The McRib is back, available at the 200 McDonald’s restaurants across the state until November 22. The elusive sandwich, billed as “a boneless pork patty dressed with fresh-slivered onions, dill pickle slices, tangy barbeque sauce and served on a toasted, golden-brown home-style bun,” was first introduced almost three decades ago,…
One bite of an empanada — the crisp exterior wall of the bready pastry giving way to a cascade of rich, savory flavor — and I realized that this plump little semi-circle is an almost perfect food. I ate a steady diet of empanadas during my tenure in South America…
When I left South America, I brought boxes of frozen empanadas with me, terrified that I’d run out of the food I’d eaten at least three or four times a week for months. Fortunately, the owners of a handful of spots along the Front Range serve fairly authentic versions of…
When I returned to the United States after a stint in South America, I feared I’d be unable to find empanadas, that nearly perfect food that stuffs pastry pockets with savory filling. My quest eventually took me to Empanada Express Grill, at 2600 East Street in Golden, where owner Isabel…
Proving that retro is back in vogue, the restaurant where the above snap was flashed has just added TV dinners to its menu, one of which is vegetarian while the other lionizes offal. The only thing missing? The tin foil. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
For the past six years, Bayleaf has inhabited a small storefront on the west end of Pearl Street, peddling Parisian linens and candles, handcrafted tables and imported spices to Boulderites. After visiting a number of markets, including New York’s Eataly, though, owner Michael Burgermeister decided to relocate and expand so…
What’s more fun than food? Cheesy song parodies that focus on food. When I couldn’t sleep last night, I stumbled on this Kieto’s Family Fun Center and Kitchen Club website that features ten hilarious songs — “Come Fry With Me” to the tune of “Come Fly With Me”; “Anchovies” to…
Nineteen meat cutters from Texas Roadhouse outposts throughout the country will show off their butchering prowess today at the South Suburban Ice Arena, 6580 South Vine Street, as part of the second round of the steakhouse chain’s National Meat Competition. The competitors, including Vicente Heredia and Jose Lozano, both from…
Unless you count the tented stand at the Boulder farmers’ market from which a couple of employees proffer tin cans of coffee beans and steaming-hot cups of joe, Mark and Mel Glenn’s Boulder-based Conscious Coffees doesn’t have a retail outlet. The coffee, though, is everywhere, the beans of choice for…
Diners who’ve lived in Denver for more than a decade all have tales of some meal they had at the Wellshire Inn, the elegant restaurant that Leo Goto ran out an old Tudor-style building on the park/golf course owned by the City and County of Denver, at 3333 South Colorado…
Mitch Harbor, who already owns Johnny Rockets on the 16th Street Mall, Good Times (also on the 16th Street Mall), Taco John’s at 5810 Logan Street and Steak Escape franchises at DIA and Park Meadows, isn’t remotely worried about building an upscale Japanese and sushi restaurant at a Ballpark neighborhood…
Since its inception in 1987, the Colorado-based chain of Egg & I restaurants has expanded across six states, proffering a menu of breakfast and lunch items to customers who get their egg on in the casual digs. Today, it opened its 41st restaurant at 7830 West Alameda in Lakewood…
After years of managing restaurants, Scott Skiba wanted one of his own, but building a brick-and-mortar isn’t cheap, so Skiba, a former manager of Waterloo, a bar/restaurant in Louisville, went the way that several other chefs and restaurateurs have gone: mobile…
For the past six months, Kim and Jake Rosenbarger have been wooing Boulderites with baked goods from Kim & Jakes Cakes, their namesake storefront at 641 South Broadway, where they bake cakes, cupcakes and pies, in addition to cake terrines, moon pies and other sugar-filled experiments. And now they’ve landed…
This photo was just sent to us by a reader — a reader who allegedly made good on the weed portion of the tip jar request and was offered a complimentary beer by the staff, which he drank before going on his way. What makes this tip-jar sign work is…
When Lynda Campbell received her one million mile frequent flyer gift from Delta Airlines, she decided to land. The former senior VP director of Pacific Sunwear, a national clothing chain that hustles popular teen labels, gave up her life in Manhattan and sojourns around the world to move to Denver…
At about 9 p.m. on Saturday night, we spotted the big yellow trailer that houses Mikes 2 Kitchen (pronounced Mikes Squared Kitchen) setting up for a long night in LoDo. It was the mobile vendor’s first night on the street — and one of the craziest party nights of the…
There were major developments on the local dining scene last month, including the openings of ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro and EDGE, the reopening of Frasca Food & Wine — and the closing of Zona’s Tamales after forty years. Our restaurant roll call for October:…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, featuring everything from a still-unidentified squash salad to a cup of hot chocolate at the Corner Bar at the Boulderado to a bowl of mac and cheese. For correctly identifying that cheesy, creamy mac as coming from Tom’s Home Cookin’,…
Behold the highlights and low lights of what you may have missed this week on the Cafe Society blog…
A couple of weeks ago, we announced that Otis & Henry’s Bar and Grill, a casual spot featuring comfort food favorites, would open this week in the Lady Luck Casino in Black Hawk at 340 Main Street. The bar and grill is part of a growing concept in the nationwide…
Now that fall is at our doorstep, restaurants all over the city are autumn-izing their menus, which means that butternut squash is popping up here, there, and in the salad in the above pic, where the sweet, silky nubs are bolstered by thicket of arugula, patches of lamb belly, quinoa…
