘n…

November was the month for doubling down. Ambli, Bardo Coffee House, Godfather’s Pizza, the Post Brewing Company, Punch Bowl Social and the Soul Kitchen all made it a duo with new locations of their existing operations. In addition, the owners of Blackbelly, Bistro Barbes and Historians Ale House all opened…

The Wazee Lounge & Supper Club moved into an old plumbing shop at the corner of Wazee and 15th streets almost fifty years ago and has held court there ever since, standing as a reminder of a bygone era as lower downtown became LoDo and Denver’s urban core gentrified around it…

Local lovers of In-N-Out will soon have a reason to drive to Colorado Springs. The popular West Coast burger chain is developing a restaurant at the Corner of Interquest and Voyager parkways.

What’s celebrity chef Hugh Acheson doing in an Airstream trailer whipping up tacos in Denver? He’s busy promoting his latest cookbook. It may surprise fans of this Top Chef judge and two-time James Beard Award winner (one for his cookbook, A New Turn In The South: Southern Flavors Reinvented for…

Denver has never been much of a late-night city outside of a few club zones, but with the influx of service industry employees moving to town to fill restaurant jobs, more and more Denver residents are looking for food and drink options past 10 p.m. Corey Baker, chef/partner of Sushi…

When Steve Ells launched the first Chipotle in a former Dolly Madison ice cream parlor on East Evans Avenue nearly 25 years ago, it was the start of a revolution that would dramatically reshape the restaurant industry, making Denver the fast-casual capital of the country in the process. Today, the company announced that Ells’s time in the CEO role is coming to a close: Chipotle’s founder and leader is stepping down.

Bo Porytko and Dan Lasiy planted Rebel in an old dive bar at the edge of RiNo two and a half years ago, and they’ve been trying to persuade Denver to eat more adventurously ever since. Self-described opposites in their kitchen-management style, the lifelong friends nevertheless share creative control, fueled…

We’re all plagued by construction these days, with projects creating everything from road closures and traffic jams to the dust from a neighbor’s scrape-and-build and noise bouncing of the concrete canyons downtown. But when you’re trying to launch a new restaurant and the city tears up the sidewalks in front…

Where a quick-service Mongolian barbecue failed, pizza will give it a go. Pieology, a pizza chain based in California, will take over the space at 1147 Broadway where NuHu Mongolian Express closed just over a year ago. Pieology kicks off business tomorrow (Wednesday, November 29) with a giveaway that could…

Bringing your dog to the bar has been a thing for eons, but what if we told you that your dog can knock back a cold one with you? Thanks to Brandon Zavala of Apollo Peak, makers of Cat Wine and Fur Loco, Fido now has his own artisan beverage…

Play it safe at Senor Bear and you don’t be disappointed. But at its best, the restaurant is playful, creative and rooted in Latin tradition.

The final piece in Zeppelin Station’s food hall has fallen into place; chef Cindhura Reddy and her husband, Elliot Strathmann, are adding Namkeen, a fast-casual counter that will focus on South Indian street food. You may have eaten Reddy’s cooking, but it probably wasn’t Indian —  unless you’re a friend…

There may not be a better name out there for a food-service company than Radical Sasquatch Dumpling Company. It simultaneously commands attention and creates a dumpling craving — just what founders Lucas Doverspike and Matt Faurot were hoping for. The two launched their food truck in August and have been…

More than a year has passed since Osaka Ramen closed its Cherry Creek outpost at 2817 East Third Avenue, and finally the void has been filled. Fortune Wok to Table opened earlier this month, serving lunch and dinner. Fortune specializes in Shanghai-style cuisine, with a brief lunch menu of just…

What would Denver diners like to see on the local scene? More reasonably priced restaurants.