The au gratin potatoes, available at breakfast, which is served all day, are overrated (and hardly worth the upcharge), but the eggs? I love a kitchen that does eggs right, and this one doesn’t yolk around. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
You have six more nights to behold the wizardry of Ian Kleinman, the molecular genius behind the Inventing Room — the Willy Wonka of Denver who’s currently on center stage at Studio F, the culinary event space and cooking school that James Mazzio unleashed a few months ago to give…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. Last week, we showed you how to roast red potatoes and use a parsley pesto to make a vegan-friendly potato salad. This…
Panzano Executive Chef Elise Wiggins is in the small town of Panzano, Italy, doing a stagisti with Dario Cecchini, the mad butcher of Panzano and owner of Antica Macelleria Cecchini. Wiggins, who recently won a Colorado Restaurant Association Industry Spot award and also earned Panzano another Best Italian Restaurant award,…
Cafe Society dished up three Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a cheesesteak with tater tots that still hasn’t been linked to the correct restaurant (or bar…with very loud music), a Thai curry that also has readers stumped and a burger with fries from an Uptown pub…
The news served up a smorgasbord of tidbits on buffet last week, including a guy in Wisconsin who picketed a restaurant that cut him off from an all-you-can-eat fish fry, and a Chinese buffet in the U.K. where management instituted a clean-your-plates or pay a $20 tab policy. Waste not,…
There are a handful of wine events on the calender this week, including three on Tuesday alone. While craft beer may be stealing the spotlight lately, you can never go wrong with the classics. Here’s a taste of what’s on the menu:…
Paul Reilly, the former executive chef/owner of Encore, which closed last month, along with a posse of local big-name chefs and mixologists, are convening in the kitchen of Yia Yia’s, the home turf of chef Aaron Whitcomb, on Sunday night for Eat Drink Give, a benefit for the neo-natal ICU…
Three months after the Uptown Pasquini’s turned into a Serioz, the Denver Business Journal announced that Tony Pasquini had inked a deal on the old two-story Uptown building that most recently held J.R.’s Bar and Grill, making good on his plan to return to the neighborhood…
On Saturday night, the season’s first Justice League of Street Food party will take over the pavement at TAXI, and earlier this week, we held a contest, giving one Cafe Society reader the opportunity to eat and drink for free. Ten trucks will be at the bash, including Manna from…
Someday, Patrick Creager and his wife, Ari Murdock, would like to open up a soda fountain. “I love the concept of a modern soda shop,” he explains. “I really delved in behind the bar at Olivea, and I found ways to incorporate fruits and vegetables and spices and herbs with…
Happy Place: Hops and Pie, 3920 Tennyson Street, 303-477-7000. The Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 3 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $1 off draft beers and slices of pizza; $2 select drafts; $2 cans all night every Wednesday. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
The new Lowry Beer Garden, which opens next Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Hangar 2 project, is not, insists Joe Vostrejs, a German mimic. In fact, says Vostrejs, the COO of Larimer Associates, a coalition of partners who are developing the Hangar 2 project, it’s a homegrown, Colorado-style beer…
Amusement park lovers are going to find a few thrills this summer when it comes to the beer selection at Elitch Gardens — something that hasn’t always been true in the past. Beginning tomorrow, Elitch’s will be pouring two beers that Wynkoop Brewing made just for the park: Elitch Gardens…
I’ve been a junkie of this Thai joint for years, and while its reputation is no longer what it used to be, its longevity, coupled with the fact that there’s usually a wait, suggests that there are plenty of Thai food zealots — industry folks, included — who continue to…
UPDATE: The winner is announced here. Paul Reilly may no longer have his own restaurant — after a last hurrah Sunday brunch, he shuttered Encore last month when he and the landlord couldn’t agree on lease terms — but he has the support of plenty of Denver chefs, many of…
When the Kokoro outpost at Sixth and Broadway closed last year, the space was quickly snapped up by Five Star Burgers, an outfit out of Taos, New Mexico that already has several metro area spots, including one at the Streets of SouthGlenn. Now this Five Star Burgers is open, slinging…
This has been a helluva week for buffets, what with a guy in Wisconsin picketing a restaurant that cut him off from an all-you-can-eat fish fry, and a Chinese buffet in the U.K. where management has instituted a new policy of “clean your effin plates or get charged $20.” Do…
Six months after District Meats opened in a space that hsd already swallowed up a big-time national restaurant operator (the Chodorows, who’d brought Big Game to Denver as well as an outpost of Il Fornaio), another big-time national restaurateur has stepped in to change up his LoDo spot. “I’m renaming…
Studio F, 1801 Wynkoop Street, will host a series of pop-up dinners featuring molecular gastronomy from chef-slash-magician Ian Kleinman of the Inventing Room. The interactive dinner offerings run from today through Saturday, May 26, with seatings every half hour from 6 to 9 p.m. Check out the impressive a la…
Last October, after the Justice League of Street Food, a confederation of food trucks that pioneered the city’s love of pavement grub, held its final street food bash at TAXI, there were rumblings that this could be the end for the Justice League. “We haven’t made any decision about whether…
Before the ‘Pizza as a vegetable’ debacle made national headlines and inspired legislation from District 2’s House Representative Jared Polis, there was the original school lunch controversy: the battle over ketchup…
