Ste. Ellie, the long-awaited cocktail bar planned for the space beneath Colt & Gray, will open tonight with a roster of delicious drinks and curated wines and beers. It was almost two years ago that Colt & Gray owner Nelson Perkins announced his expansion plans: Colt & Gray would be…
November is a month to celebrate beards, ‘stashes and everything in between. The time of year formerly deemed “No Shave November” has been changed to “Movember” — in honor of “mo,” slang for moustache. There are hair- and fund-raising events around town to mark this august occasion; keep reading for…
Happy Cakes, a bakery that got its start in Highland, is opening a second location on Saturday, November 16. The new store in downtown Longmont will be giving away baked treats all day tomorrow to celebrate its its grand opening. See also: The store in downtown Longmont will be giving…
Nearly 500 beer geeks and foodniks packed the EXDO Event Center last night for Chef & Brew, an annual bash that celebrates Colorado’s craft beer scene. Seventeen local chefs, paired with the same number of brewers, battled against one another for prizes and bragging rights, the awards of which were…
Tater tots often aren’t very appealing in restaurants; they’re usually served lukewarm, too oily or not crispy enough. But when Gretchen Kurtz visited Vesper Lounge for this week’s review, she found herself popping every tot at the table. That got us thinking about other places in town that do right…
With nearly twenty breweries currently in the planning stages in Denver, it’s no surprise that some of them are going to experience bumps and bruises on the way toward opening. Factotum Brewhouse is the latest to suffer a setback. The sister-and-brother team of Laura and Chris Bruns had planned to…
Neon green relish, check. Yellow mustard, check. sport peppers and onions, check. A Chicago-style hotdog? Nope. No wieners here — just sandwiches and cheesesteaks, one of which is plopped with all the condiments that you’ll typically find on a Chicago-style frankfurter. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our First Bite Boulder contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many total meals were served during last year’s First Bite Boulder? Congrats to Katie602, whose guessed 42,000 meals. The actual number is 48,880. Katie602, we’ll send you…
Hungering for Middle Eastern food recently, we stopped by a new spot downtown, one where a helper at the counter used the same bare hand that had just put money in the cash register to pull the greens for our salad from a bag. The sight was so unappetizing that…
Mark Antonation has been eating his way up Federal Boulevard, and this week reached El Taco Velez, where he spotted an offering rarely found at Denver’s many and varied taquerias: pork tongue. “The tender and mild lengua — rich with fat and hit with a quick caramelization on the grill…
Are you ready for the holiday madness? The end of the year always sneaks up on us — much like those unwanted pounds we pack on at those holiday parties with incredible appetizers and decadent desserts. If you’d like to learn how to make some of those treats, you can…
Tonight the James Beard Celebrity Tour will stop by The Kitchen Denver; on Monday, Gather, a quarterly dinner, will celebrate chef Dana Rodriguez. See also: Chef & Brew, B2BSeen for flood relief tonight…
Before Dana Crawford got the idea of turning the 1400 block of Larimer Street into Larimer Square, the place was full of bars — bad bars, since this was Denver’s skid row. Today, Larimer Square is still full of bars, but the old denizens of the neighborhood wouldn’t recognize the…
Spirit Hound Distillery will finally reopen tomorrow, two months after it had to close when massive flooding hit Lyons, and much of northern Colorado. See also: A six-pack of dark new Colorado beers for your cold weather blues…
Vesper Lounge, which I review this week, reminds me of that AT&T commercial with the little girl competing for cutest kid. It’s not that the bar Bonanno Concepts put in the former home of the divey Lancer Lounge is competing to be cutest bar (far from it). But as the…
Ya Hala Grill, a three-time winner for Best Middle Eastern Restaurant, has closed after the owners gave up the lease on the space on South Colorado Boulevard. See also: Hops Grill and Brewery closes in Littleton…
For the past five years, Troy Casey has worked for AC Golden, the MillerCoors-owned beer incubator in Golden that makes everything from Colorado Native lager to small-batch sour ales that use Colorado-grown peaches and apricots to the style-busting India Pale Lager that just won an award at the Great American…
I have yet to find Middle Eastern/Mediterranean restaurant in Denver that serves a laudable lentil soup — and that includes this thin, watery version that also arrived woefully underseasoned. I thought about pointing this out to our server, but given that her vocabulary was limited to a single phrase –…
Nadine Donovan Old Major 3316 Tejon Street 720-420-0622 oldmajordenver.com This is part two of my interview with Nadine Donovan, pastry chef of Old Major; part one of our chat ran yesterday. What do you enjoy most about your craft? It’s rewarding. At the beginning of the day, I step into…
Gretchen Kurtz just reviewed Vesper Lounge, the concept that Bonanno Concepts opened last November, when a space right between the flagship Mizuna and Bones opened up. With the addition of Bonanno Brothers Pizzeria this spring, Bonanno Concepts now has an even ten eateries (with an eleventh coming next spring –…
It’s been a big week for Denver International Airport. First, it was proclaimed the airport with the healthiest food in the country. And yesterday, USA Today readers voted it the best U.S. airport for art. Whether you love or loathe it, you can’t deny that “Mustang,” aka Blucifer, has made…
Since floods devastated parts of Colorado two months ago, there have been an abundance of fundraisers helping those who lost so much — everyone from farmers to musicians. Tonight the Business Marketing Association Colorado will dedicate its annual B2BSeen event to raising funds for flood relief. The action starts at…
