Colin Wrenn has been in food, drink, and luxury travel journalism for over 10 years, largely covering the Colorado area. He's focused on dining in Denver, Boulder, and the Mountain region. His work has appeared across Colorado publications, including The Denver Post and The Boulder Weekly, and is nationally represented in Food & Wine, The Infatuation, Inked, and others.
In his free time, catch him with a book, a glass of tequila or out walking his dog Tanuki.
Even though she didn’t think that she was going to win, Penelope Wong still had her hopes up. This was the third summer she’d kicked off in Chicago, and the fourth year she had received a nod from the James Beard Foundation. She and her entire back-of-house staff were...
Johnny and Kasie Curiel have been on a warpath. For most restaurateurs, opening one fine dining restaurant a year would be enough. But not for these two. The debut of Milpero, a corn-focused 18-course chef's counter in the heart of RiNo, would surely satiate...
Well, Thornton to be exact. But for the first time in its 22-year history, the beloved and growing place for all things chicken, Wing Shack, has come to roost in the Denver Metro. Lots of people from the city already knew about Wing Shack. So when it opened its...
Just over a month ago was the first time visitors to Empower Field may have noticed a couple of dudes selling burritos out of the top of a 1971 Volkswagen Bay Window. A strange sight indeed at a Morgan Wallen show. But the growing line to get tacos and loaded nachos...
A good fifteen years has passed between when Uchiko opened in Austin and when one landed in Cherry Creek. But lucky for Denver, the decidedly more brawny sister restaurant to Uchi arrived in town in February of this year. The place serves a sizable list of exquisite...
Niko Diamantopoulos pays attention to what Denver is missing. A few years back, he noticed a severe lack of doner kebabs and opened Berliner Haus. What started as a tent-based side project spiraled into what now amounts to two food trucks, a kebab cart and a stall at...
It’s been a long year since Denver lost Middleman. The closure of the “classy and trashy” hangout, with its Malort shots and bar food from Molotov’s Bo Porytko, left a hole in the city’s drinking culture that has been hard to fill. Some good, and a few great, bars...
When Little Wolf first opened last Memorial Day, it was serving what co-owner Clarke Boyer calls “chaos cuisine.” A couple dozen plates from around the world were specifically designed to match the upwards of 100 whiskey bottles the place stocks and curates. The...
It’s no big secret that the dining world at large lauds The Wolf’s Tailor with undisguised admiration. For good reason. The Sunnyside restaurant from Kelly Whitaker serves heady, forward-thinking fare, makes a point of publicly venerating producers and discussing...
For lots of people, attending the FAN EXPO is a noble quest. Hot days and heavy costumes make sure of that. For others, it’s a race. A father dressed as Yoshi pushing a baby Toad in a stroller, trailed closely thereafter by a mother-daughter Luigi-Mario duo, drives...