Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from an exquisite bloody Mary from The Squeaky Bean (thank God, it doesn’t like like any of these), to a deep-dish pizza from Old Chicago, to a bowl of beautiful tomato soup streaked with olive oil…
Jonathan Greschler’s departure from Old Major last week came as a shock to those who’d watched his partnership with chef Justin Brunson survive the shuttering of Wild Catch, and then find a new home over in the Lower Highland neighborhood. But it looks like Old Major owner Juan Padro –…
“There is a thin line between self-indulgence and being a dickhead, a line that any bartender could draw for you.” That’s how Jenn Wohletz started Friday’s piece “five cocktails only a dickhead could love,” and dozens of commenters — bartenders included — thought she definitely crossed that line with her…
Making plans for Mother’s Day? Big Mac & Little Lu’s — the seafood market and restaurant that recently opened at 2851 West 120th Avenue in Westminster — is hosting live music, a “Jimmy Buffet-style” band, from 2 to 5 p.m. every Sunday in May. The shop is also offering stuffed…
It’s not for me to tell you want to drink — or eat, but suffice it to say that there’s some crazy-weird stuff out there in the minds of bloody Mary makers. Why, for example, would you crown your bloody with a burger? Steak skewers strung with tater tots? How…
Aviano Coffee just closed its third location — but the good news is that this closure is only temporary. The homegrown coffee shop — which started out in the Beauvallon, then moved to Cherry Creek, then had to move abruptly in January because of a development project — is now…
Service has been a big topic on Cafe Society this week, what with Jonathan Greschler getting the boot from Old Major for his apparent inability to connect with his former staff, despite the fact that guests adore him. “Jonathan is amazing with customers, but I just don’t think he applied…
I interview numerous chefs who lament the lack of good Mexican food in a city that’s steeped in green chile and home to some marvelous taquerias. But when I go to a place like this, where my relleno has clearly been microwaved and the guacamole is absent of any seasoning,…
Late last year, Odell Brewing named a beer, Lugene Chocolate Milk Stout, after a truck belonging to the organic farmer who hauls away the brewery’s spent grain to feed to his dairy cows. This time around, the Fort Collins company will focus on the life cycle of hops — and…
There is a thin line between self-indulgence and being a dickhead, a line that any bartender could draw for you. On especially busy nights at any watering hole, there is always at least one person who decides to order some outdated or ridiculous beverage that takes up valuable bartender time,…
Happy Friday! Don’t drink too much at First Friday, because Cinco de Mayo is this Sunday. Here are five of the top food and drink celebrations going down around town — and if you know of any other good Drinco de Mayo party/deals, post them in the comments section below…
Have El Diablo and Sketch reached the end of the line? According to El Diablo’s Facebook page, the restaurants will be closing at the end of business tonight: “Please come by and send us off in style!!!” This is the culmination — maybe — of a ten-month-long fight with the…
The fact that Pho Lee, subject of this week’s review, serves up such terrific pho (not to mention Vietnamese egg rolls, grilled meats and boba smoothies) isn’t such a surprise, given that the owner, Dung Anh Le, worked at Pho 95, his brother’s pho shop, for years. What might catch…
I love tasting menus, much the same way that I’m a proponent of communal tables and hanging my butt at the bar, which is where I prefer to eat. And if I can get a tasting menu at the bar, with wine pairings, even better. Yes, I like extended, evening-long…
I was back in Denver for three weeks last month, during which I ate what was basically one continuous meal interspersed with brief lulls that occurred when I had to switch venues or go to sleep (which was sort of often, given the food comas and also the drowsiness that…
I’m not at all sorry I missed being an adult in the 1970s. There were terrible fashion trends with bell bottom pants and clogs with heels, and worse hairstyles with that feathered look; the porn was all sweaty and hairy, and the food trends were…well, Irma Rombauer’s Joy of Cooking…
The owners of the Cheeky Monk Belgian Beer Café are still planning to open their own brewery in August or September, but in the meantime, James and Tina Pachorek and their staff teamed up with Wynkoop Brewing last week to make a Belgian-inspired saison. “I have been friends with Marty…
Announcement: We have a winner of our Victor Hugo wine dinner contest. Congrats to Sallymander1029, who guessed seventeen – the exact number of times that Aileen saw Les Misérables on Broadway. Sally, we’ll send you can e-mail about how you can claim your prize. On Thursday night, at 7 p.m.,…
My own lunch was disappointing, but my date’s lunch — tomato soup and Bolognese with penne — was anything but, especially that tomato soup, which should really be sold by the gallon. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess…
This is part two of my interview with Michael Pollan, author of Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation; Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual; The Omnivore’s Dilemma; In Defense of Food; Second Nature; The Botany of Desire and A Place of My Own. Part one of Pollan’s musings ran yesterday. Pollan…
Three hours south of Denver, a husband-and-wife team of ranchers are working hard to help reintroduce Colorado lamb to the meat-devouring public. As detailed in this week’s cover story, “Counting Sheep,” the Triple M Bar Ranch in Manzanola ships lamb to over a dozen restaurants and caterers, who use it…
After Opus left Littleton last summer, it moved up to Cherry Creek, where it merged with Aria. Last week chef Sean McGaughey unveiled the new look and menu of Opus Restaurant & Aria Wine Bar at 250 Josephine, a location that has swallowed up many previous occupants. Can the Opus/Aria…
