Opening Day at Coors Field may as well be a holiday in the Mile High City: Denver’s residents descend upon downtown en masse, kick off the baseball festivities early and keep partying until late. Earlier today, Jonathan Shikes, aka Colorado Beer Man, divulged a list of spots to find craft…
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. Spaghetti squash is fun to prepare and tastes delicious. This Cal-Mex-style dish utilizes mango, avocado, black beans and corn to create a…
Baseball fans are going to find awesome deals today on America’s favorite light lagers at LoDo bars and restaurants. Awesome, awesome deals. But if you are looking to drink something else, perhaps a deliciously flavorful ale brewed by one of this state’s amazing independent beer makers, you need to have…
Just in time for opening day, Breckenridge Ballpark Pub, 2220 Blake Street, has reopened after taking a month off for renovations…
Cafe Society dished out seven Guess Where? contests last week ranging from a blood orange mimosa from Racines to a noble pastrami sandwich at Backcountry Provisions to a waste-of-a-burrito among well-on-their-way wasted patrons at Hanson’s to a morning gut bomb of sausage-studded Hollandaise sauce, poached eggs and chicken-fried steak. For…
It was a photo in a magazine of a chef in his whites that inspired Fabio Flagiello to pursue a culinary career. “I was nine years old and leafing through a magazine and saw a chef in his jacket and hat, so I told my mom that I wanted too…
To be pretentious or not? About the only than that people could agree on after reading the interview with Adam Hodak of the Green Russell was that a margarita needs real lime…
On Friday afternoon, I got the text: “Heeeeey! I sold the Pinyon — going to make the move to Denver. Kablammo!” read the message from Theo Adley, the exec chef-owner of the Pinyon in Boulder, a restaurant he opened in late 2010 on the East End of the Pearl Street…
Penny Parker may have lost her job at the Denver Post, but she hasn’t lost her interest in a charity that helps breast-cancer patients — a charity that will benefit from a fundraiser at Coohills this Tuesday. Here’s a taste of what else is on the culinary calendar this week:…
Looking for a way to resurrect your energy on Easter morning? This blood orange mimosa could be just the cocktail. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday,…
In this interview, Adam Hodak — the beverage manager for Frank Bonanno’s restaurants who’s frequently behind the stick at Green Russell, Osteria Marco and Russell’s Smokehouse — weighs in on how he got to where he is, the night he pepper-sprayed himself and the irony of lime usage at Mexican…
Denver dumpling enthusiasts can breathe a sigh of relief: Lao Wang Noodle House reopened today, several days after Chung-Ming and Tse-Ming Wang had closed the place for renovations. Follow @CafeWestword on Twitter and at facebook.com/denvercafesociety…
I wasn’t thrilled with Paxia, the upscale Mexican joint brothers Cesar, Roberto and Ignacio Leon opened in the Sunnyside neighborhood last year, especially because their original restaurant, the vibrant Los Carboncitos, is located just six blocks away. And after I’d eaten my review meals at Paxia, I went diving into…
Havana Street in Aurora is home to several new restaurants, according to the latest word from the Havana Business Improvement District. Among them: Havana Street Station, a family restaurant serving mostly American and Mexican food in the space at 1911 South Havana Street that used to be Dumitri’s Family Restaurant…
If one cyclist left Denver Beer Co at noon, traveling at fifteen miles per hour, and another left from the City and County Building at noon, traveling at 10 miles per hour, how long would take them to grind up 500 pounds of malted barley?…
When Tyler Nemkov joined Cafe Society as a twenty-year-old intern from Johnson & Wales three years ago, he knew he wanted some kind of career in the culinary world. And now he’s found it — although he’s still a month away from graduation at the University of Colorado, the 23-year-old…
Denver’s most doomed address has claimed another victim. Nanna’s Teas opened last summer in the charming Victorian bungalow that was the original home of La Loma, and over the past four decades has housed restaurants ranging from Filipino to Mexican to Chinese to Mexican to continental to Mexican. After El…
Yes, that’s sausage studding the spicy Hollandaise on top of poached eggs on top of, yes, chicken-fried steak! Guess who’s serving this gut bomb? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday,…
The RMS Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, and for the hundredth anniversary of that event Cullen’s Upscale American Grille in Houston is offering a replication of the first-class passengers’ last dinner. For a thousand bucks a plate, ten lucky diners can enjoy a ten-course meal that includes such dishes…
Andrew Casalini and his wife, Jen Dactano, opened Satchel’s on 6th just over a year ago, but the restaurant at 1710 East Sixth Avenue — a replacement for Satchel’s Market, the Park Hill market-turned-restaurant they closed in the fall of 2010 — is on its third chef. Jared Brant was…
Boulder Wine Merchant, 2690 Broadway Street in Boulder, will host a free wine-tasting tonight from 5 to 7 p.m. Join representatives from the family-owned Herdade do Esporao Winery as they showcase four well-balanced wines from the Alentejo region of Portugal. The tasting is open to the public; no RSVP required…
Peach Street Distillers first fired up the stills in Palisade in 2004, a project from Rory Donovan and Ska Brewing co-founders Dave Thibodeau and Bill Graham. Since then, the company has grown steadily from a risk-it-all bootstrapped operation into a well-known local craft brand. And the hard work just paid…
