On Monday, we asked Cafe Society readers to guess the name of Olav Peterson’s new restaurant, which is called Bittersweet. Reader Evan didn’t waste much time coming up with the correct answer, and his prize is two seats to the Bittersweet soft opening dinner in December. Evan will be joined…
Veteran restaurant owners James and Lily Kwon opened their first Colorado place, Seoul BBQ, 2080 South Havana Street in Aurora, three years ago. That spot is a Korean barbecue joint that serves up a traditional feast, complete with complimentary banchan side dishes, grilled meats and hot pots, and sikhye, a…
The name of the above cocktail is the same as a former longstanding Italian restaurant in Denver that served its last meal two years ago. Made with whiskey, honey and fresh-squeezed lemon juice, and garnished with a basil leaf and rope of red pepper, it’s not an Italian cocktail, but…
Jay Spickelmier Japoix 975 Lincoln Street 303-861-2345 www.japoix.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with Jay Spickelmier, executive chef of Japoix. To read part two of that interview, check back here tomorrow. Jay Spickelmier is wrist-deep in a large, deep, flat-bottomed wooden bowl swelled with vinegared rice. It’s…
Between meals at Seoul BBQ, 2080 South Havana Street in Aurora, I went to New York City, and some friends and I made the trek out to Queens to experience Sik Gaek, a Korean barbecue joint that’s gained nationwide notoriety for its gimmickry — including booming Korean pop, yelling servers,…
After years on the back burner, Dick’s Hickory Dock — aka “Mountain Barbeque and Brew” — is back in business in Kittredge. The lineup includes live music on the weekends and smokin’ barbecue Thursday through Sunday, which you slather to your own specifications with a variety of homemade sauces…
Yesterday, we invited Cafe Society readers to enter to win two seats to the soft opening of Olav Peterson’s new restaurant, which opens in December. We asked you to guess the name of that restaurant based on clues that were hidden in the story we wrote back in July announcing…
When I first walked into Seoul BBQ, 2080 South Havana Street, an Aurora spot owned by veteran Korean restaurateurs James and Lily Kwon, I was expecting to dine in a restaurant that, like so many traditional spots from that country, put as much emphasis on the novelty of the culture’s…
We puzzled over the My Pizza Peel name when the pizza joint opened in March 2009 at 1645 Stout Street. And although we were soon informed that the “pizza peel” was the long-handled shovel used to pull a pie out of the oven, that didn’t sell us on the name…
Four years ago, in 2006, Tom Coohill, the former Western regional chef and director of culinary standards for Levy Restaurants at the Pepsi Center, left the armpit that some people call Pittsburgh and moved to Denver. “My wife and I had a vision of moving out west — we’re both…
In July, we reported that Boulder-based Zisboombah.com was a front-runner in Michelle Obama’s contest for the best kids’ nutrition technology application. The winner of that contest was up for a $10,000 grand prize. Public voting for the best app closed on August 14, and after Obama and a panel of…
Last night, after a series of soft openings, Lon Symensma and his crew from ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro, which opens today at 1555 Blake Street, hosted a final party that flowed with wine, beer and champagne and strutted dishes from Symensma’s Asian-inspired menu. Everything that came out of Symensma’s state…
Smother love: It’s easy being green in Denver in September, when the smell of roasting chiles overrides the odor of exhaust along Federal Boulevard, and the green chile at your favorite Mexican joint carries the heat of the new harvest. For the next several weeks, Cafe Society will feature some…
Pre-Game Sports Bar has called it quits. The joint closed on October 1, just three months after it opened in the former home of SportsBook, which lasted only six months in that spot…
For years, this establishment’s ads have featured photos of actual diners — and I’ve always been amazed that I’ve never recognized a single person. But when I visited recently, I was the one with the camera — taking this shot of the restaurant’s homemade sangria. Can you guess where I’m…
Volcano erupted on the scene yesterday at 10440 East Arapahoe Road in Englewood, in the former home of Sushi Club and Carlos Miguel’s. This new spot features both a sushi bar and hibachi, as well as a full bar…
After failing to capture the breakfast and lunch crowd with Full Belly during its first year, Radek Cerny changed the concept of his second Boulder restaurant (the first was L’Atelier) to one of an upscale bistro, remodeling the space and renaming it Radex Bistro. The changes didn’t help. And now…
Last month, we reported that Olav Peterson, the ex-executive chef of Bistro One, 1294 South Broadway, had vacated his gig there to open a new restaurant, which we now know will be unmasked in early December. But before Peterson’s new restaurant is unleashed to the public, he’s having a soft…
Den Deli and Seafood Market, at 1501 South Pearl Street, the third venture from Toshi and Yasu Kizaki, the brotherhood behind Sushi Den, 1487 South Pearl, and Izakaya Den, 1518 South Pearl, opened in December 2009 — but the bento boxes, ready-made sushi and brimming bowls of ramen, which we…
The patch of earth in the alley planted with herbs and produce may not be as flashy as the mobile vendor cruising down the street hawking banh mi and pork belly, but according to 2,000 restaurateurs across the country, that plot of land is trendier. One third of those restaurateurs…
J’Shabu, the Aurora-based swish-swish Japanese restaurant at 2680 South Havana Street that former Westword restaurant critic Jason Sheehan raved about when he reviewed it in 2007 (it also garnered a Best of Denver award in 2010 for Best Japanese Restaurant), has gone dark. A phone call to the still-listed number…
Last week, media mogul, rancher and restaurateur Ted Turner was spotted hanging around the corner of 17th and Pearl in Boulder in anticipation of the opening of the 55th outpost of his restaurant chain, Ted’s Montana Grill…
