Before the Denver Broncos take on the Raiders tonight, football fans will take on another tough tradition: tailgating. Things are already cooking in the designated tailgating lot outside of the newly renamed Sports Authority at Mile High. The menu for a tailgating party should be easy: grill meat, add beer,…
Sean Kenyon has been following the news coming out of Stranahan’s, from Jake Norris’s decision to leave as head distiller to the installation of a new head, Rob Dietrich. His recent interview with Dietrich — and Dietrich’s stated intention to keep Stranahan’s from compromising its blend, prompted this response from…
Jake Norris was there from the start of Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey, so when he left last month — eight months after the Colorado-based company was sold to Proximo Spirits — it got a lot of people in the liquor community talking. Norris himself talked last week, as did Rob Dietrich,…
Cafe Society served up three Guess Where? contests last week, featuring everything from a molcajete that missed the mark to a Greek salad with gyros to a plate of lackluster rotisserie chicken. For correctly identifying that plate as coming from Pearl Street Grill, Matt wins an EatDenver deck. But really,…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but here’s some incentive to join the growing movement. We’re now featuring an animal-free recipe each week. For our opening act, we decided to tackle vegan baking. It’s surprisingly easy: These muffins are moist and fluffy, and…
Biker Jim (right) was one of the thirty featured vendors invited by Cafe Society scribes to participate in Dish, our celebration of the local culinary scene that filled Ninth Avenue Historic Park on the Metro State campus Friday night. Get a second helping of the event through our slide show…
This is a month ending in -er, which means that by the old food adage, your favorite mollusk will taste better than ever. LoHi SteakBar, 3200 Tejon Street, is offering its Monday Oyster Night today. Every Monday from 3:30 p.m. until the kitchen runs out, you can grab $1 oysters…
UPDATE: We have a winner! Congrats to Kate, who came the closest (without going over) with her guess of 333 lobster rolls served last week at Steuben’s. The actual number is 335. We’re still in the throes of street-food season, and this Saturday, from 5 to 10 p.m. at TAXI,…
Denver just can’t seem to quench its thirst for craft beer. After just five months in business, the owners of Copper Kettle Brewing have already pumped up their beer-making capacity by adding two ten-barrel fermenters to the three three-barrel tanks they already had – an expansion of about 166 percent…
Tiffany Iung’s goal is to have a storefront in Five Points and “a pack of girls on pink bikes” delivering her organic, homemade sandwiches, cakes and salads. After a two-year stint in Paris, she moved her operation to Denver, where Tifamade has been going since June. And she thinks it…
Cafe Society invited some of our favorite restaurants and food trucks to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Avenue Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: Roberto Diaz Mezcal www.mezcalcolorado.com/ What are you serving at Dish? Squash blossom quesadillas and mahi mahi ceviche. Squash blossom quesadillas are really…
Montel Williams, Jack Hercher and Chris Dupuis, the franchisees who brought California’s Fatburger to Denver and once had plans to build twenty locations of the restaurant in this city, have parted ways with the company — and every Fatburger in metro Denver has now changed its name to Epic Grill…
Cafe Society invited some of our favorite restaurants and food trucks to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Street Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: John Moutzouris Mythos Gourmet Greek Food Truck mythosgreekfoodtruck.com What are you serving at Dish? Bite-sized, marinated, flamed and grilled chicken pitas, pork…
The Keg Steakhouse and Bar, 1890 Wynkoop Street, 303-296-0023 The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. The Deals: $3 beers; $4 small plates; $5 martinis and margaritas; $6 wines by the glass Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Cafe Society invited some of our favorite restaurants and food trucks to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Street Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: Nathan Miller Tasterie Truck www.thetasterietruck.com/ What are you serving at Dish? We’ll be serving the Oh Henrys, a peanut butter puffed-rice treat…
Fifteen years ago, Josh Wolkon and his wife, Jen, opened Vesta Dipping Grill in a cavernous space in LoDo, and they’ve packed in crowds ever since. Those crowds followed them and Matt Selby over to Steuben’s, the garage-turned-hip-retro-restaurant in Uptown that features American classics and a great bar program. Last…
Talk about a freak accident: This morning at Rock Bottom Brewery on the 16th Street Mall, a flash fire broke out, which shut down two blocks of Curtis Street. The cause? A dropped keg…
Cafe Society invited some of our favorite restaurants and food trucks to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Avenue Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: Mike Carlin and Mike Levine Mikes² kitchen www.mikes2kitchen.com/ What are you serving at Dish? Gumbo, red beans and rice, all of which…
In this week’s Chef and Tell chat with Sean McGaughey, the kitchen king of Opus, he admits that the spaghetti from his high school cafeteria has scarred him for life but that his obsession with Jubes Nata De Coco is alive and well. McGaughey has a passion for bread, too,…
Cafe Society invited some of our favorite restaurants and food trucks to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Avenue Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: Jim Pittenger Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs bikerjimsdogs.com/ What are you serving at Dish? We’ll be hustling a flight of sliders: elk, wild…
Dish (formerly Menu Affair), Westword’s annual culinary bash that extols the city’s best bites, wine sips, suds and sounds, kicks off tonight at Ninth Avenue Historic Park with food from thirty restaurants and food trucks all invited to participate by Cafe Society scribes, along with such liquid assets as beer…
Last month, after Jake Norris left Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey, the homegrown company that was” target=”_blank”> sold late last year to Proximo Spirits, Rob Dietrich was named head distiller. After I chatted with Jake Norris about why he left, I decided it was important to talk with Dietrich. And in an…
