So far, the month of August has seen more restaurant openings (Colt & Gray, Doghouse Tavern and Big Hoss, again) than closings. But the hottest month of the year has smoked at least one barbecue joint, namely Chapter Two BBQ and Grill, which was located at 2260 South Quebec Street. A…

Colt & Gray, the new gastropub from Nelson Perkins and his wife, Allison Stamper, will definitely open tonight at 1553 Platte Street. “There is a light at the end of the tunnel!” joked Perkins, referring to the construction and patio-permit delays that pushed his proposed Fourth of July opening back…

A whole slew of downtown Denver restaurants – Organixx, Ice House Tavern, Bistro Vendome, Vesta Dipping Grill, Dixons, The Palm, Morton’s, Wazee Supper Club, McCormick’s Fish House & Bar, the Wine Loft and the Wynkoop Brewing Company (that’s the short list) — are participating in tonight’s LoDo Bites, a food…

If you’re like me, you could just sit there all day long ogling over this plate-spanning stack of flapjacks, griddled golden and just seconds away from being slicked with butter and maple syrup. These sublime pancakes were my breakfast on Sunday morning, the perfect pick-me-up after a night of crippling…

You wouldn’t believe me if I told you how many reopening dates Hoss Orwat, boss of Big Hoss Barbecue, 3961 Tennyson Street, had projected since his smokin’ hot house of ‘cue suffered a kitchen fire back in June. We’ll call it a half dozen (more or less) and leave it…

“I’m sitting in front of my computer trying to put together a business and marketing plan,” says Sean Huggard, the former executive chef at Black Pearl and Encore. The business plan is for a new restaurant, but it won’t be for Newport’s, which was the LoDo restaurant Huggard had hoped…

Tonight at 5:30 p.m., Frasca Food & Wine, 1738 Pearl Street in Boulder, welcomes Abe Schoener, a former Greek philosophy professor-turned-esoteric-winemaker who’s shocked more than his share of snobby critics with his wacky wine trials and errors. One of those includes fermenting his red wines at temperatures as high as…

There’s fungus among us on Sunday, August 16, when the Colorado Mycological Society unearths its mushroom fair at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1005 York Street. The fair, which goes from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., includes mushroom displays, seminars on how to cook mushrooms and the 411 on where you…

There’s nothing worse than waking up all fresh-faced on a Friday morning, happier than a roach in a coach, only to be told, by someone far smarter than yourself, that you got it completely wrong. Well, not completely wrong, but wrong enough that I have to back-peddle from my giddy…

Today, at 11 a.m. at the Safeway located at 2150 South Downing, nearly a dozen local farmers from across Colorado will join the state’s Agriculture Commissioner to encourage consumers to buy local produce and boost Colorado’s economy. As part of “Colorado Proud” month, the growers will sample their locally grown…

To celebrate the release of Julie & Julia, the new flick about beloved American chef Julia Child and Julie Powell, the tenacious food blogger who conquered all the recipes in Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, the Kitchen Table Cooking School (5375 Landmark Place in Greenwood Village) is hosting…

Lunch: In the blitz of lunch hour Indian buffets, India’s Pearl stands out because it doesn’t have a lunchtime buffet at all. Instead, the upscale curry house at 1475 South Pearl Street, offers a fantastic lunch thali, an ornate, sliver tray propped with an assortment of individual dishes, all made…

Littleton’s Opus restaurant, 2575 West Main Street, is hosting a wine dinner at 6:30 p.m. this evening with grape guru Lisa Rein, the associate winemaker for Row Eleven Wine Company, a producer based in San Rafael, California. The four-course menu, prepared by owner/exec chef Michael Long, includes vanilla rum shrimp,…

“We’ll have head cheese at Olivéa on Friday — I expect to see you there,” summoned the e-mail. The note, short and to the point, was from John Broening, the executive chef at Duo and Olivéa — the former a restaurant in Highland with a field-to-plate, seasonal approach to food,…

 I’m assuming that most of you who follow Cafe Society know a thing or ten about our hometown restaurant scene — and now comes your chance to prove it. As part of the ten-year anniversary celebrations at Cook Street School of Fine Cooking, 1937 Market Street, there’s an opportunity for…

Last night a very good friend of mine, who happens to be pregnant, was looking at all the snaps in my camera, most of which are food shots, and commenting about how she could never eat this, or that, or that other thing, because oh my god, that’s so gross!…

“We’ll have head cheese at Olivéa on Friday — I expect to see you there,” summoned the e-mail. The note, short and to the point, was from John Broening, executive chef at Duo and Olivéa — the former a restaurant in Highland with a field-to-plate, seasonal approach to food, the…

Jon Edwards, co-owner of Gaia Bistro, isn’t particularly happy with the City and County of Denver.  Edwards, along with his business partner, Patrick Mangold-White, had hoped to open Kaos, a little pizza operation in the small wedge of space at 1439 South Pearl Street that formerly held Nosh, by the…

When I Googled “Cesar salad,” Google asked me if I intended to search for the correct spelling of the item in question, which, of course, is a Caesar salad. I’m guessing that the restaurant whose menu is in the snap above didn’t use Google (or an old-fashioned dictionary) when creating…

The e-mail came yesterday from an East Colfax restaurateur insisting that we had to run out, like now, to snap a picture of the marquee in front of Bastien’s, the antiquated steakhouse at 3501 East Colfax. “You have got to put a picture up on Cafe Society,” demanded the e-mailer…