Chick-fil-A, which doesn’t roll out new menu items very often, is testing its second new product in recent memory — a spicy chicken nugget — at its twenty Denver locations, just a few months after it debuted its spicy chicken sandwich nationwide. Intrigued, Cafe Society dialed Steve Barker, a twelve-year…
Denver’s urban-agriculture community will grow a little closer tonight at Earthlinks, 2828 Larimer Street, the site of Growing Our Urban AgriCULTURE, a potluck and networking party. It runs from 6 to 9 p.m.; bring a dish to share (preferably one with locally grown ingredients). For more info, call 303-389-0085 or…
Dish, Westword’s annual celebration of dining in Denver, will be at the EXDO Event Center, 1399 35th Street, on Wednesday, September 22 — and we want to dish out some free tickets. Why do you think you deserve to go to Dish? Give us your answer in five words or…
Smother love: It’s easy being green in Denver in September, when the smell of roasting chiles overrides the odor of exhaust along Federal Boulevard, and the green chile at your favorite Mexican joint carries the heat of the new harvest. For the next several weeks, Cafe Society will feature some…
The Place: NoRTH, 190 Clayton Lane, 720-941-7700. The Hours: Daily from 3 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $2.50 draft beers; $4 well cocktails; half-price wines by the glass; $4 small plates The Digs: Partaking in happy hour at a Cherry Creek chain restaurant isn’t something we’d usually, if ever, be…
There’s good pizza and there’s great pizza, but the consensus is that there’s really no such thing as a bad pizza. It’s pizza. Whether you like the pizza at CiCi’s Pizza Buffet — perhaps best known for its $5 all-you-can-eat pizza — haven’t had it, or despise everything it stands…
“Kevin, you are Top Chef,” Padma announced, and a stunned Kevin responded, “I am?” I was happy with the outcome of this seventh season of Top Chef — but I would have been equally pleased had Angelo won. He irritates a lot of viewers, I know, but there’s something about…
Tonight, the Justice League of Street Food is throwing its second party, mitigating lines with more space at the lot on 29th and Huron streets and more vendors, and extending its hours: the party starts at 5 p.m. and ends at 10 p.m. Food will come from the Deluxe Little…
The Great American Beer Festival, going on now, has been sold out for weeks. Judging from the number of postings on Craigslist, there’s a big demand for these tickets. Did you get left out? Well, Cafe Society has two precious tickets for Saturday’s afternoon session that we’re going to give…
Shawn Camden calls his restaurant, which he opened at 2850 Iris Avenue two months ago, Boulder’s first authentic Mexican restaurant. The menu at Restaurante 100% Mexicano proffers tamales, tortas and tacos, and it’s possible to get beef stomach, fried pig skin and tongue. His space features a salsa bar. Beverages…
Apparently, even the airlines want in on the exploding street-food scene. A few weeks ago, we reported that Dave Bravdica of Brava! Pizzeria had wrangled a deal with Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret that allowed him to offer alcohol, since the cabaret’s liquor license covered the patio at the base of the…
Good morning beer lovers. Welcome to the best three days of your life. The Great American Beer Festival kicks off today at 5:30 p.m. with 462 breweries pouring 2,200 different beers — the biggest number ever served. But if you’re not one of the 49,000 people lucky enough to have…
When the crew from Steamworks Brewing makes the trip north today for the Great American Beer Festival, they’ll have something extra on board for Denver. The Durango brewery is making a limited-edition proprietary beer just for Euclid Hall, the happening new beer-centric gastropub owned by Larimer Square restaurant wizards Jennifer…
Brandon Biederman Steuben’s 523 East 17th Avenue 303-830-1001 www.steubens.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s Q&A with Brandon Biederman, exec chef of Steuben’s. To read part one of that interview, click here. Rules of conduct in your kitchen: Be smart, be safe, be clean, be on time and be…
I’ve tasted hundreds and hundreds of beers over the past twenty years, from Keystone Ice to Sam Adams to Odell to Dogfish Head, and I’ve loved almost every one. I love the craft brews, especially, and thank God they’re around — in force. But sometimes the hype about a certain…
The 120-year-old building at 3862 High Street is rumored to be haunted — and while we can’t guarantee that the spirits of onetime human inhabitants hang around, there are definitely the remnants of previous business occupants. The most recent victim: Jezebel’s Juke Joint & Brothel, which opened in January and…
Tired of all this beer-drinking yet? Even if your answer is “no,” it might not hurt to mix it up for a night and try a wine dinner instead….Right?…
I’d never seen Ben dance before. He’s a New Yorker, a finance guy, and though he’s always up for a good time, we usually spend our evenings smoking cigars and drinking Campari while talking about world affairs and travel and life philosophy, lifting quotes straight out of the Economist to…
Kevin Daly waited almost ten years to open a second rendition of Mountain Sun, the successful pub and brewery he built in downtown Boulder, but with Southern Sun, he proved he could extend the brand — and he did it again with Vine Street Pub. These two outposts have the…
The second the story broke that Bon Appetit had named Boulder its foodiest town of 2010, the local Twitter-sphere was a swirl of self-congratulations. And in the past 24 hours, the link has been reposted thousands of times, accompanied by commentary from the CEOs and graphic designers and tech wizards…
WE won’t spoil it for you but… Have you spent this seventh season of Top Chef glued to your television on Wednesday nights? Were you wracked with grief when hometown-favorite Kelly Liken was eliminated last week? Are you eagerly awaiting tonight’s season finale, revealing once and for all whether Angelo,…
Smother love: It’s easy being green in Denver in September, when the smell of roasting chiles overrides the odor of exhaust along Federal Boulevard, and the green chile at your favorite Mexican joint carries the heat of the new harvest. For the next several weeks, Cafe Society will feature some…
