Last week Cafe Society served up four regular Guess Where contests (as well as one tax-return special), featuring everything from a diet-busting plate of breakfast tacos to more eggs, this time deviled, to an unexpected pear and goat cheese salad at a pizza place. For correctly identifying it as coming…
Because Encore, which pours the town’s Best Martini, went on spring break the week it won that Best of Denver 2011 award, Laura Shunk served up four more of the town’s best martinis. Which prompted this response from eldaveablo: No love for Herb’s Hideout? Love the martinis there. It’s been…
“I have heard,” writes Noel Cunningham, “that I have the best French toast in town. I’m not sure if you knew that or not, but that’s the word.” Cunningham, the chef/owner of Strings, will put his money where his mouth is tomorrow morning, when he offers free French toast to…
I had every intention of starting the morning off healthy — with Greek yogurt and a jog around the park — but then a trio of soft corn tacos, studded with chorizo, scrambled eggs, avocado, cheese and a duo of salsas, swayed me in a different direction. Can you guess…
Four years ago, Susan Feniger, Food Network personality, star chef, restaurateur, a leading authority on Latin cuisine and proponent of street food, was in Denver bumping around downtown during the Parade of Lights, when the scent of sausages lured her to Biker Jim’s hot dog cart on the 16th Street…
Oh. My. God. We just heard that Tyler Wiard (Elway’s Cherry Creek), Elise Wiggins (Panzano) and Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja, Bistro Vendome and Euclid Hall) are joining forces with a national “roast beef” sandwich chain to create a new sandwich that’ll be called “The Big TyWigSki.” “I’m looking forward to working…
When Laura Rice and Top Chef Season 5 winner Hosea Rosenberg started hawking sexed up versions of global street food last year from their tricked-out Airstream trailer in Boulder , they had plans to take their concept national. “Street food is the next fastcasual,” Rice told us at the time…
Five restaurants opened in one week this past month — was that a record? Here’s our roster of all the restaurant openings and closings in March:…
Every year, our picks in the Food & Drink section of the Best of Denver inspire heated debate — delayed by a day this year, because of a glitch in our comments function. But that seems to be working now, so let the online arguments begin! We’ll start them off…
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…
What may very well be the greatest of all American burger chains is coming to Denver. Well, not Denver, exactly, but close enough. And, no, it’s not In-N-Out, although that, too, will come to Denver at some point in our lifetime. But not yet. Instead, we’re getting a Steak ‘n…
We’ve been eying the green-tiled space outfitted with ten or so self-serve yogurt machines that flanks the walking bridge on Platte Street for a while, wondering when the place would start serving frozen treats. Yesterday, we noticed a new development: a sign. And we also got word that Yogurt Time…
He hadn’t actually lost, Mike Isabella explained after the judges named Richard Blais the winner of Top Chef All-Stars. It was just that they had inexplicably withheld the title from him. You really have to admire the man’s cockiness, but nonetheless I’ve come to dislike his bragging and swaggering, his…
We almost lost Club 404 before, back in 2008, when Jerry Feld and his family had a deal to sell the iconic bar that Feld had bought back in 1951 — when he wasn’t even old enough to have a liquor license — and had run ever since. That deal…
My craving for xiao long bao unfortunately coincided with the four-day closing ofLao Wang Noodle House,which is remodeling. We gave Lao Wang Best Xiao Long Bao in the Best of Denver 2011, and with good reason: The Wangs make excellent soup dumplings, packing pork and gelatin cubes into doughy wrappers…
There’s far more emphasis on the menu than on the cocktail syllabus (as it should be) at this contemporary restaurant, but the tequila-based, berry-muddled drink pictured in the above snap was a huge hit with everyone at our table. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
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. In honor of…
Earlier this week, I posted a snap depicting an avalanche of restaurant receipts, all from meals that I’d eaten away from home in 2010. And I asked Cafe Society readers to guess exactly how many meals that amounted to, along with the total tab of those receipts. No one got…
Before the barrage begins over the Food & Drink picks in the Best of Denver 2011 (and our apologies to anyone who’s been trying to post a comment after a Best of Denver pick — we’re working on a few glitches), we wanted to highlight one last comment from the…
When Amber Brummer was last in California, where she grew up, she bought a bunch of basil for 25 cents. That same amount would cost her about five dollars in Summit County, where she now lives. Brummer is part of the Leadership Class at Colorado Mountain College that’s conducting a…
When Cochon 555, the nationwide, heritage breed pig-off, trots into town on Sunday, April 3, it won’t be just five Colorado chefs battling it out for the “Prince or Princess of Porc” title. In addition to Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja, Euclid Hall and Bisto Vendome); Kelly Liken (Restaurant Kelly Liken); Lachlan…
A sizable sect of Boulder’s population — and dozens of Denverites — make the Boulder County Farmers’ Market a regular Saturday stop. Up and down a tree-lined section of Thirteenth Street, vendors sell everything from potted herbs and cheese to fresh eggs, mushrooms and salted caramel. Families stock up on…
