Kachina Southwestern Grill, 10600 Westminster Boulevard in Westminster, continues its “Beast & Beer” dinner series showcasing locally raised meat and Colorado craft beer. Tonight’s feast features pork from Cone Ranch paired with brews from AC Golden Brewing Co. See also: – Photos: Behind the Scenes at Kachina – Patrick Hartnett,…
What defines an essential restaurant? Several opinionated friends and I were recently discussing that topic during dinner at a trendy newcomer that’s amassed a flurry of flattery since opening its doors. It’s a restaurant-of-the-moment, but will it still be relevant in six months? Will the crowds continue to jam the…
Denver has evolved over the past twenty years — and so has DISH, Westword’s annual celebration of the metro Denver dining scene. On Sunday, September 22, DISH will return to the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, a stunning outdoor venue on the edge of downtown. And for…
Welkome to the Party. That’s the slogan for Comrade Brewing, which plans to open in southeast Denver next year with “back-to-basics” beers and a tongue-in-cheek nod to Communism. “People talk a lot about the camaraderie in the craft-beer industry. It’s a very friendly community, so that is actually the theme,”…
Many people dream about doing something different with their lives. Yaffa Hanouna, chef-owner of Yaffa’s Savory, actually did it. After fifteen years as the director of two preschools in Aurora, in February she opened Yaffa’s Savory, a Mediterranean cafe and market at 2200 South Monaco Parkway. See also: Photos of…
By choosing to start up a new brewery in River North, Zach and Rachel Rabun are either crazy or brilliant. “We’re not sure about that ourselves,” Zach says. The couple recently announced plans to open Mockery Brewing at 3501 Delgany Street in a neighborhood that already has five operating (or…
Everything about this restaurant, from the music and the decor, to the dried parsley that wreaths the plates and the medley of painstakingly overcooked vegetables, screams old-school weariness. Bonus points, though, for the thick pork chop, which managed to arrive properly grilled. But the burgundy mushroom sauce? As dated as…
The odd name of Firedough Mediterranean Grill, Bakery & Pies says it all. This new outpost in Centennial specializes in savory pies (known as “manoushi”), but it also offers marinated and char-grilled meats, fresh bread and salads and other Mediterranean specialties, many from family recipes handed down for decades by…
The sign on the Eden website reads “closed for remodeling,” and promises that the venue at 3090 Downing Street “will be announcing some major changes here. Please visit us again in the near future to learn about what we will be doing with the space!” That space on the edge…
Adrian Miller wrote the book on soul food — even though while he was growing up in the Denver suburbs, there weren’t many places he could get soul food beyond his own kitchen. But while there still aren’t many soul-food restaurants in Denver, there are at least five that Miller…
It’s National Lemonade Day, and local Red Robin restaurants are setting up lemonade stands to raise funds for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding better treatments and ultimately cures for all kids with cancer. See also: – Red Robin’s Burger Works delivers signature dishes in a…
Early this morning, I got word that the Squeaky Bean, easily one of the most talked about — and vaunted — restaurants in Denver, would soon become a restaurant that was about to undergo some changes. And these weren’t small, insignificant changes; they were major changes. See also: – The…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our FIVE Hawaiian Luau contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many total events have the FIVE participated in — in Colorado and New York — since its inception in 2008? Congrats to Bails, who guessed 46; the…
Uno Mas, a new taqueria and cantina, opens at 5 p.m. today on South Pearl Street in Platt Park, and while this city is dotted with taquerias, especially on Federal Boulevard, Uno Mas, which means “one more” in Spanish, isn’t a carbon copy of those — it’s better, says Patrick…
Diebolt Brewing in the Sunnyside neighborhood opened quietly this past weekend with limited hours and just two beers on tap. But owner Jack Diebolt and his parents, who moved to Denver to help, plan to ramp things up significantly over the next couple of weeks. Located on residential Mariposa Street…
Ricky Padilla, founder of Brown Water Coffee, doesn’t think his company’s mission ends with serving good coffee. He also wants that coffee to support good works. See also: – Denver’s ten top coffee shops for work productivity – Thump Coffee will start brewing in Capitol Hill in late August -…
Yazoo Barbecue Company has won several Best of Denver awards since Don Hines opened his barbecue joint in a 700 square-foot bunker at 2150 Broadway a decade ago. Since then, Hines has opened a second location an East Arapahoe, and his places are so popular that Yazoo was a finalist…
The third annual Roots, Beans and Greens goes down at Crossroads Theater, 2590 Washington Street, from 6 to 9 p.m. this evening. The all-ages, free party will focus on educating kids and their parents about the importance of an organic, local diet. And that mission is especially close to Ietef…
Linger, Justin Cucci’s globally-inspired hotspot in Highland, has taken its rooftop patio to new heights, so says Travel + Leisure magazine, which just released its list of America’s Best Outdoor restaurants. Kate Parham, who penned the story, spoke to Cucci, who also owns Root Down — anther Highland restaurant with…
Last week, Cafe Society posted five Guess Where? contests, ranging from a bowl of mussels pooled in a panang curry from Jax Fish House to an Ethiopian spread from Queen of Sheba to a gut-busting — and woefully overrated — quesorito from an iconic Mexican/American restaurant restaurant that one commenter…
Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are the ultimate sweet treat: They’re healthy-ish (for a cookie, anyway), and the replacement of the traditional raisins with mini chocolate chips adds decadence. Even better: This recipe is totally vegan, so the plant-based eater can enjoy all they want — and their dairy-loving friends won’t…
For those jonesing for java from Aviano Coffee, which had to move — quickly — into a new location in Cherry Creek this winter, then closed this spring for what was supposed to be a relatively quick renovation, there are hopeful signs that the spot is about to reopen. Finally…
