Subject: Restaurants and Food Services

• Chipotle Bags Brown Rice

  January 17, 2008

• Burrito Bombshell

  April 10, 2008

• Burrito Bombshell

  April 10, 2008

• Get Sauced: Maggiano’s Little Italy

  June 4, 2008

• Jack in the Box Eases Gas Pains

  June 25, 2008

• A Lotta Latte Art

  July 15, 2008

• Apple Fries?

  July 18, 2008

• Meet Us on Alameda ... But Not at Valverde Yacht Club

  July 30, 2008

• Benny's: The life of the Republican Party...

  August 24, 2008

• Breaking news from the Sullivan restaurant empire

  September 29, 2008

• Jim Sullivan's former employees are on the line

  October 3, 2008

• Gratuitous Behavior

  Here's a tip for restaurateurs: Before you cut into your waitstaff's wages, check state regulations.

  June 4, 1998

• Rocks, on the martini at the Capital Grille

  If your bank account isn't on the rocks, the Capital Grille has just the holiday item for you: a $1,000 martini. But this drink, officially named the Share Our Strength Charity Martini, comes with a real twist: a white topaz and diamond caviar rope bracelet, a limited-edition, custom piece by designer Steven Lagos. Talk about on the rocks!

  November 20, 2008

• Johnny Rockets franchisee lands in bankruptcy court

  Nation's Restaurant News, the bible of the restaurant industry, has reported that David Giesen, who owns Steak Escape and Johnny Rockets franchises in Colorado, on Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. According to court filings, his Giesen Restaurant Enterprises LLC and Rocket Restaurant Ventures LLC have debts of between $1 million and $10 million -- with assets of less than $100,000. Among the debts: $880,000 that Rocket Restaurant owes to Monfort Capital LLC of Eaton. Back in

  December 17, 2008

• Colorado restaurants should be cooking in 2009

  Misery loves company, and if the National Restaurant Association's annual forecast -- released on Friday, December 19 -- is correct, Coloradans will still be getting out of the house and into restaurants in 2009. According to the 2009 Restaurant Industry Forecast, Colorado will place third in the country for restaurant sales growth -- up 3.4 percent, to $8.4 billion. Only Texas (up 4 percent) and Nevada (up 3.5 percent) are expected to outpace this state. Eat up!

  December 22, 2008

• Best Place to Score With a Twenty-Something Whose Parents Still Pay the Rent

  March 29, 2001

• Best Tea

  April 4, 2002

• Off Limits

  January 30, 2003

• Drink of the Week

  November 27, 2003

• Cafe Etoile Burns Out

  Tip your Bordeaux to Café Etoile, as this West Wash Park spot has been added to the growing list of restaurant casualties. Etoile, which opened in April next to the infamous Candlelight Tavern at 375 South Pearl Street, specialized in crepes, paninis and treating patrons like family. Server Emmy Hewitt made a point of learning the names of almost all of the patrons, and the owners even hosted a special Thanksgiving meal for some guys who worked at the nearby Royal Crest dairy. In good time

  February 19, 2009

• Best Steakhouse

  March 25, 2004

• Best Seafood at a Steakhouse

  March 25, 2004

• Best Factory Outlet Center

  March 25, 2004

• Best-Looking Wine Store

  March 25, 2004

• Best Fried Cheese

  March 24, 2005

• Best Steakhouse

  March 24, 2005

• Best Seafood in a Steakhouse

  March 24, 2005

• Best Singer-Songwriter -- Female

  March 24, 2005

• Figgy's Manhattan at Steuben's

  January 22, 2009

• Meat of the Matter

  There’s good reason to call Denver a cow town.

  November 29, 2007

• Holiday Rush

  Restaurants unwrap a few surprises.

  December 6, 2007

• King Kevin

  Kevin Taylor steps into the Limelight.

  September 20, 2007

• Thai Basil

  Suddenly, the big chains are looking better.

