What’s better than a friendly gathering over wine and cheese? Maybe one that features live jazz, too, in sumptuous surroundings. And what about if the cheese is something you made yourself? See also:Ten best new Denver bars of 2013…
There are certain sights you can count on in early January, including gyms full of people acting on New Year’s resolutions to shed a few pounds, culinary pundits offering off a host of predictions about what to expect in the way of trends…and friends gathering at Racines, a restaurant that…
Next week, tourists, commuters and downtown denizens will have a new eating option on the 16th Street Mall: the breakfast-themed Higher Oats. See also: Planet Sub now open off 16th Street Mall…
Back in December 2012, we broke the news that Dave Query, the mastermind behind Big Red F, the Boulder-based restaurant group that operates numerous restaurants throughout the state, including Lola, Jax and Zolo Grill, was opening a brewery and chicken joint in Lafayette. And on Thursday, Query, along with a…
Here’s a good reason to leave the city in the dust: Next month, on Saturday, February 1, beginning at 10:30 a.m., chef and master butcher Mark DeNittis, the brainchild behind the Rocky Mountain Institute of Meat at Cook Street School of Culinary Arts, is giving food-conscious curiosity seekers and students…
Since beer is made from grain and hops, it makes sense that Christine Wares picked Kokopelli, the Hopi god of agriculture and fertility, for the name and logo of her new brewery. But Wares, who will run Kokopelli Beer Company, 8931 Harlan Street, with brewers Todd Williamson and Rick Holt,…
The stretch of Littleton Boulevard where Pho 007 opened last year — just east of downtown Littleton — boasts a handful of restaurants that all attract a decent amount of business. That isn’t surprising, given the lack of dining options to draw in passersby. But what is surprising is the…
Any deli worth its crust knows better than to serve a sandwich on bread that’s just been pulled from the freezer, but that’s exactly what I got at this decades-old deli that added insult to injury when the plate also came lobbed with a macaroni salad pelted with globs of…
The latest Dunkin’ Donuts to debut in the metro area, at 2001 Sheridan Boulevard in Edgewater, did a real public service by getting its doors open before January 1 — when people eager to buy pot started lining up outside Northern Lights just up the street. The shop did a…
Regulate marijuana like alcohol? Why not celebrate it with alcohol? That’s what West Flanders Brewing in Boulder did last week, changing the name of one of its beers from Woodshed Smoked Porter to Recreational Smoke to celebrate the end of pot prohibition — and help bring competing bud/beer factions together…
After all the big holiday parties and meals, restaurants can be slow in January. But there’s reason to get up and out to Larimer Square, where two sibling restaurants are bringing back their successful Tuesday specials to celebrate the new year: Sips and Snacks at Rioja, and Beer Bites at…
Planet Sub, a sandwich chain out of the Midwest, has been heading west, and opened its first Colorado store in downtown Denver last month. See also: First look: Boone’s Tavern unveils a remodel — and new menu…
This year, Denver will undoubtedly welcome a slew of new Denver bars and breweries to an already burgeoning beer and cocktail landscape–but before we hail the next new thing, we should celebrate the newcomers that graced us in the last year. Here, in no particular order, are our favorite watering…
Cafe Society served up eleven Guess Where? contests during the holidays, which spread over two weeks — and that means that we’re giving away two of the brand-new 2014 EatDenver dining decks, a fat pack of terrific deals that entitles the holders of those cards to receive $10 off a…
While Table to Tavern, a new restaurant group that’s a partnership between the owners of Pour Kids (Boone’s Tavern and HandleBar Tavern) and Paradigm Restaurants, the crew that owns Table 6, continues to put the finishing touches on Atticus — their first joint restaurant concept that will open in February…
When the weather outside is frightful, there’s usually nothing more delightful than a bowl of homemade soup. This easy offering is packed full of goodness — spinach, purple potatoes, chickpeas and more — and coconut cream and spices give it a gorgeous finish. And the recipe is also both vegan…
In an effort to shelter myself from this weekend’s cold snap, I darted into this charming neighborhood restaurant that serves brunch late into the day, snatching a table near the warming fireplace, where I chased away the bitter cold with a plate of housemade corned beef hash, the kind that…
On January 2, we posted our Restaurant Roll Call for 2013, listing the hundreds of restaurants and bars that had opened in 2013 — and the dozens of restaurants and bars that had closed. One of those that shut its doors: Cebiche. No, not the Cebiche on West 32nd Avenue…
Resolve to eat more great food this year. The Monday night wine dinners are back at Frasca Food and Wine, and tonight’s edition will feature a flight of deep red wines presented by Mike Joyce of the Natural Wine Company, located in Denver. Joyce, along with Frasca’s Bobby Stuckey, will…
It’s been a tough few months for Phil Goodlaxson, owner of Corvus Coffee, who took on a new space at 1740 South Broadway, just two blocks from Corvus’s original home at 1947 South Broadway — and then had some challenges getting that location open. But on Friday, he revealed that…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed the downtown outpost of Pizza Republica that opened last May, which had okay pasta but delicious pizza. Lori Midson talked to Lou Ortiz, executive sous chef of Los Chingones, another restaurant that opened last year, about his Spanish roots, his use of…
The 404 Club was one of Denver’s last true dives — and now Jerry Feld, the man who bought a bar at 404 Broadway before he was old enough to have a liquor license and then ran it as Club 404 for six decades, has passed away after an illness…
