Food & Drink

“Part of the project is always getting to know your different clients, getting inside their heads,” says Sarah Semple Brown, who founded the design and architecture Semple Brown Design in the early ’80s and has been designing restaurant spaces ever since. “It’s like reality TV at its best.”…

Unless you’ve been hibernating under a bun, you know that come Wednesday, the glorious Denver Burger Battle is back for another round of flame wars. This year’s competition heats up at Sports Authority Field at Mile High at 7 p.m., and while we’ve already given away a pair of VIP…

Colorado ranked lowest on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2012 obesity rate study, but don’t grab for the funnel cakes in celebration just yet: Over the past fifteen years, the obesity rate has doubled or almost doubled in 38 states, and even Colorado’s has increased substantially. As the…

In December of last year, Jake Brodsky, the chief bean at NOVO Coffee, shuttered his only retail location, at the Denver Art Museum, moving his entire operation — roasting, retail, coffee-cupping classes and all — to his existing roasting facility at 3008 Larimer Street. But while the museum location didn’t…

Three years ago, Tyler Nemkov was a Johnson & Wales student who came to Cafe Society as an intern, interested in where a culinary career could take him. So far, it’s taken him to J-school at the University of Colorado, a gig at Cured and, at the edge of 23,…

When Felipe Cufre moved from Argentina to Denver three years ago to join his American wife, he knew he wanted to do something related to food. He was working on a cookbook when he stumbled on the inaugural Civic Center Eats food-truck gathering in Civic Center Park in 2010, which…

It’s been one month since the Aurora theater shooting, and victims, their loved ones and the community at large are still reeling. But out of the darkness has come some light, including Purple Door Coffee — a soon-to-open coffeehouse dedicated to providing job opportunities for at-risk and homeless youth. That…

You don’t need to brave the lines outside of a 28-foot-high milk can to enjoy Little Man Ice Cream. The four-year-old venture has expanded its reach to provide ice cream for local restaurants, as well as at events and private parties…

On the run, in a hurry and not picky about where I ended up, I pulled into the parking lot of this bustling pit stop, and aside from a caravan of crying babies, the mothers of whom were oblivious to the tantrums, I wasn’t as lackadaisical about the food as…

Even on off-hours on most weekdays, the patio is half-full and there are several occupied tables inside the tiny restaurant — which indicates that Jerusalem is either near a university or is really tasty. Or, in this case, both…

Nanny state or manny state? It looks like Elevation Beer Company in Poncha Springs might be able to go with its first-choice name for the smoked dopplebock it’s making this fall for Pints for Prostates, a non-profit organization that raises money to help fight prostate cancer, after all. The name?…

I’ve lived in Washington Park for about sixteen years — long before it became trendy, and long after the corner markets on South Gaylord had disappeared into the abyss, making way for (mostly) lackluster bars and restaurants, uppity boutiques and wine bottle shops (that part, I like). But corner markets…

Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar was just a few months old last September, but owner Robert Thompson somehow found the time and energy to be a part of Dish 2011 — our first outside dining event (after seventeen years inside!), and also the first one for which Cafe Society…

The results are in on Honest Tea’s experiment in honesty, and Boulder ranks as the third most honest city in the country, following closely behind Oakland and Salt Lake City. Over the last few weeks, Honest Tea set up kiosks in fifty locations in thirty cities across the country, stocking…

Pagliacci’s has been dishing up classic Italian food — and ambience — since 1946. “It’s been an awesome experience,” says Mark Langston, whose mother bought the place from other relatives in 1977. “It’s just time to move on.” A developer has bought the property, and plans to tear down Pagalicci’s…

It might be strange to think of Hooters as an institution, but that’s what the one on South Colorado became. Not only was this breastaurant the first link in the chain in Colorado, it was the first Hooters west of the Mississippi. But after 23 years, the shirt-bursting establishment shuttered…

Not exactly your typical gumbo — and that’s just fine, since the flavors were spot-on, plenty of seafood gave it the required oceanic splash and the rice was textbook-perfect. Only thing missing? A squeeze of lemon. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…

The film Forks Over Knives has been called “vegan propaganda” by some and lauded as a truth-filled wake-up call by others. I haven’t seen it, but that didn’t stop me from picking up the official Forks Over Knives Cookbook as soon as it was available. This is an adaptation on…