“Welcome back to Satchel’s,” says the sidewalk chalkboard just outside the front door of Andrew Casalini’s restaurant on Sixth Avenue. The greeting comes a day after Casalini reopened his Congress Park spot after a three-week remodel — a remodel that trumpets a stately new bar, custom-patterned wood floors, luscious red,…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a bayou-inspired seafood boil from Asian Cajun, to a warming bowl of yellow dal tadka from Masalaa, to an Indian phaal curry, so excruciatingly hot that it nearly blew my head off and destroyed my stomach lining…
Back when I discovered Maria Empanada, a pint-sized shop in Lakewood that turns out magnificent, freshly baked Argentinean turnovers filled with both sweet and savory feelings, I loved everything about the place, but the tiny quarters — there was but one table — made me wistful that I couldn’t linger,…
The Great American Beer Fest is always a hairy experience. Last year we noted a curious trend: The suds extravaganza wasn’t just full of beer, it was full of beards, and many kinds of beards at that. So this year we were on the lookout for impressive whiskers — and…
“It takes me back to the Cinnamon Life cereal of my childhood,” says Todd Sledge of the cinnamon-raisin flavored Paleo Diet Bar. Sledge, along with his wife, Shauna, founded the Fort Collins-based the Paleo Diet Foods , which just launched its initial product, the Paleo Diet Bar. The raw food…
You know Halloween is coming because pumpkins not only appear on porches, they’re all over the kitchen in one form or another. Every autumn brings an array of pumpkin, pumpkin spice and pumpkin pie-flavored eats and drinks — some of which are far more palatable than others, reports Jenn Wohletz…
Humboldt. Farm.Fish.Wine just opened last week at 1700 Humboldt Street, but it’s wasting no time becoming a contributing part of the community. From 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, October 15, it’s hosting a benefit for flood relief. For $35 — ticket proceeds go to Colorado Flood Relief and the…
At 10 p.m., when the drunken revelers began stumbling out of the Colorado Convention Center, a woman grabbed her crotch and started twerking. Her partner in crime lunged as consumers, most of whom were already weaving, futilely attempted to stay out of his path. And so went night two of…
From Facebook to Vine, social media is changing the way we eat. At the 2013 Westword Web Awards, we’ll celebrate the chefs, restaurants and diners that use it best — and we want your help finding them. There are two ways you can help us pick this year’s winners…
With around 2,700 beers to taste, Great American Beer Fest attendees have to burn off the calories somehow. One great, alcohol-friendly way to do it: play some table tennis. On Wednesday night, representatives of 32 breweries gathered at Ace for a Left Hand tap takeover and ping-pong tournament. If the…
Gretchen Kurtz loved the pizzas at the quick-serve, fast-casual Denver outpost of Pizzeria Locale, which she reviewed six weeks ago — and she found the prices ridiculously reasonable given the high quality of the food. Now those prices are even more reasonable: As of today, Locale’s contemporary, Neapolitan-style pizzas are…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Lou’s Food Bar German beer brunch contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: On average, how many poached eggs does Lou’s serve during one brunch service? Congrats to Jon S, whose guess of 98 eggs was straight on…
Its very name strikes fear into the hearts of men and women: Long Island Iced Tea. Five syllables that are shorthand for blackouts, poor decisions and even poorer drinks. It’s the patron cocktail of lounge lizards, spring breakers and people who have had two already. As cocktails like the martini…
Back in July, Shin Sa Dong, a lofty Korean restaurant in Aurora, closed its doors, but the bright banner hanging from the exterior gate hinted that the closure was temporary. “Coming soon – remodeling,” it said. But as of yesterday, a new, more permanent sign was being erected by construction…
Five Front Range restaurants are Colorado’s finalists in the Nature’s Plate People’s Choice Green Restaurant Contest. The competition, run by the Nature Conservancy, was open to all sustainable, organic or farm-to-table restaurants in 24 states, and fans are voting to determine which restaurant is the most green — and popular…
Beer is a very liquid asset in Colorado, stocked not just behind the bars in local restaurants, but often appearing in the food. As a follow-up to our list of ten Denver restaurants that use beer in their savory dishes, we searched the city’s pastry cases for ways in which…
I’d been warned on more than one occasion to proceed with caution, that despite my ability to handle the heat, I’d meet my match if I dared to go head-to-head with what the owner of this restaurant calls the “hottest curry in the country.” I scoffed, insistent that I’d have…
Over the years, Govinda’s Buffet has been an on-again, off-again, on-again, all-you-can-eat weekend buffet for vegetarians and vegans — and now it’s back on again, in a big way, as Govinda’s Garden Cafe. It has the same address, 1400 Cherry Street, but a new look, a slightly newer name and…
Every autumn brings an interesting array of pumpkin, pumpkin spice and pumpkin pie-flavored eats and drinks — some of which are far more palatable than others. Because every autumn, we can always count on a marketing menu of strange, unusual and even intolerable pumpkin items that somebody, somewhere thought up,…
The streets of downtown are packed with pretzel-wearing Great American Beer Fest fans. And today, beer enthusiasts will roll their obsession around town on the first Barrel-Aged Bike Ride with Avery Brewing Company, a day of bike touring and beer tasting from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ride (bikes are…
Left Hand Brewing altered the beer-drinking landscape two years ago when it announced during the Great American Beer Festival that it had come up with a way to inject nitrogen into its bottled Milk Stout so that it pours smooth and creamy, like a draft beer. Milk Stout Nitro quickly…
Back in May, during a press conference outside the Oxford Hotel, Larimer Associates and the Union Station Alliance revealed the names of three of the restaurant tenants that will be part of the renovation of the old station: the Kitchen Next Door, Snooze and a new restaurant and market from…
