Ah, Christmas: The season of giving, receiving, in-law spats, road rage, parking-lot clusterfucks, check-out line massacres and cookbooks and food books — the ones that you hope will end up wrapped under the tree, right alongside the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Over the course of the last year, as part…
Wine may be the liquid of choice at this global food temple that recently emerged as something different from its original incarnation, but the cocktail curriculum, which includes the sake-based libation in the above snap, is certainly no sloucher. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Madison Street, 1222 Madison Street, may have had a few fights with the new neighbors before it opened, but now that it’s settled in, it’s ready to invite those neighbors over for lunch. The restaurant just extended its weekend hours, opening a few hours earlier for daytime eating and drinking…
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…
The music hasn’t played in the corner space that holds Samba Room, 1460 Larimer Street, for six months now, but despite speculation that the Latin American restaurant might never reopen, the Larimer Associates, who own the property, say the beat will go on– it just won’t start pulsating until early…
Los Gallitos, a colorful taqueria at 2630 West Alameda Avenue, already serves some of the town’s most authentic — and cheapest — tacos. But they’re even better when enjoyed while watching kids get burro rides outside an inflated castle, the scene we snapped on Saturday…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, with dishes ranging from the pork al pastor at El Taco Velez to lobster at JJ Chinese Seafood to the fried chicken above, which you can find at Green Russell. For correctly identifying the the dish as coming from that…
We enjoy reading your comments here on Cafe Society, soaking up the compliments, laughing off the insults and pondering the insights. Sometimes, though, one comment stands out, and we like to acknowledge its specialness with a little extra love…
After a series of construction delays and a no-show from a city inspector, Stir, Katy Hume’s recreational cooking school and bar will open tomorrow at 3215 Zuni Street. “We’re doing a happy dance,” jokes Hume. “We passed our last inspections on Thursday and we’re ready to go.” Hume is holding…
In an apparent last-ditch attempt to make the “Dumbest Criminals of the Year” list, an El Jebel man allegedly broke into the Fine Line Bar & Grill early Tuesday morning, stole some cash and started a fire while trying to make himself nachos. He was caught that afternoon when he…
After being rescheduled thanks to yet another Jackson Street substation outage, the “Scrumptious Holiday Appetizers” workshop finally took place last night at the Denver Botanic Gardens. Instructor Susan Evans of Chrysalis Herbs taught students to create a simple, scrumptious baked Brie, and advised them to “always toast your nuts.”…
Novo Coffee sources and roasts some of our favorite coffee beans in town. Herb, Jake and Joe Brodsky (who went on to find Ninety Plus Coffee, a sourcing and distribution company), the father and sons behind the operation, spend a lot of time forging relationships, searching for beans and perfecting…
Eight local street pavement pushers, who hustle grub from the confines of their mobile kitchens, will roll their wheels into the parking lot of Elitch’s tomorrow as part of a toy drive to benefit the Denver Santa Claus Shop, a local nondenominational non-profit that collects and distributes free toys to…
About a year and a half ago, Jeff and Leah McEachern converted their Boulder space at 946 Pearl Street from a wine-making operation into the Blending Cellar, a wine bar that, despite live music and a prime spot on the west end of downtown Boulder’s busiest street, remained pretty quiet…
The corned beef hash at Snooze is one of my favorite breakfast dishes in Denver, and Spencer Lomax, Snooze’s culinary king and the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview, was happy to share it here. “It’s inspired by the diner classic, but we use custom corned beef and…
Former Westword scribe Jared Jacang Maher has more good scoop on the city’s deal — or lack thereoff — with the Wellshire Inn, the facility at a city-owned golf course that isn’t bringing the city a penny. In fact, the concessionaries who have the contract on the Wellshire — a…
Man does not live by shred alone. As a public service, we’re sharing this query from a reader: Goin skiing in colorado next week stopin in denver to get some breakfast!! What is a good spot to get some gnarly breakfast??????????????? Laura Shunk came up with this list of five…
This month, my son is celebrating eleven years of being on this earth, which, according to him, requires a special dinner — specifically, lobster. We marked the occasion with several lobsters, including the one in the above snap that was prepared “French style.” Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…
The McRib sandwich will be ripped from our hands, and our hearts, on December 5, cruelly taken away by the McDonald’s corporation. Here is a poem I wrote to express my grief:…
Top Chef All-Stars back contestants from past seasons — most of them finalists — and promises to be quite a bit meatier than the regular Top Chef. For one thing, we don’t have to spend the first few episodes figuring out who’s who. On last night’s debut, Top Chef All-Stars…
HER Bar, the drinking joint at 629 East Colfax Avenue that catered to a largely lesbian crowd, shuttered some time back, making way for Jorge Pesqueira and Steven Alix to move in and pick up the lease. The duo remodeled the space and opened their new joint, X Bar, a…
Are you an amateur kitchen wizard? Do you have the chops to run your own restaurant? More important, how do you feel about Gordon Ramsay, the acerbic, deafeningly insulting, tantrum-prone, foul-mouthed, red-faced, in-your-face beast who brings his smoldering hot temper to the Fox TV airwaves? If you think you can…
