Last week Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests, featuring everything from the new cold bar at Lola to a still-unidentified new suburban sushi bar to a can of Strongbow at a local watering hole. For correctly identifying the bar as the Kentucky Inn, Jeff wins an EatDenver deck…
After Amber Taufen penned her “open letter to cranky carnivores”, the flip side of her “open letter to militant vegans,” Steve put things in perspective: If you think being Vegan is hard, try having kids allergic to peanuts, tree nuts and sesame and also trying to give them healthy non-animal…
If you missed last night’s Denver Chop Month Competition at Vine Street Pub & (Brewery), don’t shave those whiskers yet: Tonight, the Boulder Chop Month Competition will culminate in a hair-razing contest at Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery, 1535 Pearl Street in Boulder. The public will vote on the facial…
After I penned my open letter to militant vegans, several people asked why I was focusing on militant vegans and letting meat-eaters off the hook. They had a point. Although I take issue with the comments that suggested militant vegans are an urban legend — I’ve met more of them…
For more than fifty years, Davies Chuck Wagon Diner has stood like a stallion on a strip of West Colfax, feeding greasy-spoon grub, like chicken-fried steak, to old-timers and curiosity-seekers who want a glimpse of the Davies Diner horse that hovers above the front door. Four years ago, owner Dwayne…
Get ready, Denver, because a blizzard of frozen yogurt places are about to hit the market. According to Jen West at Foothill Commercial Builders, her company alone is currently building more than a dozen. Two of those are slated to become outposts of Nella’s Frozen Yogurt, a brand-new, Colorado-based brand…
Happy Place: The Burnsley Hotel, 1000 Grant Street, 303-830-1000 The Hours: Monday through Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. The Deals: Half-price beer, wine, and cocktails; $3 tapas. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
In exactly 37 days, the third US Tour of Cochon 555, a nationwide traveling pork orgy that spotlights five local chefs, five heritage breed piggies and five winemakers, will hoof it to Denver, taking over a yet-to-be-determined parcel of pig-appropriate landscape, wherein the chefs will go tongue-to-trotter in an epic…
The only thing that could possibly have made the discovery of a new Pilgrim sandwich any better is that fact that I’ll soon be able to wash it down with a cold Colorado beer. Backcountry Provisions, the oddly-but-rustic-and-poetically-named LoDo sandwich shop, plans to start serving two beers on tap alongside…
Need a quick pick-me-up? Skip the Red Bull; how about a shot of stallion semen instead?…
After an obnoxiously mediocre dinner last night, there was only one thing to do: hit up the corner bar and drown my sorrows in a can of Strongbow poured by a jokester tender who pretended to be camera shy. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Saul Sierra was a nineteen-year-old high-school drop-out and dishwasher when he opened the first Mi Cocina in northwest Denver. Three years later, he sold that location and opened Mi Cocina Mexican Restaurant in Littleton; he added Mi Cocina Express in 2007. And last March, 25 years after Sierra registered Mi…
The ink was barely dry on Carmelo Anthony’s $65 million deal to play for the New York Knicks when NYC’s iconic Carnegie Deli added a sky-high sandwich devoted to Melo to its menu. “We put bacon on there, because we hope that Melo will bring the bacon back to New…
The locavore movement is all about enjoying local produce at the peak of freshness — and tonight, you can get a taste of this growing movement at the City of Aurora’s Rocky Mountain Locavore Wine Dinner. On the menu: stir-fried quinoa with Chinese sausage, braised winter greens, pork green chile…
Sitting in the shadow of the Pepsi Center, Brauns Bar and Grill has been a prime hangout for Colorado Avalanche and Denver Nuggets fans since it opened in 2002. But when the seasons are over, things can get a little quiet over there, which is why owner Troy Johnston and…
Want to feel like a big fish in a little pond? Grab a seat at one of the two (!) bars at Ocean Prime, which docked last month in a prime piece of real estate, right on the corner of Larimer Square. The downstairs bar alone is several times the…
Here’s a quick way to earn free food: watch a 90 second ad for NBC’s America’s Next Great Restaurant on Facebook, and get a coupon for a buy-one-get-one burrito at Chipotle…
While Boulder is experiencing an explosion of wood-fired pizzerias — Pizzeria da Lupo and Pizzeria Locale opened within a few weeks of each other, in December and January — Kelly Whitaker was here first. He’s been hawking Napolitano-style pies, with a focus on seasonal toppings, at Pizzeria Basta in the…
“Antonia,” crooned Paula Deen after last night’s Quickfire Challenge on Top Chef (which, naturally, required deep frying), “you won.” Antonia wept. Somehow in all the fuss and hurry, she’d neglected to make the requisite two plates for the judges — she’d made only one — and that technicality lost her…
HUSH founder Phil Armstrong, Denver’s duke of underground dining and restaurateur (he’s partnering with Arugula chef/owner Alex Schuler to open Tangerine in Boulder), is moving ahead with plans to introduce pop-up restaurants to Front Range foodniks — and the first of those pop-up parties will take place on Saturday, March…
Up until 2008, Jim Adams’ career followed a logical path: TV reporter, PR director, head of marketing for hometown burrito empire Chipotle. But after he quit his job overseeing witty billboards featuring foil-wrapped behemoths, his career took a sharp turn. “Now I make dog food,” Adams says. Raw dog food…
When the Colorado Press Association was in town for its annual convention this past weekend, Visit Denver, the convention and visitors’ bureau, took advantage of the concentration of journalists to host a cocktail party featuring Colorado beer, Colorado wine and Colorado spirits. And while press folk have the reputation of…
