Food & Drink

Judging from the comments posted after Friday’s update on the neighborhood campaign against Mod Livin’, the mediation session Thursday night only heightened hostilities. Erick Roorda and Jill Warner — owners of Mod Livin’ and partners with Dylan Moore in Deluxe Burger, the retro restaurant that opened in a corner of…

Back in September, Satchel’s Market, a five-year-old market-cum-restaurant in North Park Hill, served its last dinner and shuttered after it was unable to overcome problems with the lease of its space. Owners Andrew Casalini and Jen Dactano wouldn’t be gone for long, though. They were already planning on opening Satchel’s…

Finding a good restaurant to take a date or meet a group of friends or plan a corporate dinner might be easy enough, but it’s another challenge entirely when you’re looking for a venue to accommodate a massive crowd. Especially if you want to do it the economical way –…

Every other week, we feature a recipe from the crew at Marczyk Fine Foods, the gourmet market at 770 East Seventeenth Avenue overseen by Pete Marczyk and his wife, Barb Macfarlane. The market pimps, among other things, pies, which are a hot seller during the holidays, although Barb insists that…

There were a group of us slouched over the bar, rolling our eyes at the Denver Broncos debacle unfolding on the TV screen. Most were spilling tears into their beers, seeking solace in a microbrew. But since I was holed up in a Boulder bar, and didn’t want to risk…

Cochon555, the exclusive nationwide traveling swinefest that was started three years ago by founder Brady Lowe, has pig-pointed Denver as a stop on its 2011 ten-city jaunt, which kicks off in New York City on January 16…

Back in August, local restaurant consultant and chef Michel Wahaltere was preparing to join the street food revolution, promising to launch Aja to Go, “the first mobile food truck in the city to travel day and night around Denver serving up great sushi, salad bowls, noodle bowls and Asian tapas.”…

Some very hot sauce has a Cleveland Steak ‘n Shake in hot water. Tim and Mary Katherine Gann were at the restaurant with their son, who was eating chili — and encouraged by a server to add some hot sauce. Blair’s Mega Death Sauce, to be specific, a sauce not…

Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, featuring everything from a still unidentified duck dish to green chile at Little Anita’s to this Italian grinder found at a surprising spot. For correctly identifying it as coming from Kaos, EJ wins an EatDenver deck…

Bob’s Sandwich Shop, 820 Main Street in downtown Louisville, has served the community breakfast, subs and sandwiches for a few years now. But it’s time for a remodel — and a new name. “Closed for repairs” often means a place has bit the dust, never to return, but there are…

Smother love: It’s easy being green in Denver in September and October, when the smell of roasting chiles overrides the odor of exhaust along Federal Boulevard, and the green chile at your favorite Mexican joint carries the heat of the new harvest. For the next several weeks, Cafe Society will…

Good news: the Justice League of Street Food is back with another bash. The crew, which includes the Little Orange Rocket, the Inventing Room, Sully’s Slice Truck, the Cupcake Truck, Biker Jim’s, Steuben’s, the Biscuit Bus, Pinche Tacos, Steamin’ Demon and the Gastro Cart, will be setting up on Thursday,…

Kathleen Nevin, a breast-cancer survivor and owner of Big Fat Cupcake, held a party last night at Second Home to celebrate the release of her Big Fat Cupcake calendar and to raise funds for the Big Fat Cupcake Foundation, which assists cancer patients who need help paying their mortgage or…

Charles MacDonald, the mouthpiece of this week’s Chef and Tell interview and the chef de cuisine of Z Cuisine, which serves some of the state’s best French food, makes la marmitte du pecheur — or fisherman’s stew — at the bistro, the recipe of which he’s sharing with Cafe Society…