Wynkoop Brewing Company is gearing up for the Great American Beer Festival and recently tapped a couple of its rarest but most outstanding beers. Orville is a blend of a couple of unusual beers: a pale ale fermented with brettanomyces in four wooden barrels for six weeks, and the same…
Josh Barhaug Fired Up 1135 Bannock Street 303-825-1995 www.gtfiredup.com This is part one of my chef interview with Josh Barhaug, who mans the line — and pizza oven — at Fired Up. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. The first recipe that Josh Barhaug ever attempted came out…
Brava! Pizzeria Della Strada will be firing up its wood-fueled pizza wagon at Dish, Westword’s eighteenth annual food event set for next Thursday evening, September 6, in the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. Here’s what to expect from our 2011 Best Specialty Pizza winner:…
Sean Kenyon knows how to get attention — whether he’s pouring a perfectly composed cocktail at Williams & Graham or the Squeaky Bean, serving up his opinions on this blog, or sending out a fast tweet, as he did recently when he told bartenders to quit wearing tank tops behind…
Zocalo has been serving up Mexican food and happy-hour margaritas for two years right off Broadway on Eleventh Avenue, and doing well enough that the owners are now adding a second location three miles further south on Broadway. “Thanks to all the support with the customers and everything, the business…
In advance of Gretchen Kurtz’s debut next week as the new Cafe critic, we asked some of our previous restaurant reviewers to weigh in — and given their jobs, we do mean weigh in — with advice for our new newest critic. Kyle Wagner, our reviewer for close to a…
It shouldn’t be about what you wear, right? According to Sean Kenyon, the barman behind the Squeaky Bean and Williams & Graham, it absolutely should be about that, especially if you’re one of those tenders who takes to wearing a “hipster” tank top when you’re slinging drinks behind the stick…
Dish, Westword’s annual eating orgy, is set for next Thursday evening, September 6 in the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. Like last year’s celebration, all of the participating restaurants and trucks will be coming at the express invitation of Cafe Society scribes. One of the esteemed restaurants…
When I’m walking into a Panera Bread , it’s hard for me to remember that I’m not headed into Starbucks. There’s the same wafting aroma of espresso and suburban MILF perfume; the same mellow, snoozy music; and the counter employees are so gleeful I wonder if they’ve been threatened by…
I was on a mission for Indian food, but on the way there, experienced an abrupt craving for a (relatively) cheap steak, TVs and a bar that I knew wouldn’t be a see-and-be-seen scene. The singing kitchen staff and convivial bartender who fed me fruit were added bonuses. Can you…
The space at 946 Pearl Street in Boulder has gone through many incarnations over the past few years: It was a wine-making operation, then a wine bar called The Blending Cellar, which was bought and reopened as Cuvee — another wine bar that shuttered soon after. This June, the owner…
The Pho 95 in the Streets at SouthGlenn isn’t quite the same as the original on South Federal Boulevard. For one thing, this outpost on South Vine Street has a full bar; for another, the kitchen here has been experimenting with dishes that expand on the pho and bun that…
We’ll publish our first review by our new Cafe critic, Gretchen Kurtz, next week, and in the meantime, you’ll have plenty of chew on when our point/counterpoint on tipping appears here tomorrow. But as commenters and critics alike know all too well, there’s never any shortage of material on Cafe…
Mateo, 1837 Pearl Street in Boulder, is hosting a farm-to-table wine dinner beginning at 6 p.m. this evening, and there area still a few seats open. The restaurant will pair a variety of wines with dishes inspired by such local ingredients as Colorado beef, striped bass and Palisade peaches…
Beau Simmons, the executive chef of Jonesy’s EatBar, has spent a large part of the long, hot summer tending to his garden in Highland, a verdant plot that takes up the majority of the back yard of the home that belongs to Leigh Jones, the owner of Jonesy’s. Simmons, who’s…
First things first: Ceviche, when prepared correctly, is, quite simply, my favorite thing to eat. My mother made it all the time when I was growing up, and my sole reason for going to the coastal cities of Mexico on spring break in college had nothing to do with beach…
Dish: Westword’s annual eating orgy is set for next Thursday evening, September 6, in the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. And what’s a party without pizza? Sexy Pizza has accepted an exclusive invite from Cafe Society scribes to attend…
Northwest Denver is changing quickly, so quickly that Linger, which we voted Best Restaurant Patio With a View less than five months ago, has already lost some of that view. The new residential/retail complex going up…and up…on Boulder Street has not only obscured the view of downtown that Lola enjoyed…
Over the weekend, I had a sudden urge for doughnuts, a sweet treat that I yearn for once, maybe twice a year. In this case, I went a bit overboard, ordering four…but only succumbed to the one filled with lemon cream. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone…
Your parents always warned you not to take candy from anyone in a van, but ordering fondue from a friendly couple in a lime-green, converted VW van is not only safe, it’s highly recommended. Taylor and Krystianne Vaughn have figured out a way to make gooey melted cheese and velvety…
Cafe Society dished out four Guess Where? contests last week, including a still-unidentified platter of tacos forested with a surplus of lettuce — or “rabbit meal,” as one commenter quipped. In addition, we showcased a cup of hazelnut chocolate ice cream wreathed with a multitude of toppings from Pinkberry as…
Quinoa is one of the best sources of protein for a non-meat-eater. It’s a complete protein, and when you mix in black beans and veggies with a little lime juice and toasted cumin, you’ve got a salad mix that tastes quite a bit like a Chipotle burrito bowl and is…
