At this time of year many people start thinking about putting their gardens to bed. But chef Pat Perry has put the entire Highland’s Garden Cafe to bed. At the end of service on Saturday, August 31, the restaurant — two linked Victorian houses surrounded by lush gardens — closed…
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…
Growing up, I loved visiting my grandmother’s house because of everything she cooked. Now grown up, I still think she made the best American country cuisine I’ve ever tasted. One of the dishes she always had in her fridge was homemade applesauce. Much like homemade vegetable broth, applesauce made from…
Epic Brewing, which started making beer at its huge new Denver facility in July, has even more good news for fans of its brainless and off-kilter beers. The Salt Lake City-based brewery will use three 60-hectoliter wooden barrels — called foeders — that it just bought from New Belgium Brewing…
There can never be too much pho, yo? Just a few weeks ago, Pho Real opened in Littleton, and now, Pho 007, another Vietnamese noodle parlor, has unlocked its doors at 389 West Littleton Boulevard, in the former space of Jade Dragon. The menu, which includes several starters, twelve variations…
On Sunday, September 22, DISH will dish out delicious food and drinks from dozens of Cafe Society’s favorite restaurants and food trucks in the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. To whet your appetite for what’s ahead, in the coming days we’ll be serving a look at the…
Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from an Italian beef sandwich from Mustard’s Last Stand — a sandwich that was shredded to pieces by commenters — to a plate of burrata and beets from Locanda del Borgo that had commenters salivating. We also featured a…
Josh Schwab’s doughnuts may be glazed, but he’s not confused about where his business is going. After nearly a year of selling doughnuts at farmers’ markets and a few cafes, the owner of Glazed and Confuzed Doughnuts is ready to open the doors of a new brick-and-mortar shop this fall…
Tamayo, the modern Mex restaurant that Richard Sandoval opened on the edge of Larimer Square a dozen years ago, wasn’t looking so modern last winter. That’s when the internationally renowned restaurateur put a million bucks into an update of the space. In her current review, Gretchen Kurtz suggests that Tamayo’s…
The ninth annual Denver Food and Wine classic — a six-day celebration of local food, wine and spirits — will pop the cork today at Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Hospitality Learning Center, with a special wine-pairing dinner at 6 p.m. courtesy of Troy Guard of TAG Restaurant. Tickets to…
This week Gretchen Kurtz visits the remodeled Tamayo — the second Mexican eatery in Richard Sandoval’s global chain of restaurants, which he first opened a dozen years ago in Larimer Square — for her review, while Carrie Shores of Table 6 spoke with Lori Midson about how she’s always found…
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…
More than a dozen new restaurants opened this month — some, like Comida in the Source, new spots in ancient, converted spaces, and other old favorites reborn in the same places, including Angelo’s Taverna, in the forty-year-old home of Angelo’s. The scene also lost some mainstays, with Cafe Berlin closing…
“This heirloom tomato salad represents me as a chef, pure and simple,” says Carrie Shores, exec chef of Table 6 and the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview. The salad, a dish on the restaurant’s current menu “is how I eat every day, and now is the perfect…
Aside from the misplaced green peppers (Why do they always taste like dirt?), this joint’s version of an Italian beef sandwich isn’t bad (more gravy, please) — but it definitely doesn’t outshine the wieners, for which the place is renowned. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
The nose knows. You walk into a room, and instantly a smell connects you to a memory. And when that smell is connected to food, it’s often a family memory. “Smell is such a powerful sense, and it lives in the base of your neck, where all your memories are…
Fast-food workers struck around the globe yesterday, including at two Denver-area McDonald’s locations, demanding an increase in the minimum wage — to $15 an hour in this country. Do fast-food workers deserve $15 an hour? With Labor Day looming, more than a hundred readers weighed in on that question yesterday…
Grab your turkey legs: The thirtieth annual Taste of Colorado will return to Civic Center Park this weekend, filing the space with more than fifty eateries and food establishments, as well as chef demonstrations. Keep reading for a list of participating food vendors and a taste of what else is…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Gourmet on Gore Tasting Tour contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many lobster tacos did Matsuhisa serve at last year’s Gourmet on Gore? Congratulations to haleyhennes, who guessed 2,320, just one digit off the actual number…
Angelo’s is back — under a slightly new name, with new owners — but back. Almost forty years after it first opened on East Sixth Avenue, Angelo’s closed at the end of May for three months of renovations, and reopened as Angelo’s Taverna last week. While much of the place…
For years, The Thin Man has attracted an eclectic crowd of patrons to a space that’s just as eclectic. Inside, you’ll find red mood lighting and walls crowded with Jesus figurines, crosses and saint portraits; outside, you’ll find both a welcoming front patio and, in back, a glorified parking-lot-turned-relaxation-haven. See…
Trying to find a memorable fresh clam linguine in this city is a lot like panning for gold coins in Clear Creek (good luck with that), but as luck would have it, I struck culinary gold at this Italian restaurant, whose chef must have read my mind. Can you guess…
