Cafe Society served up six Guess where? contests last week, ranging from an incredible bowl of berry/basil ice creams to a sign at the Welcome Inn to a good white clam pizza — in a town that’s definitely short of them. For correctly identifying that pie as coming from Ernie’s…
The fat’s in the fryer now! Our list of “Denver’s five best plates of fried chicken” has some readers squawking. No Steuben’s? No Welton Street Cafe? No Castle Cafe? And no Cora Faye’s Cafe? That omission inspired this from Sarcasumsus the Magnificent: Amazing that this list does not include Cora…
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…
Right, so we do have other big news to report today, namely the announcement of a superhero champion in our Justice League of Street Food contest, the winner (and a guest) of which gets to eat and drink for free at the Justice League soiree on Saturday night. There were…
Crema Coffee House, the eclectic cafe on Upper Larimer, is just putting the finishing touches on a new kitchen. After two-and-a-half years of providing much-needed caffeine along a somewhat desolate stretch of Larimer Street, owner Noah Price has decided to offer breakfast and lunch to his ever-growing crowd of regulars…
A scoop of basil ice cream and a second scoop of berry ice cream, paired with a split of prosecco, was the finale to dinner earlier this week. 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…
In the Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date, thanks to the constant crowd of young professionals who mingle there over cappuccinos. And because we’re big proponents of ditching online dating and blind set-ups every now and then in favor of meeting…
While Facebook pages and Twitter handles have become a staple on most restaurants’ business cards, Boulder-based Modmarket wants to stand out. Sure, it will continue to use Facebook and Twitter accounts, but they’d be seamlessly integrated into the official website. “The idea is that we’d like to get way beyond…
The Justice League of Street Food, the convoy of food trucks and carts that gave a whole new meaning to pavement cuisine when it became a superpower of street food last summer, is gearing up for its second party of the season — and we’re giving one Cafe Society reader…
It was a Las Vegas, tunnel-of-love, drive-thru wedding. Leigh Sullivan and Troy Guard, the chef/owner of TAG and TAG| RAW BAR, met just three months before they took off for Las Vegas and tied the knot in 2004 in the back seat of a cab at Sin City’s Little White…
Theo Adley, the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview, is getting rave reviews both for his food at The Pinyon — and for his comments. Says AmyDenver: One of my all-time favorite Chef and Tell comments: “Shut up, all of you, especially you, Thomas Keller, you blabbermouth. Oh…and…
On July 27, IKEA will unveil its first store in Colorado, complete with the 550-seat IKEA Restaurant & Café and a Swedish food market. Although both a market and restaurant are integral parts of most IKEA outlets, the restaurant in Centennial will be the largest to date. That’s a lot…
We were checking out the current home of the National Western Stock Show, doing an inventory of the scenic bars (not to mention their very cheap 32-ounce draft beer deals) that Aurora will need to match if it successfully rustles that event, when we spotted this very strongly worded sign…
I’m a writer so I’m always in a state of coinus interruptus, but imagine my surprise when I recently discovered a dollar store where things actually cost a dollar each: Dollar Tree. This economical sanctuary at 4923 East Colfax Avenue has some splendid buys for a crumpled George Washington, and…
I love unexpected surprises, and here, at this convivial cafe that’s certainly better known for its sandwiches and soups than its international dishes, I found — and promptly inhaled — an Indian chicken curry. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…
Theo Adley The Pinyon 1710 Pearl Street, Boulder 720-306-8248 www.thepinyon.com This is part two of my interview with Theo Adley, executive chef/owner of the Pinyon in Boulder. Part one of my chat with Adley ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I’m just gonna say that I think tons of people…
When Kinga Klek, owner of Kinga’s Lounge, told us about her plans for Belvedere Restaurant, a Polish joint she’s putting in the old Cafe Berlin location on 14th Street, she said she hoped to have the doors open by July 1. Klek didn’t quite make that deadline. The spot was…
Food trucks have been the signature food trend in Denver for the past year, but across the Atlantic Ocean a Colorado native is mastering an entirely different kind of mobile gastronomy. Sean Fowler, formerly the chef at Cucina Leone and Ranelles, mans a mobile kitchen and cooks team meals and…
While consumers continue to dish dirt about the lack of local farm produce at the area’s farmers markets, Kimberly put “farm to table” on the table as one of the “Thirty overused, irritating and just plain awful food words and phrases that make our mouth hurt.” As Kimberly states her…
There are words, cliches and phrases that we, as food writers, use far too often, and while we’re all probably guilty of making your nostrils flare when we use some of the very same vocabulary that we’re now going to criticize, it’s when other food writers use these annoying and…
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. Ge used to…
You can find pizza anywhere in the city — but finding vegan-friendly pizza is a slice more difficult. Pizza Fusion made the hunt much easier when it opened a few months ago; its vegan pie is topped with casein-free soy cheese (Follow Your Heart mozzarella — which, as you can…
