I made a mad dash for the hills this past weekend, partially to decompress and partly to do what I do best: Eat and drink. And while I did both equally well, I spent the majority of my time imbibing in the sitting area of a magnificent dining room rusticated…
The Great American Beer Festival, the nation’s largest, staggers into the Colorado Convention Center this weekend. Last year, 46,000 attendees sampled nearly 3,000 beers, and this year’s Fest is already sold out. Check the Cafe Society blog through the week for survival tactics and beer recommendations from some of the…
Qdoba’s is handing out free samples of its newest item, Classic Street Tacos, until 1:30 p.m. today on the 16th Street Mall — at Larimer, Lawrence, Arapahoe and Glenarm. Get ’em while they’re hot. These are the same tacos feature at the newest Qdoba, which opened in Centennial earlier this…
We’ve long lamented the lack of dives in downtown — and now comes this request from KLJ in California, which was posted at the end of an old item about Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. I’m heading to Denver next week for business. I’ll be staying downtown on California Street. Anything…
The pop-culture landscape is littered with the bleached bones of advertising mascots long passed: For every Kool-Aid Man that survives to break down new walls with his rotund fruit-drink excitement, there’s a Hawaiian Punch dude who’s drunk in the corner and a Spuds McKenzie buried out back. Some make it,…
How’s this for a coincidence? Beginning Thursday, October 1, Hosea Rosenberg — Bravo’s Top Chef: New York conquistador and Jax-Boulder exec chef — is launching www.whereishosea.com, to more or less announce his five-month sabbatical from the house of aquatics that made him famous. The new site, explains Bryce Clark, marketing…
Our former Cafe Society intern just decided to chuck college in favor of a real education: as a sous chef. In Under Fire, he chronicles his daily trials and tribulations in the kitchen. Cold weather lights my fire, and since this was the first real day of it, I couldn’t…
The Great American Beer Festival, the nation’s largest, staggers into the Colorado Convention Center this weekend. Last year, 46,000 attendees sampled nearly 3,000 beers, and this year’s Fest is already sold out. Check Cafe Society all week for survival tactics and beer recommendations from some of the breweries bringing their…
Over the weekend, I posted a half-grumpy power-to-the-people blog in response to a poll of famous food writers done recently by grubstreet.com. It was, I’ll admit, a barely concealed ploy to get the people of Denver talking about how they see their food scene right now and what they would…
The Great American Beer Festival begins in three days, and if you want to be ready for it, you should check with Café Society every afternoon for our survival tips. Because let’s face it: For the average, beer-drinking Joe, the Great American Beer Festival can be a sweaty, draining sausage-fest…
I may be a little premature with this, but because it’s all rainy and (at least in my neighborhood) snowy this morning, I couldn’t help but start thinking about fall and winter menus. This, of course, led immediately to my daydreaming about eating fall and winter menus, and the first…
The Festival Italiano at Belmar, which took place this past Saturday and Sunday, has quickly become one of the best festivals in Denver. Not only was there great food and wine, as well as very little shlock for sale, fewer stroller and dogs, and lower temperatures (September beat August hands…
Today, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. and 4 to 8 p.m., the Lone Tree Pasquini’s Pizza at 7431 Park Meadows Drive, is doling out free slices of pizza to anyone who wanders through the doors. And lest you think that your free slice is just cheese, please, think again…
GB Fish & Chips, the lively British chippie at 1311 South Broadway whose “In cod we trust” motto has generated a loyal following of ex-pats, will soon be battering that fish in its second location at 2175 Sheridan Boulevard, directly across the street from Sloan’s Lake. But while the sign…
With Denver Beer Fest under way, the city is overflowing with beery events. Tonight at 6:30 p.m., Avery Brewery is sponsoring a Beers, Brats & Burlesque: Tastings & Tassels extravaganza at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe Street; while Avery experts guide you through a full selection of their beers, you…
Esquire magazine has unleashed its annual roster of the Best Bars in America, a compilation of the top 100 degenerate dives, sultry saloons, blue collar pubs and highbrow haunts across America, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, that are apparently worth their weight in fine (and not so fine)…
Low Fat Granola with Raisins Kellogg’s Rating: Two-and-a-half spoons out of four Cereal description: What isn’t in this stuff? There’s whole oats and whole grain wheat, some of it fused together in random wads, like meteorites collecting fragments during the trip through space, other parts shattered into jagged fragments. Add…
Our former Cafe Society intern just decided to chuck college in favor of a real education: as a sous chef. In Under Fire, he chronicles his daily trials and tribulations in the kitchen. I recently wrote about how I’ve started the transition from being a pantry guy making salads and…
Breakfast, my mother used to say, is the most important meal of the day. And while she was probably right about that, one of the details not precisely fixed by that nugget of motherly wisdom was when, precisely, breakfast had to fall.Me? I like a nice middle-of-the-night breakfast. I like…
A couple of weeks ago, the esteemed folks over at grubstreet.com (the daily internet food organ of New York Magazine) published their 2009 Grub Report — a survey of the state of our food union (their words, not mine). And while I generally enjoy the work done by those web-crazy…
The Great American Beer Festival begins just six days from now. If you want to be ready (and believe me, we are soooo ready), you’ll need to check in here every afternoon for some lowdown, some insight and some tips on how to do it right. In the meantime, here’s…
Everything I ate at dinner last night was astonishingly perfect, but the high-rise of pork belly and watermelon threatening to tumble into a pool of fragrant, sambal-spiked broth stole the show. I hadn’t even finished the first bite before I propped the plate on my lap, shuffled my chair off…
