Jeff Jones P17 1600 East 17th Avenue 303-399-0988 p17denver.com This is part two of my interview with Jeff Jones, chef de cuisine of P17; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Your three favorite Denver restaurants other than your own: I love Snooze on Larimer, and when I’m craving a…
The Bonnie Brae Tavern looks pretty good for turning eighty this Friday, and not much different than the day it opened. The roadside eatery will celebrate eighty years of family operation on June 6 with 80 cent draught beers, $1.80 orders of burgers and fries and spaghetti and meatballs, and…
It was the end of an era. After thirty years, the T-Wa Inn — Denver’s first Vietnamese restaurant — went dark last weekend. But T-Wa’s future started looking dim long ago, as other Vietnamese restaurants popped up all over town. And as owner Tom Lam told Jason Sheehan seven years…
This is how the West was fun! Prairie Ridge Buffalo Ranch, Left Hand Brewing and Kachina Southwestern Grill are teaming up to put on a night of bison and beer this evening. See also: Beer calendar: Cool down with fruit beers, a festival and a grand opening…
Chai & Chai is located in a stretch of fast-food restaurants serving the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. The eatery is owned by Venu Alla, who enlisted dosa chef Rajesh Kannan to make Indian food and Jordanian chef Enas Khalili to make Arabian food. But rather than offer a culinary…
Black Crow, the outdoor extension of the Rio Grande in Lodo, is hosting a Maestro Dobel Tequila tasting event from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight — and there are still a few $15 tickets left. Tequila isn’t the only thing you’ll be able to taste; there will also be an…
It started with a reflective traipse through the mountain wilderness, says Samir Mohammad, recounting the day he made the difficult decision to quit his job at Black Pearl, where he’s been the executive chef since January of this year. But he’s not just departing the kitchen of Black Pearl; he’s…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Avery beer vs. Peach Street spirits dinner contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many barrel-aged Cheeky Peach cocktails can Green Russell get out of its Peach Street barrel before the barrel runs dry? Congratulations to dlitfin,…
The consumption of certain products can contain inherent ethical conundrums — and those are the sorts of conundrums that cause outright hostility between, say, vegans and carnivores. What you eat is part of the issue, but another equally important component is how that food product was created and, perhaps, how…
Although they’ve both been operating in Fort Collins for more than two decades, Odell and New Belgium had never collaborated on a beer. That changed last month when the two Colorado stalwarts teamed up on FOCOllaboration Ale, a pale ale made with Fawcett Crystal Malt (an Odell favorite), Centennial, Cascade…
When the joint next door sternly turned us away, claiming that a catering order would prohibit the kitchen staff from cooking for its customers for at least thirty minutes (seriously?), we opted, in a pinch, for Italian food instead. And my kid, who’s obsessed with Caesar salads, ordered one here,…
The brand new owners of the popular Craft Lager Festival — which has taken place in the Manitou Springs area for eleven years — announced this week that they have canceled the event this August because of poor planning and a lack of available breweries. “We only got eleven signups;…
Jeff Jones P17 1600 East 17th Avenue 303-399-0988 p17denver.com This is part one of my interview with Jeff Jones, chef de cuisine of P17; part two of our conversation will run tomorrow. When you’re a kid, there’s nothing worse than constantly being on the move. Unless, that is, you happen…
For more than a year, Mark Antonation ate his way up Federal Boulevard. With that journey done, he’ll now explore different cuisines from around the globe right here in metro Denver, one month at a time, in Ethniche. Last month was Hawaiian. And June? Ethiopian. Heading away from Capitol Hill…
Patxi’s is turning ten today and the California-based chain is celebrating with cake and a toast. All three Denver Patxi’s locations — on East 17th Avenue, in Cherry Creek and on South University Boulevard — will be serving complimentary cake and offering a toast to guests who come in between…
Chai & Chai 12501 East 17th Avenue, Aurora 720-588-0343 Last fall an unassuming little place named Chai & Chai opened in an unlikely stretch of fast-food restaurants at the heart of the Anschutz Medical Campus. I’d heard it had good dosa — good enough to nab the Best Dosa award…
Rick Marion, owner of the Pizza Pedal’r, which calls itself “the pinnacle of pizza in the Park” — that would be Winter Park — is opening a second Pizza Pedal’r in Denver, namely in the Prospect neighborhood, where it will join a mini restaurant row, including Santiago’s and Tokio, a…
On Thursday night, Green Russell, Frank Bonanno’s sultry, subterranean speakeasy in Larimer Square, is hosting a beer vs. spirits showdown, pitting brews from Avery Brewing against cocktails from Peach Street Distillers — and pairing them all with a five-course dinner. And unlike a lot of dinners, where you’re away from…
Jody Johnson has been in the bar business for more than three decades. After owning the Toby Jug in southeast Denver for seven years, he moved to Sedalia and ran the Sedalia Grill for 22 years — but got tired of the winters down there. “Then a friend of a…
Chez Panisse created its own butterfly effect, changing the way Americans cook, eat and think about food. For Venu Alla, who lived near the legendary restaurant in Berkeley, that influence was personal and powerful, turning him into “something of a foodie,” he says, and inspiring the Indian architect and tech…
It’s Tuesday, and the week drags out long and hot ahead of you. Fortunately, there are two deals on tap today that should help see you through. One is one-time only, but the other will run Tuesdays all summer long. See also: Grimaldi’s pizzeria opens in Denver Pavilions…
After Taki’s, a twenty-year veteran on East Colfax, closed in November of last year, sisters Nancy Brady and Helen Patterson, both of whom own CityGrille next door, fulfilled one of the objectives on their bucket list: They opened a breakfast spot with good coffee. “We’ve always had a dream of…
