Cory Treadway Wynkoop Brewing Company 1634 18th Street 303-297-2700 wynkoop.com This is part two of my interview with Cory Treadway, exec chef of the Wynkoop; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Your five favorite local restaurants other than your own: Oak at Fourteenth in Boulder is doing a great…

At last night’s dinner — a birthday celebration for one of the most amazing fathers I’ve ever known — we feasted on everything from beet carpaccio to sweetbreads, but the star of the show was the single grilled scallop pooled in a puddle of squid ink. Can you guess where…

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. If you’ve wandered…

A “rising star.” That’s how Westword restaurant critic Gretchen Kurtz described Red Star Deli, a smashing sandwich joint that opened in the Icehouse, along with Studio F, a spacious culinary stage — and pop- up venue — for local and visiting chefs to shine in front of captive audiences, in…

Cory Treadway Wynkoop Brewing Company 1634 18th Street 303-297-2700 wynkoop.com This is part one of my interview with Cory Treadway, exec chef of the Wynkoop; part two of our conversation will run in this space tomorrow. “I was the first white kid — the first gringo — to ever roll…

Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year — which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn’t it? But all…

Update: We have a winner of our Trillium Norway dinner! Last week, we asked Cafe Society commenters to guess how many pounds of gravlax, on average, chef Ryan Leinonen serves in a month at Trillium. Congrats to sixfeetofsnow, who guessed fifteen pounds of gravlax. The actual number is thirty, a…

Before I drank beer and long before I drank wine, I was drinking classic Old-Fashioned cocktails, probably because that’s what my parents drank nearly every night while I still lived at home. And now, more than twenty years later, I still love the drink. And last night, at the bar…

I’m officially a few pounds heavier today — and it’s not because of my Mother’s Day stomach crush at Paxia (which was excellent, by the way). No, today’s increase in poundage has everything to do with chocolate, namely the Colorado Chocolate Festival, which took place over the weekend at the…

Back in December, we broke the news that Spuntino, chef John Broening and pastry chef Yasmin Lozada-Hissom’s neighborhood restaurant in Highland — a restaurant that turns out everything from unassailable gelato to equally unparalleled porchetta — would temporarily shutter sometime this February to undergo a significant renovation. Timing, of course,…

Cafe Society posted five Guess Where We’re Eating contests last week, ranging from a carne asada plate from the new (and festive) Adelitas Cocina y Cantina, to some lovely spot prawns from Super Star Asian, to bánh mì from a brewpub…

Earlier this week, on Monday, I spent the afternoon in Kansas — specifically St. Francis, Kansas, a small, sleepy town just a few miles east of the Kansas/Colorado border, population a mere 1,200. Cattle far, far outweigh humans in St. Francis — there are thousands and thousands of them –…

No, this bánh mì isn’t from a Vietnamese restaurant. In fact, it comes from a restaurant where you’d likely never expect to see it on the menu. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post is entered into…

The space that harbors this Mexican restaurant has seen its share of dining dens — it’s a revolving door of restaurants — but this one may have the chops to stick around longer than the rest, thanks to good food and an even better tequila selection. Can you guess where…

For years — YEARS! — I’ve prayed to the Mexican food gods that someone in my Wash Park ‘hood would open a taqueria, or at least a taco joint, saving me from hiking to Federal Boulevard when I want my al pastor fix. And, now, it looks like I’m finally…

Taylor Drew Russell’s Smokehouse 1422 Larimer Street 720-524-8050 russellssmokehouse.com This is part two of my interview with Taylor Drew, exec chef of Russell’s Smokehouse; part one of our chat ran yesterday. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: I don’t get out to eat nearly enough, but I recently ate…

Talk about hitting pay dirt! A bunch of us, including my intrepid teenager, recently spent a Sunday morning around the table at a restaurant that never ceases to amaze me with its bounty of fresh seafood and fish, including these spot prawns, a sea treasure. Can you guess where I’m…

Taylor Drew Russell’s Smokehouse 1422 Larimer Street 720-524-8050 russellssmokehouse.com This is part one of my interview with Taylor Drew, exec chef of Russell’s Smokehouse; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. No salt, no butter: That’s a far cry from the kind of cooking associated with Frank Bonanno, a…

Winner announcement: Congratulations to kristenschenck2, the winner of our Michael Pollan contest, who wrote: “Trying to eat ground beef after reading Omnivore’s Dilemma is like trying to swim in the ocean after seeing JAWS.” Kristen, we’ll send you an e-mail about how you can get your tickets. Michael Pollan has…

Oh, it’s a happy, happy Tuesday for those of us in the food world, and an even happier day for those of us wholly obsessed with cheese. Earlier this afternoon, Karin and Rob Lawler, the owners of the Truffle Cheese Shop (otherwise known as stinky paradise), inked a lease on…

There’s nothing remotely pedestrian about the amazing pizzas from the joint where the above shot was snapped, and this apple-studded pizza, in particular, is one that I order time and time again. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess…