This week’s forecast looks warm — especially with the twentieth annual edition of Dining Out for Life, a benefit for Project Angel Heart, on the calendar for April 24. But there are other opportunities to do good while enjoying good food this week; keep reading for a taste of culinary…
I didn’t partake in pot this weekend, but that’s not to say that I didn’t have the munchies. Still, instead of stuffing Twinkies and chips down my gullet, I satisfied my hunger pains with a hearty sandwich of chicken salad, melted cheddar, tomatoes and arugula. Not exactly the kind of…
“I don’t know if I could have predicted how popular it would become,” acknowledges Jeff Osaka, referencing the wave of Japanese ramen mania that’s sweeping the nation. “Ramen is something I’ve been eating since I was a kid, so it’s not new to me, but it seems like the nation…
When they showed up to register at the Craft Brewers Conference trade show in Denver earlier this month, the 8,000 or so brewing-industry attendees from across the country were treated to a 19.2-ounce can of beer made with all-Colorado ingredients. Brewed at Oskar Blues in Longmont, Centennial Pale Ale included…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from the highly addictive house-baked pretzel twists at Old Major to a plate of completely forgettable sushi rolls from Red Ginger to a Mid-East kabob feast from a suburban strip mall joint…
Whether writing about cadavers, sex or the digestive system, Mary Roach probes the annals of history and science for the funniest anecdotes and most moving characters she can dig up. She assembles these tales into biological travelogues that tour readers through those parts of their bodies that everybody shares and…
LYFE Kitchen — the acronym stands for “Love Your Food Everyday” — is a national chain that opened its first store last year in Chicago, but plans to add 250 locations across the country over the next five years. One of them will be in Park Meadows Mall, where a…
Ace Eat Serve was our Best First-Date Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2014, and now it could also be the Best First Meal of the Day Restaurant. Because this morning, the Ace Juice Bar introduced at the restaurant last year will return to its summer hours, opening Monday through…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz says that Sugarmill may have hit a sweet spot in the Ballpark neighborhood. For Chef and Tell, Lori Midson talked with Matt Stein, chef of Bruxie, who is getting creative — with waffles. And as Mark Antonation’s long-running A Federal Case draws to…
When will the mooing stop? Anyone who lives in Denver, around Denver, even miles from Denver, knows that the last thing this city needs is another burger barn, but that’s not stopping cattle herders from other cities from stampeding our stamping grounds with the next latest and greatest burger mania…
If you’ve ever been to this restaurant, then you’ll recognize these pretzel twists immediately — and you’ll understand, too, why two is never enough. I have no plans to partake in 4/20 this weekend, but if I did, this is where I’d go for my munchie fix, and it’s not…
The concept behind Mile High Italian Deli, a small, 800-square-foot storefront in Highland, is sandwiches, panini, salads, and, on Saturday, pizzas, the latter of which is an extension of Mile High Pizza Pie, a pizza joint that rose — and fell — downtown, after the landlord threatened to raise the…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Trillium Easter brunch contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many mimosas did Trillium serve during last year’s Easter brunch? Congratulations to Mlp48, who came the closest with a guess of 142; the actual number is 167…
While some restaurants are focusing on throwing a major Easter brunch bash, others are rolling out deals related to that other Sunday holiday: 4/20. Among the latter are Central Bar & Bistro, which is hosting a front-patio party on Saturday, and Bruxie, which is cooking up a special 4/20 deal…
Matt Stein specializes in gourmet waffle sandwiches at Bruxie, but he’s obsessed with cheeseburgers. “My ongoing discussion obsession with my partners about who makes the best burger was charming four years ago,” he says in this week’s Chef and Tell. “But who knew that it could go on as long…
With both 4/20 and Easter on Sunday, the city will be rolling in nugs and eggs and the city’s favorite hybrid meal — brunch — will undoubted hit new highs. Whether you’re out to celebrate bud or bunnies this year or just celebrating a good-weather weekend, there’s plenty to do…
Easter brunch is the official culinary transition into spring, and dozens and dozens and dozens of restaurants around the city are gearing up for what’s traditionally one of the busiest feasting holidays of the year. Trillium, Ryan Leinonen’s Scandinavian-biased restaurant in Ballpark, already boasts one of the loveliest brunches in…
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. If you haven’t made your Easter plans, it’s not too late to get out of the house and bend an elbow, if not a knee. Although you won’t find a lavish brunch spread here, the proprietors want you to know that the…
I’ve always had a sweet tooth, and was a baker long before I learned to cook — or drive, for that matter. So you might think that I like every dessert I meet, but the opposite is true. If I had a dollar for every dried-out layer cake, leaden pie…
Long before Coors Field opened in 1995, one of the first blocks of LoDo to be renovated was a line of turn-of-the-last century brick buildings along the1600 block of Market Street, which attracted pioneering restaurants like Brendle’s, the Manhattan Cafe, Ivory’s and Alexander Graham Bell’s. Those were replaced by next…
It’s an attractive offer: all sushi rolls priced 50 percent off, all day long. But like a lot of things in life, you get what you pay for, and aside from the fact that the fish tasted faded and the rice was even duller, with no hint of the obligatory…
When I was in my late twenties and early thirties, I avoided eating meat. The reasons why aren’t important, but looking back on that phase, I wish I’d chosen a different time in my life to go meat-free, because I was living in Chicago, where militant vegetarians were few and…
