Garbanzo beans by the bucketload, couscous by the cart, pita in packets of five, bright lights and clean lines and free samples! That’s been the successful formula for Alon Mor, the owner of Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, who just added an eighth location to his multiplying Mediterranean feast houses. The Highlands…
“It’s been a good run, a fun run, but the landlord wanted us to pay twice what our rent has been,” laments Dan Oholson, owner of Chez Jose, the Cherry Creek burrito joint at 3027 East Second Avenue that’s been busting the seams of flour tortillas with meats, beans, rice,…
Next week, I’m heading south to Santa Fe for a few days of eating, drinking and stuffing my trunk with all of my favorite foodstuffs from Trader Joe’s. (Jealous, aren’t you?) And in anticipation of my journey down the flat stretch of asphalt that’ll eventually lead me to the land…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
To continue to spread holiday cheer, we present the most memorable quips, words of wisdom, epiphanies, jabs, wisecracks and digs of the year culled from the last five months of Chef and Tell interviews. Chef and Tell with Goose Sorensen, exec chef of Solera What’s never in your kitchen: Chefs…
We’re taking a mini vacation from the Cafe Society blog today and tomorrow — so all may eat, drink and sleep — but your regularly scheduled bloggery will be right back here on Monday. Enjoy the break…
This is part two of my interview with Goose Sorensen, executive chef of Solera. To read part one of this interview, click here. Culinary inspirations: Many of the chefs in Denver — Jamey Fader, Tyler Wiard, Matty Selby, Sean Yontz, Brian Laird, Alex Seidel and Scotty Parker — inspire me…
“People are delighted to have a place to eat on Christmas that isn’t a $25 plate of buffet food from a hotel,” insists Louis Wolfe, owner and pit master of Wolfe’s Barbecue, the sauce-and-ribs joint that he’s operated since 1985 at 333 East Colfax Avenue. “It’s typically a very good…
There’s nothing like a properly muddled Old Fashioned and enough Christmas decorations to light-bright Clark Griswold’s house ten times over to get me in the holiday spirit. Can you guess in what winter wonderland I was drinking? Special bonus: Every Friday, anyone who gave the first correct answer to any…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast.. This week, they…
In 1992, Goose Sorensen, then 23, was living in Casper, a fine Wyoming town with bars and brawls and women, but there was something missing, something that Sorensen was longing to have but didn’t. That something was — wait for it — Bennigan’s. “I totally wanted to cook at Bennigan’s,…
There are very few restaurants in (and around) Denver that do oval pizzas and serve them on wooden peels. This is one of those places. If you’ve been here, you’ll get this in a snap. If not, then you’ll have a new joint that’s definitely worth checking out in the…
Early last week, India House, the curry den at 1514 Blake Street, was seized for non-payment of taxes. But owner Ghugi Singh was able to cough up the $12,739.91 demanded by the state, which he paid in full to the Colorado Department of Revenue. “The business was released back to…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
I spent the majority of my weekend nursing a stubborn sinus infection, and since everyone believes they have the magic alcohol cure-all for these kind of ailments, I spent a fair amount of time ingesting liquids. I drank brandy and whiskey, bourbon and Baileys, beer and wine, and when those…
“Everyone is asking about the menu, but my main concern is that we have good quality food,” said Steve Abo when I spoke to him back in October about Circle, the new restaurant he opened this week at 1035 Pearl Street in Boulder. If Abo’s name sounds familiar, that’s because…
No time like now, just four days before Christmas, for those of you blessed with holiday bonuses to blow some of that wad on tickets to the annual Aspen Food & Wine Classic, one of the biggest culinary blowouts of the year.Tickets went on sale last week for the three-day…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
What you may have missed this week while you were reacting with horror and disbelief over news that restaurant critic Jason Sheehan is leaving Westword and the Mile High City to slosh through puddles do the same job at our sister paper, the Seattle Weekly:Turns out Paul Martinez, co-owner and…
This week, a certain Denver chef (who will remain anonymous, at least for the time being) thought that he’d have some good ‘ol fun at the expense of another Denver chef (who will also remain anonymous for now). And by “fun,” I’m not talking about shoving a frog down his…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Fresh beets, however maligned by the people who swear they taste like dirt, are one of my favorite vegetables, especially this time of year. Their dramatic stained hues — yellow, purple, red, gold — lend themselves to beautiful presentations, and I love the root’s flavor and texture. At the restaurant…
