Food & Drink

I was about 25 wings into the Wing King Challenge at the West End Tavern — fifty wings in thirty minutes — when I realized I wasn’t going to be able to finish the second half of the bucket of wings in the ten minutes that remained. I was starting…

Hot sauces? Steak knives? Wallpaper? Yesterday, Lori Midson dished the dirt on “Dining thieves: Weird and crazy stuff people steal”. And while Cafe Society’s readers aren’t quite the scofflaws described on seattle.eater, her post still collected a few interesting admissions…as well as this from GFTW: This is all small beans…

So, have you been to China?” I was sitting at the small bar in Chef Liu’s Authentic Chinese Cuisine on a slow Sunday evening, waiting for the feast that Vincent — my inquisitor, and also Chef Liu’s waiter, bartender and host — had ordered for me from the Chinese dinner…

Miami, the city that hosted Tim Tebow’s high-school championship game, his national championship game and, only yesterday, the Tim Tebow Revival Hour, is just the starting point on the Tebow Man of the People tour. Tebow is now tasked with winning on Sundays. In that, umm, spirit, here are the…

Six years ago, Japanese restaurateur Nao-san took the sliver of space next to his raucous Boulder sushi joint, Sushi Zanmai, and built the tea-garden-like Amu Sake Bar and Restaurant, an authentic izakaya that serves an array of Japanese dishes — but no sushi — to the few patrons able to…

Russell’s Smoke House, Frank Bonanno’s new shrine to smoked meats, opened softly on Friday, but on Saturday, the staff was gearing up for a busy night, But first, there was a fantastic food tasting orgy that I was lucky enough to attend, stomaching my way through tender prime rib, sweet…

Kelly Whitaker, chef-owner of Boulder’s Pizzeria Basta, spent every summer of his childhood on a farm — and he hated it. “My grandfather was a farmer, and I spent every single summer on his farm, but I hated vegetables, and my family was the kind that said, ‘You’re going to…

I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve skulked out of a restaurant with my handbag stashed with menus, and, on one occasion, back when I was the restaurant critic at the Rocky Mountain News, a chef — who’s no longer in Denver — caught me red-handed and went ballistic…

Earlier this year, Jeff Bauman and his brother, Marc, signed a lease on a small storefront at 2009 West 32nd Avenue with the intent of opening a charcuterie and butcher shop. But after a myriad of construction and electrical issues stonewalled the process, the brothers, who are the grandsons of…

There’s never a night that this incredibly popular restaurant isn’t perpetually packed, but on Friday night, it was nothing short of a madhouse, thanks to scores of visiting parents in town for a yearly event and a gaggle of women celebrating a fiftieth birthday party. Can you guess where I’m…

​​No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as an incentive to join the growing Meatless Monday movement, we’re featuring an animal-free recipe each week. Appetizers and small plates tend to be meat-and-cheese heavy, but this tapenade is completely plant-based; serve it on top…

Cafe Society served up five Guess where contests last week, ranging from some still unidentified tacos (“Why so much Mexican food lately?” asks Cook1. “Is it because of the myriad of choices to make it hard for us?”), to a hot dog drowning in ketchup at Rock-N-Dogs to the breakfast…

Frank and Jacqueline Bonanno opened Russell’s Smokehouse on Friday in a subterranean space in Larimer Square; the barbecue joint shares an entry (Wednesday’s Pie) with Green Russell, as well the speakeasy’s emphasis on contemporary cocktails. But the meaty menu — including lamb’s neck and trout wrapped in bacon — is…

Ah, fall. The leaves are changing, the days are getting shorter, pie and soup are back on the menu, and coats and boots are back in the stores. And across the pond in France and Italy, it’s also the height of truffle season…

“Is the food good?” That’s what the guy who was hanging the signage for Russell’s Smoke House, Frank Bonanno’s new restaurant in Larimer Square, wanted to know earlier today. He, along with everyone else who’s been anticipating the opening of the smoke house, can find out tonight, when Russell’s, located…

Way to support drinking, Colorado State University! Look for wines made by CSU starting next spring. Blended at Stoney Mesa Winery because CSU is still in the process of applying for the necessary licenses, the bottles with the CSU mascot — called Ram’s Point — will sell for $10 to…

Just over two months ago, Interstate Kitchen & Bar owners Andre and Aaron Lobato and Joey Newman quietly took over the Mona’s space on South Broadway to build Crimson Canary, their second restaurant in the Baker neighborhood…