MegaFauna, the award-winning retail store, boutique and artists’ emporium, is giving its cafe a major makeover. Now that MegaFauna has moved to its new location, at 3102 Blake Street, where it has twice the space as before, owner John McCaskill wants to expand the cafe to serve not just customers,…
Every time I drive by Palais Casablanca — which is often several times a day — there’s rarely, if ever, a single car in the parking lot, and on the various occasions when I’ve poked my head through the door, the dining room, with its plush pillows and traditional floor…
The Baker Street Pub & Grill in Boulder closed its doors over the weekend, after four years of operation. See also: 25 things you never knew about Dwight Long, bartender at My Brother’s Bar…
Barley, hops, water and yeast. And wild sage and dandelion greens, yarrow and golden currants. Oh, and rabbit brush. These are some of the ingredients that were used by seventeen Colorado breweries as part of this year’s Beers Made by Walking. The festival, today at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, is…
The kid was hankering for seafood, and so was I, so we ended up here, where we eagerly polished off five pounds of shrimp, clams, mussels, crawfish and crab, along with plenty of potatoes, corn and sausage, all of it seasoned with Cajun spices. We came, we feasted, we made…
As it has done for many years now, the Falling Rock Tap House kicked off the week leading up to the Great American Beer Festival with a beer lovers’ party. The granddaddy of Denver craft-beer bars counted down the seconds on its digital GABF clock before tapping numerous beers from…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Mateo “Provence to Lyons” flood relief benefit contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to tell us, in twenty words or less, why they’re craving a spectacular meal. Congratulations to Matt Reilly, whose words won us over. Matt, we’ll send you an…
As Westword’s Ask the Bartender columnist, I’ve talked with many bartenders for Cafe Society’s “Behind the Bar” series, posing numerous questions to Denver’s top bartenders…and often receiving the same answers: “I love chartreuse,” or “I’m really into smoked cocktails/barrel aging/bottled cocktails.” See also: A bartender by any other name…is still…
UPDATE: Congratulations to Jordenroman, who won the contest by telling a tale of a beer so delicious it had to be taken into the shower. Thanks to everyone else for your stories of beer love. Cheers. Tickets to the Great American Beer Festival, which takes place October 10-12 at the…
Toast is best known for its pancakes and French toast; the eatery boasts six different varieties of French toast and almost a dozen sweet pancake offerings (including a pancake “flight” that will allow you to sample several). But for those brunch-eaters who are seeking something on the more savory side…
The new spread fast yesterday: Little Shanghai has closed, after close to forty years on South Broadway. Ching Lei and her husband, Kim, had opened the restaurant in 1974, and in its heyday it had the strong support of regulars and hosted such out-of-towners as the Rolling Stones. But times…
Colorado restaurants have come together to help those who have were victims of the floods — and tonight there are two ways to support flood relief in Boulder. See also: Photos: Chautauqua Dining Hall unveils a new look for the historic building…
Some people sit on the beach and drink beer. Others sit on the beach, drink beer and make life plans that will leave no time for beaches — but plenty of time for beer. Ian Clark is definitely the latter kind of guy. “I had a goal of, by thirty,…
Years ago, when the Rolling Stones were in town to play a Denver concert, they ate at Little Shanghai, a South Broadway stalwart serving authentic — and Americanized — Chinese food, and during the past 39 years, just about everyone else ate there, too, including us, always saving belly room…
Vietnam Grill, our Best Vietnamese Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2013, closed abruptly last month, shortly after we featured Mark Antonation’s review of the place in A Federal Case, and was replaced almost as quickly by Lotus Vegetarian. Danielle Lirette stopped by the new restaurant, and sent back these…
One of my go-to vegetarian Indian dishes is lentil stew, or dal, and at this Indian restaurant, the hearty stew, rich with ghee and the color of rustic gold, emits bold aromatics that drift through the dining room. It’s a dish, that for me, defines the essence of autumn, my…
Earlier this year, in late April, Strings, the Uptown restaurant that the late Noel Cunningham opened 27 years ago, closed after Cunningham’s widow, Tammy, who had been running the restaurant since Cunningham’s untimely death in 2011, made the decision to sell the beloved restaurant to Frank Day, founder of Concept…
If you’ve been to the Great American Beer Festival before, then you know the drill: Wait, with bated breath, in a line that wraps around the Colorado Convention Center, get inside, get your tasting glass, take a deep breath and hit the tasting tables — hundreds upon hundreds of them…
When the venerable John’s closed on Pearl Street, Corey Buck, the chef/owner for over ten years, just kept rolling — right over to the future Food at the Riverside, which will soon open as part of a cooperative office space/events center at 1724 Broadway, right by Boulder Creek. There’s no…
Japango, a cramped sushi restaurant on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, closed its doors this summer for a quick remodel. Now it’s back in business with a lot more space and couple of cool additions. See Also: Up two Dunkin’ Donuts, down two Steak ‘n Shakes — our Restaurant Roll Call…
Cafe Society dished up four Guess Where? contests last week, including a bowl of mussels submerged in tomato sauce from Armandos Pasta & Pizza and a duo of miniature pupusas from Uno Mas. We also showcased a stiffened slice of pizza from Pino’s Pizzeria & Wine Bar, as well as…
Soup makes a fantastic cold-weather dish, and this potato-fennel concoction is thick and hearty enough to work as an entree through the chillier days ahead. The minced fennel gives the broth a beefy flavor that could fool anyone (especially if you make your own vegetable broth), but it’s vegan and…
