There are tatami rooms at Kobe An where you can have a traditional Japanese meal while seated on the floor around a low table — all hidden away in an above-street-level storefront in that most American of landscapes, the strip mall. The inside of this restaurant belies its bland suburban…
After a month of Street 16 menu madness, the two finalists — South Federal Boulevard and Lower Highland — finally faced off. And when it was all over yesterday morning, South Federal was proclaimed the winner: the best restaurant neighborhood in town, at least according to Cafe Society voters. (Readers…
While you wait for Root Down to open its highly anticipated location at Denver International Airport, you can enjoy the soaring achievement of a raw-food meal there. Every first Tuesday of the month, Raw Food Certified Chef Daniel Asher offers a special four-course, entirely raw dinner. Here’s the April menu:…
When I was living in New York, I constantly craved Mexican food — which, aside from upscale Tex-Mex, was about as easy to find on the East Coast as a pro-choicer at a Tea Party convention. Real Mexican food isn’t all that common in Denver, either; despite the abundance of…
Tom Tancredo doesn’t like Mexicans — no way, no how, no duh. The former Colorado congressman and one-time presidential candidate spent most of his political career railing against a supposed invasion of the United States by Mexico — and while intelligent minds can disagree about the benefits versus detriments caused…
Next to food trucks, the biggest Mexican-food trend over the past decade has been Denver burritos — not the Mile High City’s indigenous marvels, but the type that originated in San Francisco’s Mission District: gargantuan, foil-wrapped bricks stuffed with beans, rice, meat, cheese, guacamole, salsa, sour cream and seemingly every…
Earlier today, we posted the result of our Street 16 restaurant neighborhood tournament, and South Federal, which had been pitted against Lower Highland in the final showdown, took the prize…but one reader suggested that South Federal might have lost one of the very restaurants that pushed the South Federal neighborhood…
The space at 3801 West 32nd Avenue that last housed Apres Dessert Bar is going in almost the exact opposite direction: toward wings, sandwiches, burgers and beer. Fire on the Mountain, a mini-chain with locations in Portland, Oregon, is expanding into Colorado. By the week of April 23, Denver’s Fire…
In late 2010, after a few years of fighting between convenience and grocery stores, bottle shops and beer makers, the State of Colorado discovered — much to its chagrin — that it was illegal for restaurants and liquor stores to sell low-alcohol beer. That’s right, citizens: Colorado was trying to…
Bless the beasts and the children…and Adrift. Yes, that’s correct: This morning, three Buddhist monks from a monastery in Parker sat side by side on a chartreuse banquette at Adrift, the tiki bar that will open this week on South Broadway, and chanted, blessing the new space and wishing it…
Pizza Public is set to open at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 4. It’s taken over the space that was once home to Veronica’s Bases Loaded, a definite dive bar. But according to Pizza Public’s Facebook page, this new spot will be a “pizza-tapas-wine restaurant/bar with a nice highland upscale…
Les Delices de Paris, the charming bakery at 600 South Holly Street, will reopen at 7 a.m. tomorrow after being closed for remodeling. “We have a big, new pastry case for new pastries,” explains French-born Christelle Donat, who co-owns the spot with her husband, Gerard. “New paint, too. It’s a…
There were two interesting components to my meal at this Indian restaurant: a server who recommended a Tibetan dish that, he said, was laced with chiles “that were nothing like Texas-style chili” (WTF?) and the deep-fried naan, which would probably be a huge hit in Texas. Nonetheless, I’ll continue to…
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. Hummus is awesome. It’s one of those versatile spreads that can work on bagels for breakfast, in sandwiches for lunch, or with…
South Federal Boulevard is Denver’s best restaurant neighborhood, according to votes cast by the readers of Cafe Society. In a poll that pitted South Federal vs. Lower Highland, South Federal came away with 53.48 percent of the vote when polls closed at 11:59 p.m. Sunday night. The weekend-long voting was…
March saw some much-anticipated openings, including a Denver outpost of The Kitchen as well as James Mazzio’s Red Star Deli in the Ice House, Cinque Soldi Salumeria on South Pearl Street, and the revamped Spuntino in Highland. But longtime barbecue joints dried up all over the metro area. Keep reading…
Cafe Society posted five Guess Where? contests last week ranging from a still-unidentified creepy coconut to a breakfast feast of “truck stop cuisine” from Johnson’s Corner to a terrific plate of chiliquiles from Tacos/Carnitas Estilo Michoacan to a sphere of glistening oysters. For correctly identifying those pearls as coming from…
Pinche Taqueria won our Best New Restaurant designation in the Best of Denver 2012; Laura Shunk discussed her pick here. But as she looked over the list of eateries that had opened in 2011, and assessed how they were holding up, she revised our late December list of Denver’s ten…
Boulder may have been knocked out of our Street 16 neighborhood tournament (look for the winner later today), but it was Cafe Society’s pick for the Best Food Neighborhood in our Best of Denver 2012 — and this week’s culinary calender will highlight many reasons for that. But there are…
While scouring this week’s tweets, I came across this snarky slam from Ali Wallers, a stand-up comedian, former writer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Best Week Ever and, it appears, an advocate of a reality show…that would pursue pretentious vegans. The show could start with Clueless star Alica…
The woman sitting in the booth behind us was beside herself: “We kept telling city council that we needed a barbecue place out here. We’ve been to every single barbecue place in Denver and this is by far the best,” she declared, waving her arms dismissively when I interjected something…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company has added a new beer to its roster, Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, and it will only be available on one day, Sunday, April 1. Enough said…
