While Mike Shanahan, the former head coach of the Denver Broncos, is reportedly in talks with the Washington Redskins to become that team’s next head coach, his eponymous steakhouse finally opened on Christmas Eve at 5085 South Syracruse Street after a series of test dinners. “Mike was involved from this…
In less than four days, we’re going to be guilted into making a bunch of New Year’s resolutions that most of us will undoubtedly break, which is as good a reason as any not to make any resolutions at all. Nonetheless, as I was reading through the posts on www.egullet.org,…
If a day at the spa, followed by a meal prepared by French chefs that finishes with a dessert tasting of four flavors of crème brulee — Bailey’s, chocolate truffle, pumpkin, and Tahitian vanilla bean — sounds like something you might deserve after all of the holiday madness, then head…
Today is the last day for Chez Jose, and the seventeen-year-old restaurant at 3027 East Second Avenue is going out with a bang — a final fiesta that Lori Midson describes here. Meanwhile, the Egg Shell kept to its schedule, closing up the space at 300 Josephine Street that it…
At 5 p.m. tonight, stop by Great Divide Brewing Co., 2201 Arapahoe Street, for a beer-and-cheese pairing featuring five beers and five artisan cheeses. Admission is $18; RSVP to info@greatdivide.com. For more info, call 303-296-9460 or visit www.greatdivide.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online…
Colt & Gray has had a helluva year. First, it opened — which, as anyone who’s ever gone through a restaurant opening can tell you, is no small thing and never guaranteed until the first paying customer actually steps through the door — and then it got slammed with business…
I get a lot of e-mails from marketing people. A lot. Amid all the tales of bad service offered by people who demand that I tell their stories to the world and ads for discount Vicodin through the mail are pitches from boutique marketers blindly pimping their clients — many…
Garbanzo beans by the bucketload, couscous by the cart, pita in packets of five, bright lights and clean lines and free samples! That’s been the successful formula for Alon Mor, the owner of Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, who just added an eighth location to his multiplying Mediterranean feast houses. The Highlands…
This just in from Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson: On December 27, 2009, at approximately 1:54 P.M., Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office Deputies responded to the Subway restaurant located at 18525 East Smoky Hill Road, Unit L, on the report of an armed robbery. Witnesses stated that the male suspect left…
“It’s been a good run, a fun run, but the landlord wanted us to pay twice what our rent has been,” laments Dan Oholson, owner of Chez Jose, the Cherry Creek burrito joint at 3027 East Second Avenue that’s been busting the seams of flour tortillas with meats, beans, rice,…
Next week, I’m heading south to Santa Fe for a few days of eating, drinking and stuffing my trunk with all of my favorite foodstuffs from Trader Joe’s. (Jealous, aren’t you?) And in anticipation of my journey down the flat stretch of asphalt that’ll eventually lead me to the land…
While the year draws to a close, you can find something special at just about every one of your favorite foodie spots, plus sign up for charity events that will help kick 2010 off to a great start. Here’s a taste of what’s ahead: Monday, December 28: Wynkoop Brewing Company,…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Non-traditional weddings are the new black. The bride wears whatever she wants, the wedding party jams to Kanye as they bebop down the aisle and beaches, backyards, and city parks have replaced chapels and churches. But a couple in Japan recently took the cake (or the sashimi, more appropriately) for…
To continue to spread holiday cheer, we present the most memorable quips, words of wisdom, epiphanies, jabs, wisecracks and digs of the year culled from the last five months of Chef and Tell interviews. Chef and Tell with Goose Sorensen, exec chef of Solera What’s never in your kitchen: Chefs…
Not long ago, I wrote an ode to the joys of the baklava at Ali Baba Grill in Golden. Soon after, we had another piece — a Sugar High report — concerning the baklava at Jerusalem. And then I got this note from Jeff, the baklava maker at Phoenician Kabob…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, is gearing up for the second round of the “Will Drink Beer for Food” charity benefit. Today through January 3, for every draft beer, six-beer sampler tray or Railyard Ale to-go six-pack you buy, the Wynkoop will donate $1 to Volunteers of America;…
We’re taking a mini vacation from the Cafe Society blog today and tomorrow — so all may eat, drink and sleep — but your regularly scheduled bloggery will be right back here on Monday. Enjoy the break…
This is part two of my interview with Goose Sorensen, executive chef of Solera. To read part one of this interview, click here. Culinary inspirations: Many of the chefs in Denver — Jamey Fader, Tyler Wiard, Matty Selby, Sean Yontz, Brian Laird, Alex Seidel and Scotty Parker — inspire me…
Come on, Jay. Let’s just eat.” Laura and I had been arguing the whole way, skidding through icy streets under a gray sky bruised with clouds — a low-intensity border skirmish in the running insurgency of our marriage. We were running late in the sluggish traffic; I’d already called the…
The sign on the Rackhouse Pub promises “Whiskey Beer Food.” It’s been a tough year, so I’m looking for signs. Life has gotten so complex that a sign, just a sign, can help chart my direction — even if it’s only for the course of a night. Whiskey, Beer and…
When I make a sandwich, it is an admittedly pathetic (though oddly comforting) thing: two slices of white bread laid with two slices of individually wrapped American cheese, thrown in the nuker and microwaved for ten seconds. That’s it. I call it my white-trash grilled cheese. When Noah Stephens or…
