I’m often looking for a place for a nosh, an espresso and possibly a little hair of the dog. The first two are easy, but the dog hair is tough — not because it’s not available at a myriad of places, but because I don’t want to be judged. At…
The eleventh annual “Teens and Personal Finance Survey” conducted by the Junior Achievement and the Allstate Foundation was just released, and it contains a number of surprising findings. For example, the survey assures us that teens would be willing to not eat out, to stop loitering at the fast food…
Eugenia Bone, a cookbook author who divides her time between Crawford and New York City, is also a finalist in the James Beard Foundation Awards, in the cookbook Single Subject category for her 2009 book, Well-Preserved: Recipes and Techniques for Putting Up Small Batches of Seasonal Foods. Bone’s first book,…
It’s hard to believe that Sketch, at 11 West First Avenue, has only been open a year. But as proof, tonight Sketch will host a one-year anniversary party…
On the fourth Tuesday of each month, the Park Hill Golf Club, at 4141 East 35th Avenue, teams up with Argonaut Wine & Liquors to host a wine-tasting. Well, it’s that time again, and tonight they’ll be focusing on the fine wines of Northern Italy — with the promise to…
Last week, historic downtown Littleton, which already has a formidable restaurant row, welcomed Delizios, 2299 West Main Street, to the ‘hood. The joint serves scones, danishes, quiches, croissants and pastries, along with organic coffee, to early risers, and then morphs into a lunch spot offering panini, soups and salads in…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Denver has just bagged one of the sexiest chefs on the culinary planet. Lon Symensma, a former New York kitchen magician with a helluva lot of kitchen street cred and pedigree, is leaving the Big Apple, where he was the former chef of Buddakan, to open ChoLon Bistro in LoDo…
I was out with a client who needed food and a cocktail at 3 p.m. I figured I couldn’t possibly find a restaurant with decent food that would have any life at all. But when we walked into this restaurant, five fun people were at the bar and the owner…
I don’t know how to act my age. I have this bad habit of going to bed early, doing homework in the morning and not drinking nearly as much as a twenty-one-year old writer/cook should drink. Hell, I even occasionally go to class. My friend knows how to act his…
If you want to expand your culinary knowledge, there are tons of classes this week, covering everything from backyard chicken-keeping to advanced pastry skills. Here’s a taste of what’s ahead: Monday, March 22 A pastry class for serious home bakers starts today at Culinary School of the Rockies, 637 South…
The James Beard Foundation just announced the finalists for its restaurant and chef awards, and while Colorado had a slew of semi-finalists when that list was announced last month, relatively few made the cut. No Outstanding Restaurateur, no Outstanding Chef. The names that did survive: Frasca Food + Wine for…
News of the writing finalists in the James Beard Foundation Awards is slowly leaking out of New York City, with the official list coming at noon today. But we already know that Jared Jacang Maher is a contender in the newspaper feature writing category for his February 2009 cover story…
After a weekend of great basketball and not-so-great snacks, I’m planning some sweet eating action for this coming weekend’s Sweet Sixteen. Here’s some of the top local fare from three of the remaining top-ranked teams, and one from a post-game replacement. We’re not in Kansas any more…
Johnson’s Corner, the classic truck stop just past the Berthoud exit on I-25, went through a major renovation a few years back that completely changed the joint, removing much of its ’50s charm — although we still considered it worthy of Guy Fieri’s attentions on a recent Diners, Drive-Ins and…
Cafe Society served up seven Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything from a very veggie burger to a disappointing Sazarak to a charcuterie platter complete with caperberries. For correctly that dish from Second Home, Raven is now the lucky winner of a DINR deck. Raven, send your…
Are you really a serious home baker? Do you slice cookies off a pre-made frozen loaf or create them tenderly from scratch? Do you use store-bought pie crust or roll your own? Exactly how passionate are you about the baked goods that come from your kitchen? If the answer is…
More than twenty of Denver’s star chefs will converge on the Colorado Convention Center this Sunday, March 21, for Chefs Up Front, a culinary bash to benefit Operation Frontline Colorado, a local nonprofit that fights hunger and malnutrition through food education. “This is such a fantastic event, because all of…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Made correctly, a Sazerac is one of my favorite cocktails. Made incorrectly, it tastes like an absinthe bomb. Can you guess where I drank this shitty Sazerac that I review next week?…
With the advent of such groundbreaking documentaries as Food, Inc., more than ever, we’re learning about the cultural and environmental consequences of our diets — particularly the consumption of meat. Food, Inc. was decades behind the times, though: Since 1985, people from around the planet have been trying to educate…
Okay, so maybe the weather’s not cooperating at this very second, but remember earlier in the week when we had that glorious glimpse of spring? That right there was reason enough to get our minds in gear for cool drinks to sip in warm weather. We always welcome a delicious…
