Just over a month ago was the first time visitors to Empower Field may have noticed a couple of...
Food, drink and the people who make it all possible.
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...
Aguanile is a great place to have a drink. It sits within stumbling distance of the Alameda Station light rail stop. Its rum selection is one of the best in the city. But the new Puerto Rican social club from husband and wife Christy Rivera and Ben Oakes is much more...
Jake Norris thinks people should have dinner parties again. He said so himself, last night, while addressing a crowd of roughly 40 whiskey aficionados at his new distillery in Arvada. Folks were gathered there to celebrate the first release of the Curated Barrel...
Most of Denver’s older heads have something resembling a memory of RockBar. For those unfamiliar with the institution, it was the stickiest of sticky bars, a place where folks went to unwind while hopefully avoiding contact with the surfaces. When it shuttered in...
It hardly took any time at all for BearLeek to establish itself as one of the most exciting restaurants ever to emerge in Denver's RiNo neighborhood. Since debuting in August 2025, the restaurant has quickly gained acclaim for its mostly refined, often irreverent...
For those who aren't already familiar with Park Hill, Lucina Eatery and Bar might seem a little off the beaten track. It’s situated in a picturesque two-block stretch of restaurants, wine bars, bakeries and a gymnastics school, a somewhat odd assembly that seems to...
Chef Manny Barella says that when he goes to a restaurant, he never orders chicken. It's too easy to mess up. More often than not, it arrives dry, flavorless or otherwise askew. But the chef insists that he has no beef with America's most prevalent protein. ...