Last week Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests, featuring everything from a sausage and red pepper cannoli at Dolce Sicilia to a still unidentified bowl of mussels to this favorite cheesesteak. For correctly identifying it as coming from Bono’s in Golden, Steve wins an EatDenver deck…
In Denver, no food inspires more heated discussion than green chile — that thick, porky concoction that’s native to this state. After we served up our list of “Denver’s five best green chile fixes, everyone weighed in with their favorites: Benny’s, Santiago’s, Brewery Bar II, La Loma. Everyone, that is,…
Cafe Society posts provided plenty to chew on last week — from whether kids should be welcome at nice restaurants to whether a bar can be too nice to be a dive. Our list of “Denver’s five best dive bars” inspired this definition from Stealth2: Dive bar: a “new” bar…
In case you haven’t heard, Denver is a city that’s obsessed — like, really obsessed — with its green chile. We smother it — unlike everywhere else in the country — on absolutely everything. We’ve even heard stories of people who put it in milkshakes, on top of chocolate cake…
We were baffled when Chipotle started wrapping its burritos and tacos in gold foil in the name of a new promotion (because the ingredients are solid gold, get it?). Not only is it a dumb marketing ploy, but it’s undoubtedly costing the homegrown restaurant chain plenty of extra packaging cash,…
It had just gone 6 p.m., when light driblets of rain began to drop from the clouds, but the dozens of people with their noses to the window, peering in to catch a glimpse of the famous French chef, didn’t seem to notice. Some, determined to be one of the…
News leaked earlier this year that Denver-based Chipotle had registered the name ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen, suggesting what might be in store for the Asian concept the company was planning on unveiling. And after months of keeping silent about it, the burrito chain is finally divulging a little information: ShopHouse…
Don’t put on your dancing shoes yet, Creekers. After an epic, hours-long liquor-license hearing March 25 at the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses, Michael Olsen’s plans to put a version of his Hush nightclub into the subterranean space at 250 Steele Street seem doomed. Olsen has until the close…
The shot above was taken at a restaurant, whose kitchen crew really knows how to flex its muscles…at least when it comes to mussels. 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…
Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle will be right with you — most likely to complain about something. Usually he is pleasant, but this is his place to blow off some steam. Don’t take it personally; he just needs to vent because he’s been doing this for about thirteen years…
Readers are using their noodles when dishing up alternatives to our list of the “Five best dishes of mac and cheese in Denver” — a category in which Tom’s Home Cookin’ took top honors in the Best of Denver 2011. What about Rackhouse? What about Delite? And, above, all, what…
As Satchel’s on 6th gets ready to open its doors — according to the restaurant’s Facebook page, it’ll start serving dinner on Saturday — a new restaurant is aiming to make something work in the old Satchel’s Market address at 28th Avenue and Fairfax in Park Hill. Pary’s on 28th…
There was no rain delay yesterday at the groundbreaking for Project Angel Heart’s new project, which will turn a sixty-year-old building at 4950 Washington Street into a 30,000-square-foot facility that will ultimately quadruple the number of clients suffering from life-threatening illnesses who receive meals every week from Project Angel Heart…
The documentary What’s Organic About Organic? is being screened at various places around the metro area, including the Mercury Cafe tonight. I caught the film at the Nomad last night, at an event that was a Boulder local-food orgy: surprisingly good turnip green pesto on baguette and duck confit salad…
Every so often, when the mood hits, I get a fetish for fajitas. But while these were passable, they were nowhere near perfect. 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 a…
Curses collide! No sooner does the Best of Denver hit the street every year than, almost inevitably, one of our picks meets with disaster. This year, the apparent victim is our Best Breakfast Under $2 — which we gave to Gordo Loco, a burrito/burger joint that opened early this year…
Grub Street New York, the blog that’s the online voice of New York Magazine, just rounded up 101 favorite pastas across the country, posting photos of ravioli, tagliatelle, orzo and rigatoni in a pasta porn slideshow (and before you get cranky with us, “porn” was Grub Street’s word). And in…
The ground may be dusted with white powder, but a little snow isn’t enough to put the breaks on the ten street food trucks and carts that will feed mouths on the Auraria Campus beginning at 10 a.m. as part of Innovation Day, an event hosted by Metro State’s Center…
This is part two of my interview with Luke Mewbourn, executive chef of Table Mountain Inn Grill & Cantina. In part one of that interview, Mewbourn harps on foie gras and Lady Gaga and hails the righteousness of Jim’s Burger Haven. Luke Mewbourn Table Mountain Inn Grill & Cantina 1310…
For decades, Westword readers have voted for McDonald’s as the spot where you can find the Best French Fries. That’s just one of the many reasons why the annual Best of Denver issues always emphasize our editorial picks. Another reason: The readers generally pick Taco Bell for Best Taco. Democracy…
When Boulder-based advertising firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky set began constructing a marketing campaign to sell more carrots, its creative team studied consumers’ “carrot habits,” and learned all about the importance of crunch and snackability. The team wanted to reach “savvy snackers,” explains Tiffany Rolfe, the firm’s vice president and…
In an ideal world, we’d all cook seasonally and locally, procuring our ingredients from farmers’ markets — and when we dined out, we’d eat only at local, independently owned restaurants. But this isn’t Shangri-La, it’s the real world — and in the real world, convenience sometimes takes priority. That’s where…
