Frasca Food & Wine, the award-winning restaurant at 1738 Pearl Street, will be serving up four courses paired with wines from Piedmonte, Italy, at tonight’s tasting dinner. The meal is $45; the wine pairings, presented by Kelly Woolridge of Wine Merchants of Colorado, ranges from $30 to $45. For more…
Pork-lovers, take note: Opus, at 2575 West Main Street in Littleton, will host the aptly named “Cele-bracon: A Celebration of Bacon,” tonight at 6:30 p.m. The dinner will consist of four courses — all featuring bacon — and the pig-out costs $59, plus tax and gratuity. For information, call 303-703-6787…
What you may have missed this week on Cafe Society while bitching and moaning and posting very, very weird comments about Perky Cups, a new java joint that’s coming to the streets of Aurora, complete with babes in bikinis: Coming next March to the Streets at SouthGlenn is a second…
We asked faithful (and ruthless) commenter Weege to recap this week’s Cafe Society posts. Here’s his offering: Passion. As the work week comes to a close, there can only be one truth to be held as self-evident. Westword has officially lost their minds. So I give to you my snarky,…
I have sworn for a long time that I would never include recipes in this blog. I have raised a (completely ineffectual) stink over the notion of other people including recipes. I have my reasons — the biggest of which being that I neither like nor trust recipes not written…
Pete 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. Last month, Pete…
Last week, I asked whether pho could be on the horizon for the Streets at Southglenn — specifically a second outpost of Pho 95, Aaron Le’s original temple of pho at 1002 South Federal Boulevard. I have an answer…
After fifteen months of reviewing sandwiches, it’s time to take a step back, time to consider what has passed between many, many slices of bread, time to take a break from sandwiches and offer a countdown of the ten best I’ve had. It’s easy to pick twenty good sandwiches, but…
Right, so I just received the following e-mail from Perky Cups, which, as you can gather from the note, is apparently a java joint — maybe — that employs bikini-clad females. Lori, Hello. We are Perky Cups. Denver/Auroras first Bikini Model Baristas coffee shop. We are having a grand opening…
The Drink, the first of the three spots that Paul Piciocchi, owner of Tryst, is putting into the former home of Alto at 1320 15th Street, will hold its grand opening tonight, with free Coors Light from 6 to 7 p.m., and other deals through the weekend, including a free…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Number 93: BBQ Masher from Cabin Creek Smokehouse…
Every year, on a seemingly random day at the end of November, America celebrates Thanksgiving. (Canadians, as usual, get this completely wrong and hold it in October.) It’s a day of tradition, a day to give thanks. And a day, or so it’s become over time, that we all do…
For decades, University of Denver students have downed beers at the Border Restaurant and Lounge, a sometimes Mex joint tucked into a strip mall at 2014 South University Boulevard. Some of those students even did so legally. But for the past thirty days, the Border has been dark: Its liquor…
Head up to the Avery Tap Room, 5763 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, which is hosting A Decade of Decadence: Ten Years of the Reverend Belgian Quadrupel Beer Dinner and Vertical Tasting. The meal, which starts at 7 p.m., includes five courses and lots of beer; admission is $60. Drew Bixby…
UPDATE: Check out our interview with head baker Sammy Marquez and catch his recipe for raspberry shortbread bars.Oh, my. This beauty of a sticky bun, studded with pecans and glazed with a crème brûlée-like shell, is certainly one way to start off your morning at Hi Rise (2162 Larimer Street). But there…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com. Number 94: Cheeseburgers from Larkburger…
“Instead of doing a mezcal-tequila tasting like we normally do, we came up with some killer cocktails to pair with each course,” says Sean Yontz, executive chef of Tambien (250 Steele Street), the gathering quarters for tomorrow night’s multi-course holiday mezcal dinner. The fact that Yontz is serving mole de…
One in eight Coloradoans will struggle to put food on the table this holiday season, and 99 percent of food banks in the state have reported an enormous surge in the need for emergency assistance. Kudos, then, to the Colorado Egg Producers, whose Good Egg Project is lending a helping…
Pete 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. Last month, Pete…
“Look, when I was here in 2002, I walked for what, eight hours, all over downtown and you know what I found? I found chicken wings — chicken wings and fried fucking mozzarella sticks. I didn’t see anything that looked like it was chef-driven, and Jim’s cart sure as hell…
This is part two of my interview with Brian Laird, exec chef of Barolo Grill. You can read part one of my interview with Laird here. Best food city in America: San Francisco. It’s all about what I love most: fresh ingredients, seafood, farm-raised animals, vegetables, cheese, wine and beer,…
For the chef at a seafood restaurant — Oceanaire — Matt Mine sure loves his bacon. He often features a slab of it on Oceanaire’s menu, and he recently cooked up a batch of bacon brittle with Anthony Bourdain in mind, which was included in the pre-talk meal that Oceanaire…
