Wrap Dawgs will bite on Cherry Creek North

It’s not all doom and gloom in Cherry Creek North if you’re a restaurant. Despite the fact that Argyll and Toast have both called it quits — Argyll closed on Sunday and will reopen next year in the Baker neighborhood and Toast shuttered three weeks ago — it’s clear that…

Now open in Longmont: Georgia Boys BBQ

Georgia Boys BBQ started as a scheme between Matt Alexander and Nick Reckinger to scrape together enough money to buy lift tickets for the slopes, and it quickly became a sprawling sack lunch delivery business and mobile operation, thanks to the pair’s popular ‘cue. Recently, the men had an opportunity…

Toast burns out in Cherry Creek

Robert Thompson’s Argyll isn’t the only restaurant that’s bolted from Cherry Creek North, a tony neighborhood dotted with blinged-out boutiques and swank art galleries, but has a losing streak when it comes to dining dens, several of which have shuttered over the past few years (and still remain vacant). While…

Guess where I’m eating?

There’s no phone number listed anywhere for this ramshackle temple to steer that also doubles as a meat market, green chile utopia and shrine to Biblical verses. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts…

Parsley plants a rooftop garden

Despite Colorado’s short growing season, there’s a growing movement in town of restaurants starting their own gardens. And Parsley has taken the local movement to a new level — its roof…

City, O’ City will be closed in August for expansion

The owners of City, O’ City were at the Wellington E. Webb building last Friday, going for an expanded liquor license that will cover their soon-to-expand space. The plans have been approved, and work on the much-needed expansion into the former hair salon next door will take place next month…

Women & Wine at Strings

Strings will host Women & Wine from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. tonight, a casual tasting of food and wines crafted by established women winemakers around the world. Tickets are $30; for more information, call 303-831-7310 or visit www.stringsrestaurant.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online…

Save for the service, we love an evening at The Irish Snug

Happy Place: The Irish Snug, 1201 East Colfax Avenue, 303-839-1394 The Hours: Daily from 3 to 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. to midnight. The Deals: Two-for-one draft beers, well drinks, and house wines by the glass; $3.95-$4.95 appetizer specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…

Comfort Cafe open again after a three-week rest and restructuring

Comfort Cafe, the non-profit, pay-what-you-please restaurant in Berkeley Park, is back in business, after a three-week hiatus to “rest and restructure a bit.” “Construction on Tennyson Street was a big part of the break,” explains business and building owner Jan Bezuidenhout, “There’s no parking. We’ve seen almost a 50 percent…

Happy Friday: Here’s a good place to find a date

In the Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date, thanks to the constant crowd of young professionals who mingle there over cappuccinos. And because we’re big proponents of ditching online dating and blind set-ups every now and then in favor of meeting…

Walnut A-Go-Go grinds to a halt

With the news that Dylan Moore was garaging the Little Orange Rocket for good, a reader ominously predicted that this food truck wouldn’t be the last to go. That reader was right: Walnut A-Go-Go, the mobile arm of the Boulder-based Walnut Cafe group, is now parked permanently…

In the kitchen with Noah Stephens: The Vert Kitchen BLT

In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, Noah Stephens, exec chef/owner of Vert Kitchen, talks about the motivation behind his sandwiches, all of which are inspired by his travels around the world. I especially love Vert’s BLT, sandwiched with bacon, oven-roasted tomatoes, lashes of lemon mayonnaise and bibb lettuce. “There’s…

Guess where I’m eating?

These are not your average tamales. To the contrary, these tamales, the tender masa fragrant with sweet corn, and rolled with cheese, chiles, chicken or pork, are flat-out delicious, and they’re offered solo, by the half-dozen or dozen. You can get them smothered, too, with what has got to be…

Crazy Good street food truck for sale

When we broke the news yesterday that Dylan Moore was putting the brakes on the Little Orange Rocket, his mobile meals on wheels, several Cafe Society readers wondered if this was the beginning of the end to Denver’s street food movement. Just like restaurants, food trucks come and go, but…