It’s been just over a year since Danny Wang and his fiancee Betty Fey opened CAUTION: Brewing Company, a brewery that was initially a wholesale operation that would supply Lao Wang Lager to Lao Wang Noodle House, owned by Wang’s parents, as well as other Colorado restaurants…
A few years ago, the partners behind The Hornet looked around at small, upscale restaurants that were getting into farming and began to wonder, “Why not us?” “Other restaurants were having success as far as farm-to-table,” Sean Workman, the Hornet’s general manager, explains, “but it doesn’t just have to be…
Ian Kleinman lives in a Willy Wonka world. He’s the mad scientist, the crazy culinary genius who long ago ditched traditional cooking methods to concentrate on molecular gastronomy, for which he’s now known nationwide. And starting this Friday, you can win a golden ticket to a pop-up dinner that will…
Denver’s top female chefs cooked up a storm last night at Temple Emanuel, the stamping grounds for WomenCook, an annual benefit for Work Options for Women, a local non-profit that provides hands-on cooking instruction to disadvantaged women who have hopes of working in the food industry. Hundreds of foodniks turned…
Update: Breckenridge Brewery released this statement this afternoon as a result of confusion over their future plans: “There have been some questions today about Breckenridge Brewery’s plans after Colorado House Bill 1347 failed to progress. (See article in Denver Business Journal.) Breckenridge Brewery is proud of its Colorado heritage and…
During its short time on the map, Sub-Culture has become very popular; it opened last year and has already garnered a Best of Denver award as the Best Non-Sports Spot for Watching Games. But we were more concerned with the food than the atmosphere when we swooped in to pick…
No filet (thank God), no New York strip, no porterhouse — just a damn good hanger steak, which I’d love to see on more menus. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a…
Washington State wants to donate forty pounds of cherries to an “iconic” restaurant in every state in the nation, in hopes of inspiring recipes that push its product. A Washington PR company asked for Cafe Society’s help in coming up with the right restaurant in Colorado for a fruit-filled delivery…
May is National Burger Month (unofficially) — as if you needed an excuse to head over to one of the many notable purveyors of beef in this town. Here are a couple of good deals at two of our favorite spots:…
In last week’s Chef and Tell interview with Joe Freemond, the executive chef of Cellar Wine Bar, he admits that as a kid, he wasn’t remotely interested in wieners or burgers. In fact, his favorite restaurant was Sushi Den, the logical choice of a five-year-old. He also grew up on…
Which Denver restaurant would make the best use of forty pounds of cherries from Washington? A PR firm from that state is looking for an iconic restaurant deserving of the fruit…and coming up with the right location is the pits. Should it be the Cherry Cricket, for its name alone?…
After closing his Happy Coffee kiosk inside Salvagetti Bicycle Workshop late last year, Scott Taylor started looking south. And last week, he opened a new Happy Coffee in the former Fancy Tiger Crafts space at 1 South Broadway. Here’s a look at the newest coffee shop in the Baker neighborhood:…
In 2010, when Jeff Lindauer and Russ Wall first began scheming to turn Lindauer’s Buckhorn Canyon water into craft spirits, they consulted with a private-label distilling company to come up with the formula and recipes. And by random chance, they worked with Rob Masters, who soon left that group to…
The former Pearl Street Grill may still be dark, while Yasu and Toshi Kizaki, the brothers who own Sushi Den and Izakaya Den, retool that space to make way for the relocation of Izakaya Den, but down the block, at 1859 South Pearl Street, Karen Wee Lin Beckman is gutting…
Just when we thought summer-like weather was here to stay, we woke up today to find that last night’s rainstorm lingered and outstayed its welcome like the last drunk patron at the bar. And since the prospect of staying cooped up inside more than two days in a row makes…
Ambria got off to a fast start at the end of last year. Just two weeks after Ling & Louie’s closed on the 16th Street Mall, the Mediterranean-New American restaurant opened its doors in the same spot, with Ambria’s kitchen manned by exec chef Jeremy Kittelson, who was a part-owner…
Eureka! I’ve searched all over the city — and beyond — for the best paella, and finally, after years of hanging my head in despair, I’ve found the holy grail. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where…
Cafe Society dished up six Guess Where contests last week, including a mint julep from Williams & Graham — or as one cheeky commenter quipped, Wallace & Gromit. And even though the Derby is done, when it comes to mint juleps, it’s just way too easy to say, “I’ll Have…
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. The stores are starting to stock fresh, fat blueberries, which are perfect for muffins. These vegan offerings contain juicy blueberries and lemon,…
On Friday the Denver Business Journal broke the news that Trader Joe’s would be opening its second store at Eighth and Colorado Boulevard. (The first — which means the one that also gets to sell liquor under Colorado’s convoluted code — will debut next year in Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street…
Mother’s Day is coming next Sunday, and restaurants throughout town are cooking up plenty of opportunities to show your appreciation. We’ll post a list of places that still have space later this week, for those in need of inspiration. In the meantime, here’s a rundown of what’s on the rest…
In early March, after Jeremy Kittelson, the opening exec chef of Ambia, was canned during a to-the-point meeting at the Cheesecake Factory, he made it clear that he wanted to stay in Denver: “I really want to find another restaurant, where we can do the same caliber of great cuisine…
