The expanded City, O’ City has been open less than a week, but people have no shortage of opinions on the new, improved space — even if they have yet to see that space in person, and have only read about it here. The comments — both pro and con…
Adrian Miller has been certified to judge competitions by the Kansas City Barbecue Society, but he likes all kinds of barbecue, not just Kansas City style. Among his favorite barbecue joints in Denver are a couple that can’t be categorized by region, including Country Time BBQ, reviewed this week, and…
In just a few short weeks, Voodoo Comedy Playhouse will open in the Ballpark neighborhood, bringing downtown Denver a venue for all kinds of comedy acts and shows, including Hit and Run Musical Improv, Makeshift Shakespeare and a weekly interactive murder mystery dinner show…
It was an impromptu stop after the bar down the street was six-deep with Sunday-morning football hooligans, and, as it turned out, the pulled-pork eggs Benedict made it worth the detour, the scratch-made Hollandaise vivid with lemon and the Bloody Mary bar, stocked with all the required conspirators, a sight…
While Dylan Moore, the chef/owner of Deluxe and Delite, dumped his food truck earlier this summer and shuttered Deluxe Burger last month, he isn’t lazing on a beach somewhere in the tropics, sipping umbrella drinks and building sand castles. Instead, Moore, who recently remodeled Deluxe, is now adding lunch to…
Before the Denver Broncos take on the Raiders tonight, football fans will take on another tough tradition: tailgating. Things are already cooking in the designated tailgating lot outside of the newly renamed Sports Authority at Mile High. The menu for a tailgating party should be easy: grill meat, add beer,…
Sean Kenyon has been following the news coming out of Stranahan’s, from Jake Norris’s decision to leave as head distiller to the installation of a new head, Rob Dietrich. His recent interview with Dietrich — and Dietrich’s stated intention to keep Stranahan’s from compromising its blend, prompted this response from…
Cafe Society served up three Guess Where? contests last week, featuring everything from a molcajete that missed the mark to a Greek salad with gyros to a plate of lackluster rotisserie chicken. For correctly identifying that plate as coming from Pearl Street Grill, Matt wins an EatDenver deck. But really,…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but here’s some incentive to join the growing movement. We’re now featuring an animal-free recipe each week. For our opening act, we decided to tackle vegan baking. It’s surprisingly easy: These muffins are moist and fluffy, and…
UPDATE: We have a winner! Congrats to Kate, who came the closest (without going over) with her guess of 333 lobster rolls served last week at Steuben’s. The actual number is 335. We’re still in the throes of street-food season, and this Saturday, from 5 to 10 p.m. at TAXI,…
Tiffany Iung’s goal is to have a storefront in Five Points and “a pack of girls on pink bikes” delivering her organic, homemade sandwiches, cakes and salads. After a two-year stint in Paris, she moved her operation to Denver, where Tifamade has been going since June. And she thinks it…
Cafe Society invited some of our favorite restaurants and food trucks to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Avenue Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: Roberto Diaz Mezcal www.mezcalcolorado.com/ What are you serving at Dish? Squash blossom quesadillas and mahi mahi ceviche. Squash blossom quesadillas are really…
Montel Williams, Jack Hercher and Chris Dupuis, the franchisees who brought California’s Fatburger to Denver and once had plans to build twenty locations of the restaurant in this city, have parted ways with the company — and every Fatburger in metro Denver has now changed its name to Epic Grill…
Cafe Society invited some of our favorite restaurants and food trucks to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Street Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: John Moutzouris Mythos Gourmet Greek Food Truck mythosgreekfoodtruck.com What are you serving at Dish? Bite-sized, marinated, flamed and grilled chicken pitas, pork…
Cafe Society invited some of our favorite restaurants and food trucks to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Street Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: Nathan Miller Tasterie Truck www.thetasterietruck.com/ What are you serving at Dish? We’ll be serving the Oh Henrys, a peanut butter puffed-rice treat…
Fifteen years ago, Josh Wolkon and his wife, Jen, opened Vesta Dipping Grill in a cavernous space in LoDo, and they’ve packed in crowds ever since. Those crowds followed them and Matt Selby over to Steuben’s, the garage-turned-hip-retro-restaurant in Uptown that features American classics and a great bar program. Last…
Talk about a freak accident: This morning at Rock Bottom Brewery on the 16th Street Mall, a flash fire broke out, which shut down two blocks of Curtis Street. The cause? A dropped keg…
Cafe Society invited some of our favorite restaurants and food trucks to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Avenue Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: Mike Carlin and Mike Levine Mikes² kitchen www.mikes2kitchen.com/ What are you serving at Dish? Gumbo, red beans and rice, all of which…
In this week’s Chef and Tell chat with Sean McGaughey, the kitchen king of Opus, he admits that the spaghetti from his high school cafeteria has scarred him for life but that his obsession with Jubes Nata De Coco is alive and well. McGaughey has a passion for bread, too,…
Cafe Society invited some of our favorite restaurants and food trucks to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Avenue Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: Jim Pittenger Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs bikerjimsdogs.com/ What are you serving at Dish? We’ll be hustling a flight of sliders: elk, wild…
Dish (formerly Menu Affair), Westword’s annual culinary bash that extols the city’s best bites, wine sips, suds and sounds, kicks off tonight at Ninth Avenue Historic Park with food from thirty restaurants and food trucks all invited to participate by Cafe Society scribes, along with such liquid assets as beer…
Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of Highland Tap and Burger — but you’ll have to wait until October 5 to really celebrate. Although the party was originally scheduled for September 17, the start of football season and events booked during the Great American Beer Festival with the likes of Left…
