Food & Drink

For my last meal of Denver Restaurant Week, which ended on Friday, I hit up a joint that did everything right — a joint that turned out a terrific menu stockpiled with all of my favorite things, including a dish with gnocchi, carrots, brisket and cabbage. Can you guess where…

Cafe Society served up five Guess where contests last week, ranging from Lori Midson’s favorite watering hole to a $52.80 foie gras sandwich with duck egg, caviar and black truffles at Beatrice & Woodsley, to a terrific pizza at a just-opened joint. For correctly identifying that joint as Stingray, which…

On Friday, Cafe Society writers and commenters alike were all at your service, talking about what makes a great server — and what servers should watch for during Denver Restaurant Week from stingy diners, and every day from potential check-skippers. In response to Jenn Wohletz’s list of the top five…

Six weeks. That’s how long, optimistically, Bryan Dayton expects it will take to rebuild Oak at Fourteenth after fire ravaged the space, causing damage everywhere from the attic to the basement…

Denver Restaurant Week kicked off on February 26, and while tonight is the last official opportunity to take advantage of DRW (some restaurants are extending the offer through the weekend), it’s still not too late to snag a seat at one of the 300 food temples offering multi-course feasts. As…

A week after Virgilio’s Pizzeria & Wine Bar caught some dine-and-ditchers on video, the town is still buzzing about how these ditch-bitches managed to get away with hogging and jogging. But while the now-notorious YouTubed “meatball gang” from Virgilio’s may have scored some free eats, they’re paying for them with…

Talk about bitter irony. A mere two days after Oak at Fourteenth, one of Boulder’s best new restaurants and bars, erupted in blazes after a “false” ceiling of the restaurant caught on fire, Food & Wine magazine released its listage of the country’s best new bars — and Oak at…

It’s been many, many months since floor leaks forced the closure of Samba Room in Larimer Square, but as late as December of 2010, the company, along with Larimer Associates, the group that owns the space, were optimistic that the place would eventually reopen. It wasn’t to be. E Brands,…

My recent review of Carmine’s on Penn, wherein I wrote about being egregiously upsold by a server who’d initially gained my trust, garnered this question from reader Matt: I was just hired as a server a few nights a week, and I’ve never done it before. I wondered if you…

That, people, is some of the most amazing pizza I’ve sunk my teeth into in years — not just in Denver, but anywhere. Thin-crusted, paved with an herb-laden sauce, tricked-out with just the right amount of cheese, topped with quality ingredients and greasy in all the good ways, it’s fitting…

St. Paddy’s Day isn’t until next Thursday, but already, Fadó Irish Pub and Restaurant, the behemoth Irish-themed watering hole, roughly the size of Dublin, is gearing up to paint the town green — starting with your bald head…

Denver Restaurant Week officially began on February 26, and with it, bargain-priced multi-course menus, some including alcoholic libations, from hundreds of the top food temples in and around Denver. DRW officially wraps up tonight, and the most difficult decision, of course, is where to plunk down your plastic for your…

Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle will be right with you — most likely to complain about something. Usually he is pleasant, but this is his place to blow off some steam. Don’t take it personally; he just needs to vent because he’s been doing this for about thirteen years…

Two decades ago, when the first LoDo Limelight Awards were handed out, restaurants were few and far between in lower downtown. But today the restaurant and hospitality industries are the heart of LoDo, and businesses ranging from the venerable Oxford Hotel to the brand-new ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro were honored…

The news that Boulder, the “foodiest town” in the country, will finally get a specialty cheese shop when Cured opens next month was greeted enthusiastically by most readers — and with some skepticism from Dave M: There was a great specialty cheese shop in Boulder a couple years ago. The…

Way too often, I’m steered in the wrong direction by leaving my food fate in the hands of a server (or counter person), mostly because I can’t make up my mind, which is no one’s fault but my own. Still, it leaves a really bad taste in my mouth when…

Denver Restaurant Week kicked off on February 26, and while rezzies are filling up fast, especially now that we’re in the final stretch, it’s still not too late to snag a seat at one of the 300 food temples offering multi-course feasts between now and tomorrow. Tonight is no exception…

To the electrician who completely fucked up Biker Jim’s opening, you pretty much suck. Jim Pittenger, aka Biker Jim, was all set to fling open the doors of his new brick-and-mortar, Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs, on St. Paddy’s Day, but thanks to a half-ass electrician, the sausage slayer has had…