Too busy to get to everything on Cafe Society’s plate this week? Here’s another helping of some of our entrees: Gretchen Kurtz reviewed TAG Burger Bar, which Troy Guard opened in the former home of Madison Street. Although she loved many of the non-burger items on the menu — including…
Food, in all its lusty glory, was on display last weekend at the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco — an immense marketplace of hedonistic gluttony that showcased more than 80,000 products from 35 countries, in every edible and drinkable ilk imaginable. See also: – Trends without end: chef predictions…
Anybody suing a fast-food chain is news, especially if the lawsuit is petty, outlandish or an obvious attempt at a cash-grab by people who clearly have some time on their hands. The recent lawsuit filed by two New Jersey males against Subway, based on the assertion that the $5 footlong…
There was absolutely nothing wrong with this dish — it was lovely…and healthy — but watching my friend dig her spoon into the chicken liver mousse made it difficult to concentrate on all those vegetables. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer…
Marg’s Taco Bistro, the urbanized “world tacos” spot that has locations in Cherry Creek and LoDo last year, is planning a new location in Uptown. The restaurant owners, Uptown Margs and Dave McBride, have applied for a liquor license at 500 East 19th Avenue, near Las Delicias and Jonesy’s Eatbar…
It was a little late coming out of the gate — the opening was slated for New Year’s Eve — but last night, the Armoury, a new pub that’s themed around live music and European football, unlocked its doors in the Ballpark neighborhood. See also: – Armoury, an “old-world pub,”…
In case you haven’t heard the collective war cries rising up from the citizens of Boulder, Colorado, they are about to get their first Walmart — one of the new “neighborhood market” concepts. Walmart pisses off liberals everywhere, and it’s not the big-box chain with the best ethics record –…
Guy Fieri is back in town, Lori Midson reports, visiting establishments ranging from the Denver Biscuit Company to Prohibition to the Highland Tavern for his show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives . Some readers are fed up with Fieri, but still see benefits in his visits here: See also: – Love…
Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, the homegrown healthy Mediterranean chain, will celebrate its fifth birthday by offering Colorado customers five days of deep discounts — beginning on Saturday, January 26 — on some of its popular items, including an entire day of free falafel balls. And Garbanzo is also treating itself to…
In case you haven’t heard, Guy Fieri, the bleached-blond, back-of-the-head-sunglass-obsessed Food Network TV personality that foodniks love to loathe, is prancing around Denver, his film crew on his heels. He’s here, of course, to film footage for Triple D, otherwise known as Diners, Drive-ins and Dives — and it’s not…
I just returned from San Francisco, where I pigged out on everything from oysters and noodles to quail and “world peace” peanut muscovado milk. I also made the unfortunate mistake of hitting up an Indian restaurant — Dosa, if you want to to know — that sucked, but the vegetarian…
Tony Cherry Creek, that swanky enclave full of chic boutiques and restaurants where stilettos and furs far outweigh flip-flops and fleece, is seemingly — inexplicably — becoming a Mexican-food mecca. See also: – Machete will bring tacos and tequila to Cherry Creek – Photos: Margs Taco Bistro opens today in…
George Eder Pizza Republica 5375 Landmark Place, Greenwood Village 720-489-2030 www.pizzarepublica.com This is part two of my interview with George Eder, exec chef of Pizza Republica; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: Frasca, Beatrice & Woodsley, Fruition and Ian Kleinman’s pop-up doughnut…
Last April, Eric Chiappetta, the former chef of Pizza Republica, along with his wife, Jamie, left the piehole world behind to open Chia’s Breakfast & Lunch Counter in Golden. But last week, the couple shut the doors. See also: – Chia’s Breakfast & Lunch Counter is set to open next…
Smashburger has been a smash hit since the homegrown chain was introduced in 2006. Since then, it’s built a dozen stores in the metro area — and expanded not just throughout the United States, but across the ocean. And in the next year, the company plans to open another sixty…
There’s a debate raging in food circles about tasting menus and whether chefs have become tyrants by forcing multi-hour parades of plates on unwitting guests. For now, Troy Guard’s name doesn’t factor into that discussion, but I wouldn’t put forty courses past him. After all, this is a chef who…
There’s nothing quite like a bubbling-hot chicken pot pie when the weather is chilly (despite today’s projected warm forecast, the air was was anything but balmy), and that’s exactly what I ordered for lunch at an off-the-radar restaurant in the suburbs that serves its pot pie in a cast-iron skillet,…
Red Ginger opened its doors today in the former home of Sonoda’s at 550 Broadway. The restaurant is serving a range of Asian fusion dishes — including sushi currently discounted by 50 percent — but the new owners didn’t make any significant changes to the space. In fact, those doors…
Back in 2006, Doug Naiman’s Aviano Coffee was one of the first tenants in the Beauvallon, the beleaguered behemoth in the 900 block of Lincoln Street, and it was one of the last ones out, finally forced to leave by the construction curtains that swathed the building in 2009. From…
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…
Gayor Geller grew up in Harvard Gulch, a tree-lined neighborhood near the University of Denver, and Maddie’s, the breakfast and lunch restaurant he’s opening on Friday morning in that same ‘hood, is a “family project,” he says, that’s been a dream for decades…
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 the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. Family recipes run…
