Just a few blocks away from Hops and Pie, another spot is taking a crack at elevating the classic pizza-and-brew pairing. Stingray Lounge, which opened two months ago in the former home of Gelman’s-cum-Boston-Fish-Shack, is the most recent effort from Leigh Jones and Margaret Moore, the duo behind Jonesy’s EatBar,…
The weather may still be slightly schizophrenic, but most of the restaurants along the 16th Street Mall have started hosting diners and drinkers on their patios. And tonight, the Southwest Porch at Skyline Park, which debuted last September at the base of the D & F Clock Tower, will join…
About a month ago, Yellow Deli started hawking Reuben sandwiches, veggie burgers and fresh-squeezed juice from its Boulder kitchen at 908 Pearl Street. But that’s not all the menu offers: It also serves the Fruit of the Spirit — a biblical term that encompasses the nine visible attributes of a…
I recently learned a valuable lesson in the kitchen after serving a horrible meal to some hungry friends: Be prepared…
Having trouble sleeping? Rather than popping an Ambien, why not have a melatonin-laced brownie?…
Here, at this temple of noodles, dumplings and potstickers, it was a who’s who of Denver chefs, servers and bartenders, all of whom packed the house on Sunday, along with just about everyone else in Denver undeterred by the thirty-minute wait for a table. Can you guess where I’m eating?…
It goes without saying that I spend most of my days and nights in restaurants — which has been the story of my life for the past fifteen years or so, ever since I began writing about food. But truth be told, cooking is my therapeutic outlet; the kitchen, my…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where contests last week, including this still-unidentified dish of spinach (creamed or not) , a disappointing rainy-day Reuben at Ship Tavern, and this innovative check-holder (and a giveaway tab). For being the first to tag that tab to La Fogata, Wermer wins at EatDenver…
On Wednesday, regular readers of the Denver Post food section were startled to find a column devoted to blind items — and no answers. Was it a bid to get comments? If so, it failed there — but the comments have been flying here since Lori Midson posted Leigh Sullivan-Guard’s…
We interrupt your happy hour escapades to bring you news that we’ve chosen a winner in our Meet the Masters pizza dinner and demo contest, which grants one lucky Cafe Society reader two seats at the pizza blowout, taking place Monday night at Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria at the Vallagio at…
We’ve seen booze-y caviar, alcoholic foam and whipped cream packed with liquor, but now there’s another weird way we can get our alcoholic intake: Gin paper. And yes, that means parchment you can actually scribble on — and then eat…
Amie Arias has been in the restaurant industry for years, but when she decided to start her own venture, she picked up an ’86 Chevy Hi Cube with one goal in mind: to roll out a mobile enterprise hawking vegan treats — and she’s doing exactly that, even naming her…
In Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date, thanks to its constant crowd of young professionals who mingle over cappuccinos. But because we’re big proponents of ditching online dating and blind set-ups every now and then in favor of meeting people the…
At this venerable Mexican joint, where big plates of carnitas, tacos, burritos and flautas stamp the menu, la cuenta, por favor, arrives, appropriately, in an El Pato salsa tin. Muchas gracias. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where…
This city has more dough slingers than you can a toss a pizza peel at, but next Monday and Tuesday nights at Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria at the Vallagio at Inverness, and Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria Ballpark, two of the world’s most prized pizzaioli are going to be on stage: Neapolitan pizza…
Denver Post food editor Tucker Shaw’s column on Wednesday, full of no-name restaurant gossip, wouldn’t have seemed so startling if the paper’s food section regularly ran restaurant news calling out offending culprits — but it doesn’t. So we couldn’t figure out the point of his mishmash of blind, unsourced items…
Our list of Denver’s five best happy hours — only nine, or six, or four more hours until you can slip out of work and to that bar! — inspired some useful additions for possible Friday night destinations, as well as one urgent query for tomorrow from Elizabeth: Totally unrelated…
Does food that’s so good for you have to look so bad? That’s the question Skipper poses after Veggie Girl Amber Taufen’s recent piece on the venerable Mercury Cafe. Every single dish looks appalling. Who is responsible for these nightmarish piles of veggies, chips, cheese, and noodles? Just because you…
The Four Seasons is all set to give Denver a new rooftop bar, inviting the public up to Level 3, its swanky poolside digs every Thursday night this summer for cocktails and appetizers. The vibe, according to the hotel’s general manager Thierry Kennel, will channel Miami. And it was all…
I sloshed through the rain yesterday, dodging through buildings and banks on my way to a warmer climate — a bar (of course) — that was colder than it should have been, and when my Reuben arrived, plated with sweet-potato fries, I had high hopes of chasing off the chill,…
Some like it hot! The festivities at this past weekend’s Cinco de Mayo festival in Civic Center Park included the fourth annual green chile contest. And the winners are: Judges’ awards: First place: El Taco de Mexico Second place: La Noria Carniceria Third place: Benny’s Restaurant y Cantina People’s choice…
The Sugar Bakeshop got its start a few years ago at farmers’ markets, where Natalie Slevin would hawk cupcakes and other pastries to weekend shoppers. From those humble beginnings, she grew her enterprise into a made-to-order bakery that made treats from “bread to wedding cakes, and everything in between,” Slevin…
