In case any of the rest of you out there do need an excuse to come out and have a few drinks on a Wednesday night, we’ve invented one for you: the first-ever Cafe Society Contributors, Commenters, Readers and Sources Bachanal. Yeah, we’ve been doing this whole bloggity thing for…
Even though Keegan Gerhard and his wife, Lisa Bailey, opened D Bar Desserts, 1475 East 17th Avenue, just under two years ago, it took about two minutes for the sugar house to emerge as one of the city’s premiere dessert spots. The restaurant serves lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday,…
Like a good Jew-in-training, I’ve adopted a ritual of taking down a massive bowl of vermicelli noodles covered in pork before heading to my Intro to Judaism class. The eternal question, the one no rabbi can answer, is this: Who’s serving up the noodles?…
First, Michelle Obama caught the attention of carrot stalkers when she corralled a group of Washington, D.C., schoolkids to help her garden grow on the White House’s South Lawn; she also pimped her garden on Sesame Street. Then Spike Mendelsohn, burger wizard, former Top Chef Chicago contestant and the exec…
Yesterday I talked with Alex Gurevich about his plans for making pizzas at the former Mojitos/Mel’s/Montecito/Piscos/Dudley’s space at 1120 East Sixth Avenue, right smack in the middle of Sixth Avenue’s restaurant row. It sounded like good news. Despite some bad moves over the years, I think Gurevich is a good…
Our former Cafe Society intern just decided to chuck college in favor of a real education: as a sous chef. In Under Fire, he chronicles his daily trials and tribulations in the kitchen.A few days ago, I saw my chef talking to an older man with a funny-looking wicker basket. She called…
Westword and Drunk of the Week columnist Drew Bixby celebrated the release of Bixby’s book, Denver’s Best Dive Bar: Drinking and Diving in the Mile High City, at Club 404 on Thursday night. See Aaron Thackeray’s photos from the party on the slideshow page, and read about Drew’s ten favorite…
Westword writers recently covered a day at the Nob Hill Inn, a classic dive at 420 East Colfax Avenue, from open to close. Here’s Jason Sheehan’s nightcap to the project. Sitting at the bar, off-duty weekend bartender Randy Malone pointed out the regulars, the friends, the off-duty employees drinking away…
The SportsBook, a new nightclub, sports bar and restaurant whose menu is overseen by chef/restaurateur Michel Wahaltere (9th Door, MiniBAR, 5 Degrees), is holding its grand opening tonight with complimentary drinks and food from 7 to 9 p.m. In between grubbing on Wahaltere’s small plates and comfort foods, sports buffs…
Talk about an ideal pairing: classic cars and beer from some of Colorado’s best breweries. Making the match even better is the fact that tonight’s Hops for Hopes at the Lemay Auto Museum (11100 West Eighth Avenue in Lakewood) benefits the SCI Recovery Project, which provides exercise-based recovery programs for…
Does reading this blog make you hunger to write? Westword is expanding its Cafe Society coverage, and we’re looking for a great freelance writer with a passion for food and restaurants, as well as the ability to produce stylish and knowledgeable news and opinion pieces about the Denver dining scene…
If the panhandlers trying to shake me down last night as I left this restaurant on the edge of downtown had been smart, they would have grabbed my leftovers rather than asked for change. But maybe they know I would have fought to the death for the last bits of…
Celebrate the town’s best dives at 8 p.m. tonight, when Club 404, the joint at 404 Broadway that Jerry Feld has owned for more than fifty years, hosts the launch party for Drew Bixby’s Denver’s Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Mile High City. Bixby will be on…
See more of Mark Manger’s photos from Cheeky Monk, the subject of this week’s restaurant review, at westword.com/slideshow…
Robb Walsh, restaurant critic for our sister paper, the Houston Press, book author and genial man-about-town, has followed what has now become a well-trod path among the rapidly decreasing ranks of full-time restaurant critics: He has blown his own cover and chosen to face the world as a non-anonymous critic…
Okay, so yesterday I used my not insignificant Staffing Up mojo to give some suggestions as to what ought to be done with the former Mojitos , which closed last week at 1120 East Sixth Avenue. And then this morning, guess what happened? I get a phone call from Alex…
This letter, which was published in today’s issue, could be the best letter Westword has ever received about a review: Having suffered through Jason Sheehan’s unconscionably vindictive review of Mark & Isabella, I will make a point to try the place, simply to protest Sheehan’s (as always) self-indulgent hatchet job…
Just in case you haven’t heard, there’s a new steak house in town — and it comes with a side of strip … tease. Cliff Young, one of Denver’s best-known restaurateurs, recently returned from a 12-year extended holiday in France at the Chateau Cote d’Or to open C Y Steak,…
One potato, two potato, three potato … That’s it for clues. You, too, can be a potato head if you can guess where I’m eating…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Mary Nguyen, exec chef of Parallel 17. You can read part one of Midson’s interview with Nguyen here. Most embarrassing moment in the kitchen: Before I started cooking, I worked in finance. When I was just starting out in this industry,…
“It’s cool. I mean, not right now. But when the time is right, the view is amazing.” I was standing out in the back parking lot — the smoking lounge of the Nob Hill Inn, the classic dive at 420 East Colfax Avenue that Westword writers staked out for a…
Have you ever had a meal where the food and the atmosphere meld so perfectly that you experience culinary epiphany? That’s what tonight’s Local Color, Local Flavor event at Bacaro, 921 Pearl Street in Boulder, is aiming for. Bacaro’s new chef, Fabio Flagiello, has created a four-course menu to complement…
