Cafe Society served up three Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a still-unidentified flight of craft beers from a brewery whose suds you’ll never find in liquor stores, to a spicy Szechuan chicken dish from a Chinese restaurant that also remains unidentified, to a Greek salad from a pizza…

Update: We have a winner of our Big Eat contest giveaway! Last week, we asked Cafe Society commenters to guess how many people attended last year’s Big Eat. Congrats to Aida1, who guessed 1150 people; the actual number is 1158. Aida1, we’ll send you an e-mail with directions on how…

At last night’s Toques and ‘Tails cocktail and culinary bash at Casselman’s Bar and Venue, a lively crowd showed up to sample foodstuffs and sip cocktails from some of Denver’s best restaurants. The event, benefiting Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign, is the brainchild of Becky Creighton, founder of…

Update: We have a winner of our Full Moon Street Carnival contest giveaway! Earlier this week, we asked Cafe Society commenters to guess how many Bonacquisti wine growlers have been sold at the winery. Congrats to laganam, who guessed 646 growlers; the actual number is 682. laganam, we’ll send you…

“We’re the slowest movers ever,” quips Bobby Stuckey. “We waited six years to do a remodel of Frasca and more than nine years to do something away from our little corner in Boulder.” Stuckey, along with Chris Donato, Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson and Jordan “Bruiser” Wallace, are the dream team behind Frasca…

Nate Bychinski Mateo 1837 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-443-7766 mateorestaurant.com This is part two of my interview with Nate Bychinski, exec chef of Mateo; part one of my interview with Bychinski ran yesterday. Most memorable meal you’ve ever had in Denver: Although it wasn’t a traditional meal, last year’s Denver Burger…

Denver is knee-deep in food-and-drink events this Memorial Day weekend, what with the two-day South Gaylord Street Festival, EatDenver’s Big Eat on Sunday and the Full Moon Street Carnival on Friday — and there’s plenty of culinary action in the altitude-high town of Vail this weekend, too. FEAST! Vail –…

Spicy, absolutely, but more to the point, salty — way too salty, even for someone like me, who will dive for the bag of ridged potato chips long before the slice of chocolate cake. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…

Today, at 10:30 a.m., in front of the Oxford Hotel, Larimer Associates announced the names of three new restaurants that will take up residence in Union Station, the historic, century-old train depot that’s currently being redeveloped by the Union Station Alliance. A new restaurant and market concept by Alex Seidel,…

Nate Bychinski Mateo 1837 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-443-7766 mateorestaurant.com This is part one of my interview with Nate Bychinski, exec chef of Mateo; part two of my interview with Bychinski will run tomorrow. “I didn’t play with knives, but I definitely did my fair share of cooking,” says Nate Bychinski,…

Next month, Ghost Plate & Tap, an elevated pub with a formidable beer list and an excellent cocktail program, would have celebrated its second anniversary downtown, but the Wynkoop/Breckenridge concept, which opened in June of 2011, is shuttering just shy of its two-year anniversary, closing this Friday, directly after lunch…

Thanks to a recent influx of pizza palaces, I’ve eaten way, way too much of the stuff over the past week, including at this restaurant, which, while new, isn’t as new as some. In fact, it’s been around long enough that the kitchen should have its pizza down pat, but…

Update: We have a winner of our Toques and ‘Tails contest giveaway! Last week, we asked Cafe Society commenters to guess how many Culinary Connector tours owner Becky Creighton has conducted in Denver. Congrats to BSquared5280, who guessed 330 tours, the exact number. BSquared5280, we’ll send you an e-mail with…

Tom Ryan and his partner Rick Schaden are on a roll — a burger roll, a 24/7 restaurant roll and a pizza roll. The two men, both of whom are the entrepreneurial brains behind Consumer Concept Group, one of the country’s top companies in the field of restaurant development and…

After nearly eight years cooking alongside Max MacKissock, chef-owner of the Squeaky Bean, Crickett Burns, the sole woman in McKissock’s kitchen, is stepping away from the Bean team to join Rob and Karin Lawler at the new Truffle Table, which will open in Highland on June 4. See also: -…

I spent a lot of time drinking in tap rooms over the weekend, including this one, where none of the house-brewed beers are sold at any liquor stores — and that’s a huge bummer, because it’s a long trek from my house to here. Can you guess where I’m drinking?…

Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a mouth-numbing Colorado spirit poured at an Italian restaurant that has yet to be identified, to a old-fashioned from Bull & Bush, to a plate of fantastic tacos from a still-unnamed taqueria, to a scallop pooled in squid…

Westword bar columnist Sean Kenyon just landed in New York City about an hour ago for the Manhattan Cocktail Classic, and once he turned his cell phone on, it started buzzing like a palpitating heart — and Kenyon’s heart just about dropped to the floor when he began reading his…

You likely won’t notice that the front door of Jimmy’s Urban Bar & Grill slants, if only a little. It has something to do with luck — good luck — and Alicia Bernat, along with her husband Jim and their son and exec chef Jimmy, deliberately designed their new namesake…

I can’t imagine what you’d do with this Colorado spirit, which makes your mouth, lips and gums go numb — a lot like Sichuan peppercorns — but there’s at least one restaurant and bar that’s conjuring up ways to use the spirit in cocktails. Still, this has got to be…

Pizza palaces, as we reported earlier today, are peppered throughout the downtown Denver restaurant landscape, and while some of those same pizzerias that opened within the past year have since shuttered, Pizza Republica, the original of which resides in the Landmark development in Greenwood Village, has proven that it has…

Talk about a cheap lunch: six tacos and a large pineapple agua fresca for $14. And these aren’t your average street tacos. In fact, in my humble opinion, these are the best street tacos in town — and the excellent salsa bar isn’t far behind. Can you guess where I’m…