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.I learned many pointless things in culinary school. The knowledge of how to do tableside crepes suzette is now part…
Talk about a wake-up call! On weekend mornings, kitchens across Colorado start rolling breakfast burritos up and out — some served simply, to-go in aluminum foil; some served on fine china on linen tablecloths. This burrito is a cut above even that: offered only on Saturday and Sunday brunch, it’s…
What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were commiserating with Jason Sheehan over his abysmal dinners at Mark & Isabella, the Italian restaurant run by Arizona-based hot-shot restaurateur Mark Tarbell. A man was shot dead in an altercation inside Chopsticks & Sushi, the downtown restaurant…
In the market for a late lunch? At 3 p.m. today — or any weekday — you can pop into this spot and order meatball sliders, paired with a great, garlicky marinara sauce, for just $2 each. But first, you need to guess where I’m eating…
Tim and Nina Zagat just dropped the 2010 edition of America’s Top Restaurants (full disclosure: I edited the Colorado section), along with pages and pages of dining stats culled from eaters who responded to Zagat’s annual survey that, more or less, sum up the best and worst of each city…
The yellow tape and chain-link fence formerly surrounding the Tacos Rapido compound at 2345 West Alameda Avenue have finally been removed, which means that all you drunkards hankering for breakfast burritos, tacos, tostadas and and tortas at 2 a.m. now have another 24/7 pit stop at which to get your…
Happy birthday, Viet’s Restaurant. The busy Vietnamese restaurant, located at 333 South Federal Boulevard in the Far East Center, replaced Thai Hiep Vietnam House a year ago. And to celebrate its first anniversary, the restaurant is offering free lobster or crab to parties of four or more. Even though the…
Denver has many great Italian restaurants. As I wrote this week, Mark & Isabella is not one of them. Here are ten of my favorites: Il Posto (2011 East 17th Avenue, 303-394-0100). Il Posto has an excellent location, crammed between other bars and restaurants, their patios shoulder to shoulder. The…
Chopsticks & Sushi, the Asian restaurant and bar at 1630 Welton Street that was the site of a fatal shooting yesterday, is not connected to Chopsticks China Bistro, the goofily-named restaurant that just moved from South Federal Boulevard to 5117 South Yosemite and is a Jason Sheehan favorite. But plenty…
Cold and flu season has arrived, and while there are vaccines and a multitude of drugs out there that will be used to combat these illnesses, doctors remain constant on one remedy: chicken soup. According to WebMD, doctors prefer milder, natural alternatives to treat colds and flu, with the exception…
Welcome to the first installment of our new feature, Sugar High. Check back here every Friday to see where we indulged our sweet tooth during the week. Granted, the chilly weather doesn’t make an ice cream shop immediately leap to mind when considering where to warm the belly, but…
As of late Thursday, there were just five reserved spots left at the tequila dinner being thrown by Sean Yontz at Mezcal. He’s putting together this dinner (the menu for which I posted a few days ago) in order to properly celebrate the TV pilot that will be filming at…
You could be surprised by who’s at your service tonight at Celebrity Server Night at Maggiano’s Little Italy, 500 16th Street. If you purchase a table for ten, you can choose your celebrity server — but if you buy tickets for a smaller group or an individual dinner ticket, you’ll…
The Smashburger in Aurora didn’t open this week — a permitting delay — but as a consolation prize, the public is invited to register for the last few spaces at the VIP/Sneak Peek party at the new store, at 2630 South Parker Road, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on…
For obvious reasons, most of my meals are eaten out. Almost all of them involve me getting up off my indolent backside, putting on trousers, finding my sunglasses, grudgingly leaving the care of my mountain compound to the hundred monkey butlers I employ, finding my way to my autogyro and…
There’s a new owner at Taki’s: former Sushi Heights chef Keiho Omine. Hisashi Takimoto, the former owner of the Japanese restaurant, located at 341 East Colfax Avenue, passed away of natural causes back in February after feeding hungry Capitol Hill customers for more than a decade. Takimoto didn’t have any…
The Tilted Kilt, a sports-bar chain popular enough to publish its own calendar, will start a new page the first week of November in Denver, when its latest location — in the former ESPN Zone in the Tabor Center — is now slated to open…
I love an ice-cold Manhattan almost anywhere, but the drink’s particularly delightful at this fine dining establishment in Denver — where the chef is smokin’ hot, and the bartender is adorable. Can you guess where I’m drinking?…
Patsy’s has been promising pizza for almost a year now. When the venerable red-sauce joint at 3651 Navajo Street was sold last fall to Kim DeLancey and Ron Cito (second cousin of founder Chubby Aiello), one of the managers there told me that pizza — a return to something that…
Number 4627 in a series of things you don’t learn in culinary school: handling trash bags. This lesson may seem of minimal importance, but it is not. If you put in more than five pounds of garbage and tie the bag too close to the top, it snaps and the…
Know an everyday hero in your community? Qdoba Mexican Grill is accepting nominations for its new online campaign geared toward recognizing the do-gooders in society, called Qmmunity. The campaign is a joint effort between the Denver-based Mexican restaurant chain and its national charity partner, Starlight Children’s Foundation, which has helped…
The Taste of Greenwood Village kicks off at 5 p.m. tonight at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center, 7800 East Tufts Avenue, with 32 restaurants, more than 30 wineries and a silent auction to benefit the Beacon Center, a Denver child-advocacy nonprofit. Ticket prices range from $50, which includes food samples…
