By 5 p.m., Pearl Street Grill, the iconic watering hole on South Pearl Street, was jammed with imbibers clinking pints of porter, embracing friends and lamenting the closure of one of Platt Park’s oldest neighborhood gathering spots. At 2 a.m., after last call, Pearl Street Grill will lock its doors…
Including this post, the total number of posts on Cafe Society in 2011 was 3,241. That’s a lot of bloggering for a local restaurant scene blog. And who has time to go through all of them? Certainly not you. Which is why we’ve tallied up the top ten posts –…
As the year draws to a close, I look back fondly at the breast, er, best restaurant that I had the pleasure of visiting in 2011. Twin Peaks opened last month just outside of Colorado Mills, and it’s a worthy adversary to Denver’s already established breastaurants, Hooters and Tilted Kilt…
It’s a new year, and 2012 should be another rich, full year of food, drink and, with any luck, a few more naked photos of Anthony Bourdain. It’s time to kick 2011 in the gnocchi and usher in a brand-new 365 days of fresh foodie resolutions. We all know that…
It’s been open for exactly 25 days — an infant — but Trillium, Ryan Leinonen’s Scandinavian restaurant in the Ballpark neighborhood, has already found its way onto one coveted roster — namely our “Ten Best New Restaurants in Denver” listacle. And tomorrow night, on New Year’s Eve, one Cafe Society…
Bradford Heap, owner of Boulder’s Salt and Niwot’s Colterra, has had a busy end of the year. Not only has he been drawing up plans to launch a distillery with his bar manager, Evan Faber, he’s also launched a catering business — Bradford Heap Catering — that’s about to kick…
Of all the Mexican meals I had this past year — and there were dozens of them — this was by far the worst. Worse than Blue Bonnet, worse than anything you can possibly imagine. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer…
While a few new restaurants and bars are still scrambling to open before 2012 — and get some business on New Year’s Eve — other longtimers are calling it a night. The last Marie Callender’s restaurant in Colorado closed its doors last weekend, after 21 years at 51 West Dry…
For our Year in Review issue, we rounded up all the answers that Chef and Tell subjects had given when asked what they’d like to see less of in Denver/Boulder from a culinary standpoint:? The recap inspired this from Dave: I wish for less chefs to come off as total…
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. Not that any…
I love fresh peas immensely, but I’m definitely not a fan of frozen peas in a Panang curry. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday,…
When Trillium, Ryan Leinonen’s highly anticipated Scandinavian restaurant, opened a few weeks ago in the Ballpark neighborhood, the accolades began almost immediately, which was good news for Leinonen. “I want to have one of the top five restaurants in Denver,” he told me during a pre-opening interview. We recently spotted…
As we’ve discovered in our weekly Chef and Tell interviews, Denver’s kitchen commanders are, if nothing else, unapologetically opinionated. We pepper them with dozens of questions, and sometimes their answers are salty — especially their responses to what they’d like to see less of in Denver from a culinary perspective…
A river of alcohol was running through Cafe Society yesterday, with Laura Shunk offering her list of neighborhood liquor stores, Swirl Girl suggesting five bottles of bubbly for New Year’s Eve, and Colorado Beer Man Jonathan Shikes serving up his “ten best Colorado beers of 2011.”…
St. Kilian’s Cheese Shop is a boutique-style gem within walking distance of Mondo Vino and The Denver Bread Company — making Highland Square a convenient stop for gathering party supplies — and it specializes in French, Spanish and Italian cheeses, with a few select Swiss and Dutch wheels, and cheddars…
When Frank and Dina Berta opened Frank’s Kitchen earlier this year, it quickly became part of the neighborhood, integrating into the community and picking up a crowd of regulars that use it as a go-to spot. Frank’s won’t be joining the festivities with its neighbors on New Year’s Eve –…
As we’ve discovered in our weekly Chef and Tell interviews, Denver’s kitchen commanders are, if nothing else, unapologetically opinionated. We pepper them with dozens of questions, and sometimes their answers are salty — especially their responses to what they’d like to see less of in Denver from a culinary perspective…
On the Thursday before Christmas, Laura Shunk highlighted five festive cocktails that don’t include hot chocolate with peppermint schnapps, including the Figgy’s Manhattan at Steuben’s, which is made by combining Wild Turkey 81, Carpano Antica vermouth and Navan vanilla liqueur and infusing the whole thing with figs for five days…
I couldn’t wait to get to the mountains to try out this new, big-name restaurant. While I enjoyed my cocktail at the bar, I’m looking forward to some apres ski action next to the fire outside. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
Jim Abajian and his wife, Patsorn, made their first connection over Thai food: they met at the Thai restaurant she ran in Washington, D.C. where Jim was a frequent customer. So when they moved to Golden, it didn’t take long for them to spot a gap in the market. “We…
The year started off lovingly for this Veggie Girl, and throughout weeks and weeks of eating somewhere different, there were lots of great dishes that stood out. Here, in chronological order, are the ten best meals I ate this year…
Truth be told, I haven’t celebrated Christmas with my family in years, much to their chagrin. I do take time to visit them on my own accord, though, which is why I’ll be happily soaking in the sun down south and supping upon unpretentiously badass food with family and friends…
