The fourth annual Hot Rocks Griller Challenge at Elway’s Cherry Creek last night, a benefit for the Denver Health Foundation, was hot in more ways than one: hot in temperature, with the the late spring sun beating down during the first hour or so; hot in hotties who stripped down…
Tres Jolie Tea & Champagne Lounge won Best Ladies’ Lunch in the Best of Denver 2012, as well as an earlier rave review from Laura Shunk. But those weren’t enough to keep this sweet spot in Littleton open…
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen is the second-largest chicken-focused fast-food restaurant chain in the U.S. — and I have no idea why. Its fried chicken is moist, flavorful and has a warm, spicy bite. Its side dishes, while mass-produced, are actually good for what they are. And unlike its major competitor, Popeyes…
Last month we asked which Denver restaurant would make the best use of forty pounds of cherries from Washington, and Cafe Society readers served up some juicy suggestions for places that could use the fruit to make cherry pie and cherry beer . Now we know the cherry-picked winner of…
Pete Marczyk Marczyk Fine Foods 770 East 17th Avenue, 303-894-9499 5100 East Colfax Avenue, 303-243-3355 www.marczykfinefoods.com This is part two of my interview with Pete Marczyk; read part one of Pete Marczyk’s interview Rules of conduct in your kitchen: Show up; try hard; think; keep making it better; and no…
Ever have a hankering for a dozen chocolate-iced Bismarks and an iced latte from Dunkin’ Donuts — and then realize that because you live in Denver, you can’t have them? Watching the occasional Dunkin’ Donuts advertisement on the telly just rubs sprinkles in the stummy wound. Right now, there are…
It was just two years ago that Steuben’s Food Service became the very first food truck to roll into Civic Center Park, a ground-breaking, if not turf-smashing, development that rated a cover story in Westword. Today, of course, mobile food vendors are all over the city — and Civic Center…
It was once perfectly acceptable to have a three-martini lunch in this country, but that practice has gone the way of fax machines and napping under your desk after a long, liquid lunch. Not every culture is so prudish, though: The Italians and French still like wine at their mid-day…
Everyone, insists Jensen Cummings, the exec chef of Row 14 Restaurant & Wine Bar, and one of the partners of a new fast-casual restaurant that will haul balls, owns a slotted spoon, knows someone who owns a slotted spoon, or, at the very least, has seen a slotted spoon in…
“Denver is an amazing coffee city,” says Chris Dohse, manager of Drip Denver, “and we’re excited to be part of its coffee culture.” Not long ago, the future of dining and retail at the beleaguered Beauvallon building looked bleak. But with Drip, which just opened its doors on Monday in…
After relocating to Cherry Creek North from Lakewood last year, Bisque has shuttered. The restaurant’s voicemail simply states: “We are now closed. Thank you for your support and we do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.” Follow @CafeWestword on Twitter and at facebook.com/denvercafesociety…
Pete Marczyk (who’s interviewed in this week’s chef and tell) 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…
I know, right? A smurf fart, otherwise known as blue vodka and Sprite in a shot glass. I’m seriously too old for this shit. And while my kid is too young to drink it, he’s also at that age where saying “smurf fart” five billion times can keep him and…
Pete Marczyk Marczyk Fine Foods 770 East 17th Avenue, 303-894-9499 5100 East Colfax Avenue, 303-243-3355 www.marczykfinefoods.com This is part one of my interview with Pete Marczyk. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Bread head, wine geek, cheese gigolo, butter junkie. Ask Pete Marczyk, the chef and co-owner of…
Celebrity chefs are winging into Colorado for this weekend’s Aspen Food & Wine festival, and one lands in Denver today: Amanda Cohen, chef-owner of Dirt Candy, a renowned vegetarian restaurant in New York, will be at Linger tonight as part of the Celebrity Chef Tour, a moveable feast that crosses…
Chipotle Mexican Grill got its start in Denver, and in October it will be bringing its hometown a major thank-you present: the free Cultivate Food, Ideas & Music Festival. The one-day festival, which Chipotle introduced last year in Chicago, drew 17,000 people to a city park for demonstrations by celebrity…
Justin “Crunchy” Gwin is best known as a loud-talking, dick joke-telling, action-packing chef at Occupy Denver’s free (and now former) kitchen, the Thunderdome. And while he might be the Thunderdome’s only chef to have avoided arrest, Gwin still managed to blend food politics with anarchist politics while he supported the…
Wazee Supper Club, 1600 15th Street, opened its doors today after closing in late April for a remodel. The renovated space now boasts air-conditioning, new furniture, an upstairs lounge and, most important, a fully redesigned kitchen — which Wazee chef Randy Balch couldn’t be happier about. Read why in his…
When the new Squeaky Bean finally opens next week in LoDo, much of what will appear on your plate will come directly from Squeaky Acre, a one-acre farm in Lakewood that’s growing the majority of vegetables that executive chef Max Mackissock, his kitchen crew and the rest of the Bean…
Our waitress — she was tiny — nearly fell over from the weight of the bibimbap at this funky Korean restaurant, where the gargantuan portions result in leftovers for days to come. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s…
Michael Zheng opened Okinawa in late 2010 at 2301 East Colfax Avenue, in a spot that had failed before as a sushi joint — but it’s done well enough that Zheng opened another outpost of Okinawa in a strip mall at 12652 West Ken Caryl Avenue, in a space that…
Whole Foods doesn’t just fill your shopping cart — and empty your wallet. Several of the stores, including the Whole Foods in Capitol Hill, now offer a one-stop shop for basic bike problems: a Dero Fixit bike stand. “There are fifteen to twenty bikes parked out in front of our…
