The Best Restaurants of Denver and DIA: A second helping of Cafe Society, March 31-April 4

This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed the Best New Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2014: Lower48 Kitchen. Lori Midson talked to Shoni Jones, executive chef at the Best New Restaurant at DIA, Root Down at DIA, about the importance of local restaurants for this week's Chef and...

By Westword Staff

April 4, 2014

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This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed the Best New Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2014: Lower48 Kitchen. Lori Midson talked to Shoni Jones, executive chef at the Best New Restaurant at DIA, Root Down at DIA, about the importance of local restaurants for this week's Chef and Tell. And in the most recent installment of A Federal Case, Mark Antonation visited La Torteria, one of his last stops on Federal Boulevard.

Also this week, we rounded up the ten best culinary events for April, and also released our Restaurant Roll Call for March, compiling all the openings and closings on the scene. And there have already been more in April....

OPENING THIS WEEK: A Taste of Haiti, 2622 Welton Street Babajoon's Kabobs, 1005 West 120th Avenue, Westminster Inga's Alpine Lodge, 5151 Leetsdale Drive Mayan Manjar Yucateco, 5209 West Mississippi Avenue, Lakewood Protein Bar, 1855 29th Street, Boulder Rusty Taco, 1760 South Havana Street, Aurora

CLOSING THIS WEEK: Catacombs, 2115 13th Street, Boulder Coleman's Soul Food, 2622 Welton Street Zocalo, 2200 South Broadway

* Or earlier, and not mentioned in a previous Second Helping

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