Good Taste
by Colin Wrenn
Maine line
When Drew Ryan opened Maine Shack in Denver’s LoHi neighborhood at the tail end of 2019, he was looking for a home away from...
The sanctuary
When Pat McGaughran opened The Rio in Fort Collins in 1986, it was just 19 tables and a small closet where he and a...
‘A sweet little treat at the end of the day’
Andrea Uzarowski spent more than two decades dreaming of opening a bakery. But first, she had to work at Noma, the beloved Copenhagen eatery.
She...
Sorry, gotta bounce
Last night, I strapped on a full-body velcro suit and, after charging across a 15-foot inflatable ramp, hurled myself against a velcro wall where...
Our daily bread
Whenever dinner hit the table, it was always, ‘Mangia mangia, let’s eat guys,’” says Jeremiah Harvey, owner of the recently debuted Mangia Panino.
Harvey grew...
The bomb
On any given afternoon, longtime locals can be found strolling into Sushi Hana to be warmly greeted by the owners, who everyone knows as...
Stem Ciders branches out
When Stem Ciders founders Eric Foster and Phil Kao first opened their urban cidery in RiNo in 2013, they didn’t know that within a...
Swan song
Chef John Bissell has spent two illustrious years running the kitchen at OAK at Fourteenth. During that time, he put his signature on seven...
A.M. OG
The top of the menu at Mateo reads: “It is around the table that friends understand best the warmth of being together.” It doesn’t...
A happy couple
When Chef Casey Taylor took the helm of the culinary program at Idaho Springs-based brewery Westbound and Down, the location already had a good...
Merci beaucoup
He’s the magician and I’m the bubbly, happy front,” says a beaming Agnes Garrigou. She’s talking about her husband Quentin, who just stepped out...
The main thing
Peter Waters knows keeping it simple works. He’s the managing partner at T/aco, but also runs Ruthie’s Boardwalk Social, which serves just shy of...
