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A server at chef/restaurateur Troy Guards downtown steakhouse, Guard and Grace, found a big surprise after a guest wrapped up dinner on Saturday, February 20. The credit-card receipt on the table was scrawled with the words "COVID Sucks! $200.00 each employee," and was signed "The COVID Bandit." While the tip could have been passed off as a joke, the customer was true to his word, showing up later and handing out a total of $6,800 in cash to Guards staff. "He didnt want his name or face publici...

Lea Janes Hot Chicken debuted at Avanti Food & Beverage a year ago, giving chef/owner Nick Graves barely a month to make a splash with his Nashville-style hot chicken sandwiches and other Southern fare before the pandemic shut down dining rooms across Colorado. But Graves stuck it out with takeout and delivery until Avanti reopened at partial capacity, and now that hes had a chance to give Denver a taste of his cooking, hes expanding Lea Janes wingspan. A second location of Lea Janes will soon ...

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Cafe Aion chef/owner Dakota Soifer has been putting much of his effort into the takeout side of his business. Last summer he launched two ghost kitchens out of the little Spanish eatery on Boulders University Hill. Brasserie Boulder gave takeout and delivery customers traditional French options designed to travel well, whileLil Bubs Family Meal offered large portions of lasagna, cassoulet, paella and other comforting eats. Soifer is now ready to reopen Cafe ...

Another In-N-Out Burger is about to open — and one Denver sports-bar owner knew about it long before the rest of us. Chris Fuselier runs the Blake Street Tavern, at 2301 Blake Street, but he and his brothers also own the property at 9171 West Westview Road in Lone Tree, where the California burger chain is getting ready for its grand opening, possibly before the end of February. Fuselier says his family bought the property in 1998 and operated the Suds Factory Car Wash there for 21 years bef...

Our weekly list of new Denver restaurants and closings from February 15 to 21, 2021.

LoDo's newest bar is a secluded all-day cafe called the Wild, located in a courtyard on Wynkoop Street across from Union Station.

Under executive chef Duncan Holmes and director of experience Allison Anderson, Beckon flourished as Denvers first chefs counter-only restaurant when it opened in 2018. Beckon and Call, its sibling restaurant right next door, drew national attention, earning praise as one of the nations top dining destinations. But Call was undergoing renovations when the pandemic hit Denver last March and has yet to reopen, and Beckon, with fewer than twenty seats indoors, has shifted all of its operations to ...

Some restaurants serve food grown on local farms. Eric and Jill Skokan moved their restaurant, Black Cat Bistro, to their own farm at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Some restaurants compost. The Skokans are using compost to help heat the dining cabanas that have kept guests at their farm cozy all winter. These are just a few of the things that the Skokans have accomplished over the past year that recently earned Black Cat the Virginia Patterson Business of the Year award from the B...

Bars offer a form of intimacy: Youre shoulder-to-shoulder with fellow drinkers, face-to-face with your bartender and only a few feet from the source of your next drink. Conversation and camaraderie flow like beer from the tap, and toasts among strangers (if there is such a thing as a stranger at your favorite watering hole) are common — whether to celebrate, commiserate or just knock back another shot. But bars have suffered greatly during the pandemic. Most bar stools have been eliminated, ...

Over the past eleven months, Colfax Avenue just hasnt been the same without the glowing sign of Petes Satire Lounge advertising "Mixed Drinks." The pandemic closed the legendary watering hole last March (along with every other bar and dining room in the state), but unlike other spots that reopened at the end of May, the Satire remained shuttered. But now the Contos family, which has operated the bar at 1920 East Colfax Avenue for nearly sixty years, plans to reopen Petes Satire Lounge on Friday...