Colorado may be getting a Trader Joe’s at Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street development, but the project is coming at a cost. Ristorante L, which got its start as Laudisio, closed yesterday — just shy of its 25th anniversary (with seven of those 25 years on 29th Street). Although founder Antonio…
This week Mark Antonation served up round three in his loo at Denver’s finest stretch of noodle bars, with a meal at Pho Duy. Gretchen Kurtz returned to Oak at Fourteenth in Boulder, a restaurant she reviewed two years ago before a disastrous fire, and found it bigger — and…
Update: We have a winner of our Colorado Urban Winefest contest giveaway.This morning, we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: What’s the furthest distance, in exact miles, that a participating winery traveled to Denver to be a part of Colorado Wine Week? Congrats to Skinney85, who guessed 325…
Truck It! goes down today from 4 to 9 p.m. at Gateway Park Fun Center in Boulder. The food-truck gathering features eats from Denver and Boulder area mobile vendors, live music, games and local beers. The culinary lineup includes Tasterie Truck, SaltBox, Comida, Crock Spot, Cheese Louise, Top of the…
An old garage at the corner of 23rd and Champa streets has been transformed into Gypsy Cafe and Parlor. The spot opened its doors this week; a grand opening is planned for June 16. See also: – Guess where I’m eating baba ghanoush and hummus? – Guess where I’m eating…
Despite the salt factor — there’s a lot of it in this dish — I love the fresh take on edamame beans, which benefit from a jumble of stinging chiles, garlic and cilantro. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a…
There’s something perfect about the contrast between a cold Colorado beer in your hand and the warm sun on your face — something that makes the tensions of the day melt away. And although there are plenty of places around Colorado to drink good beer, a few of them stand…
Beer By Design opened on June 1 as Northglenn’s first brewery taproom and it has received a warm welcome from the surrounding community. Owners Vance Sabbe and Rich Aggen met as neighbors and decided jump into the industry after 22 years of homebrewing. Beer By Design Brewery will host a…
Last year, on Top Chef Seattle, Jorel Pierce, chef de cuisine at Euclid Hall, was the first contestant booted by judge Tom Colicchio, who had dubious issues with Pierce’s chicken butchery skills. And that could have signaled the end of Pierce’s presence on the national screen. But it didn’t. On…
Civic Center Eats started this week, filling Civic Center Park with live music, vendors and, above all, food every Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. The moveable feast will continue until the end of September. Keep reading for photos of yesterday’s edition, and visit our full Civic…
Smashburger, our locally born and quickly proliferating burger chain, is taking its wares to the small screen with its first-ever television ads. One thirty-second spot, created by Denver-based Definite Productions, is a burger-fan dream sequence, reportedly complete with actual beef patty-smashing action meant to demonstrate the differences between Smashburger’s hand-smashed…
Oak at Fourteenth is a very good restaurant, and it earned raves from Gretchen Kurtz in her review this week. But even a very good restaurant can have very big problems with no-shows, as co-owner Bryan Dayton learned last month when several large parties failed to arrive on a weekend…
Mod Livin’ Modern Furniture, 5327 East Colfax Avenue, is collaborating with Marczyk’s Fairfax Wine & Spirits for a wine -tasting featuring over twenty varieties of rosé and giveaways to benefit Denver’s Andre Center this Saturday. See also: – Photos: Medical Punk Fashion Show at Mod Livin’ – Dylan Moore closes…
For a guy who doesn’t like drama, Bryan Dayton, a nationally-recognized bartender, sure knows how to set the stage. On graduation weekend last month the Oak at Fourteenth co-owner found himself facing a restaurant with lots of empty seats — even though the place had been booked solid. And Oak…
Beast + Bottle opened this spring with “approachable nose to tail” fare from executive chef/owner Paul Reilly and a smart bar menu. But the restaurant’s best-seller is actually the last item on the dessert menu, the Chocolate Dacquiose. Pastry chef Andrea Wight has modeled it after a Reese’s Peanut Butter…
Today’s weather should seal the deal: It’s summer. Whether we’re going for a single scoop or a decadent sundae, one of our favorite ways to celebrate the summer is ice cream. Here are the ten best places — both tried-and-true neighborhood favorites and a few exciting new joints, listed in…
Zeppelin Developments, which developed the nearby Taxi complex, is working hard right now to transform an 1880s ironworks building at 3530 Brighton Boulevard into The Source, a curated European-style artisan food market and retail space in the hot-hot River North (RiNo) district. Although Visit Denver is already touting the Source…
The season premiere of Bravo’s Top Chef Masters will hit televisions on Wednesday, July 24, and among the contestants battling for $100,000 in prize money — money that will benefit a charity of the winning chef’s choice — is Jennifer Jasinski, exec chef and owner of Rioja, Euclid Hall and…
A few years ago, Pink Tank’s David Mueller was working sales, doing well and able to pay all of his bills — but he wasn’t satisfied. “I was really unhappy not spending time with my family, so I decided to get out of sales and start a business,” he explains…
A burger with fries is an indulgence that I try to stay away from, but every so often, the urge just hits, as it did last weekend, and while this is a joint where you can get your burger topped with just about everything the burger gods are willing to…
Duy Pham Epernay 1080 14th Street 303-573-5000 This is part two of my interview with Duy Pham, exec chef of Epernay; part one of our chat ran yesterday. What’s the best food- or kitchen-related gift you’ve been given? I have three. The first is when Corky Douglass, the owner of…
Buffalo Doughboy won the Best Bakery award in the Best of Denver 2010. Business boomed, and in April 2012 the bakery moved out of its tiny spot in a Victorian home off Broadway for a space three times as large, and a mile south on Broadway itself. But business in…
