Denver Boone, the University of Denver’s mascot from 1968 to 1998, has been officially banished from the currently mascot-free campus. But Boone’s not gone altogether. Today a seven-foot-high replica of Boone was installed on top of the Pioneer, which has been renovating both its interior and exterior this summer, and…
“Conversation starts at the tabletop, friends meet at the tabletop, and it all starts when you pull a chair up to the tabletop,” says Sita Keda, who, along with her husband, Dipesh Amin, will soon open the aptly named Table Top Tasting Room at 2230 Oneida Street, in a former…
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…
Grand Cru, a restaurant slated to open in the Landmark project in Greenwood Village on November 1, has very grand ambitions. According to its website, Grand Cru “has created a restaurant designed to enhance the clientele’s enjoyment of their dinning experience tasting fine wines, elegant warm service, with stunningly delicious…
I make it my mission, as do many of you, to visit a taproom at least once a week, but the search for what might be my favorite Denver taproom may have ended over the weekend with a stop at this tiny brewery that pours some really sensational beers, including…
As Denver’s recent craft beer revolution continues to ripple outward, the city’s southern suburbs are finding themselves at the forefront of the next wave of breweries. The latest city to land its own taproom is Littleton, where the owners of 38 State Brewing have just signed a lease for a…
Years ago, in a small strip mall just off I-70 and Kipling, there resided a tiny Thai restaurant — the name escapes me — but I definitely remember the food, a jumble of exquisitely spicy curries, slippery noodles stir-fried with vegetables and strong-smelling bowls of steaming soups. That restaurant is…
Cafe Society dished up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a truly magnificent breakfast sandwich from Pierre Michel Organic French Bakery Cafe, to an excellent Vietnamese noodle bowl brimming with marinated meats from Pho 79, to a gimmicky Coronita margarita from a local Mexican joint, where they’re served…
“Where do you get your protein?” has got to be the question most frequently asked of any plant-based eater. A fair rejoinder: “Where do you get your fiber?” Fortunately, this breakfast dish has lots of both protein and fiber, so you’re getting the best of all worlds. It’s adapted from…
Denver was rolling in dough last week, after not one but two Dunkin’ Donuts outposts opened in the city, returning to a metro area that last saw DD decades ago. Did Dunkin’ live up to the hype? Or were fond feelings about this East Coast mainstay sweetened by nostalgic memories?…
September has been National Yoga Month, and it’s not too late to celebrate. Fitness, flood relief and green tea beer — come support all three with the Hoppy Yogis and Off the Mat Colorado tonight at the Wynkoop Brewing Company. The fitness fun starts at 7 p.m. with an energetic…
When did you first start drinking coffee? The sudden realization that this dark and mysterious beverage that brings your parents to life each morning is actually delicious is a mark of growing up, not unlike turning 21. The first tentative sips begin a new identity — cream? sugar? — and,…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Taste of the Nation contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many hours have Cooking Matters Colorado volunteers contributed so far in 2013? Congratulations to sarakep, who guessed 6,000 hours; the actual number is 6,551. Sarakep, we’ll…
For a Western city, Denver has been generating a lot of press for Southern food lately, and not just in this week’s review of Jezebel’s. Some of it was positive, like the excitement over Adrian Miller’s book Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a…
There’s a harvest of autumn restaurant openings that I’m looking forward to, but the one that I’m most excited about — the one that I’m tracking with intense anticipation — is Session Kitchen, a new restaurant from Breckenridge-Wynkoop that’s tentatively slated to open in Platt Park on October 29. We…
What defines an essential restaurant? Several opinionated friends and I were recently discussing that topic during dinner at a trendy newcomer that’s amassed a flurry of flattery since opening its doors. It’s a restaurant-of-the-moment, but will it still be relevant in six months? Will the crowds continue to jam the…
The Broncos smacked the Raiders on Monday night, but the hometeam couldn’t repeat the triumph on Wednesday, when the final episode of Top Chef Masters aired on Bravo. Jen Jasinski, chef/co-owner of Rioja, Bistro Vendome and Euclid Hall, who was named this year’s Best Chef Southwest in the James Beard…
Epic Brewing will open its soaring new taproom at noon Saturday, September 28, welcoming thirsty Colorado beer drinkers who’ve been curious to get a peek inside the $2 million facility that the Utah-based company has been working on for months. In addition to 25 taps of Epic beer and two…
The wait for a table is nothing short of ridiculous, and even if you’re one of the lucky ones who manages to slide your butt into a chair, there’s the real possibility that whatever you’re eying on the menu sold out long before you got there, but if you time…
Guido Barilla dipped his noodle in boiling water this week when he told an Italian radio show that the Barilla pasta company “likes the traditional family,” which means we won’t see any gays in Barilla’s advertising — and if they don’t like it, he said, “they can always go eat…
In 1950, Bill Rosenberg opened the very first Dunkin’ Donuts in Quincy, Massachusetts. After he’d opened his fifth store, he was touted as a rising entrepreneur in such legendary publications as the Saturday Evening Post. The little doughnut-shop-that-could now has over 10,000 franchises in thirty countries, but it seems that…
The upper Larimer/RiNo neighborhood is hopping these days. Tenants continue to open in The Source, at 3350 Brighton Boulevard, and new plans are popping all over the area. The latest: Joshua Bitz, sous at the original Squeaky Bean in Highland and again at the new Squeaky Bean in LoDo, plans…
