On the same menu stamped with housemade pupusas, empanadas and Salvadorian enchiladas, you’ll find conch soup, creamed spaghetti and meatballs and chop suey, which our server swore was one of the kitchen’s best dishes. Maybe next time. In the meantime, can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a meaty Friday night dinner at Frasca to a still-unidentified avocado margarita to clam linguine at a relatively new strip-mall Italian joint. For correctly identifying the dish as coming from La Scala Trattoria , Erinlstilwell wins an EatDenver…
“I was really hoping you’d go on the Jason Sheehan diet: whiskey, cigarettes, and Lucky Charms,” writes Mantonat in response to the second installment of Bar Belle, Laura Shunk’s new series about how a food critic can indeed get fit. In last Monday’s installment, Shunk kicked gluten to the curb,…
Sorry, that headline is cruel. In-N-Out Burger, which now has locations in California, Nevada, Dallas-Fort Worth and Utah, is not opening a store in Denver, but if you don’t want to drive the 350-plus miles to get your double-double burger fix, you can have it delivered straight to your door…
Tyler Baer’s foray into the kitchen started during a year abroad in Germany. “Food is a very important thing for me and it always has been,” he says. “My mom always made things from scratch and organic ingredients, so I was really used to having good food. But during college,…
There’s something so sweet about sweet. The cavemen knew it, and were willing to risk limbs and whatever other body parts weren’t covered in hair in order to grab honey from beehives. Over many, many thousands of years, the preferred form of sweet evolved from honey to all kinds of…
A couple of months ago, we noticed that Mt. Everest Restaurant and Bar, the home of one of our favorite lunch buffets, had shuttered. And while we lamented the loss of goat curry, we were pleased to see that a restaurant was slated to rise quickly in its place…
If you ask Foad Aftahi what he thinks about Denver’s Persian restaurant climate, he wrinkles his nose and shakes his head. “I don’t think you’ll find any good Persian restaurants in Denver,” he claims. And that, he insists, is why he opened Chicken Kabob, a tasteful, contemporary, fast-casual Persian restaurant…
Before Liu Zeng Qun opened Chef Liu’s Authentic Chinese Cuisine, his Szechuan restaurant in Aurora (which I review this week), he spent eight years working for the man who secured the visa that brought him over here: Johnny Hsu. Hsu is the man behind Imperial Chinese Restaurant; he’s owned restaurants…
Last weekend, I strolled through a Front Range farmers’ market (one that I’d never been to), and after picking my way through baskets of beautiful tomatoes, tri-colored carrots and beets, I came face-to-face with a food truck I’d never seen — a truck that turns out a damn good breakfast…
Inspired by the parillada at Caminito Tango, last week Laura Shunk served up Denver’s five best weekend-only restaurant specials…
Crimson Canary, the second restaurant from the owners of Interstate Kitchen & Bar, opened at 6 p.m. today in the former home of Mona’s at 141 South Broadway. The Italian-American restaurant is named after a 1945 who-done-it. As co-owner Joey Newman told Cafe Society last week: “We’re drawing from the…
Trick-or-treating always seemed so harmless. Sure, candy isn’t great for your teeth — but are those little morsels of sugary-goodness more sinister than we ever imagined? A common argument against marijuana is that it’s a “gateway drug” — but what if Halloween candy is, too? After all, long before candies…
Colorado’s children suffer from two seemingly contradictory food-related health problems: hunger and obesity. That’s the word from the Colorado Children’s Campaign, a nonprofit advocacy organization focused on improving children’s well-being, which organized a luncheon/discussion on the issues of childhood hunger, obesity and poverty yesterday…
We ambled down to Freshcraft last night looking for a pint of beer and a snack. But to our dismay, the spot was dark…
At the end of service on Saturday, October 29, 8 Rivers Modern Caribbean Restaurant will close the doors for good at 1550 Blake Street, its third location — but not its last. After opening their first restaurant, the Jamaican Cafe, in Santa Monica, California, chef Scott Durrah and his wife,…
“Let’s just put it this way: The restaurant isn’t closing, but new partners are coming in, and they don’t need me,” begins the conversation with Michael Long, the now-former executive chef of Aria (and before that, Opus), the restaurant he opened last December in Cherry Creek…
I haven’t heard a word about this new neighborhood, strip mall Italian restaurant, whose parking lot is more often empty than full, but the romantic, dim-lit dining room, coupled with the pastas emerging from the kitchen, makes it worth a visit — even if the service is a bit quirky…
Pay no attention to the notice on the website of L’Asie Fusion Bistro, which announces that the Asian-French fusion restaurant would be closed as of October 3. When we stopped in yesterday, the restaurant was up and running. But it’s definitely in transition. The ownership has changed, and the spot…
Scott Yosten Steakhouse 10 3516 South Elati Street 303-789-0911 www.steakhouse10.com This is part two of my interview with Scott Yosten, exec chef of Steakhouse 10. Part one of my interview with Yosten ran in this space yesterday. Favorite food city: Chicago. The ethnic boroughs and neighborhoods turn out the best…
It’s another holiday season of broke-ass broke-ness, but I can still celebrate Halloween with the finest tricky treats that the Dollar Tree has to offer. I found some surprisingly boss candies between the aisles of off-off-off brand toilet cleansers and reeky Christmas candles, and since Halloween is a holiday primarily…
For the last few weeks, Laura Shunk has been writing about local restaurant gardens and what the chefs are doing with the fruit of their labors. And while the snow may have put those plots — and the series itself — in the deep freeze, the story on Justin Cucci,…
