Four months ago, in April, French-born, Los Angeles-based chef Ludo Lefebvre took a road trip to eastern Colorado, where he shot, skinned and butchered a bison. To show his respect for the beast, he then dropped to his knees and took a bite of its heart, still warm and oozing…

MSNBC’s Douglas A. McIntyre recently wrote that the double-dip recession has arrived, a pronouncement that has its share of skeptics (and others who wonder if we ever recovered from the first recession), but double-dip recession or not, there’s nothing wrong with pinching pennies, which is what I did yesterday, ordering…

The sign haphazardly taped to the door of Leobardo’s Taco Shop, a 24/7 street-taco shack at 825 South Federal that’s one of our frequent pit stops for a fast lunch (or late-night feast) of tacos al vapor, has been in place since last Thursday (at least), which begs the question:…

Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen is celebrating its first anniversary tomorrow night with a pig-centric party, which exec chef Jorel Pierce promises will be “a liquor-infused, gastro-visio musical blowout.” We imagine it’ll be all that and more — and one really, really lucky Cafe Society reader, who entered our free-ticket…

The woman who runs the Thai street cart on the 16th Mall? You know — the one that commands queues that sometimes stretch beyond an hour during the lunch rush? The same Thai street cart that we heaped praise on in this year’s Best of Denver? That cart? Yeah, well,…

If you haven’t been to this roadside institution that’s been slinging breakfasts for more than eighty years (the chef, by the way, is a Culinary Institute of America grad), then you’re really missing out: The eggs, with their marigold yolks, are plucked fresh off the farm, and the ham, bacon…

First the Deluxe food truck, the Little Orange Rocket, drops off the curb, and now Deluxe Burger, the cow palace that Dylan Moore, the chef/owner of Deluxe and Delite, opened last year on Valentine’s Day, is going dark…

There’s nothing worse than having high hopes for a restaurant, only to have them completely dashed, and that’s exactly what happened last night when I ordered the tacos dorados, which arrived with little more than lettuce and enough sour cream to overburden a landfill. And if that wasn’t bad enough,…

It’s going to be “a liquor-infused, gastro-visio musical blowout.” That’s how Jorel Pierce, the chef at Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen, Jennifer Jasinski’s nearly unassailable shrine to pig parts, poutine, offal and everything else we love in the food world, describes Euclid’s Hall upcoming first-anniversary party, which kicks off at…

In this week’s Chef and Tell interview with Doug Anderson, the chief baker and owner of Hi*Rise, he talks about everything from his mother’s epic cinnamon rolls to baking bagels at Moe’s in Boulder, where he churned out more than 300-dozen bagels a day — just for the University of…

We here at Cafe Society headquarters love our taquerias, and Los Carbonicitos, which has three locations scattered across the city, is definitely one of our favorites. We can’t get enough of the joint’s street tacos, the Goliath-size tortas, the namesake carboncitos, the superb huaraches, the incendiary salsas. The trio of…

The kid always goes with pepperoni, occasionally risking his gag reflex with mushrooms, whereas I prefer, at least on this occasion, arugula, roasted garlic and prosciutto — and the kitchen was happy to oblige us both. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…

Doug Anderson Hi*Rise 2162 Larimer Street 303-296-3656 www.hirisedenver.com This is part two of my interview with Doug Anderson, owner and chief baker of Hi*Rise. Part one of my chat with Anderson ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I’m totally unqualified to answer this question, mainly because this…

Six months ago, editors from Food Network magazine zigzagged across the country in search of the holy grail — or, more precisely, the best pizzas in the United States, and in the September issue, on newsstands August 9, the glossy zine reveals its top fifty pizza picks in each state…

Initially I’d ordered a beer — a Colorado Native lager — but I have a hard time swigging a lukewarm beer on a hot patio with the thermometer hovering around 100 degrees, so I pushed it aside and got a lemonade with strawberry puree instead, which, at least was cold,…

Doug Anderson Hi*Rise 2162 Larimer Street 303-296-3656 www.hirisedenver.com This is part one of my chef interview with Doug Anderson, owner and master baker of Hi*Rise. Read part two of my chat with Anderson. At 32, Doug Anderson decided he wanted to work in a restaurant — something he’d never considered…

Biker Jim, Denver’s most notable wiener wizard, has a fetish for more than just fat sausages; he also has an obsession with slogans, and early last month, we rolled out a contest asking Cafe Society readers to submit a few hot dog slogans of their own to replace the current…

It’s a damn good thing that this piss-poor excuse for an Italian restaurant has a beautiful patio flush with foliage, because if it didn’t, I’d never go anywhere near it again. With nothing but love for the person who brought me here, I still have to say it: Worst. Sauce…

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 back yard…

It’s not often that you’ll find a shrimp noodle bowl on a bar roster, but, then again, not every bar trumpets a kitchen commanded by a household name chef. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I…

In the same city that welcomes visitors with “Focus on the Family” signage, there resides a bar called Copperhead Road, a self-described “honkey-tonk saloon” that promises “the best live music, and the wildest late night parties” in the Springs. But as Euclid Hall/Squeaky Bean star-tender Sean Kenyon found out this…