The restaurant program at Denver International Airport is smokin’, with Root Down and Elway’s both opening outposts there last year, and Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs opening a spot at DIA this week. And today the Aviator’s Club, a full-service barbecue joint, opened on the mezzanine level of the B Concourse. We…
Firehouse Subs, a Florida-based fast-casual chain specializing in hot subs, just opened a second store in Aurora today. Like all the other stores opened by former firefighting brothers Robin and Chris Sorensen, this Firehouse Subs location has a custom, hand-painted mural inside the dining room that pays tribute to local…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our DSTILL Showcase contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: What were the first five distilleries to open in Colorado that continue to operate today? Congratulations to Lee5324, who correctly guessed all five: Stranahan’s, Peach Street, Peak Spirits, Mystic…
Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday (and National Pancake Day), and although we may not be in New Orleans, Denver definitely knows how to celebrate. Fat Tuesday originally got its name from the practice of eating lots of rich and fatty foods before the ritual fasting for Lent, which starts Wednesday. Over…
This bar, like many bars, offers a bartender’s choice, a throw-caution-to-the-wind cocktail that’s custom created by someone who you hope will wow you with their mixology magic. The cocktail in the above snap was unlike any I’ve ever had, a marriage of lemon, sugar and sparkling rosé dominated by bitters…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contest posts last week, ranging from a textbook-perfect daiquiri from the Capital Grille to a terrific thin-crust pizza (that beat out the more popular deep-dish pizza) at Denver Deep Dish, which resides inside Bar Car, to a plate of chilaquiles that made everyone…
Billed as “Denver’s largest gathering of local food producers, manufacturers, growers, retailers and restaurateurs,” the 2014 Local Food Summit, hosted by the Mile High Business Alliance, in partnership with the City of Denver, kicks off this morning at 10 a.m. at the McNichols Civic Center Building with a full day…
After months of renovation work and delays, Gozo quietly opened this past weekend for friends, family members and a few lucky neighbors — and just as quietly closed again for a few last-minute touches before it reopens for good on Friday, March 7. See also: Gozo will open on South…
Chefs are shifting all over town, and now baRed and CY Steak, which share a kitchen (and father-and-son owner/managers Cliff and Zach Young), are looking for a new chef de cuisine, after the departure of Doug Mace. But a new chef isn’t the only change baRed should make, according to…
Don’t head to Wafflich for breakfast this morning — or lunch, for that matter. The sandwich shop that Benny Kaplan opened at 4166 Tennyson Street after closing his much more ambitious Shazz (now the home of Scratch Burrito) never returned from its winter break. Instead, when the doors of this…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz visited the mild, mild West for her review of The Curtis Club. Aniedra Nichols, executive chef at Elway’s Cherry Creek, dished on why she dislikes burgers and tacos, her favorite ingredients and more in her Chef and Tell interview. And Mark Antonation, now…
In 2005, a former repo man with a rather impressive rap sheet stemming from a reckless and wild youth plunked down a hot dog cart on the 16th Street Mall, in an area of downtown that already pimped plenty of wiener beaters, but this wasn’t your average hot dog cart…
In just a few weeks, spirit hounds from here and afar will descend on Denver for DSTILL, a week-long celebration that trumpets more than fifty craft spirits producers from Colorado and around the country, all of whom will gather under the roof of the McNichols Civic Center building on Thursday,…
Yes, the big news in February was the long-awaited debut of Trader Joe’s in Colorado — and the company opened a trio of stores on Valentine’s Day. But the Denver dining scene also welcomed more than a dozen new restaurants, and also said goodbye to a few longtime institutions. Keep…
Downing Street Grill recently opened at 3090 Downing Street — a big building that has been home to a long line of eateries, starting with Tosh’s Hacienda and ending with Eden, a vegetarian joint that closed last year. The building is big enough to now also house 3090 Eden, Denver’s…
It was a tale of two cities (towns, really) — and of two breweries. In Lyons, Oskar Blues owner Dale Katechis canned his first beer, Dale’s Pale Ale, in 2002. At around the same time, Tommyknocker Brewery in Idaho Springs began canning Ornery Amber. But while Oskar Blues went on…
It’s the deep-dish pizza at this joint within a joint that gets all the accolades, but after trying both a deep-dish pie and a thin-crusted pizza, I’m firmly entrenched in the thin-crust camp. Don’t get me wrong: The deep-dish pizza is very good, but the thin crust, in my opinion,…
Denver Restaurant Week wraps up tonight — but if you hurry, you can still snag a reservation at one of more than 300 participating restaurants. And some of those eateries have decided to offer their special, multi-course $30 menus into March. To see those menus and the list of participating…
The Rackhouse Pub, which opened inside the Stranahan’s whiskey distillery in October 2009 as one of Denver’s first craft-beverage themed restaurants, will close on April 4 and reopen in its own space across the street, possibly as soon as this fall. “We wanted to continue here, but for us to…
A few weeks ago, when I spoke to Jon Mendoza, he had just been let go from Uncle, Tommy Lee’s noodle shop in Highland. But while Mendoza, who was Uncle’s chef, vented his frustrations about getting the boot, he also made it very clear that his departure from Uncle would…
Hundreds of restaurants opened in metro Denver last year, including everything from little neighborhood sandwich shops and upscale taquerias to ambitious and strikingly decorated American spots. And which was the best new restaurant to open in 2013? That’s what we’ll reveal in the Best of Denver 2014, which hits the…
Nothing Bundt Cakes, a Las Vegas-based chain that specializes in contemporary, custom-baked bundt cakes, will be opening a shop at 2710 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder tomorrow. See also: Sneak peek: The Kitchen Next Door opens today in CitySet…
