Many breweries and restaurants are doing beer-and-cheese pairings these days — but you know where it all started? At Great Divide Brewing Co., 2201 Arapahoe Street, which holds a monthly Beer and Cheese Pairing. From 5 to 8 p.m. tonight, you’ll enjoy five beers paired with five artisan cheeses from…
Jesus. It’s not horrible enough cruising at altitude with a full two inches of legroom, a middle seater with flatulence and seat belts slimed with Jell-O. Now FDA inspectors are unearthing everything from fruit flies and ants to live roaches and dead rodents in the country’s airline catering companies. And…
Boulder foodniks and lushes whose wallets run on empty aren’t likely to fork over their beer or burger coinage at the Flagstaff House, Boulder’s treasure in the sky, where the average check is well over a hundred bucks per person, the extraordinarily wide-reaching wine list is dictionary-thick and the coffee…
I wanted to try the happy hours deals at the restaurant where the above snap was flashed, but the happy hour menu isn’t offered at the chef’s counter, which is where we had our butts parked. So instead, we ordered a cheese plate, the rotisserie lamb and a few other…
Before you unbuckle that top button after over-indulging with all that glorious Fourth of July ‘cue that you’ve no doubt got going on (and if not, we’ve got some suggestions for you), get ready to celebrate food through cooking classes and benefit dinners in advance of our nation’s celebratory holiday…
Pupusas Sabor Hispano, the Boulder joint that doles out its namesake spheres of griddled masa shaped around redolent fillings of chicharron, fiddlehead ferns, zucchini, Anaheim peppers, smears of refrieds and molten white cheese, has long been one of my favorite restaurants in the People’s Republic, as much for the pupusas…
Last we heard, Frank Bonanno was none too pleased with a Cafe Society post detailing a potential new restaurant in the Bonanno empire, the information of which came from his own PR consultant. But in the video after the jump, Bonanno cuts out the middle man, showing us firsthand how…
Not a braised beef sandwich inspired by Florence’s San Lorenzo market nor grilled shrimp with risotto and basil could keep ’em coming for lunch at Farro, Matthew Franklin’s Italian joint at 8320 South Holly Street. After a six-month spin, Franklin is calling it quits in the lunch department. In an…
SmartCo Foods — the new grocery store concept started by California-based Smart & Final, and being tested out in Colorado — is holding a job fair Tuesday to staff a hundred positions at locations opening soon in Centennial and Littleton. (The first SmartCo, at 1442 South Parker Road in Aurora,…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything heat-beating cocktails at La Rumbato this still-unidentified breakfast to a molten cheese dip at La Sandia. For correctly guessing that one, Ben wins a DINR deck. Ben, send your contact info to cafe@westword.com, and we’ll send…
Boulder’s Chautauqua provides the stunning setting for StrEat Chefs, a sampling of street food from all over the world, from the roads of Bangkok to the beaches of Mexico, delivered straight to your plate. The StrEat Chefs kickoff starts at 5 p.m., but tickets are limited. Visit www.chautauqua.com to buy…
Our favorite table scraps of the week from the Cafe Society blog: 1. Holy hot dog! After more than a year of searching for a freestanding restaurant to augment his fleet of carts, Biker Jim, aka gourmet wiener hustler, finally signed a lease on a build-out space at 2145 Larimer…
Early this year Sushi Sasa, the wildly popular sushi joint at 2401 15th Street, took over the vacated Wilderness Exchange spot next door, with plans to double the size of the dining room, adding 70 seats to the original 62. Now that space is finally — thankfully — open, a…
Suzanne C. O’Neill, an assistant professor with the Cancer Control Program at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University, has co-authored a study whose finding is the non-surprising: We’ll use any excuse we can. Her research found that the least healthy people surveyed excused their unhealthy lifestyles by saying they…
Perhaps you’ve heard by now about the legal scuffle that’s pitting The New White Meat against The Other White Meat. Here’s a primer, if not: About a week ago, the Pork Board sent a cease and desist letter, via Denver’s Faegre-Benson legal team, to ThinkGeek. The letter claimed the online…
“So who’s got two thumbs and the keys to the first Biker Jim’s restaurant?” read the text message from Jim Pittenger, who picked up the phone on the fist ring and answered with a “Yep. Jesus. Finally.” Pittenger, who already peddles two gourmet hot dog carts downtown, another in the…
The Place: Il Posto, 2011 East Seventeenth Avenue, 303-394-0100. The Hours: Sunday through Thursday from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: Discounted cocktails, half-price wines by the glass, and all tagliere and assaggini courses are half-price…
Time to celebrate the birth of our nation by eating barbecue until we explode, blatantly ignoring open container laws and then lighting some things on fire. Or by eating good old American food in one of OpenTable’s top 50 American restaurants. The popular internet reservation site just released its annual…
It’s a messy plate, to be sure, what with all those potatoes scattered here, there and everywhere, but brunch at this unheralded gem is one of the best in Denver, and this plate, a mashup of black beans, cubed avocado, eggs and chorizo, with a side of excellent bacon, puts…
Despite the fact that Gourmet magazine had, more or less, run its culinary course by the time Condé Nast yanked it from the world of print food porn back in November of last year, I’ll admit that I kinda miss it. I’ve still got a hundred or so back issues…
Chances, a new sports bar/grill at 1135 Bannock Street, the former home of Wolfie’s and Bambino’s, opened soft — very soft — last week. But now it’s pulling out the stops for a grand opening celebration that includes food and drink specials all weekend. And expect those specials to be…
No one has to tell a parent how difficult it is to get kids to eat anything that’s not complete crap, McDonald’s this and Doritos that. But celebrity chef Jehangir Mehta — the runner-up on Food Network’s The Next Iron Chef — is trying to change all of that with…
