Everyone agrees that Denver Restaurant Week has been a delicious deal for the city, but there were a few things about it that didn’t make sense. For starters, Denver Restaurant Week hasn’t been a week-long for years; when the economy tanked in late 2008, it was extended to two weeks,…
There are 26 Tokyo Joe’s location in Colorado — a state that may pump out more fast-casual chain stores per capita than any other (see: Chipotle, Garbanzo, Qdoba, Smashburger, etc.). Although the menu includes a vegetarian sushi roll that’s not bad (it has cream cheese, which is bad news for…
Chipotle got its start in Denver, when founder Steve Ells opened the first Chipotle at 1644 Evans Avenue in July 1993. There are now 74 Chipotle locations in Colorado — and another thousand around the globe — and yesterday all of this state’s stores introduced the first new protein in…
Five years ago Ben Parsons opened a winery in an old quonset hut just off Santa Fe Drive, and used Colorado-grown grapes to make wines in this unlikely setting. Last year, he moved his winery to a 30,000 square-foot facility in RiNo, where he also opened a tasting room. And…
Rise and shine! Not one, but two Dunkin’ Donuts locations are debuting today in Denver: a Dunkin’ Donuts at 366 Broadway, which opens today at 5 a.m. and bills itself as “the city’s flagship Dunkin’ Donuts restaurant”, and one at at Denver International Airport’s new waiting area, Final Approach, which…
As the Colorado floods subside and relief efforts move forward, stories have surfaced about how people fared, especially in the town of Lyons, which was hit particularly hard. Craig Engelhorn was concluding a typical day at Spirit Hound Distillers last Wednesday, when he got in his car to head home…
When you talk to Duy Pham, executive chef of Epernay, he sounds like a scientist, jazzed about everything from sous vide cooking to the way acids interact with certain foods. But Pham also has an artistic side, which comes across in his cooking. “I’ve always been into art and try…
Whoa, what a difference a remodel makes! But the menu? It still pimps an American-Italian board of standards, including a very cheesy lasagna. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post is entered into a pool — and…
Matt Hughes had a harder time thinking of a name for his brewery than he did for his kids, but the result seems to fit the bouncing baby business. Goldspot Brewing, which will be located on Lowell Boulevard about a block from Regis University in northwest Denver, is named for…
You can’t live in Colorado without having a good guacamole recipe. Naturally vegan, it’s a fantastic accessory to just about any dish you want to serve — from burgers to enchiladas. This version lets the avocado shine through, without a lot of additions to overpower one of nature’s perfect foods…
If I had one wish, first I would go standard and ask for more wishes — but then I would ask that all the fall-themed, pumpkin-flavored foods and drinks continue year- round. I would do this because I am absolutely, admittedly one of the lamestreamers who not only overindulges in…
Last Friday, after months of delays (read: back-and-forth with the city about this, that and the other), Rod Dupen and his business partner John Power, opened their third Waffle Brothers in Uptown. And unlike the Waffle Brothers in Alamo Placita, or their kiosk in Boulder, this third waffle incarnation, which…
Cafe Society dished up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a vodka-based cocktail shrouded in liquid nitrogen from 1515 Restaurant, to a lovely pasta-and-mozzarella salad from Amerigo Delicatus Restaurant and Market, to a lackluster skillet of corn bread from a bar with numerous locations…
For the first time in close to two decades, Chipotle is rolling out a new protein. The Denver-born chain will debut “sofritas” in all 74 of its Colorado stores today. In advance of the roll-out, we got a chance to try the new protein (spoiler alert: it’s meat-free, but so…
DISH, our nineteenth annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, filled Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex with food and drink from some of Cafe Society’s favorite restaurants, as well as Best of Denver reader choices. See also: Slide show on the food of DISH 2013…
For this week’s Cafe review, Gretchen Kurtz visited Epernay, the restaurant that opened nine months ago in front of the Denver Performing Arts Complex. Although she appreciated chef Duy Pham’s artistry in the kitchen and the sleek, modern setting, she found that the staff really needed to clean up its…
Patxi’s Pizza got its start in California, but it’s already deeply rooted in the Denver community. And today, Monday, September 23, both local Patxi’s locations — at 185 Steele Street and 3455 South University — will donate 10 percent of all sales to flood victims through the Intermountain Salvation Army…
For this week’s restaurant review, Gretchen Kurtz went to Epernay, a restaurant where chef Duy Pham does incredible things in the kitchen — but the service out front can be incredibly bad. Mark Antonat, who’s been eating his way up Federal Boulevard, stopped at the Far East Center for a…
On Sunday, September 22, DISH will dish out food and drinks from dozens of Cafe Society’s favorite restaurants and trucks, as well as Best of Denver readers’ winners, in the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. And Table 6, 609 Corona Street, is bringing its pork and duck…
The signature signs of a city that’s on the culinary fast track reside in its willingness to take aggressive risks, push infinite boundaries and continually adapt to a fickle dining public whose expectations are always on the upswing. Denver is that city — a major metropolis that refuses to slow…
This past spring Maxfield’s began working with local gardeners, urban farmers and other businesses, such as Root Down, to cultivate crops with premium organic soils from Maxfield’s. And now that it’s harvest time, the entire city is beginning to reap the benefits of those gardens. Maxfield’s doesn’t plan to hoard…
Despite the fact that the spirit in this cocktail is vodka — and vodka is evil — the ghostly cloak of liquid nitrogen that swirls around the glass definitely makes for an interesting conversation piece. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer…
