A lone Captain D’s Seafood Kitchen somehow stays afloat in metro Denver — at 605 South Havana Street in Aurora. But while there are four more Captains in Colorado Springs and one in Pueblo, Long John Silver’s has fourteen locations in Denver alone. Why all the local love for Long…
The current Chef and Tell interview with Marty Steinke, exec chef at Linger, has people talking all over town. Some of the talk is about Linger, but most of it was inspired by Steinke’s comment that the “talent pool in Denver is so overrated.” See the Chef and Tell interview…
Denver attorney, author and well-regarded politico Adrian Miller will be signing copies of his new book, Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time ($30, University of North Carolina Press), at 7:30 p.m. at the Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Avenue, this…
Update: Crooked Stave owner Chad Yakobson says the What the Funk festival isn’t intended to compete directly with GABF, but is merely a way for some of the breweries who were on the festival waitlist — or who don’t make enough beer to serve in the hall — to be…
Denver has evolved over the past twenty years — and so has DISH, Westword’s annual celebration of the metro Denver dining scene. On Sunday, September 22, DISH will return to the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, a stunning outdoor venue on the edge of downtown. And for…
Pho Real opened this month in the former home of Tres Jolie in Littleton — and for pho-lovers in the southern suburbs, it’s a very pretty sight. Photographer Danielle Lirette stopped in this week, and returned with this photographic taste of Pho Real. See also: Best Pho 2013: Pho Duy…
Even if the sandwiches sucked — and they most definitely don’t — I’d willingly spend every afternoon here if only to shoot the shit with the owner, whose infectious personality and humor can turn a horrific day into the best day ever. And if I can get one of his…
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…
There are those who swear that the Beauvallon is cursed — that there may be no worse location to open a restaurant or bar — but Bill Kennedy, along with his business partners Dan Woodward and John Wang, are betting that the Beauvallon is ripe for a new tenant, specifically…
Fresh Thymes Eatery is an anomaly in the dining scene: a community restaurant that had its community baked in before the doors even opened. “We expected to have 100 people in for our soft opening on Tuesday night, and 168 people came,” says Christine Ruch, owner and chef of the…
Last week, Cafe Society posted four Guess Where? contests, ranging from a corned beef sandwich from Zaidy’s Deli to a fat pork chop sadly undermined by a mound of mushy vegetables from the outdated Summit Steakhouse to a bright green bottle of Lucky Buddha beer from a Vietnamese restaurant…
Today is McRibmas — one of the most important holidays on the calendar. That’s because the infamous, sauce-slathered, probably-mostly-pork sammie is now back on the McDonald’s menu — for a limited time, of course. The McRib enjoys a crazy cult following not at all unlike the devotion shown to some…
The thirtieth annual A Taste of Colorado runs from Friday, August 23 through Labor Day. The four-day, free festival features food (well, you have to pay for that), music, and more. Festivities will be held at Civic Center Park and will showcase eats from over fifty local restaurants; visit the…
At some point in the distant past, someone — probably not a man — declared that a “woman always has the right to change her mind,” but that certainty applies to the other gender, too. Yesterday afternoon, in fact, Theo Adley, a male whose name was prominently featured this past…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Ruth Tobias book signing contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many hours did it take Tobias to complete her manuscript? Congrats to chrisdoubleyou, who guessed 500; the actual number is 513 hours! Chrisdoubleyou, we’ll send you…
This week, Gretchen Kurtz explored the Mediterranean fare at Yaffa’s Savory, 2200 South Monaco Parkway, where chef-owner (and former educater) Yaffa Hanouna is living her dream as a full-time restaurateur. And Lori Midson caught up with Marty Steinke of Linger about his decision to drop out of his last semester…
The second in a quartet of Modmarket locations slated to debut this year opened this week at Kent Place Center, 3475 South University Boulevard. “We are thrilled to introduce Modmarket to this part of the metro area,” said founders Anthony Pigliacampo and Rob McColgan in advance of Wednesday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony…
Taki’s Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar has been a mainstay on East Colfax for years. But Hisashi Takimoto, who opened it as Taki’s Healthy Japanese Food Restaurant in 1998, passed away in 2009, and the restaurant has gone through some changes since then. Now there are more under way: A…
Hurricane Grill & Wings opened this week at 8025 West Bowles Avenue in Littleton; it’s the first Colorado link in the Hurricane Grill & Wings chain that got its start in Florida in 1995 and quickly took off on the strength of its wings. The expansive menu includes more than…
As a follow-up to our list of productivity-inducing coffee shops, we wanted to highlight a few of the many Denver coffee shops that celebrate the exchange of ideas as well as the simple pleasure of sitting down, enjoying the atmosphere, and sipping on a cup of coffee. Here, in no…
This will never be Denver’s best deli, but it continues to carry on, turning out decent sandwiches to a golden age crowd, the women of which, judging from the really, really bad plastic surgeries and botox injections, are still trying to compete with the Forever 21 hipsters. Can you guess…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Fermentation Festival & Market contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many pounds of Napa cabbage did Dae Gee Korean BBQ turn into kimchi during the month of July? Congrats to D.M.C, who guessed 365; the actual…
