Stick-e-Star, the catering operation/Asian fusion/American restaurant — and former home of Star Market and Catering — at 2070 South University Boulevard, closed earlier this week, leaving University of Denver students yearning for chicken satay, Cubanos and Thai ribs. Owners (and DU alums) Mike Schettlerand and Ton Phairatphiboon are vacating the…
This is the only place in town that I know of where I can eat a meal, drink a bottle of wine and shop. Even better: I can grocery shop while I’m drinking a glass of wine or knocking back a bottle of beer. Can you guess where I’m shopping,…
In honor of opening day at Coors Field, herewith a brief homage to the five best spring drinking rituals: 5. Easter Nothing cures the pain of spending a Sunday with the in-laws like a mimosa or 15. Be sure to balance out the alcohol with enough bagels and chocolate, or…
Nothing goes with Opening Day like hot dogs. Why would you even try? And while the grilled dogs and brats – with everything, please – you can get at Coors Field are truly delicious, even if the buns never seem to hold up, Denver is rich with other options. The…
Best of Denver 2010 was released April 1, but Cafe Society is still counting down, in no particular order, our 100 favorite dishes. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
The apple pie from Bang! (3472 W. 32nd Avenue), which won first place in a recent pie competition at Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs, is a thing of beauty, with its thin slices of apple stacked between two golden crusts and accompanied by a single scoop of vanilla ice cream…
Welcome back baseball! The Colorado Rockies play their home opener today at 2:10 p.m. against the San Diego Padres, followed by games on Saturday and Sunday, and you’ll need some good beer to go with your baseball. Here are some of our favorite places to drink up:…
Jennifer Jasinksi, executive chef of Rioja and Bistro Vendome, and the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview, recently wrote The Perfect Bite , a soon-to-be released cookbook chock-a-block with recipes from Rioja, including one of our favorites, the black truffle crème fraîche potato salad. “We have served this…
That was fast. A few days ago, we were talking about Men’s Journal citing downtown’s “deliberately vey” bars — and wondering just where those bars were. Today, Dive on Fifteenth will make its deliberately divey debut in the former home of Tryst, which closed just last weekend. Owner Paul Piciocchi…
A restaurant supplier in Aachen, Germany, has driven a steak through the hearts of carnivores everywhere. When the owner of a steakhouse there didn’t have enough euros to cover his outstanding balance, the supplier sensibly decided to confiscate the meat he’d already supplied that day. He started with the steaks…
Looking for a new option for celebrating the Rockies home opener? Head to the Lobby, 2191 Arapahoe Street, for its inaugural opening-day celebration — featuring a pig roast and purple beer on the patio — from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m…
It’s been a good week for beer, and it just keeps getting better: Tonight, the Avery Tap Room, 5763 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, will hold a release party for its Karma Belgian Pale Ale from 5 to 8 p.m. Admission is free (but you’ve got to pay for your brewskis);…
Now through April 30, Arc thrift stores will be collecting non-perishable foods for their tenth annual Feed Colorado food drive. Arc, in partnership with Volunteers of America, distributed 112 tons of non-perishable food to local food banks last year, and this year they are hoping to get even more. “We…
Nearly everything the kitchen trots out from this neighborhood slurp house is excellent. The beer and wine lists are formidable, too, but at the moment, we’re most besotted with the artfully composed and intelligently-crafted cocktails. Can you guess where I’m drinking?…
Best of Denver 2010 was released April 1, but Cafe Society is still counting down, in no particular order, our 100 favorite dishes. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Yeah, that’s right: Cupcake. Truck. The team behind Cake Crumbs Bakery, 2216 Kearney Street, is taking their show on the road come Tuesday, April 13, the day their new cupcake truck hits the streets. “I’ve just always had a vision of cupcakes being vended from an old time delivery truck,”…
After a six-year absence, Durango’s Ska Brewing Company plans to begin selling its much loved (and occasionally scolded) Mexican Logger back to Denver. The summer seasonal is, you guessed it, a Mexican-style lager that that the brewery serves with limes in its tasting room and sells in bottles throughout southern…
The pile of greens in the above photo might not be the first dish you’d think about eating at this neighborhood joint, but the salad, a tangle of arugula, hits of goat cheese, and a sprinkling of apricots and almonds, does the place proud. Where did I restrain myself at…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Jennifer Jasinksi; to read part one of that interview, click here. Best food city in America: San Francisco Bay. I love the growing capabilities of the area and how you’re so closely tied to the land. Restaurants there have the opportunity…
You know that spring has sprung when the crest of Vail Mountain morphs from a skier’s powdered paradise into an al fresco grazing ground for foodniks and oenophiles, a transformation that takes place every year during the Taste of Vail, a three-day gastronomic romp that begins today…
It started off so innocently: Elizabeth Thomas, pastry chef forWaterCourse Foods and City O’ City, was visiting her sister, who works at Marczyk Fine Foods, and got a taste of the pie that John “Haji” Hinman had been making for the market. “She said it was lame,” Hinman remembers, “and…
Montinore Estate Winery in Willamette Valley, Oregon, is one of the few wineries in the country to produce biodynamic wines certified by the Demeter Association. What does that mean? Find out tonight from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., when Strings, 1700 Humboldt Street, is hosting a Spring Wine Dinner that will…
