I stopped by Jonesy’s EatBar for a beer and a chat with a friend. I’d already eaten dinner, but halfway through my Breckenridge Vanilla Porter, when my server popped by, the words “We’ll have the mac & cheese fries” spilled out of my mouth like a flood through a crumbling…

There’s a fine line between a manageable and unmanageable hangover, and I was delicately toeing it a few Sundays ago. The night before, I’d met friends at the Atomic Cowboy, where we’d shared a couple of thin-crust pizzas before knocking back PBRs over an increasingly difficult game of Connect Four…

Two and a half months ago, we reported that kitchen veteran Theo Adley had taken over the old Bimbamboo spot in Boulder at 1710 Pearl Street and was planning to open The Pinyon, a neighborhood joint with local, seasonal dishes supplemented by American classics. Now, the remodel of the space…

Madison Street, 1222 Madison Street, may have had a few fights with the new neighbors before it opened, but now that it’s settled in, it’s ready to invite those neighbors over for lunch. The restaurant just extended its weekend hours, opening a few hours earlier for daytime eating and drinking…

The music hasn’t played in the corner space that holds Samba Room, 1460 Larimer Street, for six months now, but despite speculation that the Latin American restaurant might never reopen, the Larimer Associates, who own the property, say the beat will go on– it just won’t start pulsating until early…

We enjoy reading your comments here on Cafe Society, soaking up the compliments, laughing off the insults and pondering the insights. Sometimes, though, one comment stands out, and we like to acknowledge its specialness with a little extra love…

Novo Coffee sources and roasts some of our favorite coffee beans in town. Herb, Jake and Joe Brodsky (who went on to find Ninety Plus Coffee, a sourcing and distribution company), the father and sons behind the operation, spend a lot of time forging relationships, searching for beans and perfecting…

About a year and a half ago, Jeff and Leah McEachern converted their Boulder space at 946 Pearl Street from a wine-making operation into the Blending Cellar, a wine bar that, despite live music and a prime spot on the west end of downtown Boulder’s busiest street, remained pretty quiet…

HER Bar, the drinking joint at 629 East Colfax Avenue that catered to a largely lesbian crowd, shuttered some time back, making way for Jorge Pesqueira and Steven Alix to move in and pick up the lease. The duo remodeled the space and opened their new joint, X Bar, a…

A week ago, we bid adieu to Leo Goto’s Riverfront restaurant, 2852 West Bowles. The spot had been open just six months, closing without ceremony despite the formidable restaurateur’s insistence — back when it first opened — that “it’s a great location, and there’s potential to do a lot of…

In this week’s review of Pho Duy, I mention that the success of the original noodle shop prompted a handful of friends and relatives to open restaurants with the same name. And before I discovered Pho Duy on South Federal, I stumbled upon one of its offspring when I was…

Just over a month ago, we reported that the owners of the Walnut Cafe, 3073 Walnut Street, a Boulder spot that serves up hearty breakfasts, sandwiches and salads, was planning to unveil a food truck. That truck, Walnut-a-gogo, hit the pavement today…

When I reviewed twelve a few weeks ago, sampling most of chef-owner Jeff Osaka’s November menu, I noted that I was “already hungry for December, excited to see what Osaka will come up with next.” Today marks the first day of that new menu, and, predictably, I’m itching to get…

The weather has turned cold, and there’s an icy bite in the air snapping at us, taunting us with the promise of the impending winter. While I don’t love steeling myself against the cold, I am happy that it’s soup season again — especially because that means it’s a good…

It’s only been a few weeks since we bid adieu to the Four Loko and friends, those caffeinated malt beverages that caused an uproar after a couple of idiots young people became severely intoxicated (which has never happened with any other alcohol in the history of mankind). Now, clearly determined…

When Mara and Peter Soutiere, owners of Boulder’s Tahona Tequila Bistro and a still unnamed new restaurant that will open at 1035 Pearl Street, also in Boulder, bought Sushi Tora two years ago, their biggest challenge was determining how to continue the restaurant’s legacy of top-notch Japanese cuisine. “We’ve had…

I was sweating. Profusely. Not even my clinical-strength deodorant could hold back the flood, and I kept my arms pinned firmly to my sides so as not to alert my boyfriend to my predicament. We were both sniffling, and tears threatened to start streaking down my face. “Okay, well, I…

The office building at 1035 Pearl Street in Boulder is rife with restaurant plans. Kimbal Musk and Hugo Matheson, owners of the Kitchen, are moving ahead with their project to open a pub, called the Kitchen Cafe, in the long, narrow space recently vacated by Abo’s. Now Mara and Peter…

Happy Cakes, 3434 West 32nd Avenue, offers up a dizzying array of cupcake flavors, parsed out in daily specials that rotate all week long. If you want to find out whether maple bacon or Jack and Coke is on the list before you make the drive to Highland, the bakery…

Last month we reported that Michael Burgermeister, awash with inspiration from markets all over the country (including New York’s Eataly), was moving Boulder-based Bayleaf to a larger Pearl Street location, where he could expand his offerings…

The expanding mobile food scene encompasses a bevy of trucks and carts, and now it includes a van. The 1970s Volkswagen van is called the Cozy Bean, and it’s trolling Denver, fortifying patrons with coffee and smoothies…