Good food, good cause. Session Kitchen will be the setting tonight for Tails from the Vine, a collaboration with Seafood Solutions that pairs five seafood-inspired dishes with wine. Dinner starts at 6:30 p.m. and costs $95 — and all proceeds will be donated to Children’s Hospital Colorado Cardiac Institute. For…
Fans of LoHi SteakBar will need to find an alternative this week; the restaurant is closed until Friday because of an ownership change. Veteran chef and restaurateur Sean Kelly has left the steakhouse and bar; Joe Pettenger and Taylor Drew, no rookies themselves, are taking over in partnership with Larimer…
Butcher’s Bistro opens at 5 p.m. today in the former location of Twelve, which Jeff Osaka closed in August to concentrate on his new venture, Osaka Ramen. Owner Scott Bauer and executive chef Tyson Holzheimer hope to lure customers with a butcher counter and a menu centered on whole-animal butchery,…
What do you get when you combine 710 breweries, more than 3,500 beers, 3,200 volunteers and 49,000 beer-loving drinkers over three days? You get the mayhem that is the Great American Beer Festival. Westword photographer Danielle Lirette was there to capture all of the beer-soaked fun. Take a look at…
For the past couple of years, industry veterans have expressed concerns about the quality of the beer being made by new craft breweries, especially as the number of new breweries — they are now opening at a rate of 1.5 per day across the country — increases exponentially. But the…
Tennyson Street in the Berkeley neighborhood is quickly turning into one of Denver’s top restaurant strips. Already featuring its own fair share of destination eateries — from Hops & Pie on one end to Parisi on the other — the once-sleepy drag is set to get four new places in…
Halloween season means we get homemade orange-iced cupcakes with too much icing, black ginger ale punch full of sodden gummy worms, and those little rolled fondant ghosts that somebody’s auntie made by hand that everyone compliments but nobody actually eats. The store-bought treats usually end up being a slightly better…
Denver has been losing a lot of its red-sauce Italian joints in recent years, but we still had no problem rounding ten favorite old-school Italian joints that are still serving up worthy spaghetti and meatballs (or meatball, in the case of Saucy Noodle). And although readers quibbled with a few…
A Cafe Society reader delivered the sad news, which we confirmed this past weekend: Chef Liu’s Authentic Chinese Cuisine in Aurora has closed. Chef Liu’s was one of only a handful of Chinese restaurants serving traditional Szechuan dishes, but it did more than that: The food coming out of the…
The Great American Beer Festival is gone, but Denver’s culinary scene isn’t going on the wagon this week. This week’s calendar has something for every appetite — from free food to fundraisers and, yes, beer. Keep reading for a taste of what’s on this week’s culinary calendar. See also: Baum’s…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Glaze by Sasa, a new dessert and sushi restaurant that’s the baum. And just in time for the Great American Beer Festival, Mark Antonation talked to Scott Witsoe of Wit’s End Brewing about his old homebrewing days, his love of exotic ingredients…
A firkin, in case you were wondering, is a small cask that holds about eleven gallons of liquid — beer, if you’re lucky. Epic Brewing had fifty of the little casks, each with a unique beer made by Epic, on hand last night to celebrate the first anniversary of the…
As an example of the economic boost the Great American Beer Festival gives to downtown Denver every year, Euclid Hall — one of the top beer destinations within walking distance of the Colorado Convention Center — did 1,195 covers yesterday. To put that in perspective, a standard Thursday in September…
The Great American Beer Festival returned to Denver on Thursday night and continues today and tomorrow. Thousands of lucky ticket-holders invaded the Colorado Convention Center for the first night, sampling more than 3,500 beers from over 750 breweries. We were there and took these photos…
With more and more good barbecue joints opening in and around Denver, claims that the Front Range barbecue scene is awful are growing weak. But if you still can’t find the ribs, brisket or pulled pork that you long for, making your own is always an option. And if you’re…
Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson are opening their second fast-casual version of Pizzeria Locale in West Highland on Sunday. While we were already fans of the prototype that opened in May 2013 at 550 Broadway, the guys from Frasca Food and Wine are going one better this time. In a…
Fall is here in full force, and that means an endless array of pumpkin products from now to Thanksgiving. Jenn Wohletz rounded up some of the best and the worst this week, ranging from pumpkin Pepperidge Farm cookies to pumpkin-flavored hummus. See also: Five of the Best — and Worst…
The most popular food at the Great American Beer Festival is beer, obviously. The second is the pretzel necklace. Made by innovative drinkers, these necklaces provide a handy palate-cleanser, as well as a way to soak up some of the evening’s alcohol. But after a while, pretzels get so, so…
The Great American Beer Festival is in full swing, but the gang’s not all beer this weekend. Marczyk Fine Foods will be grilling burgers and roasting pigs, and Leon Gallery will be hosting a special, arty dinner. Keep reading See also: Updated: The Great American Beer Festival Week 2014 Calendar…
Palisade Peach Punch at the Golden Moon Speakeasy 1111 Miner’s Alley, Golden 720-638-1155 Fall is erupting in blazes of orange and yellow in the high country right now, and it’s bubbling in your glass at the Golden Moon Speakeasy. This craft cocktail lounge, located in downtown Golden, opened in January…
One of the benefits of having the Great American Beer Festival in Denver is that innovative brewers and craft-beer royalty make their way to town at least once a year, where they interact with Colorado’s movers and shakers. The result are friendships, collaborations and other connections that usually end up…
Fans of Sushi Sasa may have wondered why it took chef-owner Wayne Conwell nine years to expand. But Glaze by Sasa, which I review this week, isn’t Conwell’s first foray outside of Sasa. It’s simply the most visible one. A year ago, Conwell teamed up with Epicurean Group to expand…
