Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. As you can imagine,…
Andrea Wight Beast + Bottle 719 East 17th Avenue 303-623-3223 beastandbottle.com This is part one of interview with Andrea Wight, pastry chef of Beast + Bottle. Part two of my chat with Wight will run tomorrow morning. A lot of us can recollect the first time we baked a batch…
In A Federal Case, I’ll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard — south to north — within Denver city limits. I’ll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I’ll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here’s the…
Beast + Bottle takes pride in its “farm-to-fork” approach to food — and chef Paul Reilly and general manager Aileen Reilly, the brother-and-sister partners behind the restaurant, work closely with local purveyors and farms in order to provide their guests with humanely raised, responsibly harvested and organic (whenever possible) ingredients…
Since Adwoa and Sylvester Osei Ford-Wuo parked their mobile African food business at the brick-and-mortar African Bar and Grill in 2010, they’ve done a lot to expand Denver’s ethnic food scene. And now they’ve done a lot more: They’ve opened a second location, at 18601 Green Valley Ranch Road by…
I remember standing in front of a pyramid of potatoes at the supermarket many years ago in my hippie days, tripping on mescalin and trying to select a few spuds for dinner. It was taking a long time because every potato in that pile had its own unique and mesmerizing…
Every year, The Daily Meal does a comprehensive survey and then announces the 101 Best Restaurants in America. Yesterday, the Daily Meal revealed the worst, digging “deep into the recesses of the culinary dustbin” to discover the true bottom feeders. The result is a list of possibly the five worst…
There’s gross — and there’s gross anatomy, the deeply gruesome and gory body parts that hit the table on Halloween, the one day of the year when demonic bakers emerge from their caldrons and devise recipes that make your stomach turn green. The cakes on the following pages, all allegedly…
Federal Boulevard is a great adventure if you love ethnic food — but it’s not always easy to tell what’s vegetarian-friendly. And if you’re a vegan, you’ll have an even more difficult time separating the fish cakes from tofu. At New Saigon Bakery & Deli, though, you can enjoy a…
What’s in a name? Plenty, if you’re My Brother’s Bar. This Denver institution opened more than forty years ago in a building that is the city’s longest-operating watering hole; records trace the bar business at 2376 15th Street back to 1873. So owner Jim Karagas wasn’t happy when he heard…
Pumpkins are everywhere — which means pie can’t be far behind. But this Thanksgiving, instead of going through the hassle of baking pies, you can purchase your dessert from Project Angel Heart , which kicks off its Pie in the Sky campaign today. The Pie in the Sky sale, which…
The last time I ordered crab from this restaurant, I was asked to point to the one I wanted from the murky tank. The one I chose, however, somehow landed on the floor, crawling its way across the carpet in a futile attempt to escape its impending doom. Recently, during…
“Welcome back to Satchel’s,” says the sidewalk chalkboard just outside the front door of Andrew Casalini’s restaurant on Sixth Avenue. The greeting comes a day after Casalini reopened his Congress Park spot after a three-week remodel — a remodel that trumpets a stately new bar, custom-patterned wood floors, luscious red,…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a bayou-inspired seafood boil from Asian Cajun, to a warming bowl of yellow dal tadka from Masalaa, to an Indian phaal curry, so excruciatingly hot that it nearly blew my head off and destroyed my stomach lining…
Back when I discovered Maria Empanada, a pint-sized shop in Lakewood that turns out magnificent, freshly baked Argentinean turnovers filled with both sweet and savory feelings, I loved everything about the place, but the tiny quarters — there was but one table — made me wistful that I couldn’t linger,…
“It takes me back to the Cinnamon Life cereal of my childhood,” says Todd Sledge of the cinnamon-raisin flavored Paleo Diet Bar. Sledge, along with his wife, Shauna, founded the Fort Collins-based the Paleo Diet Foods , which just launched its initial product, the Paleo Diet Bar. The raw food…
You know Halloween is coming because pumpkins not only appear on porches, they’re all over the kitchen in one form or another. Every autumn brings an array of pumpkin, pumpkin spice and pumpkin pie-flavored eats and drinks — some of which are far more palatable than others, reports Jenn Wohletz…
Humboldt. Farm.Fish.Wine just opened last week at 1700 Humboldt Street, but it’s wasting no time becoming a contributing part of the community. From 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, October 15, it’s hosting a benefit for flood relief. For $35 — ticket proceeds go to Colorado Flood Relief and the…
From Facebook to Vine, social media is changing the way we eat. At the 2013 Westword Web Awards, we’ll celebrate the chefs, restaurants and diners that use it best — and we want your help finding them. There are two ways you can help us pick this year’s winners…
Gretchen Kurtz loved the pizzas at the quick-serve, fast-casual Denver outpost of Pizzeria Locale, which she reviewed six weeks ago — and she found the prices ridiculously reasonable given the high quality of the food. Now those prices are even more reasonable: As of today, Locale’s contemporary, Neapolitan-style pizzas are…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Lou’s Food Bar German beer brunch contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: On average, how many poached eggs does Lou’s serve during one brunch service? Congrats to Jon S, whose guess of 98 eggs was straight on…
Back in July, Shin Sa Dong, a lofty Korean restaurant in Aurora, closed its doors, but the bright banner hanging from the exterior gate hinted that the closure was temporary. “Coming soon – remodeling,” it said. But as of yesterday, a new, more permanent sign was being erected by construction…
