South Federal Boulevard is Denver’s best restaurant neighborhood, according to votes cast by the readers of Cafe Society. In a poll that pitted South Federal vs. Lower Highland, South Federal came away with 53.48 percent of the vote when polls closed at 11:59 p.m. Sunday night. The weekend-long voting was…
March saw some much-anticipated openings, including a Denver outpost of The Kitchen as well as James Mazzio’s Red Star Deli in the Ice House, Cinque Soldi Salumeria on South Pearl Street, and the revamped Spuntino in Highland. But longtime barbecue joints dried up all over the metro area. Keep reading…
Cafe Society posted five Guess Where? contests last week ranging from a still-unidentified creepy coconut to a breakfast feast of “truck stop cuisine” from Johnson’s Corner to a terrific plate of chiliquiles from Tacos/Carnitas Estilo Michoacan to a sphere of glistening oysters. For correctly identifying those pearls as coming from…
Pinche Taqueria won our Best New Restaurant designation in the Best of Denver 2012; Laura Shunk discussed her pick here. But as she looked over the list of eateries that had opened in 2011, and assessed how they were holding up, she revised our late December list of Denver’s ten…
Boulder may have been knocked out of our Street 16 neighborhood tournament (look for the winner later today), but it was Cafe Society’s pick for the Best Food Neighborhood in our Best of Denver 2012 — and this week’s culinary calender will highlight many reasons for that. But there are…
While scouring this week’s tweets, I came across this snarky slam from Ali Wallers, a stand-up comedian, former writer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Best Week Ever and, it appears, an advocate of a reality show…that would pursue pretentious vegans. The show could start with Clueless star Alica…
The woman sitting in the booth behind us was beside herself: “We kept telling city council that we needed a barbecue place out here. We’ve been to every single barbecue place in Denver and this is by far the best,” she declared, waving her arms dismissively when I interjected something…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company has added a new beer to its roster, Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, and it will only be available on one day, Sunday, April 1. Enough said…
Despite the volume of beer being pumped out of this state’s kettles, breweries keep opening at a breakneck pace. We’re just fine with that, especially when those breweries come with taprooms, because taprooms are a really good way to daytime drink and somehow seem less alcoholic than if you were…
Karma Bar & Tapas, a surprisingly hip bar at 5654 South Prince Street in downtown Littleton, is celebrating two years of good karma today by offering free food, giveaways and drink specials. There will also be a tattoo booth on-site. Call 720-524-8420 for more info. For information on dozens of…
At the end of last year, we published our list of the ten best restaurants that had opened in 2011 — as we saw them at the time. Over the next few months, though, as we prepared for the Best of Denver 2012, we had a chance to really digest…
Come Sunday, downtown Denver will benefit from another reason to rise and shine when Ryan Leinonen, exec chef/owner of Trillium, the Scandinavian-inspired restaurant that he unleashed in the Ballpark neighborhood just a few months ago, opens his restaurant at 10 a.m. with what he calls “infinite mimosas.”…
About three hundred restaurants opened in the metro area in 2011, and many of them were very good restaurants indeed. There’s no question that the bar has been raised in Denver — and things are only going to get better from here. But as we considered the contenders for the…
I’ll never forget the first time I attended the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen. It was the final year that Julia Child, the late, great American chef who demystified French cuisine — and passed away in 2004 — made an appearance at the annual Aspen culinary orgy, back when…
Starbucks’ outspoken support of same-sex marriage prompted the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) to create an international campaign to “Dump Starbucks,” an attempt to persuade people to stop buying coffee from Starbucks because, according to itsDump Starbucks website, “it has taken a corporate-wide position that the definition of marriage between…
After four years and a pile of red tape, Vine Street Pub (and Brewery) is getting ready to brew beer on site for the first time this Sunday. The restaurant, part of the Boulder-based Mountain Sun group, has had its equipment set up since last fall, but just received its…
The bartender insisted that the Greek salad was the bomb, but a Greek salad without feta is blasphemy. It arrived later, upon request, but someone in the kitchen was clearly snoozing. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where…
We’re down to the last two neighborhoods in our Street 16 menu matchup, which has pitted sixteen of the area’s hottest dining destinations against each other. And what a match it is: South Federal Boulevard, the strip that holds many of this city’s greatest ethnic restaurants, against Lower Highland, or…
Join Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, 1512 Curtis Street, in supporting energy conservation and sustainable living when the restaurant offers a four-course dinner paired with wines — by candlelight only — on Saturday, March 31. Dinner in the dark costs $50 and the pairing is an additional $15; call…
Okay, so it’s not really a secret — although it is tucked away inside a printing shop. In an attempt to introduce their home to a wider group of people — and occasionally focus on something other than politics — the collective organizations at the 27 Social Centre, 2727 West…
If you can’t snag at seat at Jelly — and who can? — the insanely popular breakfast and lunch joint that Christina Smith and Josh Epps opened in early 2011, there’s hope on the horizon…
The sun set on Boulder’s 8island Hawaiian BBQ around the new year, and the city lost one of the only places you could find a Hawaiian plate lunch. We haven’t heard from former 8island owner Michael Iuchi since he shuttered the joint, but the address, at least, has gotten new…
