Restaurants, Food and Drink

Chef Justin Freeman’s new pizza concept, Monarch, opens in Urban Cowboy Hotel in Denver’s Capitol Hill.

Filipino restaurant Magna Kainan to close in RiNo. Culinary Creative Group is pulling the plug on the restaurant less than two years since it opened

Atrevida Beer Co., a Latina-owned brewery in Colorado Springs, is closing roughly three and half years after the owners’ heroics during a mass shooting at a local LGBTQ+ nightclub.

Denver looking to add concessions to Sloan’s Lake, Skyline parks

Eric Dale found an ingenious way to bring yeast-raised donuts back on the brunch menu at Rioja.

Owner George Gatsiopoulos opened the restaurant in 1971, and throughout several other business ventures, it is the one still kicking.

Over the next couple years, he plans to release eight different whiskey expressions made by barrel-aging one of his original bourbon recipes in a variety of casks to invoke different flavor profiles. Though each will be a one-time offering, Norris is incentivizing drinkers to break the seal by hosting chef-driven pop-up dinners to celebrate each release and selling bottles with an accompanying zine.

The W’s owners said the economy made it “unsustainable” to continue operating their neighborhood bar

Riot BBQ and Wide Open Saloon are cementing a relationship that began at this year’s National Western Stock Show

The Peach Crease Club in RiNo, Rougarou in Five Points and Semiprecious in Highlands were named semifinalists in the ‘best new U.S. cocktail bar’ category at the 20th annual Spirited Awards. Lady Jane and Yacht Club also got nods.