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In the '80s, his eponymous restaurant revolutionized fine dining in Denver, and he was still cooking up new concepts when he passed away.

Punch Bowl Social got its start in a former Big Lots at 65 Broadway. From there, Robert Thompson grew his eatertainment complex to a nationwide chain that ultimately partnered with Cracker Barrel, of all things. But as the pandemic hit, the company wound up closing all nineteen PBS locations in March 2020, and Thompson left the group entirely. This week, though, the flagship and first Punch Bowl Social reopened (the location that had opened in Stapletons old tower is gone for good). Snarfs has ...

If this were a normal year, we’d just be pushing back from the table after the ten-day eating orgy that is usually Denver Restaurant Week. But this isn’t any normal year. On March 5, 2020, five days after the finale of last year’s Denver Restaurant Week — the sixteenth annual celebration of the city’s culinary scene designed to coincide with a slow time of year for restaurants — Colorado registered its first COVID-19 case. By March 17, all restaurants across the state had been orde...

More than 200 restaurants opened in metro Denver last year by Mark Antonations count, which he shared this past week in "Restaurant Roll Call: Every Opening and Closing in 2020." And despite the problem that the pandemic added to an already challenged dining industry, the number of eateries that closed in 2020 wasnt much higher than in 2019. But that doesnt mean restaurants are doing well. Many eateries have decided to hibernate for the next few weeks, maybe even months, and although dining roo...