This is where the cool kids from the food-writing class at Johnson & Wales hang out after their last day of the trimester. Can you guess where we’re eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a pool –…
One of the joys of living overseas are all the savory concoctions you find wrapped in pastry and baked. Now — finally! — the wonderful folks behind Maria Empanada have brought authentic, vegetarian-friendly Argentinian empanadas to Lakewood…
The California-based, beer-centric Yard House will open its third Colorado location, at 8439 Park Meadows Center Drive in Lone Tree, this summer, and the company is looking to fill 200 positions over the next several weeks, including servers, bartenders, hosts and cooks…
Lucy, the restaurant above Comedy Works South, has gone through several incarnations since the second it opened in the Landmark complex in late 2008: soul food, picnic food, party food. Starting today, though, Lucy has a new identity: It’s now setting itself up as a go-to breakfast and lunch spot,…
Does this look like Denver’s best paella to you? It definitely tasted that way to Lori Midson, who proclaimed it the “holy grail” in her search for great paella and asked readers to guess where she’d found it. Turned out the answer was Solera. But before we got that, we…
It’s National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! To celebrate, Woody Creek Bakery & Cafe — formerly Paradise Bakery & Cafe — is giving away free chocolate chip cookies at all six of its locations today. The limit is one per person, but if that’s not enough to satisfy your craving, check…
The proprietors of Snooze were surprised to find themselves at the center of the protest over the proposed urban camping ban after co-owner Brianna Borin spoke in favor of the ordinance at a Denver City Council hearing. Last weekend, members of Occupy Denver flocked to the original Snooze, at 23rd…
Cafe Society has explored the benefits of beer-can chicken before, but we couldn’t pass up eating some at the kick-off party for Colorado Beer Week — which runs through May 19 — Saturday afternoon at Highland Tap & Burger in northwest Denver. Below are a few photos of the patriotic…
In this interview, Noah Heaney, Big Red F beverage purchasing agent and bartender at Boulder’s Bitter Bar, weighs in on the business card takeaway, the most unconventional thank you he’s ever received and the places he finds a great experience, no matter who’s behind the bar…
Last week, when we crowned Denver’s ten best patios, we included Indulge Wine Bar, a spot deep in the heart of Highlands Ranch that, in addition to a sizable by-the-glass and bottle list, boasts a sweeping outdoor deck, complete with fire pits and excellent Front Range views. And that spot…
This year’s Colorado Chocolate Festival, held at the Denver Merchandise Mart this past weekend, had everything a chocolate lover could want: Over eighty vendors from all over the country offered cakes, cookies, fudge, toffee, coffee, frozen red wine slushies — and, of course, all the chocolates and truffles you could…
A Philly cheesesteak sandwich and tater tots: This just might be the all-American meal. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll…
Spring signals the arrival of farmers’ markets across the state, and the City Park Esplanade Fresh Market at East Colfax and Columbine Street officially opened for business yesterday at 9 a.m. with around thirty local growers and vendors peddling their wares in spite of the chilly, overcast weather…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. Memorial Day is fast approaching, which means cookouts and buckets of potato salad. This version (adapted from vegan king Bryant Terry) is…
There’s still no name, but the owners of Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery, Southern Sun Pub & Brewery and Vine Street Pub & Brewery, are brewing up a new tap house in Boulder that will open in August directly beneath Southern Sun at 627 South Broadway…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a terrific paella at Solera, which erupted into a discussion of what, exactly, constitutes a “real” paella, to a still-unidentified Caesar salad to a respectable plate of al pastor tacos from the Pioneer. Last but not least, we…
A year after it abruptly closed its original location in Highland, Squeaky Bean will bloom again next month at 1500 Wynkoop Street. And thanks to a series of videos with owner Johnny Ballen, you can get a taste of what’s to come: a Casa Bonita for adults, he promises. “Opening…
American Craft Beer Week begins today, with dozens of beer-related events filling the calendar from now through May 20, including brewery tours, special releases, food-and-beer pairings and tap takeovers. Here’s what else is on tap for this week:…
Dry Dock Brewing, the 2009 Small Brewer of the Year and a darling of the Colorado craft beer scene, will open a huge second brewery in north Aurora later this year. The company will also begin canning four of its most popular beers with a packaging system is has ordered…
Colorado’s second Steak ‘n Shake has opened at 3502 River Point Parkway in the River Point development in Sheridan. The iconic burger emporium first appeared in Colorado last November, when it opened in Centennial to a swarm of weeping fans. Steak ‘n Shake got its start in Normal, Illinois in…
Kong Phom, a native of Thailand who has been in the States for thirty years, doesn’t waste time: It took just a few months after he opened Thai Monkey Club, a curry and noodle parlor, on South Broadway last year to ink a deal on a second spot…
“He looks like Clark Kent, only cuter,” whispered a diner at last night’s pop-up dinner at Studio F, which paraded the culinary chutzpah of Jenna Johansen, along with her 27-year-old protegee, Iain Chisholm. A Johnson & Wales graduate who’s worked in the same kitchens as Johansen for more than a…
