Update: Congratulations to Julia Woodward, ckkc, Mitch H., Leah and Val Tucker. As our final winners, you each get two tickets to tonight’s party. Please check your email for instructions on how to pick up the tickets. Thanks for reading, everyone! The table is set for Dish — Westword’s eighteenth…
Long before Anthony Bourdain ranted in Kitchen Confidential about how brunch is for the B-team, a restaurant’s last-ditch effort to make money off of marginally fresh food, I did my best to steer clear. Potatoes formerly known as crisp and pancakes the size (and texture) of Frisbees? I’ll pass. Not…
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. Provided our local…
Dish, Westword’s eighteenth annual food-and-drink festival, will fill the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex tomorrow night with great entertainment, great drinks and great food from restaurants and trucks that have been hand-selected by Cafe Society scribes. VIP tickets — which cost $75 and can be purchased here,…
Last weekend, I went farm-hopping in Brighton, Greeley, Henderson and Broomfield, and while Bing cherries, Inferno peppers (good God, those suckers are hot), apples, peaches, purple plums and heirloom tomatoes are all fine for snacking on in between stops, I was hankering for a real breakfast, which I found at…
Update: Congratulations, teresa.giovanne, Charles Wood, and Heather Ashley Davis, you’ve each won two VIP tickets to Westword Dish 2012! Please check your email for details on how to claim your tickets. It’s almost here: Tomorrow night, Westword’s annual food fest arrives in Sculpture Park, but for a few lucky Cafe…
Six89 689 Main Street, Carbondale; 970-963-6890 www.six89.com Phat Thai 2900 East Second Avenue; 303-388-7428 343 Main Street, Carbondale; 970-963-7001 www.phatthai.com The Pullman 330 7th Street, Glenwood Springs; 970-230-9234 www.thepullmangws.com This is part one of my interview with Mark Fischer, exec chef-owner of Phat Thai, The Pullman and Six89. Part two…
Before there was a Smashburger, before there was a Noodles & Company, before there was even a Chipotle, Colorado had another born-and-bred chain: Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard. Good Times was founded in 1987, six years before the first Chipotle went up on East Evans Avenue. The company was…
It’s green chile season. In her advice for new Cafe critic Gretchen Kurtz, former restaurant reviewer Laura Shunk said that it was important to have a favorite green chile…and then served up her own: Chubby’s. And while one commenter dissed the mean green, far more readers are fans of Colorado’s…
New chef, new menu…including steak, beautifully crimson, and crisp-edged potatoes fried in duck fat. Life is good. Dinner? Even better. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday,…
Sage Restaurant Group, which owns and operates numerous restaurants throughout the country, including the Corner Office and Second Home Kitchen + Bar, both located in Denver, is gearing up to make its local offerings a trifecta: On Thursday, the Denver-based group, co-founded by Peter Karpinski, will open Kachina Southwestern Grill…
The venue formerly known as Swallows has kept its Pride-friendly vibe but polished up the kitchen and the decor as Eden. Chef Ching-yuan Hu has created a weekend brunch spread — with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options — that fills the dining room, but the dinner menu is also a…
Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard, a homegrown chain, is heating up this green chile season by rolling out a roster of chile-injected menu items: a green chile burger, a green chile chicken sandwich, green chile sliders and breakfast burritos, all smothered with New Mexico Hatch green chiles. The new…
Cafe Society dished up four Guess Where contests last week, ranging from an Italian hoagie that I got from Fat Jack’s, a takeout sandwich joint that bakes its own bread, to a steak dinner from a suburban Outback Steakhouse that was much better than the $40 slab of steer I…
Several much-anticipated restaurants opened in Denver last month, including Ace, a neighborhood hangout/ping-pong hall created by the folks behind Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben’s. But August also saw the end of a few local institutions, including Pagliacci’s. Keep reading for our restaurant roll call…..
Last week, Josiah Hesse and Amber Taufen faced off in a point/counterpoint on tipping, and readers have continued the debate…
On Thursday, September 6, Dish, Westword’s eighteenth annual food-and-drink festival, will fill the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex with great entertainment, great drinks and great food from restaurants and trucks that have been hand-selected by Cafe Society scribes. But Denver’s plate is very full this week, and…
Okay, so this morning I posted a contest giving one Cafe Society commenter (and a guest) the opportunity to swell their guts with beer and grub for free at Sunday’s Justice League of Street Food bash, which gets started at 5 p.m. and takes place at the TAXI development –…
Frank’s Kitchen will close temporarily, from September 2-9, so that owners Dina and Frank Berta can take a short “stay-cation.” The restaurant will re-open Monday, September 10…
The ink! Coffee location at 1590 Little Raven Street will be giving away one scoop of free ice cream per person on Sunday to celebrate the expansion of its business, which will soon sell Sweet Action and Little Man ice cream…
The Mestizos food truck will be showcasing its street-style fusion cuisine at this year’s Dish — Westword’s eighteenth annual food-and-drink festival taking place in Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex next Thursday, September 6. Here’s what to expect from the truck’s unique menu:…
Winner announcement: blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/2012/08/winner_pool_party_justice_league.php With the mercury continuing to hover in high double digits — and a three-day weekend upon us — most of us will be picnicking and boozing it up in a park, or splashing around in the pool, diving for beer cans. And on Sunday, you can knock…
