As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
There are people who worship the marriage of shrimp and grits. Those people should take comfort in the fact that several Denver restaurants answer the call, including one down-home joint that always slings a little extra lagniappe on the plate. Can you guess where I got my Dixie on?…
For the first time in more than a decade, McCormick’s Fish House & Bar, at 1659 Wazee Street, did not host its annual luncheon to celebrate the Changing of the Sign — the ceremony held outside the bar on the Thursday before St. Patrick’s Day, when Wazee at 17th Street…
Boulder has some terrific restaurants, including Arugula, the site of a recent Slow Food dinner that fed the mind, body and soul of Juliet Wittman. But Arugula isn’t the only Boulder restaurant that feeds us. Here are five more of our favorites: Frasca Food & Wine, 1738 Pearl Street, 303-442-6966…
Today Sprouts Farmers Market will open its eighth Colorado store, at 4729 West 29th Street in Greeley — just two weeks after a Sprouts sprouted up in Centennial, at 20811 East Smoky Hill Road. The six other locations are in Aurora, Boulder, Castle Rock, Fort Collins, Parker and Westminster, and…
If you’re one of those people who doesn’t poison your body with pork, cow, fowl, things with fins or anything else that might be construed as meat by PETA, then we have just the contest for you. The animal-rights group is in the final throes of its annual Sexiest Vegetarian…
Just got news of another Denver Restaurant Week extension. Yes, we know: Even without any extensions, the event has gone way beyond a “week” — and for that matter, it also stretches far beyond Denver. Because the latest extension news comes from Trattoria on Pearl, at 1430 Pearl Street in…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
When a server tells me that a dish is spicy, I usually think that I’ll be disappointed, but just the opposite happened at my new favorite Saturday brunch spot. The chorizo served with the huevos rancheros actually made me grab for my water, something so exceedingly rare, that I reached…
Sketch, the sultry wine bar at 101 Broadway, already has one of the best late-night menus in Denver, and now, owners Jesse Morreale and Sean Yontz, have added breakfast and lunch dishes to the syllabus, along with a full-service coffee and espresso bar. “The breakfast thing has been in the…
Rod Dupen and John Power aren’t waffling around when it comes to their next move. The owners of the Waffle Brothers, the 16th Street Mall concession stand at 16th and Arapahoe, have snapped up the Daphne’s Deli space at 393 Corona Street, where they’ll continue to dish out deli sandwiches…
Denver Restaurant Week went so swimmingly at Oceanaire, the seafood restaurant at 1400 Arapahoe Street, that the deal’s been extended through Friday. For $52.80, you can still get a dinner for two that includes your choice of clam chowder, Caesar salad or a crab cake slider; Icelandic Arctic Char fillet,…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s Chef and Tell interview with Ian Kleinman; to read part one, click here. Proudest moment as a chef: When my dad and I cooked Father’s Day brunch together at the James Beard House. We had a 22-hour prep day and cooked for seventy…
The Colorado Restaurant Association wanted to encourage a restaurateur to run for the District 1 seat on Denver City Council that Rick Garcia’s vacating, and so far it has two, sort of, and a third candidate who’s a leader in the urban farming movement. John Haney, a Denver police detective…
After Brian Haddad and David Weiss bought The Border, a University of Denver hangout for more than three decades, they didn’t waste any time. They closed the deal on a Friday in late January, brought in a lot of people to clean the joint over the weekend, and had all…
We’re seated at a long table in Arugula, a Boulder restaurant devoted — like most good restaurants these days — to local, fresh and seasonal food. This is a Slow Food Boulder event, and while I haven’t closely followed this branch’s activities, all the chatty, well-dressed, prosperous people in attendance…
You could practically taste the skepticism when Jason Sheehan wrote about the arrival of Daphne’s Greek Cafe (575 Lincoln Street) in 2007: Denver will get its first outpost of Daphne’s Greek Cafe, a California-based fast-casual chain, on March 19. Since most Greek restaurants are pretty quick and casual, how will…
If you’re infatuated with flavor-bombed curries laced with heat and intensity, keep sniffing, but the chutneys, especially the spicy chutney redolent with mint, are perfect for dunking your peppery papadums. Question is, where was I dipping?…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
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. With Saint Patrick’s…
“Anything I can possibly dream up is now doable, because I’m able to really play around with food,” says Ian Kleinman, Denver’s answer to Alton Brown, the wacky culinary scientist (and only food personality worth watching) on the Food Network. Kleinman, too, is a culinary chemist — a molecular gastronomist…
After forty years, the Old Spaghetti Factory at 1215 18th Street has gotten a facelift. “Coming soon in Denver our new look!,” promises the website of the chain that got its start in 1969, and today numbers forty restaurants across this country. “We will be remodeling this location. Please excuse…
