Cliff Young

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Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

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Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

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Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

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Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

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Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

When You Dish Upon a Star

Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

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Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

At Your Service

Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

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Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

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Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

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Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

CLASS ACTS

Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

IT'S THE DREGS

Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

GRAPE EXPECTATIONS

Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

THRILLS

Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

FISH OUT OF WATER

Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

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Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

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Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

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Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

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Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

THRILLS

Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

HEAD FOR THE HILLS

Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

HOW THE SOUTHWEST WAS WON

Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

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Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

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Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

THRILLS

Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

MOUTHING OFF

Stew Jackson let one of Denver's oldest family-owned businesses slip away, but his bands play on.

Chef and Tell: Tyler Wiard of Elway's

Lori Midson​"I got my ass kicked, but man, did I learn a lot," recalls Tyler Wiard, talking about the early '90s and his days as a line cook for Dave Query and John Platt at Q's Restaurant in the Hotel Boulderado. He must have been up to the task, because Query pulled him off that line and int ... More >>

Oooh la la! Cliff Young is back, and opening a steakhouse at the Diamond Cabaret

Cliff Young, back behind the bar.​When Cliff Young's opened back in 1984, it was the hottest restaurant in town -- a beautiful space on East 17th Avenue that was full of beautiful people eating beautiful food. After that run ended in '93, Young wound up moving to France, where he bought an old man ... More >>

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​Boy, oh, boy. Today in Cafe Society: • Top ten ways America ruined pizza. • Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill opens today in Park Meadows. • The gang's all beer! • Strings serves up an unbeatable beet recipe. • Oooh la la! Cliff Young is back, and opening a steakhouse at the Diamond Cab ... More >>

Cliff Young stakes a claim on CY Steak

​Boy, oh, boy. Today in Cafe Society: • Top ten ways America ruined pizza. • Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill opens today in Park Meadows. • The gang's all beer! • Strings serves up an unbeatable beet recipe. • Oooh la la! Cliff Young is back, and opening a steakhouse at the Diamond Cab ... More >>

Chef and Tell: Sean Yontz of Tambien, Sketch and Mezcal

Sean Yontz​"Hey, get up, I have something to show you," instructs Sean Yontz as he strides into Sketch, one of the five venues he oversees with business partner Jesse Morreale. And their mini-empire will soon expand to a half-dozen, because Yontz, it turns out, is booting me off my stool to sh ... More >>

Girls and grills at CY Steak

CY Steak has its own entrance next to the Diamond Cabaret.​Cliff Young, whose eponymously named restaurant transformed the Denver dining scene, is back in business at the Diamond Cabaret, where his CY Steak opened this week at 1222 Glenarm Place. It was a soft opening -- in a room full of hard ... More >>

Today's daily dose of food porn, courtesy of C Y Steak

A Flickr photo​ Just in case you haven't heard, there's a new steak house in town -- and it comes with a side of strip ... tease. Cliff Young, one of Denver's best-known restaurateurs, recently returned from a 12-year extended holiday in France at the Chateau Cote d'Or to open C Y Steak, a s ... More >>

Diamond Cabaret gets a new menu, courtesy CY Steak

Lori MidsonAt CY Steak, the Caesar salad is dressed...even if the entertainers aren't.​How cold was it last night? So cold that Barry Fey was wearing long pants. But the dining room at CY Steak, the revamped steakhouse attached to the Diamond Cabaret at 1222 Glenarm Place, warmed up fast -- a ... More >>

Guess where I'm eating?

​Long before other Denver restaurants started offering pico de gallo -- or naming themselves Pico De Gallo -- this Mexican eatery was making fans with its "special" salsa. Among the fans eating there Sunday night: former mayor Wellington Webb and some of his extended family and, just a table ... More >>

Tonight: Bare skin on bareback!

​Only in Denver. Only at 1222 Glenarm. On one side, fine French food at CY Steak, Cliff Young's new restaurant. And on the other? The Diamond Cabaret, whose emissaries have been spotted at the Stock Show, touting whiskey specials and "topless square dances" all week. And tonight only: topl ... More >>

Green Fairy at CY Steak

​Only in Denver. Only at 1222 Glenarm. On one side, fine French food at CY Steak, Cliff Young's new restaurant. And on the other? The Diamond Cabaret, whose emissaries have been spotted at the Stock Show, touting whiskey specials and "topless square dances" all week. And tonight only: topl ... More >>

Relish It, a gourmet burger joint, opens in Littleton with a former Park Burger chef at the helm

Lori Midson​It was a trip to the bank, followed by a jaunt to a burger shack in San Diego, that convinced Terry Sandrin to open his own meat emporium. "I was at our local bank in Littleton last fall, and there was a couple who was grilling burgers outside in the parking lot with a line that w ... More >>