Fresh off the breasts heels of last Friday’s news that Perky Cups has opened in Aurora, at 12101 East Iliff Avenue, comes Perky Cups owner and self-described Chief Bikini Inspector, Jason Bernal, mouthing off for the cameras, while his bikini-clad buttercups awkwardly reassure Barbara Bush types that all is well…
Bummer. Tosh’s Cantina, which opened in March in Marina Square, at 8101 East Belleview Avenue, has gone dark and empty, which, to be frank, isn’t even slightly surprising considering the off-any-beaten-path location which — let’s face it — utterly and completely sucked. Still, it’s sad to see it shuttered, especially…
My love of Manhattans is no secret — but the happy hour at this downtown establishment is not nearly as well-known as it should be. Four-ounce well Manhattans, vodka/gin martinis, cosmos and lemondrops for just $6 each — and a great happy hour menu as well. So on a gloomy…
According to owner Andrew Casalini, Satchel’s Market, his Park Hill restaurant at 5021 East 28th Avenue, is taking on a new chef by the name of Jens Patrik Landburg. A native Swede who began his culinary career at fifteen in Stockholm, Landburg made his way to Denver by way of…
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 92: Apple pancake from the Original Pancake House…
On Friday night, I went to Lincoln’s Road House to see Dear Marsha play its last gig (the frontwomen are moving away, and the band will be no more). The club was packed, and a rumor quickly ran through the crowd that Dan Aykroyd, who was in town for a…
If you haven’t heard about NYC restaurant owner Vadim Ponorovsky and his epic acts of douchebaggery, get ready for a story that plays out like a white trash reality soap opera. Podorovsky, who owns a restaurant called Paradou, told his waitstaff to start collecting e-mail addresses from the guests in…
In case you’ve been living in a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket, and haven’t heard the news, Chipotle is opening its first London store in April of next year. This got me thinking…which, if any, Brit-Based fast food joints might be cool to have in our humble burg? I haven’t been to…
Although Earls has yet to make its debut, just up the block at 287 Columbine Street, Cafe Colorado is now open for business, serving coffee, sandwiches and other snacks for the shopping-fatigued. And while its patio may not be as “vibrant” as the one promised at Earls, there are still…
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…
