Beer holds no grudges, and neither, apparently does Invesco Field. Beginning with the Denver Broncos game on October 17, the stadium will begin serving Rail Yard Ale in cans in its six River’s Edge beer stands. It joins just a handful of other Colorado microbrews in the stadium, which is…
Sean Kenyon, who recently left his bar manager post at Steuben’s, 523 East Seventeenth Avenue, just snagged a new gig slinging drinks behind the bar of the Squeaky Bean, Johnny Ballen’s irreverent food temple and watering hole at 3301 Tejon Street. Not surprisingly, Kenyon, one of the state’s most talented…
Neil and Jennie Bakewell — a very aptly named British couple — had eaten so well that they couldn’t sleep together, let alone get nude with each other. Before they called a halt to their very conspicuous consumption, their combined weight was an unbelievable 924 pounds, according to this story…
While harvest parties are cropping up all over town, other events are celebrating another fall favorite: chili. Groups are cooking up two very different chili cookoffs tomorrow: one at a neighborhood coffeehouse that’s definitely do-it-yourself, the other far more formal, but guaranteed fun, on the streets of Golden. But both…
At 6 p.m. tonight, St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 1615 Ogden Street, hosts a Dinner With Imam, with vegetarian and meat options prepared by Ibrahim Kazerooni. Admission is $25; call 303-832-4929. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Food & Drink listings…
Pizzeria Basta, at 3601 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, is on a roll. After opening early this year, it managed to lure crowds of diners to a location hidden in an unlikely apartment complex in east Boulder. In the process, Pizzeria Basta picked up enough steam to introduce several innovations this…
That was easy. Yesterday, we asked Cafe Society readers to guess the location of Olav Peterson’s new restaurant, scheduled to open in early December, and the only clue we gave was in the form of a black-and-white photo from way back when. But it was enough to generate several guesses,…
The comments posted on the Cafe Society blog always provide plenty of food for thought, even when they’re not particularly warm or fuzzy or supportive. And sometimes a reader will leave a real gem — a work of literary genius or a head-scratcher or something that just makes us burst…
Mac ‘n’ cheese is a delicacy in Denver, with some of our best restaurants turning out upscale versions of this downscale comfort food. But the Rackhouse Pub’s version recently caught the eye of the Los Angeles Times, which highlighted the gooey goodness in Culinary SOS, a column dedicated to helping…
Korean barbecues have been a hot topic this week. I reviewed Seoul BBQ, 2080 South Havana Street in Aurora, and also wrote about my meal at Sik Gaek in Queens. Although both restaurants feature Korean cuisine, the two dinners could not have been more different. Except for this: both places…
Tickets go on sale today for the Denver Celebrity Chef Tour, a star-studded squad of kitchen sorcerers, including Matt Selby (Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben’s); Alex Seidel (Fruition and Fruition Farms); Eric Skokan (Black Cat, Boulder); and Michael Ginor, the co-founder and chef of Hudson Valley Foie Gras, all of…
Allyson Fredeen isn’t a big fan of fish — her aversion dates back to some squeamish incident in her childhood — so it was ironic that when Elway’s Downtown first opened in the Ritz-Carlton, it installed a raw bar at the front of the bar, at the entrance to the…
The greaseless egg rolls, accompanied by leafy lettuce, cilantro and nuoc cham sauce, are just one of many stellar dishes at this Vietnamese restaurant that’s quickly becoming one of my favorite lunch stops in the city. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
Jay Spickelmier Japoix 975 Lincoln Street 303-861-2345 www.japoix.com This is part two of this week’s Chef and Tell. Read the rest of Lori Midson’s interview with Jay Spickelmier, executive chef of Japoix, here. Favorite restaurant in America: Osaki’s Sushi & Japanese Cuisine in Vail. I just feel at home when…
Denver is lucky to have two food-oriented nonprofits that help impoverished women get back on their feet: Work Options for Women and the Women’s Bean Project. While WOW trains women for careers in the restaurant industry (it runs Cafe Options), since it started in 1989, the Women’s Bean Project has…
Many Americans fondly remember food from their childhood — a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on Wonder Bread for lunch, macaroni and cheese for dinner. But those aren’t the comfort foods of my youth. Spending seven of my first nine years in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, gave me a very…
The Bonfils-Stanton Lecture Series at the Denver Botanic Gardens continues with “Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating From America’s Farmers’ Markets,” with author/chef Deborah Madison…
The lobster was staring up through beady black eyes, flicking its tiny feelers while lashing out menacingly with a clicking claw. Our main course — a recently decapitated crustacean plunged into a massive clay bowl of boiling broth set above a flame on the table — was so fresh, it…
The morning following my first adventure at the Lakeview Lounge, in mid-December 2008, I awoke feeling gnarly all over and wrote the following love letter: Dear Lakeview Lounge: I like that time forgot you — that you have a functional Budweiser Clydesdales carriage globe-light; that your beer swag is, like,…
Those who are still missing Neighborhood Flix can take heart: Tavern Hospitality Group, which was going to turn the space in the Lowenstein project at 2510 East Colfax Avenue into the Tavern Congress Park, just signed an agreement with the Denver Film Society to lease the Neighborhood Flix space to…
Over the past six years, The Kitchen, 1039 Pearl Street in Boulder, has amassed a following of diners who come to the chic, airy space for dishes that pay homage to the farms the ingredients come from, with a menu of simple American offerings. A year after the restaurant opened…
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. It all started,…