  August 2, 2007

• Coffeehouse Talk

  August 17, 2006

• Sweet Basil Gin Rickey

  Capital Grille

  April 19, 2007

• Follow That Story

  Book Him

  November 30, 2006

• I Can See Clearly Now

  Denver is a glass act.

  May 18, 2006

• Big Time

  Taking the tube

  January 26, 2006

• The Need for Speed

  Drive-thru, they said.

  November 3, 2005

• Mr. Big

  Welcome to McDonald's, where Steve Bigari is lovin' it.

  November 3, 2005

• The Food Group

  An innovative welfare-to-work program feeds the restaurant business.

  April 27, 2000

• Battle of the Bulges

  Male strippers are the latest victims in the city's war on crack.

  September 16, 1999

• MOUTHING OFF

  June 22, 1994

• Quiznos is the sandwich of choice for half-naked playmates

  While Denver-born restaurant chain Chipotle is getting flak for its new ad campaign's distinct lack of cojones, the marketing for Quiznos Sub Shop, another local restaurant chain done (sorta) good, still shows a lot of balls. Or, to be more accurate in this particular case, a lot of boobs. The Playboy "2 Girls, 1 Sub" commercial posted above isn't really safe for work, unless your work is all for scantily-clad ladies double-teaming a toasted sandwich and getting condiments on their bosoms. Wh

  May 21, 2009

• CRA Hall of Famers: Tom Wilscam

  This month, the Colorado Restaurant Association inducted three more people into its hall of fame, an honor bestowed on those who've had a huge impact on the Colorado restaurant world. We're profiling all three here on Cafe Society. First up is Tom Wilscam, who has his fingerprints on many institutions around Denver.

  May 27, 2009

• Catwalk in the Park

  June 18, 2009

• Garbanzo, Snooze open outlets this morning

  Two local restaurant ventures will expand today. Snooze is slated to officially unveil its second location, at 700 Colorado Boulevard, this morning; like the original in the Ballpark neighborhood, it will be open for breakfast and lunch. And at 10:30 a.m., Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, a Denver-based fast-casual chain focusing on the tastes of the Mediterranean, will open its fourth outlet at 8246 West Bowles Avenue in Littleton; a fifth location will soon go into the Cherry Creek Inn at 600 S

  July 31, 2009

• Lenny's on Lincoln offers curbside service

  ​The staffers at Lenny's Sub Shop at 726 Lincoln Street watch a lot of traffic roll by their windows every day, especially at rush hour, when that traffic rolls very slowly. So what did these enterprising sandwich makers do? They set up a little curbside stand where a Lenny's employee will hand off sub orders to anyone who calls ahead. The only problem: after two weeks, they have yet to see a customer there. But no matter: The Lenny's crew is too upbeat to care. Besides, the manager beli

  October 20, 2009

• Frasca's Bobby Stuckey kicks asphalt at the New York City Marathon

  ​Of the 42,000 runners who killed themselves finished the New York City Marathon -- the world's largest -- this past Sunday, Bobby Stuckey, the master sommelier at Frasca Food & Wine in Boulder, placed 283rd with a time of 2:47:23. That's right: the guy who drinks, pours, studies and explains wine for a living kicked the butts of 41,717 fellow marathoners. Damn, that's good. But while Stuckey clearly ran his ass off, averaging a 6:24 minute mile (and placing twelfth among Colorado runner

  November 3, 2009

• Join the club visiting Denver's best dives, starting at the 404

  ​ How do you know you're in a classic dive? It helps if the owner stands up and welcomes you to his place -- the place he's had for 58 years, and bought before he was old enough to own it legally. Jerry Feld bought the bar at 404 Broadway back in 1951, and he's run Club 404 ever since -- even though, as he told the crowd assembled for the launch of Drew Bixby's Denver's Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Mile High City, he initially thought he'd sell it for big bucks after a few

  November 6, 2009