Wine for sipping, wine for schmoozing tonight

Vinue Food and Wine Bar, 2817 East Third Avenue, is hosting a mixer for singles between thirty and forty this evening. The event, which costs $79.95, includes a food- and wine-tasting and begins at 6 p.m.; call 720-287-1156 to RSVP…

Skillet cornbread for a hearty side dish on Meatless Monday

Cornbread is right up there with potato salad and grits as a good, old-fashioned, home-style side. And yes, it can be vegan — making it a great pairing with a bean-based soup (last week’s Southwestern-style stew, for example). Adapted for altitude from Veganomicon, this version is a country-flavored favorite. See…

Have you eaten at Early Bird? Serve up your own review!

Too busy to get to everything on Cafe Society’s plate this week? Here’s another helping of some of our entrees: Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Early Bird Restaurant in Westminster. Here’s the capsule version of her full review: It might seem easy to make an omelet, but it isn’t — as the…

Local Bar @ Highland now open in former Arabian Bar space

After decades as the Arabian Bar, one of Denver’s classic dives, the LoHi address got a major facelift –everything in it is new — and opened yesterday as Local Bar @ Highland. While we’d reported last October that Barry Zadikoff, owner of Barry’s on Broadway, had plans to essentially turn…

Guess where I’m drinking Colorado Native?

There were plenty of Colorado natives — two- and four-legged — around when we stopped by this bar for a glass of Colorado Native, a creation of AC Golden Brewing, a Coors subsidiary. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a…

Five fast-food chains that should NOT serve breakfast

Customers are very fortunate to have fast-food chains that offer adequate — if not 100 percent nutritious or gourmet — breakfast menus for those days when flipping pancakes or cracking eggs at home isn’t time-efficient. And fast-food patrons are also fortunate that not every chain offers breakfast items, since more…

Governor Hickenlooper grills lamb and eats crow

The final tally from last weekend’s NFL playoff game goes beyond the scoreboard for Colorado: Colorado also lost twelve prime lamb chops that Governor John Hickenlooper shipped across the country to Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley to pay off a bet debt. But first, he ate a little crow on the…

Reader: Uber Sausage brings fast casual to LoHi

Sweet! Although LoHi has lost Living the Sweet Life, that space at 1535 Central Street won’t be empty long. Über Sausage is taking it over, and will open a second spot — twice as big as the original on Colfax — this spring. “I love this neighborhood, I love the…