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Friday, October 30, 2026 — The Menu: Shoring up food banks, celebrating bison, and a new tribal flour mill
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:30 — 38.8MB) | Embed. Rising consumer costs and cuts to subsidized food programs are increasing the pressure on organizations that deliver food assistance. Native American food pantries are trying to forge new partnerships and develop additional tribal resources — like farms and meat processors — to meet the demand, all while reducing the stigma for those seeking help putting food on their tables. We’ll hear about how Native organization in Denver is doing to meet increasing demand.
hoodline.com
Leven's Downtown Denver Restaurant at Block 162 Keeps Slipping, Now Eyed for 2027
A long-promised restaurant and bar from Leven, the Denver deli group known for scratch-made sandwiches, is still not open in the ground-floor retail space it leased at Block 162, the 30-story office tower at 1520 California Street in the city's central business district. Leven Brands proprietor Anthony Lygizos has described the eventual spot, Leven Downtown, as a full-service restaurant and bar that will expand on the company's deli roots with a wider menu and a more traditional restaurant setting, but the opening date has moved repeatedly, and the latest word points to 2027.
takemetotn.com
Colorado’s New Japanese Grocery Stocks Fresh Seafood, Bento Boxes, And Snacks Flown In From Japan
Downtown Denver has a grocery store where you can pick up sashimi-grade tuna, a ready-made chicken katsu meal, and a bag of mochi in one quick stop. It sits a short walk from Coors Field, yet plenty of Front Range shoppers still drive past it on the way to bigger chain markets. Families have trusted it for generations, and some of today’s regular shoppers first came here as kids holding a parent’s hand.
takemetotn.com
This Old-School Englewood Italian Joint Still Piles Plates High Enough To Feed You Twice
Some lunches end at the table, and some follow you home in a box for tomorrow. On one busy stretch of South Broadway in Englewood, a family-run corner spot has been sending people out the door with leftovers for years. The subs are still cheap enough to make you double-check the receipt.
diningout.com
Chef Takeover: Get to Know the Team at BearLeek and the Denver Restaurant’s New Fall Menu
It’s not every day we get to witness a menu change in real time, but today BearLeek owners and chefs Harrison Porter and Rema Maaliki are taking over our Instagram stories and giving us a peek into operations. Which, as it happens, includes a fall/winter menu full of comforting dishes built around squash, rabbit, duck, and scallops.
milehighcre.com
Bento Box Restaurant Leaves Colfax for Cherry Creek
BOXBOX, the Denver fast-casual restaurant known for bold, composed salads and signature bento boxes, has signed a lease for its next home at 3003 East 3rd Avenue, Suite B, in Cherry Creek. After a year on East Colfax Avenue, the 1,290-square-foot restaurant will seat 12 and is planned to open in early 2027 with an expanded menu.
Westword
Denver beermaker named Food & Wine ‘Brewer of the Year’
It’s been a good month for the team at Denver’s Bierstadt Lagerhaus. Fresh off its gold medal win at the recent Great American Beer Festival for its Japanese rice lager Infinite Hotel collaboration with Wayfinder Beer, co-founder and head brewer Ashleigh Carter was just named Brewer of the Year by Food & Wine magazine’s 2026 Drinks Visionary program.