Food & Drink

Even if the sandwiches sucked — and they most definitely don’t — I’d willingly spend every afternoon here if only to shoot the shit with the owner, whose infectious personality and humor can turn a horrific day into the best day ever. And if I can get one of his…

There are those who swear that the Beauvallon is cursed — that there may be no worse location to open a restaurant or bar — but Bill Kennedy, along with his business partners Dan Woodward and John Wang, are betting that the Beauvallon is ripe for a new tenant, specifically…

Fresh Thymes Eatery is an anomaly in the dining scene: a community restaurant that had its community baked in before the doors even opened. “We expected to have 100 people in for our soft opening on Tuesday night, and 168 people came,” says Christine Ruch, owner and chef of the…

Last week, Cafe Society posted four Guess Where? contests, ranging from a corned beef sandwich from Zaidy’s Deli to a fat pork chop sadly undermined by a mound of mushy vegetables from the outdated Summit Steakhouse to a bright green bottle of Lucky Buddha beer from a Vietnamese restaurant…

Today is McRibmas — one of the most important holidays on the calendar. That’s because the infamous, sauce-slathered, probably-mostly-pork sammie is now back on the McDonald’s menu — for a limited time, of course. The McRib enjoys a crazy cult following not at all unlike the devotion shown to some…

At some point in the distant past, someone — probably not a man — declared that a “woman always has the right to change her mind,” but that certainty applies to the other gender, too. Yesterday afternoon, in fact, Theo Adley, a male whose name was prominently featured this past…

UPDATE: We have a winner of our Ruth Tobias book signing contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many hours did it take Tobias to complete her manuscript? Congrats to chrisdoubleyou, who guessed 500; the actual number is 513 hours! Chrisdoubleyou, we’ll send you…

This week, Gretchen Kurtz explored the Mediterranean fare at Yaffa’s Savory, 2200 South Monaco Parkway, where chef-owner (and former educater) Yaffa Hanouna is living her dream as a full-time restaurateur. And Lori Midson caught up with Marty Steinke of Linger about his decision to drop out of his last semester…

The second in a quartet of Modmarket locations slated to debut this year opened this week at Kent Place Center, 3475 South University Boulevard. “We are thrilled to introduce Modmarket to this part of the metro area,” said founders Anthony Pigliacampo and Rob McColgan in advance of Wednesday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony…

Taki’s Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar has been a mainstay on East Colfax for years. But Hisashi Takimoto, who opened it as Taki’s Healthy Japanese Food Restaurant in 1998, passed away in 2009, and the restaurant has gone through some changes since then. Now there are more under way: A…

Hurricane Grill & Wings opened this week at 8025 West Bowles Avenue in Littleton; it’s the first Colorado link in the Hurricane Grill & Wings chain that got its start in Florida in 1995 and quickly took off on the strength of its wings. The expansive menu includes more than…

This will never be Denver’s best deli, but it continues to carry on, turning out decent sandwiches to a golden age crowd, the women of which, judging from the really, really bad plastic surgeries and botox injections, are still trying to compete with the Forever 21 hipsters. Can you guess…

At least ten new craft brewers hope to open their doors in the metro area before the Great American Beer Festival kicks off on October 11 — eight within Denver city limits alone. And there are many more to come, with plans for breweries up and down the Front Range…