When Lynda Campbell received her one million mile frequent flyer gift from Delta Airlines, she decided to land. The former senior VP director of Pacific Sunwear, a national clothing chain that hustles popular teen labels, gave up her life in Manhattan and sojourns around the world to move to Denver…
At about 9 p.m. on Saturday night, we spotted the big yellow trailer that houses Mikes 2 Kitchen (pronounced Mikes Squared Kitchen) setting up for a long night in LoDo. It was the mobile vendor’s first night on the street — and one of the craziest party nights of the…
There were major developments on the local dining scene last month, including the openings of ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro and EDGE, the reopening of Frasca Food & Wine — and the closing of Zona’s Tamales after forty years. Our restaurant roll call for October:…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, featuring everything from a still-unidentified squash salad to a cup of hot chocolate at the Corner Bar at the Boulderado to a bowl of mac and cheese. For correctly identifying that cheesy, creamy mac as coming from Tom’s Home Cookin’,…
Behold the highlights and low lights of what you may have missed this week on the Cafe Society blog…
A couple of weeks ago, we announced that Otis & Henry’s Bar and Grill, a casual spot featuring comfort food favorites, would open this week in the Lady Luck Casino in Black Hawk at 340 Main Street. The bar and grill is part of a growing concept in the nationwide…
Now that fall is at our doorstep, restaurants all over the city are autumn-izing their menus, which means that butternut squash is popping up here, there, and in the salad in the above pic, where the sweet, silky nubs are bolstered by thicket of arugula, patches of lamb belly, quinoa…
Jasmine Listou has been turning out mini donuts to crowds all over Denver from a conveyor belt contraption housed in a trailer painted turquoise. Now, she’s taking her mobile act to a permanent shop in the mountains. Listou just signed a lease on a Copper Mountain outlet, where she’ll open…
Last night’s Justice League of Street Food Halloween party attracted more than a few costumed grubniks to food truck HQ: 29th and Huron. Westword photo intern Hunter Stevens brings back these memories…
If you’ve been following this blog, then you know that we announced a contest a few weeks ago, where we asked Cafe Society readers to suggest a name for the new street food pavement feast at Civic Center Park, which is already home to Tuesday’s Civic Center Eats. The expanded…
J’s Noodles & New Thai, the venerable curry joint at 945 South Federal Boulevard, originally opened by Jit Nabangchang nearly twenty years ago, has already gone through one name change when it morphed from simply J’s Noodles to J’s Noodles & New Thai, and now the humble space has altered…
If you’re taking a road trip back east, make sure you stop in Champaign, Illinois, where you can try to wrap your hands around one of the biggest sandwiches around. The Fat Sandwich Company specializes in, yes, fat sandwiches, and the fattest of all is the Big Fat Ugly. This…
I was at Lotus of Siam, one of Lori Midson’s favorite restaurants in the world (and she’s right — too bad it’s in Las Vegas), eating and catching up on my Westword reading, when I found this report by Michael Roberts on a Thai restaurant group much closer to home:…
Just got word that a production crew from Diners, Drive-ins and Dives has touched down in Denver, and for the next week, they’ll be lugging their camera equipment all over the Mile High City and Boulder, amassing footage for a future episode of the popular Food Network show hosted by…
For those of you who can’t fathom patronizing a pizza joint that doesn’t bring the goods right to your door, a new world is about to open up: the Wazee Supper Club, 1600 15th Street, is rolling out delivery. There are some restrictions, though…
The small plates happy hour menu at this high-style restaurant with an equally cosmopolitan lounge tricked out with TVs, a fireplace and faddish furnishings stars everything from from frog legs to sushi rolls. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the…
After eating my way through the menu at Euclid Hall for this week’s review, I stopped by Rioja, the Larimer Square restaurant that Jen Jasinski and Beth Gruitch opened six years ago, and also by Bistro Vendome, the restaurant at 1420 Larimer Street that the pair took over in 2006…
Charley Sinden The Lobby 2121 Arapahoe Street 303-997-9911 www.thelobbydenver.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Charley Sinden, exec chef of the Lobby. See what Sinden has to say about roach coaches, liver and the Domino’s cheese pizza delivery in the first segment of that Q&A. Greatest accomplishment…
Oh, brother! The battle between My Brother’s Bar and Brothers Bar & Grill is over. Attorneys for the two restaurants — one of which is the oldest continually operating saloon in the city, at 2376 15th Street, the other a link in a Wisconsin-based chain that took over the former…
A new Chick-fil-A restaurant opens this morning at 5260 South Wadsworth Boulevard in Lakewood (the building was previously a Black-Eyed Pea), but the line started forming yesterday. That’s because for the past seven years, the Atlanta-based company has celebrated every store opening with the First 100 Celebration, giving the first…
It seems about as premature as the holiday commercial that annoyingly awoke me from deep slumber this morning, but 2010 must be drawing to a close, because consultants across the country are racing to call the big food trends of 2011. Last week, Andrew Freeman & Co., a nationwide hospitality…
Next year, sometime in February, the SPIRE, downtown Denver’s new 42-story, skyscraping structure that’s currently home to residents and, soon, Organic Pizza Company, will introduce fervent gastronauts to Row 14, a joint venture between David Schneider, a part-time server at Rioja and restaurant business consultant and Arik Markus, the former…
