With a playful twist on tapas-style dining, Session Kitchen encourages sharing globally inspired, locally sourced, seasonally influenced cuisine in large and small portions. Weekend brunch is the re-conceptualized version of its lunch menu, which management did away with a few months back, so it’s still a relative secret – meaning…
Sunnyside Burger Bar will open next week, in the completely rebuilt home of Longo’s Subway Tavern, which closed two years ago. The news inspired the usual geographic nitpicking (Sunnyside actually starts on the north side of West 38th Avenue), the usual Northsider dissing of hipsters — and one unusual observation…
Barolo Grill 3030 East Sixth Avenue 303-393-1040 If there was any doubt about the enduring popularity of Barolo Grill, one of Denver’s longest-running white-tablecloth establishments, it was erased one night as I stood in front of the hostess stand, waiting for the hostess to finish a phone call before showing…
You may have noticed that Odelay Tacos on Colfax Avenue — and the Thirty Fourteen bar occupying the same space — have been dark for the past couple of days. An ownership change finalized last week is the cause, but the space should be back up and running this Friday…
Colorado’s coffee-shop market may seem crowded, but a Honduras-based underdog is about to enter the fray, opening its first location in the U.S., right here in Denver. However, Espresso Americano is far from an upstart in Honduras, where 140 out of the chain’s 165 locations are located. “We’ve been in…
Alex Seidel’s much anticipated ode to preserved foods, Mercantile Dining & Provision, opened its cafe and market yesterday at 7 a.m. and completed its debut dinner service later that evening. Fans of Seidel’s first restaurant, Fruition, will find a similar menu of focused platings that give the ingredients star billing…
Longo’s Subway Tavern occupied the same corner of 38th Avenue and Lipan Street for 52 years before closing two years ago amidst laments that the neighborhood was losing much of its classic charm, especially the old-school Italian joints. Larimer Associates purchased the building shortly afterward and partnered with restaurateur Troy…
The dog days of summer are over, but dogs still rule at pooch-friendly patios around town. As of July 1, Denver has allowed dogs on restaurant patios — and some spots, such as Racines , were happy to comply with the new rules. But diners are still divided about pets…
Saturday lunch is the best time for an all-you-can-eat buffet. You don’t have to worry about returning semi-comatose to work and you’ve probably already done yard work or something else outdoorsy to justify the added caloric load. Indian restaurants, especially, tend toward low-risk, high-reward buffets, with plenty of potential for…
Bird is the word today. Lakewood’s White Fence Farm, famous for its down-home atmosphere, animal attractions, and especially its fried chicken, has been named one of the Top Family Friendly restaurants in America by nationwide food supplier US Foods. See also: The Ten Best Plates of Fried Chicken in Denver…
Protein Bar, the Chicago-based quick-casual, healthy-foods concept that opened its first location in Boulder early this year, then quickly added locations by Union Station and on South Colorado Boulevard, will open a fourth metro store before the end of the year, at 1600 Glenarm Street. See also: First Look at…
This summer Taita Peruvian Restaurant quietly closed up in the spot next to Tooey’s at Colfax and Marion, but the location didn’t stay vacant for long. Zach Parker, co-owner of the new Las Margs, says he was ready to move on the place just eighteen days later. He owes the…
Eighteen months ago, when renowned restaurateur/chef Frank Bonanno revealed that he was opening Bonanno Brothers Pizzeria in Park Meadows Shopping Center, Cafe Society readers had high hopes the venture would inject some local flavor in an area whose main dining options are outposts of national chains: Brio Tuscan Grille, California…
Need an eye-opener this morning? You might if you’d joined the throngs at DISH, Westword’s twentieth anniversary of the Denver dining scene, which yesterday filled Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex with booths featuring signature dishes from forty of our favorite local eateries — with Bloody Marys from…
Do good things come in small packages? That’s been Gretchen Kurtz’s experience this summer; she’s reviewed a number of tiny restaurants over the past few months, most recently Bistro Barbès, and found that while the kitchens may be tiny, they cook up big flavors. And speaking of big flavors, before…
Colorado restaurants have had their fair share of interest from the ever-popular Food Network in recent years, and more than one of our chefs have competed head-to-head with other chefs on deathless competition shows like Top Chef. Now our state can crown another TV champ: Dakota Soifer of Boulder’s Cafe…
On Sunday, September 7, 2014, Westword will host its twentieth annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, DISH, in Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, where many of the favorite restaurants of Cafe Society writers and readers will be serving delectable dishes. For example, Lala’s Wine Bar +…
You may have seen a black-and-gold bicycle-trailer contraption peddling coffee and other treats on the 16th Street Mall at Larimer Street; it’s been setting up shop there since January. Now Marley Coffee, the brainchild of chairman Rohan Marley (son of reggae legend Bob), is expanding its bicycle caffe program into…
After eating Jon Robbins’ inspired French-North African fare at Bistro Barbès, I was hungry for more. Not just more of his upscale fusion, but more dishes such as the tagines and harira I came to love in Morocco, Algeria and France, a second home to many North African immigrants. Yesterday…
For more than a year Bonanno Brothers Pizzeria, Frank Bonanno’s first restaurant outside of Denver city limits, made a go of it in a tough Park Meadows Shopping Center location — tough for independent restaurateurs, at least, if not for the national chains. “We loved the mall — the mall…
As Michael Roberts reports on the Latest Word this morning, yesterday’s protest outside the McDonald’s at 505 East Colfax Avenue — part of a nationwide campaign demanding higher wages and union rights — resulted in three arrests and plenty of attention for the issue. And the comments keep coming in…
We’re mixing in the last ingredients for DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining and drinking scene, at Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex on Sunday, September 7. This is Westword’s twentieth anniversary event, and it promises to be quite a party: sun, fun and fine food…
