It take balls to swallow a twelve-inch doughnut iced with the words “Don’t be cocky.” Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post — on the Cafe Society blog, not on Facebook — is entered into the contest…

Last week, we told you about Los Chingones’s wild and wacky Wednesday taco — a taco that chef de cuisine Lou Ortiz says is centered around the “weirdest shit we can get.” He did a camel meat taco last Wednesday, and on Wednesday of this week, he rolled out the…

Tomorrow is chock-full of extracurricular culinary diversions, including a swell of Kentucky Derby parties, one of which — the Bar Car soiree — even includes a pizza-eating contest, but Saturday’s biggest stage for eating and drinking is at the Source, where you’ll find popups aplenty, not to mention a tap…

It’s the “frenzy experienced by our raving fans who desire to have our dishes daily. Some even dine at our restaurants two to three times a day. Now that’s madness and we love it!” That’s the mantra of Teriyaki Madness, a Las Vegas-based chain that recently opened its first Denver…

A recent dinner at this long-standing neighborhood restaurant revealed a new menu full of vibrant dishes, including a Vietnamese-inspired, vegetable slaw-crowned rice crepe hugging fried duck meatballs. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post — on the…

It’s been fourteen years since Matt Matros graduated from college, and he still has the “fat kid” graduation photo that encouraged him to kick the junk food to the curb. “I was heavy — 210 pounds heavy — when I graduated from college, and I remember looking at my graduation…

Back in 2011, a Yelper by the name of Alex B wrote an exclamation point-punctuated review of Snarf’s, a homegrown sandwich shop that got its start in Boulder. The sandos are really great, as evidenced by the fact that I’ve been three work days in a row!!” he gushes, but…

Chris Canales Volta Mediterranean Restaurant 2480 Canyon Boulevard, Boulder 303-938-8800 voltaboulder.com This is part two of my interview with Chris Canales, exec chef of Volta; part one of my chat with Canales ran yesterday. Most memorable meal you’ve ever had: I can’t remember a single most memorable meal, but all…

For the most part, the menu as this Mexican joint is a carbon copy of its competition — burritos, enchiladas, chile rellenos, tacos and combinations of all four — but there a few dishes that stand apart from the usual suspects, including a plate of shrimp bobbing in a garlic-scented…

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 a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s best ingredients home with them and cook up a feast, and when they’re not…

Several bars and restaurants around town are planning parties for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby gallop, and while it’s the opportune time to dig out your frilly hat and dress the part, at least one bar — namely the Bar Car — is predicting that at least a handful of people will…

Chris Canales Volta Mediterranean Restaurant 2480 Canyon Boulevard, Boulder 303-938-8800 voltaboulder.com This is part one of my interview with Chris Canales; part two of my chat with Canales will run tomorrow. Volta, with its sophisticated menu, swank interior and elegant al fresco courtyard, is far from the world where executive…

For the past few years, Hosea Rosenberg, who won the Top Chef title — and $100,000 for his victory — on Season Five of the Bravo reality show, has focused his time on growing Blackbelly Catering, a full-service events and catering company that sources most of its ingredients from Blackbelly…

Spring menus are in full bloom all across the city, and this dish, a tangle of tagliatelle, fresh peas and morels (my favorite mushroom) straddling a venison ragu, beautifully summarizes the season. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess…

Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a bowl of gumbo, paired with a side of cornbread, from Bang! to a chicken salad sandwich from Modmarket to a cheese-blanketed bowl of spaetzle that may be Denver’s best drunk food…

The meat in the taco snap above? Camel. And, why not? According to i24news.tv, the camel, “dubbed the ‘ship of the desert,’ occupies a significant place in the culture of the Arabian Peninsula.” In fact, the story continues, in the United Arab Emirate, there are “camel races, camel beauty contests…

In early July, Denver Union Station will hold its grand opening, the tenants of which include a swell of restaurants, bars and cafes: Mercantile Dining & Provision, a restaurant and market from Fruition chef-owner Alex Seidel; Stoic & Genuine, Jennifer Jasinski’s new restaurant, the kitchen of which will be commanded…

I believe I’ve found the best dish in Denver to eat when you’re three sheets to the wind, namely this restaurant’s butter-soaked, crisp-edged, pan-fried spaetzle sheeted with cheese that mimics Whiz. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where…

Corner House 2240 Clay Street 720-287-1895 cornerhousedenver.com This is part two of my interview with Sharif Villa Cruz, exec chef of Corner House; part one of our chat ran yesterday. What do you enjoy most about your craft? I’ve always been an artistic kind of guy, and when I was…

No processed sugars; no wheat flour; no fake meat; and no colon blow. Instead, says Justin Cucci, owner of Root Down, Root Down at DIA and Linger, expect “super-vegetarian-centric-slow-fast-food” at Vital Root, a new restaurant that he’s opening on Tennyson Street early next year with business partner — and yoga…

Years ago, at 7 p.m. on a sunny weekday evening, the patio at this diminutive restaurant would have been packed, but last night, it was just me and another table of three, which prompted the server to wonder out loud: “Where is everyone?” Good question, because the gumbo and the…