A couple months back, Bobby Fitzgerald — ex of Cherry Creek Grill, currently exec at the White Chocolate Grill at Park Meadows — brought honor to his home state by kicking ass and taking names in the oddest of possible locations: on LIVE! With Regis and Kelly. He and his…
Just as the “Kitchen Now Open” sign says, the long-awaited kitchen is now open in the Highland Tavern, 3400 Navajo Street. It’s serving all the usual suspects…and some not-so-usual Slavic specials: beef shank pierogies, spaetlze and bacon. If you’re looking for more traditional pub fare, try the cheese Tots or…
Lunch: In the blitz of lunch hour Indian buffets, India’s Pearl stands out because it doesn’t have a lunchtime buffet at all. Instead, the upscale curry house at 1475 South Pearl Street, offers a fantastic lunch thali, an ornate, sliver tray propped with an assortment of individual dishes, all made…
This is serious caramel. If all you’ve ever known is Caramello and Brachs, then Indulge Caramels will blow your mind. It’s only related to that store-bought stuff in the most broad connection of similar ingredients. But this fresh, melt-in-your-mouth candy is both easy on your teeth and not achingly sweet.According…
As promised, this is the first in a series of items uncovered when I was cleaning my desk. It wasn’t the first thing I found, wasn’t the weirdest by a long shot. But still, this cat has its charms. You can’t tell by looking at this picture, but if you…
Littleton’s Opus restaurant, 2575 West Main Street, is hosting a wine dinner at 6:30 p.m. this evening with grape guru Lisa Rein, the associate winemaker for Row Eleven Wine Company, a producer based in San Rafael, California. The four-course menu, prepared by owner/exec chef Michael Long, includes vanilla rum shrimp,…
Sustainable, eco-friendly, reusable, recyclable, fair trade, natural, energy efficient, organic, local, green, low-impact, fresh. These are words that inspire us at Organixx. From the building materials that surround you in our dining room, to our food product choices, culinary procedures and sanitation practices, we strive to have those words define…
“We’ll have head cheese at Olivéa on Friday — I expect to see you there,” summoned the e-mail. The note, short and to the point, was from John Broening, the executive chef at Duo and Olivéa — the former a restaurant in Highland with a field-to-plate, seasonal approach to food,…
Bakers have a great terror of trying to bake at altitude. Books have been written about the complications, volumes of secret lore passed down through generations of bakers and patissiers, all dealing with adjustments in measure, in time, in how to make the magic of flour, water, butter and eggs…
Writer Square, Joel Warner
A few weeks back, I gleefully reported that my favorite hot-dog man, Biker Jim Pittenger, had finally taken the plunge and was going to open a brick-and-mortar location in the Southlands development. He had a great location, he had some partners in the Waffle Brothers (with whom he’s been working…
I’m assuming that most of you who follow Cafe Society know a thing or ten about our hometown restaurant scene — and now comes your chance to prove it. As part of the ten-year anniversary celebrations at Cook Street School of Fine Cooking, 1937 Market Street, there’s an opportunity for…
Last night a very good friend of mine, who happens to be pregnant, was looking at all the snaps in my camera, most of which are food shots, and commenting about how she could never eat this, or that, or that other thing, because oh my god, that’s so gross!…
“We’ll have head cheese at Olivéa on Friday — I expect to see you there,” summoned the e-mail. The note, short and to the point, was from John Broening, executive chef at Duo and Olivéa — the former a restaurant in Highland with a field-to-plate, seasonal approach to food, the…
“Sustainable, eco-friendly, reusable, recyclable, fair trade, natural, energy efficient, organic, local, green, low-impact, fresh. These are words that inspire us at Organixx. From the building materials that surround you in our dining room, to our food product choices, culinary procedures and sanitation practices, we strive to have those words define…
That picture above? That’s my desk as it existed this morning, shortly after I was told that I was going to have to move that glorious collection of crap, box it all up and put it in storage while the Westword offices are remodeled. I love my desk. Seven years…
Jon Edwards, co-owner of Gaia Bistro, isn’t particularly happy with the City and County of Denver. Edwards, along with his business partner, Patrick Mangold-White, had hoped to open Kaos, a little pizza operation in the small wedge of space at 1439 South Pearl Street that formerly held Nosh, by the…
I am something of a killjoy when it comes to marketing fad masquerading as political movement. I am, by nature, highly suspicious of anyone who hangs their ideals out there in undisguised effort to make a buck. Sure, these might be deeply felt beliefs. They might have, at their core,…
When I Googled “Cesar salad,” Google asked me if I intended to search for the correct spelling of the item in question, which, of course, is a Caesar salad. I’m guessing that the restaurant whose menu is in the snap above didn’t use Google (or an old-fashioned dictionary) when creating…
Someone has been stealing letters from the marquee at Bastien’s — but Emilio’s, the Mexican joint at 338 East Colfax Avenue, lost an entire sign. Yes, the classic Super Chef sign (right) that belonged to the original diner on this corner, and was lovingly restored when Emilio’s took the space…
The e-mail came yesterday from an East Colfax restaurateur insisting that we had to run out, like now, to snap a picture of the marquee in front of Bastien’s, the antiquated steakhouse at 3501 East Colfax. “You have got to put a picture up on Cafe Society,” demanded the e-mailer…
Sometimes hitting a ball with a stick is just hitting a ball with a stick; sometimes it is more. On Sunday, August 23, the Lake Valley Golf Club (located at 4400 Lake Valley Drive in Longmont) is hosting the Danan Schufman Open, a benefit for The Danan Schufman Fund. Schufman…
