SAME Cafe wins a major award — and a major remodel

For five years, SAME Cafe has been doing good. And now its good works have been rewarded, again: The Restaurant Facility Management Association has made it the recipient of the RFMA Gives Program for 2012. Founded by Brad and Libby Birky in October 2006, SAME was the first restaurant in…

Reader: Boulderites should be grateful for their granola

Do we cover Boulder too often? Not often enough? Too gently? Not harshly enough? Ellen’s suggestion that Cafe Society needs to take a more contemporary approach to Boulder inspired this response from chuckroast: For Ellen’s sake, instead of calling Boulderites the “Granola Set,” just call them “Humorless Assholes.”…

Guess where I’m eating?

At this uneggceptional breakfast joint that trumpets one of the most garish signs in the city, the best thing on the board is the bananas foster waffle crowned with a scoop of ice cream, although given the amount of sugar, it could also double as dessert. Can you guess where…

Frasca Food and Wine’s Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson on eating fox tartare and the get-in-and-get-out rule at Frasca

Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson Frasca Food and Wine 1738 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-442-6966 www.frascafoodandwine.com This is part one of my interview with Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, co-owner and executive chef of Frasca Food and Wine. Part two of my chat with Mackinnon-Patterson will run in this space tomorrow. Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson has some advice for…

Cheese heads, rejoice: Cured opens Saturday in Boulder

Enamored of the daily trips they made to small-town markets while living in Europe, Will Frischkorn and Coral Ferguson, who are engaged, decided to bring an element of that shopping experience home with them to Boulder. So earlier this year, the couple picked up a space on the east end…

Duo and Olivéa join the nationwide Meatless Monday campaign

Meat: It’s not all that’s for dinner — at least not on Monday nights at Duo and Olivéa, both of which are the first restaurants in Denver to join the campaign to go meatless on Mondays, a nationwide initiative (some would call it a movement without the “moo”) to persuade…

The veggie sandwich at Snarf’s satisfies our delivery needs

The convenience of a workday lunchtime meal delivery is something taken for granted by many meat eaters; there are dozens of eateries all over the city willing to deliver anything on the menu right to your doorstep. But vegetarians and vegans who’d like a simple sandwich delivered for lunch often…

Bobby Flay also blames Chipotle for Soul Daddy’s demise

Jamawn Woods isn’t the only one blaming Denver-based Chipotle for the spectacular failure of his three Soul Daddy restaurants, which closed just weeks after the Detroit resident landed the grand prize on reality-TV show America’s Next Great Restaurant. Steve Ells’s fellow panelist and investor, Bobby Flay, is also pointing the…

When on the patio, remain calm and follow the rules

Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle will be right with you — most likely to complain about something. Usually he is pleasant, but this is his place to blow off some steam. Don’t take it personally; he just needs to vent because he’s been doing this for about thirteen years…

Guess where I’m eating?

Good — even great — sandwiches abound at this shrine to bread, cold cuts, vegetables, spreads and offbeat combinations. 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…

Reader: Baker neighborhood has everything but good Italian

Broadway is booming these days, with new ventures — everything from a new home for Argyll to the just-opened Thai Monkey Club — cropping up every week. And now the owners of Interstate Bar & Grill have revealed that they’ll be opening the Crimson Canary in the former home of…

Eat Their Words: Jai Ho’s food lives up to its colorful menu

The Jai Ho menu features some of the most useless — and hilarious — dish descriptions I’ve ever seen. “One of our signature dishes — many different stories for how the name came about, but who cares, we just eat it!!” sums up Chicken 65. JaiHo Spl Karaikudi Mutton is…

At Masalaa, it’s okay to fill up on the bread

At Masalaa, man could almost live on bread alone. About half of the dishes at this vegetarian restaurant feature some sort of bready base — a pancake or a biscuit — and those are among my favorites. Ravi Kumar and Ehmad Ansari, two strict vegetarians, opened this restaurant in an…

The Asian Cajun, pimping crawfish and pho, opens on Alameda

The name of the restaurant, deadpans John Phan, says it all. “We’re an Asian and Cajun restaurant that features traditional Vietnamese food and Louisiana crawfish that’s far superior to anywhere else in Denver,” he says about the Asian Cajun, which opened this weekend at 2400 West Alameda Avenue, in a…

Second Helping: Pho Fusion

There is no greater pleasure in life than seeking out new spots and trying anything and everything that the kitchen puts in front of me. But there are also times when I want something cheap and quick — something that I don’t have to think about too much. And since…