Just a quick update to this weekend’s The Great Food Truck Race celebrations in Denver, which we’ve been covering extensively on the Cafe Society blog: Cafe con Leche, the Cuban food truck from Van Nuys, California, will be camped outside Great Divide Brewery, 2201 Arapahoe, on Sunday, from 3 to…
A sign on the Garden Spot Cafe at 3163 Larimer Street indicates that the restaurant has shut its doors and will be put up for auction on May 18 at 10 a.m. The City and County of Denver seized the place due to unpaid taxes. The building itself will not…
Jackie Cuyler, who’s been a server at Jax Fish House in Boulder for nine years, was at a park with her kids a few years ago when an ice cream truck stopped by. “It was all junk,” she remembers. Soon after, when she was in Brooklyn, she noticed an ice…
The big story on the streets of Denver is this weekend’s The Great Food Truck Race, the Food Network hit of the season, hosted by Tyler Florence, that struts the street-food prowess of numerous gourmet food trucks, all of which are making their way across the American landscape, stopping in…
The news that Corona Light qualifies as heavy-enough to be sold in Colorado bars and restaurants — just in time for Cinco de Mayo! — inspired this from mtnrunner2: Bless you, o omnipotent state government, for permitting us do something we should have been able to do all along without…
The bad economy has been very good to the Friday Store, a busienss devoted to selling surplus grocers at discount prices — but only on Friday and Saturday, and only what owners Martin and Jo Palumbo find that week. We feature the Friday Store in the Cafe section this week;…
There are several frozen-yogurt shops opening soon in Denver, but possibly none so ambitious as Golden Spoon, which will open its first Mile High City outpost — and fifth Colorado location — this weekend in Stapleton at 7505 East 35th Avenue. And Mike and Julie Haslar, the franchisees behind the…
Restaurateur Jesse Morreale, who owns Sketch, El Diablo and La Rumba, is always contemplating his next move, and his latest endeavor is a courtyard that will occupy the vast, graveled space that resides behind the back doors of Sketch and El Diablo, which sit side by side on the corner…
I love asparagus. It’s probably my favorite vegetable, and the fact that I can’t get it fresh all year long makes it that much more alluring. So when I walked into In Season Local Market the other day and found the entire produce cooler packed full of the stalky vegetable…
When Holly Arnold Kinney, owner of The Fort, was in New York City last year promoting her cookbook, she met with some people from the James Beard Foundation. And that turned into an invitation for her chef, Geoffrey Groditski, to return and cook at the prestigious James Beard House. “I’m…
No explanation needed. 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, we select one lucky winner who’ll receive a 2011 EatDenver dining deck, worth up to…
One of the most coveted spots in town has been snatched up. The building at 1446 South Broadway that had been Cafe Cero and then Open Tap will reopen as the Black Crown Lounge late this month. Business partners Mark Cameron and Brian Grace have been busy transforming the space…
Since the Friday Store’s inventory is always changing, the most entertaining — and also most efficient — way to shop there is to just go with whatever bargains are best that day, then plan your meals around those items, checking off the rest of the ingredients on your grocery list…
When the weather starts getting warmer, I develop an insatiable craving for bibim naeng myun, a tangy cold noodle dish imbued with the heat of chiles. So a few weeks ago, on one of the first really warm days of the year, I made my annual journey out to Silla,…
Aubrey Shomo is staging a one-week hunger protest right outside Tony’s Market at 950 Broadway — but she doesn’t have a beef with Tony’s. Rather, she wants to get the attention of Mark Noel, clemency director for the State of Colorado, whose office is right above Tony’s. Since she has…
Last night, a platoon of Denver’s top female chefs (and a few of their male counterparts) gathered at Temple Emanuel for Women Cook! Dining for a Difference, a yearly benefit that supports Work Options for Women, a local nonprofit that battles homelessness and poverty by giving underserved women the skills…
Masterpiece Delicatessen hardly needs another reason to give crowds a reason to stop by: The breakfast and lunch eatery has been packing hordes of patrons into its tiny space and downtown-facing patio since it opened three years ago. But Steve Allee and Justin Brunson are about to make the neighborhood…
When Heather Haupman took over La Crema Cafeteria, a bare-bones coffee shop on 44th and Zuni, she was convinced the Sunnyside neighborhood needed a more upscale coffee and breakfast joint. So she remodeled the space, gave it a sunnier feel, and created Hash, which, in addition to Novo coffee and…
Pray to the weather gods that Denver is blessed with balmy breezes this weekend, because the food trucks competing in season two of The Great Food Truck Race, the primetime Food Network series hosted by star chef Tyler Florence, are motoring into town on Saturday and possibly Sunday (along with…
African restaurants are (very) few and far between in Denver, but they do exist, including this one, where plantains, goat meat and rice take center stage. 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…
Steve Ells, founder of the homegrown Chipotle chain, will have a starring role as the University of Colorado commencement speaker on Friday — just five days after he wrapped up his gig on America’s Next Great Restaurant. In the last episode of that series, Ells and his fellow judges chose…
I love Asian noodles: ramen, pho, Vietnamese bun bo Hue, Nepalese thupka, Taiwanese beef noodle soup. In the winter, I slurp bowl after bowl of hot broth, noodles and chunks of meat, ideally with some animal collagen to make the mix thick, velvety and rib-stickingly hearty. In spring, as the…
