In preparation for our own Restaurant Roll Call, a compendium of all the openings and closings on the Denver dining scene over the past year, we listed five restaurants that had both opened and closed in 2012 — and then offered a ray of hope: Since the legendary City Spirit…
Still trying to decide what you’re doing on New Year’s Eve? Restaurants and bars around town are offering celebrations large and small, extravagant and intimate. Keep reading to see just some of the options (and if you know of other worthy end-of-the-year events, share the info in the comments section…
As the year draws to an end, Cafe Society is compiling our annual Restaurant Roll Call — a compendium of all the restaurants that opened and closed in 2012. That very long list includes plenty of food for thought on the Denver dining scene. And one category is particularly rare:…
Among the restaurants opening late this year was La Cave, a spot in the hangout-hungry western suburbs that “provides New American Cuisine that is created with international flavors, fresh local ingredients & a zest of originality!,” according to La Cave’s website. But diners might be less interested in zest than…
It took balls for the Wynkoop Brewing Company to turn an April Fool’s Day joke about a brew made with bull testicles into reality in October, during the Great American Beer Festival. But the brewery really had to sack up after that as it negotiated with the feds about what…
I’ve had many bad experiences with Cognac, so when the bartender suggested I try a Cognac-based drink named “Year of the Dragon,” I had mythical monster-sized doubts. But since the Year of the Dragon is almost a memory, I mustered up the courage to slay another fear in 2012. And…
What will be the big culinary trends in 2013? As we prepare for a new year in gastronomy, we posed that question to dozens of people in the local food business, everyone from chefs and pastry magicians to restaurant brokers and PR consultants, from brewers and grape gurus to realtors…
According to some of our prognosticators in “Trends Without End,” this town’s gluten-free obsession will only grow next year — and that’s just one reason to pick up the 2013 Gluten Free Calendar. A more compelling reason? Mr. May is Denver’s own Brian Gansmann, who had close to twenty years’…
Over a year after Wanda James and Scott Durrah closed 8 Rivers in LoDo and returned to Highland, home of Denver’s original 8 Rivers and also the couple’s own home, they’re finally ready to open Jezebel’s in the corner space at 3301 Tejon Street. Those who enter that space will…
For our year-end issue, Lori Midson reached out to dozens of people in the local food scene — chefs, restaurateurs, restaurant brokers, wine merchants, farmers — to ask for their views on Denver dining and their predictions for the year ahead. We’ll be sharing their responses for the next week…
It’s Vegan Thursday at TAG|RAW Bar, 1430 Larimer Street. Every last Thursday of the month, this underground restaurant in Larimer Square offers a special four-course, vegan omakase menu during dinner service for $30 — a good deal no matter what your diet…
What will be the big culinary trends in 2013? As we prepare for a new year in gastronomy, we posed that question to dozens of people in the local food business, everyone from chefs and pastry magicians to restaurant brokers and PR consultants, from brewers and grape gurus to brokers…
In A Federal Case, I’ll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard — south to north — within Denver city limits. I’ll skip the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I’ll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here’s my second…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? posts last week, from a pint of rare stout at Providence Tavern, to a still-unidentified gingerbread house to a heart-shaped side of fried rice at Benihana…
What will be the big culinary trends in 2013? As we prepare for a new year in gastronomy, we posed that question to dozens of people in the local food business, everyone from chefs and pastry magicians to restaurant brokers and PR consultants, from brewers and grape gurus to realtors…
On March 9, 2011, Steve Redzikowski, co-owner and chef of Oak at Fourteenth, stood on the street in disbelief. The restaurant that he and his partner, Bryan Dayton, had opened four months prior in Boulder, was smoldering, the thick surges of smoke emblazoning the downtown Boulder skyline. It would take…
Broadway continues to be one of the town’s fastest-evolving areas, with the three blocks south of First Avenue seeing incredible changes in 2012. After numerous delays, Gary Lee’s Motor Club & Grub finally opened this spring; after even more months in the planning, Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink…
Happy hump day! Cured, 1825 Pearl Street in Boulder, is giving its customers another chance to indulge over the holidays by accepting orders for caviar and truffles; call the shop at 720-389-8096 to learn more. And here’s what else is on the culinary calender this very short week:…
This week’s Westword has no fresh restaurant review, since the issue is devoted to a look back at 2012 — the big stories, the small triumphs — as well as predictions of culinary trends to watch for in the new year. I’ve reviewed sixteen spots since I joined the Cafe…
The website for Fat Sully’s asks you to “stay tuned” for a “sexy new website coming soon.” But that’s not all that’s coming soon. Fat Sully’s, which started as an offshoot of Atomic Cowboy, working out of the same space at 3237 East Colfax Avenue, is about to bring its…
The soon-to-be-over year of 2012 has given us savory soups, awesome appetizers, munchable main dishes and even a few scintillating smoothies. But these taste-tempting morsels and sips were sadly sullied by the emergence of some unimaginably horrific eats that Satan himself would not take a poke at with his big,…
Mark Antonation has an ambitious resolution for 2013: He’s eating his way through Denver city limits along Federal Boulevard, from the southern border to the northern, and blogging about it for Cafe Society in “A Federal Case.” But he got off to a rough start, when he found that the…
