Old South Gaylord has changed a lot over the past two decades. And at the end of October, the block will see another big change: Japon will close on Halloween. “We’ve had eighteen great years serving our loyal customers, many of whom have become close friends,” says owner Miki Hashimoto…
Wine or beer — you make the call. Denver’s Harvest Week is under way, and tonight The GrowHaus will host a face-off between the Colorado Association for Viticulture & Enology (Grapes) and the Colorado Brewers Guild (Grains). See also: GrowHaus founder Adam Brock weighs in on permaculture elitism…
Bill Crow, executive chef Ocean Prime, has cooked up a special dish for tonight, with all proceeds going to Colorado flood relief efforts. The Colorado Lamb Lollipop Chop is finished with a maple Digon and cabernet au jus, and served with warm, fingerling potato salad, red onion and arugula salad…
The first night I stopped in at Jezebel’s Southern Bistro and Bar, it was hotter than a bottle of Tabasco. With an overloaded swamp cooler and no ceiling fans in the back room where we were seated, and not a hint of breeze on the patio where we later moved,…
Harry Smith, a longtime brewer at Breckenridge Brewery, opened his own place today, just a block from his old employer and with its full support. Black Sky Brewery, which dishes up Connecticut-style pizza along with more than ten taps of local beers, was a long time in the making, Smith…
Park House celebrates one year of serving up good, stiff drinks and good times with a party in the parking lot this weekend. Co-owner Drew Gottlieb wants the community to join in the celebration of this more-than-a-bar bar. “There’s sincere pride in seeing that the vision we had for this…
Look! A bottle holder that tips a miniature Corona into your margarita! There’s really nothing else to say about this new concoction that’s popping up in Mexican joints all around the city. Except this: #pleasedrinkresponsibly. Urp. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
Size is relative when it comes to most things, and breweries are no exception. Over the past couple of years, Breckenridge Brewery has made some commercials poking fun at the big boys of beer for their sales techniques, and now Yak & Yeti is doing the same to Breckenridge. Although…
“I started cooking because my parents wouldn’t buy me a snowboard,” says Joshua Bitz. And at the age of twelve, he was in his first kitchen, scrubbing plates to save money for a snowboard and lift tickets to get him on the hill. The kitchen, he says, has been his…
Davies’ Chuck Wagon Diner, a horse-topped diner that’s become a Lakewood landmark at 9495 West Colfax Avenue, has opened another Davies’ at 10151 West 26th Avenue in Lakewood. It’s just the latest chapter in more than fifty years of chicken-fried history. See also: Jason Sheehan’s review of the original Davies’…
Iain Chisholm Amerigo Delicatus Restaurant & Market 2449 Larimer Street 303-862-9850 amerigodelicatus.com This is part one of my interview with Iain Chisholm, chef-owner of Amerigo Delicatus Restaurant & Market; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. My mom never used salt. She thought it was the devil,” chuckles Iain…
In A Federal Case, I’ll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard — south to north — within Denver city limits. I’ll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I’ll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here’s the…
Denver looked good on Monday Night Football this week, but it could look even better tonight. Jen Jasinski, chef/co-owner of Rioja, Bistro Vendome and Euclid Hall has made it to the finals of Top Chef Masters. At 8 p.m. tonight, Bravo will air the last episode, in which Chef Jen…
Love whiskey? Sample six of the 140 American whiskeys stocked at Central Bistro & Bar at An Evening of Whiskey . At 6:45 p.m. tonight, Robert Sickler, a Master of Whiskey at Crown Royal, will lead a booze-tasting that will feature the creations of two iconic whiskey producers. See also:…
When Scott Durrah and Wanda James were trying to decide what to call their newest concept, a laid-back Southern restaurant and bar, they kept coming back to Jezebel’s Jezebel’s, the name of their basset hound. They liked it for its “undercurrent of excitement,” says James, “whatever that means to you.”…
South Gaylord Street has seen a lot of restaurants come and go, but Restaurant Japon is a stalwart, not just on South Gaylord, but in the Denver dining scene, standing court in the middle of Washington Park’s most bustling block for eighteen years, a feat for any restaurant. But on…
Left Hand Brewing marked its twentieth anniversary last week (a trying week, considering the floods that nearly wreaked havoc on the brewery), and to celebrate, the Longmont company is temporarily bringing back five beers it no longer makes. “These are some old favorites,” says Joe Schiraldi, who is vice president…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our EatDenver Harvest Week contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many heads of lettuce does the GrowHaus harvest in a week? Congratulations to mini_d, who guessed 1,000 heads of lettuce, which is the exact number. Mini_d, we’ll…
Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year — which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn’t it? But all…
All too often, Vietnamese noodle bowls are undermined by a crop of lettuce lurking at the bottom of the bowl, but the bún at this Vietnamese restaurant brims with generous amounts of savory meats, glistening herbs, noodles with a spring in their step and crisp vegetables, which give the traditional…
As Westword’s Ask the Bartender columnist, I’ve talked with many bartenders for Cafe Society’s “Behind the Bar” series, posing numerous questions to Denver’s top bartenders…and often receiving the same answers: “I love chartreuse,” or “I’m really into smoked cocktails/barrel aging/bottled cocktails.” See also: A bartender by any other name…is still…
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,…
