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Arcana has been one of Boulders best restaurants since it opened five years ago, but the past year was tough for the fine-dining eatery. Rather than give up completely, it became Arcana From Afar, offering takeout food on a pay-what-you-can basis. A number of pop-ups followed, featuring regional dishes from around the world and occasional guest chefs, including Modou Jaiteh, who presented the West African cuisine of his eatery, Jacaranda, which was also part of the original lineup at Rosetta H...

Mark Antonation The cocktail menu currently comprises fourteen house creations divided into four categories: sparkling and low ABV, light and refreshing, rich and stirred, and no-alcohol, which all range from $11 to $15. Theres also a pair of large-format cocktails that ring in at $120, but theyre intended for at least four people and can serve up to ten. Ingredients include handmade infusions and syrups flavored with botanical barks, woods, spices and flowers, augmenting the floral theme of th...

Walk the aisles of your favorite liquor store and youll see that nearly every beverage starts with grapes or grains, mostly barley, wheat, rice or corn. Throw in honey and apples, and youve covered wine, beer, spirits, cider and mead. But in a wide swath of the tropical world, theres a fermented beverage made from something rarely seen in American liquor stores: palm sap. John Souther, a world traveler, says he and his friends, Michael Kostin and Adam Jansen, decided to create a sparkling ferme...

Some brick-and-mortar restaurants have chosen to roll out food trucks to help diversify revenue sources during the pandemic, including Colorado classics such as The Fort and Beau Jos. But one food-truck operator has gone the other direction, bringing comfort food to two Denver neighborhoods. Steven and Mandy Smith opened their first Crock Spot restaurant last November at 4045 Pecos Street. The move came after a decade of serving hearty bowls from their food truck, which got its name from crockp...

In the 2014 film  What If, two twenty-something hipsters in Toronto start talking about a sandwich that was created in Denver almost forty years ago, when the Colorado Mine Company was the hottest restaurant in Glendale, beloved by athletes, cops...and Elvis. According to legend, the gargantuan Fools Gold Loaf was cooked up one night in 1976 when the King was in town for a concert and hungry; hed later send his plane in to pick up an order. If you want to re-create this indelicate delicacy at...

Cautious optimism was the theme for bars and restaurants in February, which saw a combination of declining COVID-19 numbers, increased dining room capacity and a second round of Paycheck Protection Program loans helping businesses stay afloat. While many eateries are still choosing to stay closed until patio weather returns and health and safety for guests and employees looks more certain, a surprising number of new restaurants and bars opened last month — including a few big hitters. Biggest...

Joshua Pollack, a self-professed "Jersey boy" from Bergen County, came to Colorado in 2002 to attend the University of Colorado Boulder. He liked the state, but missed the bagels from back home. He was convinced that Colorado-made bagels could be more than just bready rings, though, and after other entrepreneurial endeavors, he decided to go to culinary school while taking post-graduate business classes. He also spent time in New York City learning the bagel trade and testing the water there b...

When you think of iconic Colorado dishes, pizza doesnt exactly spring to mind. But for fifty years, Beau Jos has been baking its distinctive Colorado mountain-style pizzas — thin on the bottom and encircled by a bready crust as fat as a mountain-bike tire. Originally, folks had to stop in Idaho Springs for a bite or a bellyful of Beau Jos, but over the years, the pizzeria expanded into multiple towns on the Front Range. No longer were the pies — sold by weight and topping out at five pounds...

This week brings the start of Jax Fish House & Oyster Bars annual Oyster Month (which is soldiering on despite the pandemic), as well as 303 Day, a gala fundraiser in the comfort of your own home (wear a gown and slippers, skip the heels), and a seafood collab — just because. Keep reading for more on those events, as well as other culinary happenings through March that you wont want to miss. Monday, March 1 This year marks the second consecutive year without the High West Oyster Fest, the ...

This was a quiet week for openings and closings, unless youre looking for new locations of your favorite fast- food joints. Cupbop, the Salt Lake City chain that does Korean barbecue in a cup and doesnt plan on slowing down until "all creatures in the universe experience Cupbop," opened its second metro Denver shop. The first is in Arvada; the second is on Colfax across from the Fitzsimons medical complex and is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday. And in Lone Tree, In-N-Out Bur...