Last December, we embarked on a culinary sojourn that took us through our favorite dishes in the Mile High City — one hundred, to be exact — as a precursor to the Best of Denver issue. Now we’re back with round two, counting down (in no particular order) a hundred…
Those of you who follow this blog have likely read my weekly Chef and Tell interviews, wherein I pepper local line monkeys with a syllabus of prying questions. We run a condensed version of their answers in print, while the entire interview runs over the course of two, sometimes three,…
Back in October, we reported that Sugar Lips Mini Donuts, the turquoise mobile wagon that served up tiny fried treats all summer, had landed a lease on a Copper Mountain storefront and was anticipating a Thanksgiving week opening. The shop didn’t make it, though, and it’s pushed back its opening…
I love holiday beers. But that’s not all that Colorado’s breweries are putting out right now. Here are five beers that have just been released — or are about to be — that were brewed simply because, well, because Colorado is awesome. Double Rainbow Trinity Brewing, Colorado Springs Black Fox…
Happy Place: R Bar, 3209 East Colfax Avenue, 303-320-8635 The Hours: Daily from 5 to 7 p.m. and 10 to 11 p.m. The Deals: $6 house wines; $3.50-$4.50 draft beers; $6 cocktails; $5-7 food specials Were we happy? Flip the page…
At the bakery/cafe where the above snap was flashed, the owner is easy to laugh, quick with a joke and he gets big bonus points for his insanely delicious crepes and allowing me to camp out at a table with all my crap — laptop, menus, notes and camera –…
On its website, Ocean Forest Cafe, 11068 West Jewell Avenue, calls itself a “wild and artictic place.” While we’re not exactly sure what “artictic” means, we almost need to make up a word, too, to properly describe the festive decor in the dining room. Space aside, though, we’re pretty stoked…
You can count us among the group of people who rush out on Christmas Eve to finish our gift purchasing, frantically buying up whatever we can find — or resorting to gift certificates, just so we don’t look like morons. But deals will lure us out early, and Boulder’s Glacier…
When we heard that Chipotle was testing some new items at its location at 371 East Alameda Avenue, we leapt for joy, shouting, “Pride of our city! Purveyor of aggressively decent burritos all across our land! Expanding its menu! Huzzah!” Then we found out what those items were: a new…
Let’s say you’re a chubby chick with a palate for pizza. So you drive — not walk — to your local Papa John’s Pizza, where your order takes much too long for your stomach to bear. And what happens? Watch the fun below…
Over the years, poor St. Nick has been subjected to countless glasses of room-temperature milk and endless holiday plates of instantly-stale-out-of-the-oven sugar cookies dotted with those tiny silver-ball decorations (they’re actually called dragées) that taste like a dirty nickel. For all of his annual exertions, Santa Claus deserves a better…
Raise a glass this weekend to Red’s Pub, the saloon that’s very conveniently located at 7330 West 120th Avenue in Broomfield. Too conveniently located, it turns out: Owner Red Nikkel has sold the property to the Colorado Department of Transportation, which will use it to complete the 120th Avenue Connection…
Jonathan Shikes, Westword’s Beer Man, recently visited Portland — and was amazed at what he found. “Portland is a better beer town than Denver,” he confessed. “As a Denver native, it pains me to say that, but after having visited Beervana for the first, time, there is no getting around…
The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History in Boulder presents a Crafting Your Own Herbal Teas workshop with Susan Evans, founder of Chrysalis Herbs. At this free event, she’ll discuss how to create your own signature blend from a variety of ingredients — many of which you can grow…
Jennifer Carroll’s meltdown when she got eliminated from last night’s episode of Top Chef All-Stars was spectacular. She was graceless, almost out of control, so angry she clearly didn’t know whether to laugh, cry or hit someone. She’d done a lot of bragging, and she’d also been exuding rage through…
While food is necessary for survival, the energy waste involved in the delivery of food is anything but. Now the U.K.-based Foodtubes Project thinks it has the solution: a system of underground food-delivery pipelines powered by air pressure. Foodtubes estimates that its delivery system, which mimics the way water, gas…
As we reported yesterday in Cafe Bites, there have been numerous roadblocks to the redevelopment of the strip of Welton Street that’s at the heart of Five Points — some anticipated, some surprising. The most recent? The Tubman Hilliard Global Academy, a new school at 2741 Welton that’s good news…
From the highly revolutionary world of social networking comes one of the stranger Twitter stunts we’ve seen in a while: Boulder-based tea manufacturer Celestial Seasonings is promising to change tea time by hosting a weekly virtual party, with help from the Sleepytime Bear…
Last December, we embarked on a culinary sojourn that took us through our favorite dishes in the Mile High City — one hundred, to be exact — as a precursor to the Best of Denver issue. Now we’re back with round two, counting down (in no particular order) a hundred…
Last month, we brought you news that Ezra Malmuth and Nathan Barnett, who have been cooking together since they started a barbecue club in response to their school installing a vegetarian salad bar, planned to wheel a food truck onto the street. Their concept was Stick it to Me, a…
Can’t believe we’ve neglected Facebook for so long, but fear not loyal, beautiful, smart and funny Cafe Society readers: We now have a Facebook fan page where you can poke us, like us and comment on Denver food stories of the day. Go ahead and become a fan. Follow @CafeWestword…
Tickets to the 2011 Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, the culinary breeding ground for the country’s most extolled food personalities, chefs, grape gurus and their groupies, just went on sale yesterday, and you can snap up a ticket to the gustatory soiree, held June 17, 18 and 19, for…
