New Belgium Brewing is running its first TV ad campaign in eight years, buying airtime in twelve markets across the country in order to help beer drinkers associate the name Fat Tire with the brewery itself, which wants to push the rest of its lineup. But the commercial, a thirty-second…
A one-topping jalapeno pizza from Marco’s Pizza.I had one of those accidental TMI conversations right in front of the guy ringing me up at Marco’s Pizza. My boyfriend and I were discussing Game of Thrones (and by discussing, I mean I was going on for minutes while he was pretending…
Thanks to a recent influx of pizza palaces, I’ve eaten way, way too much of the stuff over the past week, including at this restaurant, which, while new, isn’t as new as some. In fact, it’s been around long enough that the kitchen should have its pizza down pat, but…
Update: We have a winner of our Toques and ‘Tails contest giveaway! Last week, we asked Cafe Society commenters to guess how many Culinary Connector tours owner Becky Creighton has conducted in Denver. Congrats to BSquared5280, who guessed 330 tours, the exact number. BSquared5280, we’ll send you an e-mail with…
Kitchen Table Cooking School is now cooking in its new location, at 6380 South Fiddler’s Green Circle in Greenwood Village. The new spot is close to light rail, but also has plenty of parking as well as a new incarnation of Espressolé Caffe, where you can enjoy a cup of…
The lunch line was out the door today at Snarfburger, which just opened at 2000 Arapahoe in Boulder, in the space vacated by Daddy Bruce’s Bar-B-Que in March 2012. Until now, the Snarf’s empire — which Jim Seidel started in Boulder a decade ago — has been devoted to subs…
Tom Ryan and his partner Rick Schaden are on a roll — a burger roll, a 24/7 restaurant roll and a pizza roll. The two men, both of whom are the entrepreneurial brains behind Consumer Concept Group, one of the country’s top companies in the field of restaurant development and…
After just two years in business on Denver’s northeast side, Caution Brewing announced Saturday that it will open a second brewery in Lakewood, at 1057 South Wadsworth Boulevard; Cautions’ existing brewery will stay open as well. The new location will have a smaller brewhouse — three barrels as opposed to…
After nearly eight years cooking alongside Max MacKissock, chef-owner of the Squeaky Bean, Crickett Burns, the sole woman in McKissock’s kitchen, is stepping away from the Bean team to join Rob and Karin Lawler at the new Truffle Table, which will open in Highland on June 4. See also: -…
I spent a lot of time drinking in tap rooms over the weekend, including this one, where none of the house-brewed beers are sold at any liquor stores — and that’s a huge bummer, because it’s a long trek from my house to here. Can you guess where I’m drinking?…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a mouth-numbing Colorado spirit poured at an Italian restaurant that has yet to be identified, to a old-fashioned from Bull & Bush, to a plate of fantastic tacos from a still-unnamed taqueria, to a scallop pooled in squid…
The Matador is moving into the original home of Heidi’s Deli, at 3496 West 32nd Avenue. But not as quickly as it had wanted to. Initially, the Seattle-based Tex-Mex chain had hoped to open its eighth location (there are four in the Seattle area, two in Portland and one in…
Alex and Ruth Burgos made big news after they changed their one-year-old’s dirty diaper on a table at the Starbucks in Stapleton, as a (very) public complaint over the lack of changing tables in the bathroom. They didn’t get much sympathy. Some readers wondered why they just didn’t take it…
Prospect Park in Longmont now hosts a gathering of area food trucks every Monday night from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Prospect Eats also features live, local music; visit the website for the full schedule, and keep reading for more items on the culinary calendar this week. See also: – Ten…
Westword bar columnist Sean Kenyon just landed in New York City about an hour ago for the Manhattan Cocktail Classic, and once he turned his cell phone on, it started buzzing like a palpitating heart — and Kenyon’s heart just about dropped to the floor when he began reading his…
You likely won’t notice that the front door of Jimmy’s Urban Bar & Grill slants, if only a little. It has something to do with luck — good luck — and Alicia Bernat, along with her husband Jim and their son and exec chef Jimmy, deliberately designed their new namesake…
As fast-casual concepts go, meatballs make sense. They can be prepared ahead and finished to order, they’re bite-sized, and they travel well. The part that takes explaining, as I say in this week’s review of Slotted Spoon Meatball Eatery, is what this new place puts meatballs on. Bread makes sense…
Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project will celebrate Roy G. Biv on Sunday with a bottle sale, a party and a couple of rare beer tappings at the Barrel Cellar. Roy G. Biv isn’t a person, though (if it was, he’d be very sour). Rather, it’s an acronym for the seven…
I can’t imagine what you’d do with this Colorado spirit, which makes your mouth, lips and gums go numb — a lot like Sichuan peppercorns — but there’s at least one restaurant and bar that’s conjuring up ways to use the spirit in cocktails. Still, this has got to be…
A couple took their infant to a Denver Starbucks this week, and when they didn’t find a changing table in the restroom, they decided to do a ragey protest-change on a table in the dining room. This incident didn’t end well. After being confronted by store employees about the public…
Although downtown just lost another pizza spot, Toppings, today Pizza Republica will make its debut on 14th Street, right in front of the Colorado Convention Center — and this downtown version of a restaurant that got its start in Greenwood Village looks like more than a fair trade. And more…
The crew behind Comida Cantina is celebrating the third birthday for “Tina,” the hot-pink food truck that inspired two brick and mortars — today at Flatiron Park in Boulder. There will be food specials and lawn games from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. See also: – Ten food trucks you…
