If you’re taking a road trip back east, make sure you stop in Champaign, Illinois, where you can try to wrap your hands around one of the biggest sandwiches around. The Fat Sandwich Company specializes in, yes, fat sandwiches, and the fattest of all is the Big Fat Ugly. This…
I was at Lotus of Siam, one of Lori Midson’s favorite restaurants in the world (and she’s right — too bad it’s in Las Vegas), eating and catching up on my Westword reading, when I found this report by Michael Roberts on a Thai restaurant group much closer to home:…
On Halloween weekend, Qdoba is treating families — and it’s no trick. With the purchase of a regular entree, any Denver-area Qdoba will give you a free kids’ meal. The offer is good today through Sunday at all 45 area Qdoba store– including the very first Qdoba, at 550 Grant…
The Avery Tap Room, 5757 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, is promising “Scary Good Beer” at this year’s Demonic Halloween Celebrations. Keep reading for the full lineup of weekend events…
Just got word that a production crew from Diners, Drive-ins and Dives has touched down in Denver, and for the next week, they’ll be lugging their camera equipment all over the Mile High City and Boulder, amassing footage for a future episode of the popular Food Network show hosted by…
Earlier today, we offered you a chance to eat free at tonight’s Justice League of Street Food party, simply by telling us, in five words or less, why you deserve the prize. As usual, many of you rose to the occasion, but this time, one entry was set apart…
For those of you who can’t fathom patronizing a pizza joint that doesn’t bring the goods right to your door, a new world is about to open up: the Wazee Supper Club, 1600 15th Street, is rolling out delivery. There are some restrictions, though…
Update: Two new events have been added (Avery’s Rumpkin tapping at Euclid Hall tonight and Vine Street Pub’s tapping on Sunday), while the info for the Bull & Bush pig and pumpkin beer tasting has been expanded. See below for details. Pumpkin beers are an acquired taste, but if you…
The small plates happy hour menu at this high-style restaurant with an equally cosmopolitan lounge tricked out with TVs, a fireplace and faddish furnishings stars everything from from frog legs to sushi rolls. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the…
We knew when Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson, the pair of owners behind Boulder’s Frasca Food & Wine, closed their restaurant down for six weeks to expand and renovate, that the result would be stunning. But nothing could have prepared us for the upgraded Friulano eatery we encountered last night…
After eating my way through the menu at Euclid Hall for this week’s review, I stopped by Rioja, the Larimer Square restaurant that Jen Jasinski and Beth Gruitch opened six years ago, and also by Bistro Vendome, the restaurant at 1420 Larimer Street that the pair took over in 2006…
Charley Sinden The Lobby 2121 Arapahoe Street 303-997-9911 www.thelobbydenver.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Charley Sinden, exec chef of the Lobby. See what Sinden has to say about roach coaches, liver and the Domino’s cheese pizza delivery in the first segment of that Q&A. Greatest accomplishment…
Earlier this week, we gave Cafe Society readers the chance to eat and drink free at tonight’s Halloween-themed Justice League of Street Food party, soliciting photos of you eating from the food trucks. We don’t yet have a winner, though, so we’re going to make this easier. Ready?…
Oh, brother! The battle between My Brother’s Bar and Brothers Bar & Grill is over. Attorneys for the two restaurants — one of which is the oldest continually operating saloon in the city, at 2376 15th Street, the other a link in a Wisconsin-based chain that took over the former…
A new Chick-fil-A restaurant opens this morning at 5260 South Wadsworth Boulevard in Lakewood (the building was previously a Black-Eyed Pea), but the line started forming yesterday. That’s because for the past seven years, the Atlanta-based company has celebrated every store opening with the First 100 Celebration, giving the first…
Head to Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, for Margaritas 101, part of a series of spirit and cooking classes at the restaurant taught by mixologist Jimmy Zanon and chef Duane Walker. Class starts at six and tuition is $25; for more info, call 720-570-8686 or go to www.loladenver.com. For information on…
We don’t know whether the two hotties pictured above will be participating — or whether they eat a lot of Italian food to keep those bodies fueled — but this much we do know: Maggiano’s Little Italy, 500 16th Street, is hosting Great Balls of Fire at noon today, when…
What with the Food Network and the proliferation of culinary personalities all over the place, do you ever wonder what those folks might do in a zombie apocalypse? They’d die, of course. And then become zombies themselves. But what then? They’d do what they’ve always done, obviously. They’d annoy the…
It seems about as premature as the holiday commercial that annoyingly awoke me from deep slumber this morning, but 2010 must be drawing to a close, because consultants across the country are racing to call the big food trends of 2011. Last week, Andrew Freeman & Co., a nationwide hospitality…
Next year, sometime in February, the SPIRE, downtown Denver’s new 42-story, skyscraping structure that’s currently home to residents and, soon, Organic Pizza Company, will introduce fervent gastronauts to Row 14, a joint venture between David Schneider, a part-time server at Rioja and restaurant business consultant and Arik Markus, the former…
Channel 7 recently stopped by the 5300 block of East Colfax Avenue, to talk to Jill Warner and Erick Roorda, the owners of Mod Livin’, about the neighborhood dispute that’s gone “ballistic,” as Roorda says, since they opened Deluxe Burger with restaurateur Dylan Moore, then launched the Little Orange Rocket…
Just about everyone in town has heard of Parisi, the Italian restaurant/deli/bakery at 4401 Tennyson Street. In addition to serving excellent Italian food, it has a full deli stocked with delicious treats and a gelato/espresso station for dessert. Now there’s another reason to to visit Parisi: the Halloween Harvest Week…
