Cafe Society was busy eating its last meals for the Best of Denver 2014 this week, but didn’t ignore its normal duties. In her current review, Gretchen Kurtz visits Mecca Grill, which changed owners last year and is slowly switching from the old emphasis on Lebanese food to Moroccan cuisine…
Just about everyone dining in Denver yesterday was taking advantage of the sunny spring patio weather, including me and a chef, who had the the day off and was enjoying his freedom from the kitchen with glasses of “girly” (his word, not mine) wine and a plate of housemade burrata…
Cash McCandless is a spunky seven-year-old who loves Jimmy Fallon, knock-knock jokes and root beer milk, says his mom, Shelly McCandless, the longtime manager of Avenue Grill in Uptown. But in 2012, after playing games with his grandma, Cash woke up in Children’s Hospital after suffering a seizure. In late…
The Colorado Governor’s Mansion has seen its share of keggers over the decades, thanks to the learning experiences and youthful indiscretions of several gubernatorial offspring. But the 106-year-old-mansion hasn’t had its own draft-beer system — until now. Tonight, during a private party feting the state’s $826 million craft-brewing industry, Governor…
Foods in Colorado could get new labeling next year, now that the Colorado Supreme Court has approved the wording of Right To Know Colorado, an initiative to label genetically modified foods –commonly called GMOs — on food packaging. Now supporters just need to collect enough signatures to get it on…
If you’re a waiter working in Denver, you’re doing better than servers in the rest of the country: According to new stats, this city’s diners tip an average of 16.8 percent, the highest percentage for any city in the country. And if you’re a Denver diner, give yourself a pat…
Denver, says Dean Simon, is prime culinary territory for a “markedly unique concept,” in this case, a fast-casual, gourmet waffle sandwich shop that goes by the name of Bruxie, the “i” of which is roofed with black, red and yellow dots, the colors of which are representative of Belgium, home,…
When I was growing up, in a town far, far from the coasts, pretty much all cuisines other than Chinese and Mexican were underrepresented, and the few ethnic restaurants that were there could hardly be considered authentic. In Denver today, we slurp pho, gnaw on Korean kalbi, and savor the…
Last week USA Today served up Denver’s top ten foodie picks, including Jen Jasinski’s Rioja, but one former Chicagoan wasn’t impressed by anything on the list — or by Denver’s food scene in general. See also: Reader says Denver’s food is disappointing — and don’t blame it on the altitude…
Craft Beer Week kicks off today in Denver, with dozens of beer-themed events — including the Collaboration Fest on Saturday. But a brand-new food festival also makes its debut this weekend (with beer, of course), so get out and enjoy the start of spring by drinking in Colorado’s rich craft-beer…
Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom on Market Street, which was one of the first places to serve microbrews in downtown Denver and has acted as the unofficial gateway to LoDo since 1992, will close its doors on March 29. The company, owned by Tennessee-based Craftworks Restaurants since 2010, is looking…
Left Hand Brewing in Longmont has been looking to get control of the word “Nitro” since 2011, first by wresting the trademark away from a small Canadian brewer that had never used it and then by filing a trademark claim of its own on the word as it relates to…
Bryan Jansing and Paul Vismara, who’ve been slinging suds at the Falling Rock Taphouse for years, will release their book, Italy: Beer Country The Story of Italian Craft Beer, in a couple weeks with a couple of launch parties. The fully-illustrated book covers the “story of the Italian craft beer…
I’m always leery of the steak-and-egg deals at breakfast joints, if only because the steak, in most cases, tastes as cheap as the price — and good luck getting it prepared mid-rare. But in the case of this steak — a T-bone — the kitchen not only managed to cook…
More than fifty years after originally staking its claim on a dirt road in the middle of rural Bumfuck Aurora, Emil-Lene’s Sirloin House, one of the longest-standing cow classics in Denver, has been put out to pasture, leaving the abandoned landscape strewn with empty cardboard boxes, plastic buckets, tattered furniture,…
Robert Alfaro Atticus 1125 East Evans Avenue 720-459-8273 tabletotavern.com/atticus This is part two of my interview with Robert Alfaro, chef of Atticus; part one of our interview ran yesterday. What do you enjoy most about your craft? Making people happy with good, wholesome food. Happiness comes from seeing a smile…
The 2000 block of Larimer Street was ready for its closeup last March when the Spike Network featured Zanzibar Billiards on its popular reality series, Bar Rescue. As part of a five-day overhaul of the bar in December 2012, show host Jon Taffer, a longtime bar-and-club consultant who has transformed…
From the sea to the still, Boulder is celebrating food and drink in a big way tonight. Whether you’d rather be shucking and slurping at the Oyster Fest or sitting down to a multi-course meal centered on a whole boar at SALT, there is something for everyone — except, maybe,…
What’s in a name? Wafflich, a restaurant that did not serve waffles but an Italian-style sandwich (a wafflich), has been replaced by The Pasty Republic — which does not serve pastries, but English-style pasties. The owners are British transplants, who decided to introduce their favorite treat to the Denver area…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Jax High West Oyster Fest contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many people attended last year’s High West Oyster Fest? Congratulations to redpyrope, who came the closest with a guess of 628; the actual number is…
The Inventing Room, chef Ian Kleinman’s company that uses molecular gastronomy to make food as entertaining as it is delicious, won an American Culinary Federation Achievement in Excellence Award at the ACF’s Western Regional Conference earlier this month. See also: The Little Nell and Denver author Adrian Miller nab James…
Drivers who hit traffic on the under-construction US 36 will have a new place to stop as of next month, when Tiller’s Kitchen and Bar is slated to open in the new Denver Marriott Westminster. See also: Pizzeria Locale will open its second Denver location in Highland later this year…
