Tag: Craving Colorado
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In a marginalized neighborhood of Denver, a stronghold of sweets and comfort
GLOBEVILLE • The kids need to know their elders, need to know their roots. They need to know this place that families have called home for generations, this place at a crossroads of Denver highways, tucked below Interstate 70, so often passed and overlooked by outsiders but deeply loved within. This is what Angela Garcia…
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Davies’ Chuck Wagon Diner has stood the test of time in Lakewood | Craving Colorado
LAKEWOOD • The woman sits at the barstool and takes it all in: the jukebox and old-time tunes; the tile floors and stainless steel walls commemorating Elvis and Betty Boop; the glass case of pies; the regulars down the counter, sipping coffee in the place they’ve known for decades. As for the unfamiliar face this…
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For 80 years, Denver’s Cherry Cricket has resisted change with burgers, bits of magic | Craving Colorado
DENVER • What made the Cherry Cricket so great? This is a question Lee Driscoll has often considered throughout his two decades of ownership. “Fairy dust” was the answer he came up with upon stepping into the Cherry Creek institution in 2001. “I did really believe it was fairy dust,” he says now. “And I…
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Coloradans are flocking to ‘America’s highest fried chicken’ | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ALMA • The bearded, long-haired, tattooed man behind America’s proclaimed highest fried chicken in terms of altitude — and also maybe Colorado’s hottest in terms of recent popularity — is wearing a baggy shirt and sweats and sandals as he dashes up the road to…
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A Sherpa’s unlikely journey to food and drink fame in Boulder | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BOULDER • Pemba Sherpa is often sipping chai. Not just any chai, but his chai. The chai of Sherpa Chai, the company that grew out of his longstanding restaurant here in an old Victorian house along Walnut Street. More importantly, it’s the chai of his…
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Fufu and fortitude: How an African restaurant beat the odds in Denver | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save LAKEWOOD • A restaurant’s menu can be a glimpse into a life. This is especially true at African Grill and Bar. A picture of the Osei-Fordwuo family is on the first of the menu’s eight pages, along with words on how they came to establish…
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Generations of family have made Pueblo’s Mill Stop a must-stop | Craving Colorado
PUEBLO • It’s not your typical wait list. It’s Mark Mares’ wait list, a sheet of paper that grows all afternoon with names he knows. The owner of the Mill Stop Cafe does not have to ask most who pop their familiar faces through the door before joining the line spilling outside. It’s the common…
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How ‘the world’s most perfect food’ came to Colorado | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save FORT COLLINS • There’s an old song, “Waltzing Matilda.” It’s an old Australian song. “It’s about a wandering hobo,” Steve Phillips says. He would not describe himself as a hobo back in 2004, but a ski bum, yes. He was a wandering soul indeed, an…
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The rebirth of Cow Palace: Renovated hotel brings upscale dining to Colorado’s plains | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save LAMAR • The big, blocky hotel that was a Best Western and then a Rodeway Inn and then closed — dark, damaged and stained, full of outdated furniture and pigeons — was no place for the upscale restaurant that EJ Carpenter and Ezra Gutierrez had in…
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A Boulder breakfast institution built on strong will, filled pancakes | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BOULDER • Jacquie Meyer was sipping tea one recent morning at the bar of the restaurant she owns, The Buff, when she struck up a conversation with a regular. “I get this every single time,” the man said of his breakfast plate, “and my eggs…