This past weekend, the country’s biggest names in the world of food and drink swarmed the streets, sidewalks and sod of Aspen as part of the 32nd annual Food & Wine Classic, a four-day culinary immersion that included a party every minute; numerous wine tastings and cocktail seminars; pig, pig…
Two very different restaurants closed over the weekend: Corner House , which opened in Jefferson Park in January 2013 with major hoopla but also had some major problems, and the Cherry Creek location of Earls, a link in a national chain that blames “ongoing construction” in the area for the…
For more than a year, Mark Antonation ate his way up Federal Boulevard. With that journey done, he’ll now explore different cuisines from around the globe right here in metro Denver, one month at a time, in Ethniche. Sometimes life jars you out of your routine into a realization that…
VIP tickets to Sunday’s Wings & Whiskey battle at Ace, Josh and Jen Wolkon’s ping-pong emporium in Uptown, sold out weeks ago, but there are still general admission tickets available to the event, the proceeds of which benefit the Denver Housing Authority’s Youth Culinary Academy. And you can win two…
When a friend and I sat down to dinner at this restaurant, we had originally planned to graze, but as soon as we saw the astoundingly huge platter of carved, crimson-hued ribeye being delivered to another table, we promptly shut our menus and announced, “We’ll have what they’re having.” Best…
The construction projects that have tangled traffic in Cherry Creek might have been the final straw. On Friday, as World Cup fans were hunting for a place to watch the game, they found that Earl’s in Cherry Creek had closed its doors. See also: Kitchen flood temporarily closes Glazed and…
In early 2013, when Seattle Fish Co. president James Iacino, Matt Selby (now the exec chef of Central Bistro & Bar) and then-partner Scott Kinsey unveiled the Corner House in Jefferson Park, a neighborhood that’s slowly turning into a restaurant hamlet, Iacino, who, at the time, lived in a loft…
Throughout its various incarnations in Colorado since the mid-’70s, Marilyn Megenity’s Mercury Cafe has been a model for clean energy. Since the Mercury settled into a permanent home at 2199 California two decades ago, Megenity has installed 36 solar panels on the building and also worked to change the city…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, zigzagging from a bourbon mule from Jimmy’s, the unofficial party headquarters of the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, to an all-vegan Middle Eastern feast from Damascus to an excellent Reuben from a lovely little sandwich shop and cafe parked…
Documenting kitchen time may not seem like a top priority when you’re wrangling a three-year-old and a two-year-old and have a third child on the way, but at the home of Peter and Jenna Reynolds, it’s become just another part of the chaos of being new parents. The two started…
Is Denver’s barbecue scene “pretty lame”? That’s whatDenver Dave said last week, and since our news blog picked up his comment, close to 200 people have weighed in with their opinions of Denver’s barbecue — including what’s hot and what’s definitely not. See also: Denver’s BBQ scene is consistently “disappointing”?…
After months of delays, the owners of Glazed and Confuzed, the popular doughnut purveyor, finally opened the doors of their first brick-and-mortar location on Friday the 13th. But the real bad luck lay ahead: On June 19, after a much-needed day off, they showed up at the shop at 5301…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Atticus, a restaurant that is still struggling to reach its grown-up ambitions. Lori Midson talked to chef Alex Figura of Lower48 Kitchen about ditching school to be a line chef, cooking abroad and more in this week’s Chef and Tell. And Mark…
There are no official headquarters of the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, which is where I am right now, but the unofficial headquarters of the weekend are here at this Aspen institution that’s party central for anyone (and everyone) who wants one last libation before dragging themselves out of…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Protein Bar contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many Buffalo Bar-ritos were sold nationwide at Protein Bar in 2013? Congratulations to Bobbypinz , who came the closest with a guess of 55,955; the actual number is…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Seattle Fish Co.-Cook Street contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many pounds of fish did Seattle Fish Co. sell last Friday? Congratulations to Fanboy47, who came the closest with a guess of 52,047; the actual number…
Nearly three years after Scottie Ewing left Denver and the swinger scene in general, his infamous Sugar House is back in business. “I was recently in Denver, hired as a restaurant and nightclub consultant for a new property opening up downtown and was invited to attend a couple swinger parties…
LoDo is hotter than ever, with new bars and restaurants opening in anticipation of the return of Union Station — but for Gatsby’s, the neighborhood has gone cold. The wine bar that opened at the end of 2012 in the home of another defunct wine bar, The Wine Loft, has…
Goose Sorensen’s Solera was a destination restaurant on East Colfax long before that strip started improving. “I love this place and it is so underrated in so many departments,” says one reader. “Best patio, great food and an awesome chef. Now a killer bar program?” See also: New Solera bar…
If you’ve been to a divorce party, you know that separations are no longer seen as the end of something, but rather the beginning. Still, not everyone likes to broadcast the news of a break-up, not even when it involves business rather than personal matters. Until I began fact-checking this…
Grilling fish seems easy enough, but rubbery fish, dry fish and other fish disasters of oceanic proportions are all too common, so this Saturday, June 21, Seattle Fish Co. is encouraged the fearful to throw their insecurities overboard with an interactive class dedicated to the art of grilling fish. The…
It’s all too easy to forget about this adorable cafe and sandwich shop that’s parked on an out-of-the-way corner, but the sandwiches, most notably the Reuben surfaced with shavings of Colorado bison pastrami, are delicious. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer…
