Nutella

Pastry chef Samm Sherman of Linger and Root Down teaches tonight

The Seasoned Chef Cooking School, 999 Jasmine Street, is welcoming chef Samm Sherman (of Linger and Root Down) today for a special cooking class focusing on her signature pastries. The class and tasting runs from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. and costs $80. Keep reading for a look at the curriculum. See also: ... More >>

Pho Lee: So pho, so good for this Greenwood Village restaurant

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Central Bistro & Bar starts serving lunch tomorrow

Central Bistro & Bar will start serving lunch tomorrow, eight months after Isiah Salazar opened his restaurant on the very edge of LoHi, almost three months after opening exec chef Lance Barto abruptly left the kitchen. That kitchen is now in the hands of Gerard Strong, who'd come from Z Cuisine to ... More >>

Five Nutella-themed desserts to celebrate World Nutella Day in Denver

Once a year, an entire day is set aside to stop and appreciate Nutella. And today, February 5, is that day. This is the fifth annual celebration of World Nutella Day, which means it's time to celebrate this fabulous, chocolate-hazelnut spread. Whether you're a Nutella aficionado or a Nutella newbie, ... More >>

Troy Guard's latest gives people what they want: fun on a bun

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Ian Kleinman plans a second doughnut pop-up later this month at Bittersweet

For a few days late last summer, Ian Kleinman, Denver's Willy Wonka double -- and the founder of the Inventing Room, a catering company that centers around magical, mystical, molecular marvels -- took over the dining room at Table 6, where he morphed the rusticated space into a doughnut paradise, di ... More >>

Hot damn! Central Bistro & Bar redefines what a neighborhood restaurant can be

Slide show: A Closer Look at Central Bistro & Bar

Nutella waffle at Central Bistro is a spin-off of Bananas Foster

Paris isn't widely associated with street food, but some of my favorite food moments in France happened not in restaurants or bistros but at crepe stands. One crepe cart would set up outside the Odeon movie theater near my apartment; I preferred him over all the others because rather than cooking ... More >>

Win a New Year's Eve dinner for two (and a midnight celebration) at Central Bistro & Bar

While a lot of us have a standing date with the recliner, the TV and a bottle of bubbly on New Year's Eve, watching the yearly ball drop in Times Square (RIP Dick Clark) isn't exactly a thrilling way to ring in the New Year. Debauchery is much more fun, and so, too, is a lovely night out on the town ... More >>

Pie, the food trend of 2011, is still hot at these Denver spots

Pies used to be seen as the either the coup de grace on Thanksgiving or snarky protesters' tool of choice. (Remember when Ann Coulter, Ralph Nader and Jeff Skilling, former president of Enron, were all pied?) Then in 2011 the lattice-topped treat hit the big time, and Nation's Restaurant News declar ... More >>

Contest: Win Sunday brunch (plus drinks!) for four at Central Bistro and Bar

This past Sunday, Central Bistro and Bar, Lance Barto's hot, hip and happening contemporary American hangout in Highland, rolled out its new brunch menu (Nutella waffles!), and in honor of the occasion, we're giving one Cafe Society reader (and three guests) the chance to stuff their bellies for zer ... More >>

Photos: Take a bite out of Ian Kleinman's pop-up doughnut shop and java joint

Molecular doughnuts: It's what's for breakfast -- and the Inventing Room's Ian Kleinman doled out 150 of them this morning, some specked with bacon-Nutella powder, others jumping with pop rocks, at Table 6, which is a pop-up shrine to Kleinman's long Johns (and java from Two Rivers Coffee, in Arvada ... More >>

Photos: Pizzeria Di Olinto opens in Centennial

"It's my husband's fault," declares Terri Lack. "All of it." Still, there could be worse things than getting the blame for your wife's infatuation with Italian food, to which Lack admits a serious addiction. "My husband comes from an Italian family, and when I first went to his parent's house, they ... More >>

Mad food scientist Ian Kleinman will host a pop-up doughnut den and java joint at Table 6 in July

Ian Kleinman isn't interested in opening his own restaurant. He's having way too much playing around in everyone else's. Last month, Kleinman, the mad scientist behind the Inventing Room, a roving stage of entertainment that revolves around molecular gastronomy, orchestrated a series of fantastic (a ... More >>

Photos: H Burger opens today in Boulder

Boulder has been burgerfied. Later today, at 4 p.m., H Burger Co, which already pimps a location in downtown Denver, along with a smaller sibling named Little H Burger Co, in southeast Denver, will introduce Boulderites to its first foray into the collegiate city. And it's been a long time coming sa ... More >>

