Food & Drink

Every year, the weather provides some kind of drama on the first day of the Boulder Farmers’ Market: a rainy deluge that pounds on awnings, trickles down shivering necks and sends customers scuttling back to their cars, or snow and sleet that keep buyers and most vendors home, with the…

Last week, when Paul Piciocchi announced that he was closing Tryst and moving the club concept down to Playa Del Carmen, he said that its former home at 1512 Larimer Street would soon become a new watering hole. Ana after less than a week of remodeling, Dive on 15th is…

When does breast-feeding constitute a crime? When local police officers don’t know the law. Bethany Morton was at the Old Country Buffet in Maplewood, Minnesota, for Easter dinner when her six-month-old son, Dawson, got hungry — so she started feeding him milk au natural, without bothering to cover up for…

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 Boulder Farmers’ Market, which opened for business this past Saturday (read Juliet Wittman’s story about opening day here), is always the first farmers’ market of the season. In fact, when Boulder introduces its Wednesday hours on May 5, only a few other markets will have started up along the…

The soda jerk who brought us Mary Jane’s Relaxing Soda has taken his love for kava to the next level of mixology and given us…the Relaxing Tea. “It’s a move away from carbonated drinks,” says Matt Moody, CEO of the Relaxing Company Inc. “Tea is a hot market, and the…

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. “Eternity is a ham…

Jennifer Jasinski Executive chef/owner: Rioja and Bistro Vendome Unless you’ve been in self-imposed isolation or mandatory lockdown, you’ve no doubt heard the news: Jennifer Jasinski, executive chef/co-owner of Rioja and Bistro Vendôme, is just months away from opening Euclid Hall Bar and Kitchen, an American tavern that she describes as…

Just minutes ago, Food & Wine magazine released the names of the country’s Best New Chefs for 2010, and Alex Seidel, executive chef/owner of Fruition, earned one of the ten coveted spots. Bryan Moscatello, the former exec of the long defunct Adega Restaurant and Wine Bar, was the last Denver…

Are lawyers in the class-action suit against Yelp smelling victory? Yesterday, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman announced the user review giant would drop the “Favorite Review” feature and let readers see the reviews that would otherwise have been filtered out by its automated review filter. “Now you can take a look…

Backcountry Provisions is shooting to open its LoDo store on Thursday morning — just in time for Friday’s Colorado Rockies home opener. The sandwich shop/deli has moved into the former Willie Matthews Gallery space at 1617 Wazee Street — and don’t worry, says Denver store manager Chelsey Moore, “We’re keeping…

When Burnt Toast closed last December, on the day before Christmas, Boulderites mourned the loss. But the mourning was short-lived, because owners Buddy Kring and Ellen Dale sold the joint to Dakota Soifer, one of their chefs. Soifer, whose past gigs include an executive chef stint at The Kitchen [Upstairs],…

As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, which was published April 1, Cafe Society served up, in no particular order, 93 of our hundred favorite dishes in Denver. But we’re not done yet. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…

Denver is one of the 25 Best Places to Live, according to the April issue of Men’s Journal . The manly mag touts the downtown living here, which allows you to walk “to everything from an NBA game to deliberately divey bars.” But that could be a long walk, because…