The question, says Jenson Cummings, the sous chef at TAG, 1441 Larimer Street, is whether wine or beer pairs better with exec chef Troy Guard’s food. You can be one of fifty people to make that decision tonight, when Guard hosts a $75 per person beer vs. wine dinner at…
Sean Kelly, chef/partner at LoHi SteakBar, at 3200 Tejon Street, calls the board at his new place “plain American bar food,” even though that’s far from an apt description. It’s not like he’s just sitting in the back, drinking the cooking wine while a bunch of nose-picking fuckups dump frozen…
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…
“I want people’s eyes to roll into the back of their heads when they eat my food,” says Elise Wiggins, the über-talented executive chef of Panzano, a Northern Italian restaurant in the Hotel Monaco. Food, like sex, should always be sensual, she explains. The Louisiana native would put her hands…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They usually bring a selection of some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast…
Zaidy’s Downtown Deli/ Fusion Cantina has closed — officially. The final blow came on September 16, at a bizarre liquor license hearing on Zaidy’s application to change to a cabaret license, which would have allowed the restaurant to host salsa nights and dancing. The application was dismissed, in part because…
Across the street from Swedish Medical Center, Roast, once a coffee and paninni shop, is going through a face lift and concept change. And how do I know this? Because I happened to see this sign hanging in the front door of the space at 500 East Hampden Avenue. Now,…
There’s a cornucopia of culinary events in Denver tonight, with everything from the Westword Dish/A Menu Affair at the Fillmore to Penny Parker’s Sense of Security benefit dinner at Lola. And for an appetizer, First Lady Jeannie Ritter is hosting “Pints & Bites,” a benefit for the Governor’s Residence Preservation…
June 25 –that was opening day for LoHi SteakBar. But prior to that? Owners Joe Vostrejs, Jeff Hermanson and Rod Wagner had spent months talking and plotting — and after they hired Sean Kelly, who’d already parted ways with Mark Berzins and the Little Pub Company, they all talked some…
Yesterday, I started culling the best answers I’d gotten from my deliberate rip-off of Grub Street’s 2009 Grub Report foodie poll. Today, I am continuing to pimp for my own 1st Annual Cafe Society Poll about Food and Chefs and Stuff by picking another fantastic response that has come in…
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…
Nate Windham, cocktail and spirits specialist, created the bar program at Paragon Culinary School in Colorado Springs in 2003. He’s currently the head bartender at The Office@Blondies at 20 North Tejon Street in the Springs, and a proud member of the Colorado Bartenders Guild. Earlier this month, he left his…
Colorado makes some of the best beers in the world. Am I biased? Maybe, but I’m also right. Luckily for the rest of the nation, many of these brews are available on liquor store shelves in other parts of the country. But not all of them. Some only come from…
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…
