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Libby Birky

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    Colorado Restaurant Association announces Spotlight award-winners

    The Colorado Restaurant Association usually waits until its annual dinner celebration to announce its Industry Spotlight Awards. But this year, it's revealed more than a dozen people who'll be honored at the April 4 event at the Ritz Carlton, including the new additions to the Colorado Food Service ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Video: Watch all seven presentations from this year's TEDx Mile High Salon online

    In January, the Denver branch of the national TED think tank staged its first-ever salon (and second-ever event). The evening's three hours of discussions and performances featured seven area personalities sharing their Ideas Worth Spreading -- with a couple even marking return performances with pro ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2012

    TEDx Marks The Spot

    In January, the Denver branch of the national TED think tank staged its first-ever salon (and second-ever event). The evening's three hours of discussions and performances featured seven area personalities sharing their Ideas Worth Spreading -- with a couple even marking return performances with pro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    TEDx Mile High recreates the eighteenth century salon tonight

    Every TEDx event is many things, and all of them are happening at once. A cross between a theater and a lecture hall, the discussion series follows a creative combination of performance and insight, becoming a circus for the mind. And tonight, local chapter TEDx Mile High will reinvision an abridged ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    SAME Cafe celebrates its fifth birthday with Hunger Free Colorado

    ​When Brad and Libby Birky started SAME Cafe five years ago, people thought they were nuts. So did the Birkys, really. Even before they opened the doors to the restaurant -- the name stands for So All May Eat, and they'd adopted a pay-what-you-can model that had been tried in a couple of spots ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    SAME Cafe wins a major award -- and a major remodel

    SAME Cafe is wonderfully different...​ For five years, SAME Cafe has been doing good. And now its good works have been rewarded, again: The Restaurant Facility Management Association has made it the recipient of the RFMA Gives Program for 2012. Founded by Brad and Libby Birky in October 200 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Part two: SAME Cafe's Brad Birky on Queen Elizabeth, Led Zeppelin and the woman who wanted one egg

    Lori MidsonBrad and Libby Birky, owners of the SAME Cafe​ This is part two of Lori Midson's interview with Brad Birky, chef/owner of the SAME Cafe. To read part one of this interview, click here. Greatest accomplishment as a chef: Starting SAME Cafe with really no kitchen experience to spea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Community Cafe is bringing the pay-what-you-want model to Boulder

    Photo courtesy of Sandy RobinsonSandy Robinson will be warming up Boulder diners at her new restaurant soon.​Pay-what-you-want is coming to Boulder. A new cafe modeled after Denver's SAME Cafe is in the works with the operating name Community Cafe and a guiding philosophy of "giving back, giv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Cafe 180 opening pushed back

    ​The opening of one of Denver's new pay-what-you-can restaurants has been pushed back while its owner gets the space in fighting shape. Cafe 180, slated to open at 3315 South Broadway in Englewood, was aiming for a mid-June debut. "[W]e've been working on the installation of the kitchen and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    SAME Cafe inspires corporate chain Panera to offer its guests a pay-what-you-can option

    A Flickr photo​A new cafe run by Panera Bread in St. Louis has caught the nation's attention. Why? Hint: It's not because of the bread. The cafe, operating under the name St. Louis Bread Co., is a non-profit -- a pay-what-you can afford non-profit. Ring a bell? Cafe Society readers know tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    SAME Cafe profile serves up a James Beard award

    ​When Brad and Libby Birky opened their restaurant, SAME Cafe, at 2023 East Colfax Avenue, people didn't give the venture much of a chance. After all, the name stood for "So All May Eat," and signaled the couple's willingness to serve everyone, regardless of how much money the diners had, reg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    SAME Cafe profile wins James Beard Foundation award

    SAME Cafe serves all, regardless of what they can pay.​Jared Jacang Maher's February 2009 Westword cover story on SAME Cafe just won a prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for newspaper feature writing about restaurants and/or chefs. The name of Brad and Libby Birky's restaurant at 2023 E ... More >>

  • News

    March 12, 2009

    From the week of March 12, 2009

    SAME Cafe serves all, regardless of what they can pay.​Jared Jacang Maher's February 2009 Westword cover story on SAME Cafe just won a prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for newspaper feature writing about restaurants and/or chefs. The name of Brad and Libby Birky's restaurant at 2023 E ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 26, 2009

    SAME Cafe: The restaurant where you pay what you can

    SAME Cafe serves all, regardless of what they can pay.​Jared Jacang Maher's February 2009 Westword cover story on SAME Cafe just won a prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for newspaper feature writing about restaurants and/or chefs. The name of Brad and Libby Birky's restaurant at 2023 E ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2008

    More of the same at SAME

    SAME Cafe serves all, regardless of what they can pay.​Jared Jacang Maher's February 2009 Westword cover story on SAME Cafe just won a prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for newspaper feature writing about restaurants and/or chefs. The name of Brad and Libby Birky's restaurant at 2023 E ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2008

    The SAME, But Different

    SAME Cafe serves all, regardless of what they can pay.​Jared Jacang Maher's February 2009 Westword cover story on SAME Cafe just won a prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for newspaper feature writing about restaurants and/or chefs. The name of Brad and Libby Birky's restaurant at 2023 E ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 15, 2008

    Son Set

    A dining room of one’s own.

  • Dining

    February 21, 2008

    Pizza the Action

    From SAME Cafe to Bruno’s, pie is infinite.

  • Dining

    November 1, 2007

    Underground

    Things are looking up at Larimer Square.

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