Standing in front of the beer cooler in Colorado, the Napa Valley of Beer, can be a little overwhelming. Okay, it can be a lot overwhelming. There are dozens of styles — from IPAs, stouts and sours to Belgian saisons bocks and barrel-aged brews — from a confounding number of…
Ken Kodys is no stranger to victory. In 2009, the Boston native, who was then tending bar at Bacaro, in Boulder, created a memorable cocktail ironically called Amnesia that took the whole kit and caboodle in the DeKuyper Mix Master Bartender contest at the Denver Food & Wine Festival. Earlier…
Lower Highland solidly won against Capitol Hill in the round of 8 in our restaurant neighborhood tournament, and Tennyson squeaked by the favorited Upper Larimer, due to some serious campaigning on social media. In this match-up of Tennyson and LoHi, who you got? Vote below!…
If this thing had bulging eyes, insists my kid, it would look like Jaws. That’s a bit of a stretch, but the mouth, which opens to a clear pond of fresh coconut water, is a bit creepy. As far as I know, there’s no restaurant in Denver proper that serves…
Eating Mexican food as a vegetarian isn’t easy, and as a vegan? You might as well forget it unless you’re at a plant-based restaurant. Or at Old Blinking Light Kitchen & Cocktails in Highlands Ranch…
Our Street 16 menu matchup is down to the final four, with the first face-off between South Federal Boulevard and Boulder. These are both great restaurant neighborhoods — even if their restaurants have almost nothing in common…
Great Divide Brewing, 2201 Arapahoe Street, will host its popular monthly beer-and-cheese pairing tonight. The event takes place in the Great Divide tap room and costs $24, which includes tax and gratuity. An RSVP is required; e-mail Great Divide to grab a spot. For information on dozens of culinary events…
There’s no restaurant review this week as a result of our Best of Denver 2012 issue going to press. What are you waiting for? Check out our 2012 Best of Denver Food & Drink picks…
HDNet’s Drinking Made Easy hosts Zane Lamprey and Steve McKenna spend their days traveling across the country and drinking on camera, using their show as a medium to showcase the local drinking culture of towns from all over the map. On next week’s episode — which airs Wednesday, April 4…
Centro Latin Kitchen chef Ian Clark was on a bus from Sayulita, Mexico, over the holidays when he got a phone call from work. “Someone in the company asked me if I wanted to go back down to Mexico,” he recalls. “I said, ‘Sure, why not?'” A few weeks later,…
A serious bartending scene in Denver has culminated in dozens of cocktail contests, many of which propel our local bar men and women to a national spotlight, where they go up against the country’s best. And tonight, one of the biggest contests of 2012 is going down at Green Russell:…
Alex Waters, the owner/chef of Bistro One, is taking a sabbatical, albeit a short one. “My kids and I are heading to the mountains today for a little break, and then it’s back to work,” says Waters, who will close Bistro One, his four-year-old restaurant, on Thursday and reopen it…
Colorado chefs cook their asses off — not just in their respective restaurants but at culinary events all over the city, and last night was no exception, as thirty chefs from Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs convened at the Colorado Convention Center to cook at Colorado Chefs Up Front, a…
As we’ve been doing for a few weeks now, Cafe Society is out to find the single-best neighborhood for eating-out in Denver with our Street 16 tournament. Size doesn’t matter, but restaurants do. We started with sixteen areas of metro Denver and now we’re down to four. In the first…
Peyton Manning has good taste in restaurants — and plenty of cash to cover the tabs, given his $95 million deal with the Denver Broncos. And this past weekend, he was already out hitting a few of the town’s hot spots. On Friday night, he was sighted at Panzano, the…
Just a month after opening its doors, River North Brewery on Blake Street has bottled thirty cases of its double IPA and plans to start selling it within two weeks. The move is unusual among the wave of small breweries that has opened in the Denver area over the past…
“This here’s the first time I’ve ever seen anyone take a photo of truck stop cuisine,” declared the dude from Alabama, who was clearly bewildered. But not as bemused as I was by someone using “truck stop” and “cuisine” in the the same sentence. Can you guess where I’m eating?…
It’s down to the final four neighborhoods in our Cafe Society reader voting tournament, with Tennyson catching the most attention from sideline gabbers and Boulder — “hey, that’s not a neighborhood!” — narrowly beating out Highland West in the field of eight. Below are the full results of our round…
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. Celebrate the start of spring with a medley of fresh carrots, celery and nutty, firm green lentils. Served warm atop a bed…
Last week, Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests, ranging from a bowl of guacamole from Las Margaritas that had tongues wagging while fingers were pointing to a flute of bubbles at Crimson Canary to a plateful of pasta with red sauce at Patsy’s to a heap of excellent…
Uptown got knocked out of our Street 16 menu matchup early — and it had nothing to do with the crazy saga of Roam, which owner Daniel Kuhlman closed last week in a wild scene that involved angry former employees, Kuhlman attempted to take Lori Midson’s camera, and two visits…
While you wait for the Best of Denver 2012, with awards in more than a hundred Food & Drink categories to chew over and savor, here’s what else is on the culinary menu for the week:…
