Cafe Society served up six Guess where contests last week, ranging from a summery bowl of gazpacho at Vert Kitchen to a jaw-breaking bagel sandwich to a marg on Taco Tuesday in Cherry Creek, right before the crowds descended for the Cherry Creek Arts Festival. For correctly identifying that drink…
On Friday, we posted our “Restaurant roll call for June,” a compendium of the town’s recent openings and closings — some of them quite surprising, including Squeaky Bean (looking for a new home, this one with a kitchen), Baur’s Ristorante (Robert Thompson of Argyll will turn the space at 1512…
I wanted a burger. I wanted a big, fat, meaty burger that would smear condiments and grease across my face as I attempted to stuff it down my gullet. I wanted a protein bomb that would sit like a dead weight in my stomach all afternoon, inducing a food coma…
Row 14 isn’t the only eatery that’s taken up residence on the ground floor of the Spire. Just around the corner, Organic Pizza Co. turns out take-home pies, and next door to that is an outpost of Snarf’s Sub Shop, the beloved sandwich shop that got its start when Jim…
In January of 2010, Virgilio Urbano, the pizza slinger — and owner — of his namesake pie palace, issued a humongous challenge: In two hours or less, stuff your gullet with eleven pounds of pizza without puking, taking a bathroom break or falling over dead, and your success (or stupidity,…
Dazbog Coffee understands that its undercaffeinated, too-tired-to-function customers may not always remember their wallets — and so the stores are offering a payment method that doesn’t require a wallet. “Everyone has their cell phone before their wallet these days,” says Leonid Yuffa, co-owner of the thirty-store chain that’s based in…
Along with Rackhouse Pub, this week I paid a visit to Pints Pub, the quirky British brewpub that claims to stock the largest collection of single malt whisky outside of Great Britain. I had my doubts — a number of restaurants make the same claim, including Dundee Dell, an Omaha…
Lester Karplus, co-founder of DelectablePlanet.com, has eaten veggie for almost forty years; he’ll be offering up cooking demonstrations at VegFest tomorrow, which runs from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. We talked to Karplus about his shift toward vegetarianism, the mission behind DelectablePlanet, and what he…
Talk about a mouthful: A single bagel from this shrine to ringed dough with a hole already stretches your jaw, but the sandwiches, towered with everything form salmon to roast beef, are comedic skyscrapers. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau is the founder of www.compassionatecooks.com and the author of three must-have cookbooks for plant-based eaters: The Joy of Vegan Baking, The Vegan Table and Color Me Vegan. She’ll be speaking at VegFest tomorrow at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds; we caught up with her to talk about her VegFest…
Linger topped the action last month, with a stunning space that takes Highland to new heights. Chinook Tavern also blew back onto the scene, almost three years after it left its home in Cherry Creek. Gone for good? The old Northwoods Inn, which is now a swingers club. Here’s our…
The news that Soul Daddy, the winner of America’s Next Great Restaurant, had closed its last outpost — despite Chipotle’s Steve Ells serving as one of the show’s judges — didn’t surprise readers. Says aceranchero: I watched the series finale, when they announced the winner I turned to my wife…
Temperatures threaten to approach the triple digits as we prepare to celebrate our country’s independence this weekend, which puts us smack into summer, the season of baseball, lazy patio nights and, of course, hot dogs, which we like to feast on as we wander the streets, tend the grill or…
Anh Nguyen may be the only person alive who was bitten by dead shark. And, no, this isn’t a fish tale. Nguyen, who opened the Crawling Crab, a Cajun seafood joint, last week in a South Federal Boulevard small mall, was hanging the beast from the ceiling, when his wrist…
Thirty years ago, long before the food truck made the jump from lonchera to gourmet movable kitchen, a Boulder couple was wheeling around in a vehicle called RollinGreens, serving up what they were then calling wholesome meals on wheels. And while they managed to generate plenty of buzz at the…
It was fun, very fun, while it lasted — and it lasted fourteen years. But come early September, Dixons Downtown Grill will close its doors. Dixons opened just two years after Coors Field came to lower downtown; it quickly established itself as one of the best power-breakfast spots in town,…
Even the blessing of Steve Ells, CEO of homegrown, fast-casual mega-chain Chipotle Mexican Grill, wasn’t enough to make America’s Next Great Restaurant into, well, America’s next great restaurant: Soul Daddy, the healthy barbecue concept that nabbed the reality show’s grand prize of three locations, shuttered its final spot in the…
McMurdo Station, one of three U.S. government-run research posts in Antarctica, is looking for a new executive chef. The requirements include a bachelor’s degree, a culinary degree and seven years of experience, at least three of which are supervisory. Oh, and you should be willing to relocate to Antarctica for…
No. 60: New Mexico Benedict from DJ’s Berkeley Cafe…
While this diminutive cafe is justifiably celebrated for its sandwiches, the soups, including a vibrant gazpacho bobbing with fresh berries, are equally as delicious. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into…
Valentino Ujkic Trattoria Stella 3201 East Colfax Avenue 303-320-8635 http://trattoriastella.squarespace.com This is part two of my interview with Valentino Ujkic , executive chef of Trattoria Stella. Part one of that interview ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Kabob Cafe in Astoria, Queens. There’s no menu, no front-of-the-house staff and no…
While we finish compiling our Restaurant roll call for June — a compilation of all the openings and closings over the past month — Cafe Society has also been checking up on the status of some projects announced long ago. Botto Italian Grill, for example, which was originally supposed to…
