Here’s a sample of the week’s culinary events to whet your appetite; for much, much more, look at our Food and Drink listings in the online calendar. Monday, September 28: Alba introduces Mezzo Mondays, when all bottles of wine are half-price starting at 5:30 p.m. Visit www.albaboulder.com. Tuesday, September 29,…
Last week, while corrupting indoctrinating our new Cafe Society intern, we ordered a pizza. But because we were trying to impress a smart Johnson & Wales University student with more extracurricular activities to her credit than Gordon Ramsey has kitchen disasters, we asked the pizza dude from a nearby pie…
It really shouldn’t come as a surprise that Colorado was the top winning state during this year’s Great American Beer Festival, which wrapped up on September 26: after all, the hundred or so brewers here make the best beer in the world. What was a surprise were the breweries that…
We’ve been waiting patiently for Chopsticks China Bistro to unveil its new space at 5117 South Yosemite Street — and it now looks as though there’s a definitive opening date on the calendar. Owner-chef David Lee and his crew are aiming to open up the new spot on Wednesday, September…
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 am now a month into my quest of sous chefdom, but I feelt like I just…
Dear Keegan Gerhard, Thanks so much for hosting the Westword Mile High Chef Competition . You were a true professional, and everyone in the audience thought you did a great job of keeping the crowd informed — especially when I wasn’t talking over you. But then, I’m hardly the professional…
Total Cinnamon Crunch General Mills Rating: Two spoons out of four Cereal description: Ridged squares that look as if they’ve been toasted and sprinkled with cinnamon — although that last ingredient appears on the roster after a slew of other items. Some of the things in line in front of…
You could have a Pop-Tart or one of those cinnamon rolls with orange frosting that the Pillsbury Dough Boy pimps — or you could chuck all that and join the downtown fray at Panzano, 909 17th Street, which is giving away 1,000 hot, fresh zeppole (that’s Italian for “doughnuts”) and…
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 quickly grabbed the oven door and flung it open, doing a close inspection of the chicken…
For the past week, I’ve been collecting answers to an impromptu poll dealing with the current state of Denver’s restaurant scene. It tracked the way that people are feeling right now about their city’s food and restaurants, and played a little with their expectations for the future. It discussed what…
If you haven’t had the opportunity to sample the bar menu at Elway’s in Cherry Creek, at 2500 East First Avenue, or just want to combine exec chef Tyler Wiard’s newest offerings with football, then whoa-boy, do we have a deal for you. Wiard, who you can read all about…
What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society while shoving chicken wings down your throat…Carnivorous anti-vegetarian Jason Sheehan trots out the city’s top cow temples in his Denver’s Ten Best Steakhouses roundup.At Dish, the Westword Menu Affair, Argyll Gastropub executive chef Sergio Romero and Jay Spickelmier, the exec…
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 through the week for survival tactics and beer recommendations from some of the breweries bringing…
For those of you who can’t get through a weekend without a full-bore sugar IV, may I humbly present Living the Sweet Life, a new cake, pie and cupcake shop celebrating its grand opening this weekend at 1535 Central Street, right next to Masterpiece Deli. What’s that you say? Denver…
Brewers are a strange bunch and the media types who cover them, even stranger — but a handful of the former managed to put up with more than seventy of the latter this afternoon for a Great American Beer Festival luncheon that paired a variety of beers with five courses…
Here in cow country, there’s no shortage of good steakhouses — but LoHi SteakBar, Sean Kelly’s new restaurant at 3200 Tejon Street, already ranks right at the top. Here are ten more of Denver’s best steakhouses…
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 through the week for survival tactics and beer recommendations from some of the breweries bringing…
So, here’s the thing: When you can get a trio of Prime cheeseburger sliders for a fiver at Morton’s the Steakhouse, the testosterone-fueled cow palace that doesn’t exactly do things on the cheap, then that’s your clue to grab every single cheapskate you know and drag them to the clubby…
The Great American Beer Festival officially kicked off at 5:30 p.m. last night, but between the hours of now and 5:30 p.m. today, there’s a lapse in the suds, which is the perfect time to head over to the Wynkoop Brewery, 1634 18th Street, for a rare and exotic beer…
Fitness and diet schemes have been around as long as there’s been advertising. It’s the sale of empty hope — machinery with limited usage, devices with inflated claims, herbal supplements that skirt FDA regulations. But we know all that, and still we watch. And some of us still buy. Of…
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. When I got to the office around 11:30 a.m. yesterday, Chef was already working on the first…
Teri Fahrendorf doesn’t just create beer, she created a movement: the Pink Boots Society, a non-profit organization for women who make a living off of beer. “Server, bartender, brewer, lab worker and so much more,” she says of her group’s membership. “If you make a profit, you can be one…
