On its website, Ocean Forest Cafe, 11068 West Jewell Avenue, calls itself a “wild and artictic place.” While we’re not exactly sure what “artictic” means, we almost need to make up a word, too, to properly describe the festive decor in the dining room. Space aside, though, we’re pretty stoked…
When we heard that Chipotle was testing some new items at its location at 371 East Alameda Avenue, we leapt for joy, shouting, “Pride of our city! Purveyor of aggressively decent burritos all across our land! Expanding its menu! Huzzah!” Then we found out what those items were: a new…
Let’s say you’re a chubby chick with a palate for pizza. So you drive — not walk — to your local Papa John’s Pizza, where your order takes much too long for your stomach to bear. And what happens? Watch the fun below…
Over the years, poor St. Nick has been subjected to countless glasses of room-temperature milk and endless holiday plates of instantly-stale-out-of-the-oven sugar cookies dotted with those tiny silver-ball decorations (they’re actually called dragées) that taste like a dirty nickel. For all of his annual exertions, Santa Claus deserves a better…
Raise a glass this weekend to Red’s Pub, the saloon that’s very conveniently located at 7330 West 120th Avenue in Broomfield. Too conveniently located, it turns out: Owner Red Nikkel has sold the property to the Colorado Department of Transportation, which will use it to complete the 120th Avenue Connection…
Jennifer Carroll’s meltdown when she got eliminated from last night’s episode of Top Chef All-Stars was spectacular. She was graceless, almost out of control, so angry she clearly didn’t know whether to laugh, cry or hit someone. She’d done a lot of bragging, and she’d also been exuding rage through…
While food is necessary for survival, the energy waste involved in the delivery of food is anything but. Now the U.K.-based Foodtubes Project thinks it has the solution: a system of underground food-delivery pipelines powered by air pressure. Foodtubes estimates that its delivery system, which mimics the way water, gas…
As we reported yesterday in Cafe Bites, there have been numerous roadblocks to the redevelopment of the strip of Welton Street that’s at the heart of Five Points — some anticipated, some surprising. The most recent? The Tubman Hilliard Global Academy, a new school at 2741 Welton that’s good news…
From the highly revolutionary world of social networking comes one of the stranger Twitter stunts we’ve seen in a while: Boulder-based tea manufacturer Celestial Seasonings is promising to change tea time by hosting a weekly virtual party, with help from the Sleepytime Bear…
Last December, we embarked on a culinary sojourn that took us through our favorite dishes in the Mile High City — one hundred, to be exact — as a precursor to the Best of Denver issue. Now we’re back with round two, counting down (in no particular order) a hundred…
Last month, we brought you news that Ezra Malmuth and Nathan Barnett, who have been cooking together since they started a barbecue club in response to their school installing a vegetarian salad bar, planned to wheel a food truck onto the street. Their concept was Stick it to Me, a…
Can’t believe we’ve neglected Facebook for so long, but fear not loyal, beautiful, smart and funny Cafe Society readers: We now have a Facebook fan page where you can poke us, like us and comment on Denver food stories of the day. Go ahead and become a fan. Follow @CafeWestword…
Tickets to the 2011 Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, the culinary breeding ground for the country’s most extolled food personalities, chefs, grape gurus and their groupies, just went on sale yesterday, and you can snap up a ticket to the gustatory soiree, held June 17, 18 and 19, for…
Panorama Meats, the country’s largest grass-fed, organic beef supplier, has selected Kiowa Valley Organics to supply the Whole Foods Market on Pearl Street in Boulder. The California-based Panorama selects farms if “they follow Panorama’s raising protocols, which mandate 100 percent grass-fed and 100 percent grass-finished cattle. Also, they must be…
Rhett Songer Zi Fusion 7340 South Clinton Street, Englewood 720-934-6402 www.ziasian.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Rhett Songer, executive chef of Zi Fusion. In part one of that interview, Songer dishes on the F-word, racism and sexism and eating a puppy…dog. What you’d like to see…
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. This week’s recipe…
Tony’s Market facilitated two good holiday deeds last night: It hosted a food-tasting gala for Colorado Gives Day to benefit Street’s Hope, and it also presented guests with fruitcake that was actually worth eating. Street’s Hope is a faith-based, non-profit ministry that provides a transitional housing facility and non-resident programs…
While Denver readers are busy recommending their 100 Favorite Dishes, Seattle is still slamming Jason Sheehan, the Cafe critic who left Westword a year ago, but just returned to one of our hometown heroes for his review of Chipotle in the Seattle Weekly. Seattle apparently doesn’t love Chipotle (or Sheehan,…
As adults, we can eat what we want when we want — which sometimes means dessert for dinner. And those are the times you’ll want to head to D Bar Desserts, 1475 East 17th Avenue, where the Food Network’s Keegan Gerhard creates beautiful cupcakes and truffle treats for the display…
Last December, we embarked on a culinary sojourn that took us through our favorite dishes in the Mile High City — one hundred, to be exact — as a precursor to the Best of Denver issue. Now we’re back with round two, counting down (in no particular order) a hundred…
At this suburban Mexican joint that’s far from the land of Federal Boulevard taquerias, the focus is on California-style Mexican, which means that the smother love of green chile isn’t front and center. But if you’re hankering for carnitas, taquitos or carne asada fries, it’s a reliable, if not inspiring,…
A few days ago, we got a call from Tom, a reader who was interested in trying Persian food but didn’t know where to find it. “Is there any restaurant in the metro Denver area serving Persian food?” he asked. For him, and for others who might have the same…