StarLite Diner & Lounge will soon bring Boulder a taste of the 1950s

Chris Dailey -- owner of Boulder Creek Events and a pair of Flatiron Crossing restaurants, Street Legal Pizza and Street Legal Burgers - has had a lifelong fascination with America in the '50s. So when he found an open spot in Boulder's Twenty Ninth Street project (soon to be the home of Colorado's ... More >>

Heart attack at the Heart Attack Grill and five ironic food-related deaths

The good news for the guy who suffered a heart attack while eating a Triple Bypass Burger at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas is that the restaurant's gimmick -- besides the insanely mega-calorie menu offerings -- is requiring its customers to wear hospital gowns while dining, so he was good to g ... More >>

Trader Joe's product watch: Old Fashioned Cinnamon Grahams

As we anticipate the arrival of Colorado's first Trader Joe's, the California-based grocer with a cult-like following that's allegedly building its first Colorado store somewhere in Boulder's Twenty Ninth Street (three more Trader Joe's stores are rumored for Denver), we thought we'd give you a tast ... More >>

Reader: Peanut butter is best enjoyed at home, like this...

​The price of peanut butter is going sky-high, and this week Cafe Society served up "Ten ways to enjoy newly decadent peanut butter," including the Fool's Gold that was an Elvis favorite at the long-defunct Colorado Mine Company, and the Peanut Butter Crunch at the one-year-old Edge, which Lau ... More >>

In honor of Colorado's 135th birthday, our ten favorite Colorado food and drink products

​Today, Colorado marks a major milestone: The state is celebrating its 135th birthday, and in honor of the anniversary, we're giving shout-outs to ten of our favorite food and drink products made in our own backyard.

Score free food and drink at the Justice League of Street Food party on Saturday

​The Justice League of Street Food, the convoy of food trucks and carts that gave a whole new meaning to pavement cuisine when it became a superpower of street food last summer, is gearing up for its second party of the season -- and we're giving one Cafe Society reader (and a guest) free rein ... More >>

A photo tour of the Cherry Creek Fresh Market

Lori Midson​I spent Saturday morning meandering around the Cherry Creek Fresh Market -- a market, frankly, that I've never been terribly fond of, mainly because much of the produce is unseasonal and trucked in from outside state lines, plus I was tired of seeing vendors pimping acres of dried ... More >>

Gaia Bistro offers warm service and seasonal bistro fare

Molecular magician Ian Kleinman will host four NOMAD pop-up dinners later this month

Lori Midson​Last month, Phil Armstrong, the founder of HUSH Concepts, let loose NOMAD -- one-off dinners that "pop-up" at various venues throughout the city, their addresses kept off the radar until just hours before the dinners begin. James Mazzio was tapped to be the chef for the March dinne ... More >>

Round two with Pizza Republica's Eric Chiappetta

Lori Midson​ Eric Chiappetta Pizza Republica 5375 Landmark Place, Greenwood Village 720-489-2030 www.pizzarepublica.com This is part two of my interview with Eric Chiappetta, executive chef of Pizza Republica. In part one of this interview, Chiappetta weighs in on why he believes the cook a ... More >>

Chicken? What chicken? TAG forgoes cluck during Denver Restaurant Week, trumpeting kangaroo instead

Lori Midson​Jensen Cummings, the chef de cuisine at TAG, jokingly calls Denver Restaurant Week "Denver Restaurant Half Month," a phrase he's coined to remind diners (and the service industry) that DRW is definitely longer than the one week its name implies. But if DRW was, in fact, one week l ... More >>

Egg heads: The Food Channel's top ten breakfast trends for 2011

Naughty dessert? Nope. Breakfast trend.​ If you hear it from the Food Channel, then it must be true. Every week, the network serves up another list, hoping that bloggers and other publications will bite. Which we did last week -- right before we gagged over the Food Channel's top ten breakfa ... More >>

Food and place porn: Pizzeria Locale's opening night

Laura Shunk​"There's no other style of pizza in the world that's as geeky as the Napolitano style," chef Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson said last night, as the pace started to pick up at Pizzeria Locale during its first official dinner service. "And we're trying to do it exactly right." "Makes o ... More >>

Marlowe's wines and dines to support the Denver Voice

J. Wohletz​The Sauvignon blanc was chilled, the chocolate-Nutella fondue was hot and the filet mignon crostini appetizers were disappearing faster than free parking spots downtown -- and all for a good cause. Last night Marlowe's hosted Wine and Food from Around the World, a fundraiser for the ... More >>

D Bar Desserts sweetens the vegetarian food scene

​As adults, we can eat what we want when we want -- which sometimes means dessert for dinner. And those are the times you'll want to head to D Bar Desserts, 1475 East 17th Avenue, where the Food Network's Keegan Gerhard creates beautiful cupcakes and truffle treats for the display case, as wel ... More >>

H Burger answers the prayers of those searching for a satisfying workday lunch

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