Frank and Dina Berta stunned regulars when they announced that they’d sold Frank’s Kitchen, the neighborhood joint they’d opened two years earlier in the Whittier neighborhood. But they gave their customers a definite consolation prize: Joe Van Dyke, aka “Jammin’ Joe,” a blues guitarist and restaurateur from Virginia who found…
The fifth annual Cherry Creek North Food & Wine Festival takes over Fillmore Plaza on Saturday afternoon. The celebration features eats from nineteen of Cherry Creek’s food and beverage establishments, as well as a variety of wines, spirits and beer. Tickets — which can be purchased here — are $60…
When last year it was revealed that Trader Joe’s had finally decided to open two stores in Colorado, the clouds parted, cherubs started playing shiny little harps, citizens long-deprived of TJ’s inexpensive branded products began rejoicing — and marked their calendars for those fateful days in late 2013 when the…
Jamba Juice just opened its second location at Denver International Airport, on the C Concourse, and is slated to open a third in the Jeppesen Terminal this fall. “Jamba Juice has proven itself to be popular with our passengers on the B Concourse, so we are delighted to see the…
The menu at Beast + Bottle, the ever-packed restaurant launched this spring by brother-and-sister duo Paul and Aileen Reilly, is surprising in many ways. For starters, the menu features an abundance of unfamiliar ingredients and cooking terms, as I note in this week’s review. Then there’s the fact that the…
The debut of The Source at 3350 Brighton Boulevard was touted as one of the big events of the summer by Visit Denver — and it looks like the European-style artisan food market/retail complex will just squeak in under the wire. The new opening date for the Zeppelin Development project…
Andrew Knowlton, the appointed “Foodest” at Bon Appetit magazine — and the guy who named Boulder America’s Foodiest Town in 2010 — has just released his listacle of the country’s fifty Best New Restaurant nominees, and two Denver restaurants — their names won’t surprise you — made the cut. See…
It wasn’t exactly cold yesterday, but it was chilly enough that I gravitated toward of bowl of chili smacked with chipotle peppers — and it was a damn good rendition, especially given the fact that the menu favors frankfurters. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Denver is definitely in need of more good barbecue, so I was eager to visit Southern Hospitality BBQ, the upscale barbecue restaurant that opened last October in the very renovated old St. Elmo Hotel building. This joint came with a smoking back-story: The original was opened in Manhattan in 2007…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Ballpark Plates contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many “bites” of gazpacho did Trillium sell during last year’s Ballpark Plates? Congrats to Sinnney85, who guessed 284; the actual number is 299. Skinney85, we’ll send you an…
Colin Mallet Sassafras American Eatery 2637 West 26h Avenue 303-433-0080 sassafrasamericaneatery.com This is part two of my interview with Colin Mallet, chef of Sassafras; part one of our chat ran yesterday.. Describe the biggest challenges facing Denver chefs: The amount of competition is enormous. There are so many new restaurants…
News broke this week that a professor at Maastricht University in the Netherlands had created the world’s first test-tube burger. Tasters gave the burger — which was mixed with salt, egg powder, bread crumbs, beetroot juice and saffron for taste and visual enhancement — a big “meh, it’s okay.” But…
Jonah Munson, the exec chef of the two locations of the Walnut Room, has a lot on his plate. Including dealing with naysayers who wonder why a pizza place — even a pizza place with two addresses — has an exec chef in the first place. See also: – Justin…
The third annual Ballpark Plates will hit it out of the park from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight, when dozens of restaurants in the Ballpark neighborhood will offer food and drink samples. Tickets are $35 at Amerigo Delicatus Restaurant, 2449 Larimer Street, or View House Eatery, Bar & Rooftop, 2015…
Like many writers, I’m an introvert — drawn to written rather than spoken words. My hunch is that Paul and Aileen Reilly, the brother-sister duo behind Beast + Bottle, have the opposite temperament. I say this based on admittedly circumstantial evidence: Paul’s ease and openness with me, a stranger, over…
Booze-heavy patios aren’t the only outdoor alternatives. Consider Steam Espresso Bar, a near-perfect coffee shop with a sprawling, inviting patio as well as a “back yard” that feels more like a scene out of The Secret Garden than a place to step out and take phone calls. See also: -…
Update: Read the winner below. “Are giant bears walking through downtown Colorado Springs?” asked a nitwitted FoxNews anchor last week, after video of the dumpster-diving bruin outside of the Edelweiss German Restaurant in Colorado Springs aired for the umpteenth time on the network. And Fox wasn’t alone; the schnitzel-hunting bear…
Earlier this spring, at the inaugural DSTILL event, wherein hundreds upon hundreds of booze hounds gathered at the McNichols Building to sample craft spirits and cocktails, there were plenty of people comparing the jubilee to the Great American Beer Festival, which as we all know by know, sold out just…
I slept for more than twelve hours after draining these beers (and quite a few more), lulled to slumber by the sounds of Simon and Garfunkel and John Denver — the same mellow artists that this taproom chose to play on a lazy afternoon. Can you guess where I’m drinking?…
Quick! Wanna win two tickets to the tonight’s sixth annual World Cup of Wine and Beer charity event at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park? Then tell us why soccer (or wine, or beer) is awesome in 140 words or less in the comments section below — and leave your e-mail address…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Russell’s Smokehouse/Death’s Door dinner contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many pounds of organic grain were used in the production of Death’s Door spirits — gin, whiskey and vodka — sold in Colorado over the past…
Eating won’t be the only entertainment at some new spots opening in Denver. As our Backbeat blog reports, two bars opening in the coming months will offer not just food and drinks, but live shows — and that’s music to our ears. The Monkey Barrel will open on Platte Street…
