Project Angel Heart, the Denver nonprofit that prepares and delivers more than 400,000 nutritious meals each year to people coping with life-threatening illnesses, joined forces with several chefs last night for A Taste for Life, a gustatory grazeathon that raised funds to support the programs of Project Angel Heart. The…

If there’s anything that feeds a hungry crowd of writers, it’s nachos, which were front and center last night at a local bar that was overrun by the Westword clan. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am…

First Bite Boulder, a nine-day culinary orgy for foodniks who want to eat a kick-ass meal (or several) without giving up their craft-beer change, kicks off November 12 and continues through November 20, with more than forty restaurants in the People’s Republic offering prix fixe dinners for $26 per person,…

While cruising down a certain street in Denver yesterday, I braked for a shiny candy apple-red Camero, which belongs to a certain celebrity who’s been seen all over town this week. Who is it?…

kaTcH Fish House, which opened early this summer at 1300 Pennsylvania Street, apparently didn’t catch on with neighbors in the Capitol Hill ‘hood, because the space, barely five months old, sunk at the end of October. “It’s very simple,” says former co-owner Chris Deutschman. “There wasn’t enough business.” Chris, who,…

Sushi is by no means the biggest draw at this see-and-be-seen dining emporium, whose handsome bar is always sea-deep with well-heeled socialites and business types with fat expense accounts, but the sushi chef, who did time in several of Denver’s top Japanese kitchens, knows how to dice and slice with…

Scott Parker Table 6 601 Corona Street 303-831-8800 www.table6denver.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Table 6 exec chef Scott Parker. In case you missed it, part one of Parker’s interview ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I have two kids, so we haven’t been out to…

In Season Local Market, the brainchild of owners Shannon McLaughlin and Todd Stevenson, opened at 3210 Wyandot Street earlier this year with the mantra “If it’s not from here, it’s not in here,” and on Saturday, McLaughlin and Stevenson are unveiling a second location, at 924 Main Street in downtown…

Scott Parker Table 6 601 Corona Street 303-831-8800 www.table6denver.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s Q&A with Scott Parker. Read the second half of that interview. Update: Read our favorite comments by Yelpers about this interview. I’m hungry,” says Scott Parker. Not just now, not just today, but ever…

Fuhgidabowdit Pizzeria, a takeout pie parlor at 2041 South University Boulevard, shuttered on Saturday, but the address won’t be vacant for long. Pete Kallas, the owner of Steakhouse 10, the Athenian, Undici Ristorante and Greeks Gone Wild, which just happens to reside next door to the pizzeria, purchased the space…

Proving that retro is back in vogue, the restaurant where the above snap was flashed has just added TV dinners to its menu, one of which is vegetarian while the other lionizes offal. The only thing missing? The tin foil. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…

Nineteen meat cutters from Texas Roadhouse outposts throughout the country will show off their butchering prowess today at the South Suburban Ice Arena, 6580 South Vine Street, as part of the second round of the steakhouse chain’s National Meat Competition. The competitors, including Vicente Heredia and Jose Lozano, both from…

Mitch Harbor, who already owns Johnny Rockets on the 16th Street Mall, Good Times (also on the 16th Street Mall), Taco John’s at 5810 Logan Street and Steak Escape franchises at DIA and Park Meadows, isn’t remotely worried about building an upscale Japanese and sushi restaurant at a Ballpark neighborhood…

After years of managing restaurants, Scott Skiba wanted one of his own, but building a brick-and-mortar isn’t cheap, so Skiba, a former manager of Waterloo, a bar/restaurant in Louisville, went the way that several other chefs and restaurateurs have gone: mobile…

When Lynda Campbell received her one million mile frequent flyer gift from Delta Airlines, she decided to land. The former senior VP director of Pacific Sunwear, a national clothing chain that hustles popular teen labels, gave up her life in Manhattan and sojourns around the world to move to Denver…

Behold the highlights and low lights of what you may have missed this week on the Cafe Society blog…

Now that fall is at our doorstep, restaurants all over the city are autumn-izing their menus, which means that butternut squash is popping up here, there, and in the salad in the above pic, where the sweet, silky nubs are bolstered by thicket of arugula, patches of lamb belly, quinoa…

If you’ve been following this blog, then you know that we announced a contest a few weeks ago, where we asked Cafe Society readers to suggest a name for the new street food pavement feast at Civic Center Park, which is already home to Tuesday’s Civic Center Eats. The expanded…

J’s Noodles & New Thai, the venerable curry joint at 945 South Federal Boulevard, originally opened by Jit Nabangchang nearly twenty years ago, has already gone through one name change when it morphed from simply J’s Noodles to J’s Noodles & New Thai, and now the humble space has altered…