New York Street Food Icon The Halal Guys Opens Its First Colorado Location in Aurora
On Friday, June 18, The Halal Guys will open its first Colorado location as part of Parkside Retail and Residential in Aurora. Serving the classic menu of chick...
Colin Wrenn
The Vail Craft Beer Classic Is Returning The Weekend of June 25
On Friday, June 25 The Vail Craft Beer Classic will return for its fifth year, helping to kick off the 2021 food and beverage festival season. With heavy-hitter...
Dirty Laundry Delivers a Midwestern-Style Neighborhood Bar to Central Park
While Denver's throngs of imbibers certainly appreciate a good neighborhood bar, the culture has never developed around them in nearly the same way as it did in...
RedCamper Picnic Supply Makes and Stocks Local Goods Built for Adventure
Before Maura Gramzinski opened her camping, travel, road trip and storytelling-inspired pop-up shop over the holiday season of 2020 RedCamper had gone through m...
Mono Mono Fried Chicken and Beer Centers Fantastic Cuisine Around Korean Drinking Culture
In March 2021, Mono Mono Fried Chicken and Beer opened just off the lower end of 16th Street Mall, replacing the short-lived Koba as downtown's best source for ...
Acclaimed Tequila and Mezcal Bar Ghost Donkey Arrives Across From Union Station At Last
On Thursday, May 27 the hotly-anticipated Ghost Donkey finally opened its doors in a compact but extraordinarily outfitted room across from Union Station, bring...
EDGE Restaurant Reopens Alongside a Revamped Four Seasons Hotel Downtown
On Monday, May 31 the Four Seasons Denver will reopen after a seven-month renovation. As part of the massive overhaul, EDGE Restaurant — the hotel's formerly so...
Bruto Serves Up Tacos and Mezcal With Alley-Bound BOH While Upping The Ante Indoors
"For me, Bruto represents being crude and raw," said chef Michael Diaz de Leon. A fascinating statement coming from the man who currently helms one of the city'...
Denver’s Adrian Miller Shines the Spotlight on the History of Black Barbecue in His New Book
In his new book Black Smoke, local soul food historian Adrian Miller takes aim at the whitewashing of American barbecue. He does this by establishing an inclusi...
Denver’s Pupusas Lover Will Make You Fall For Salvadoran Cuisine
There's not a ton of Salvadoran cuisine to be found in Denver. Fortunately for the dining public, three sisters — Silvia, Claudia and Angelica Quijada — have be...
Doña Loca Brings Small Batch Artisanal Mezcal to Bars and Restaurants Across Denver
Chef Dana Rodriguez has been keeping busy. At the beginning of May, she reopened both her downtown restaurants — Super Mega Bien and Work and Class — after a lo...
Local Chefs Team Up for Fundraiser to Support AAPI
It all began with a simple question. On one of Yuan Wonton's Penelope Wong's routine visits to Ulster Street Pastry's Carolyn Nugent, Nugent asked Wong how she ...
Colin Wrenn
Staff Writer
Born and raised in Colorado, Colin has spent many years navigating the excellent Denver dining scene. Food, books and beverage occupy most of the man's time.