After being pleasantly surprised to be nominated at all for a prestigious American Institute of Architecture’s Los Angeles Chapter, restaurant design award, Boulder sandwich shop Modmarket was thrilled to walk away last week with not one but two cafe design awards: people’s choice and the jury prize (which it shares…
For more than fifteen years, Chef’s Noodle House commanded the corner of Havana and Sixth Avenue, but back in February, its Vietnamese chef and noodle emperor, Billy Lam, whose family once owned T-Wa Inn, shuttered the joint and disconnected the phone. But the space didn’t stay empty for long. Earlier…
As with everything at this excellent restaurant, the vegetable dishes are done extremely well, including the plate in the above pic that benefits from a lob of butter and soft, chewy rolls, called pav, that are perfect for scooping up the mixed vegetables, or bhaji. Can you guess where I’m…
Denver’s mobile food scene just keeps rolling. Today’s Civic Center Eats Outdoor Cafe will mark the third outing for the “Steamin’ Demon,” a new vegetarian and vegan food cart from City O’City executive chef Chris Medved and sous chef Max Maxfield. The two are keeping company with several other mobile…
Jesus. It’s not horrible enough cruising at altitude with a full two inches of legroom, a middle seater with flatulence and seat belts slimed with Jell-O. Now FDA inspectors are unearthing everything from fruit flies and ants to live roaches and dead rodents in the country’s airline catering companies. And…
Boulder foodniks and lushes whose wallets run on empty aren’t likely to fork over their beer or burger coinage at the Flagstaff House, Boulder’s treasure in the sky, where the average check is well over a hundred bucks per person, the extraordinarily wide-reaching wine list is dictionary-thick and the coffee…
I wanted to try the happy hours deals at the restaurant where the above snap was flashed, but the happy hour menu isn’t offered at the chef’s counter, which is where we had our butts parked. So instead, we ordered a cheese plate, the rotisserie lamb and a few other…
Pupusas Sabor Hispano, the Boulder joint that doles out its namesake spheres of griddled masa shaped around redolent fillings of chicharron, fiddlehead ferns, zucchini, Anaheim peppers, smears of refrieds and molten white cheese, has long been one of my favorite restaurants in the People’s Republic, as much for the pupusas…
Not a braised beef sandwich inspired by Florence’s San Lorenzo market nor grilled shrimp with risotto and basil could keep ’em coming for lunch at Farro, Matthew Franklin’s Italian joint at 8320 South Holly Street. After a six-month spin, Franklin is calling it quits in the lunch department. In an…
SmartCo Foods — the new grocery store concept started by California-based Smart & Final, and being tested out in Colorado — is holding a job fair Tuesday to staff a hundred positions at locations opening soon in Centennial and Littleton. (The first SmartCo, at 1442 South Parker Road in Aurora,…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything heat-beating cocktails at La Rumbato this still-unidentified breakfast to a molten cheese dip at La Sandia. For correctly guessing that one, Ben wins a DINR deck. Ben, send your contact info to cafe@westword.com, and we’ll send…
Our favorite table scraps of the week from the Cafe Society blog: 1. Holy hot dog! After more than a year of searching for a freestanding restaurant to augment his fleet of carts, Biker Jim, aka gourmet wiener hustler, finally signed a lease on a build-out space at 2145 Larimer…
Early this year Sushi Sasa, the wildly popular sushi joint at 2401 15th Street, took over the vacated Wilderness Exchange spot next door, with plans to double the size of the dining room, adding 70 seats to the original 62. Now that space is finally — thankfully — open, a…
Suzanne C. O’Neill, an assistant professor with the Cancer Control Program at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University, has co-authored a study whose finding is the non-surprising: We’ll use any excuse we can. Her research found that the least healthy people surveyed excused their unhealthy lifestyles by saying they…
Perhaps you’ve heard by now about the legal scuffle that’s pitting The New White Meat against The Other White Meat. Here’s a primer, if not: About a week ago, the Pork Board sent a cease and desist letter, via Denver’s Faegre-Benson legal team, to ThinkGeek. The letter claimed the online…
“So who’s got two thumbs and the keys to the first Biker Jim’s restaurant?” read the text message from Jim Pittenger, who picked up the phone on the fist ring and answered with a “Yep. Jesus. Finally.” Pittenger, who already peddles two gourmet hot dog carts downtown, another in the…
Time to celebrate the birth of our nation by eating barbecue until we explode, blatantly ignoring open container laws and then lighting some things on fire. Or by eating good old American food in one of OpenTable’s top 50 American restaurants. The popular internet reservation site just released its annual…
It’s a messy plate, to be sure, what with all those potatoes scattered here, there and everywhere, but brunch at this unheralded gem is one of the best in Denver, and this plate, a mashup of black beans, cubed avocado, eggs and chorizo, with a side of excellent bacon, puts…
Despite the fact that Gourmet magazine had, more or less, run its culinary course by the time Condé Nast yanked it from the world of print food porn back in November of last year, I’ll admit that I kinda miss it. I’ve still got a hundred or so back issues…
Chances, a new sports bar/grill at 1135 Bannock Street, the former home of Wolfie’s and Bambino’s, opened soft — very soft — last week. But now it’s pulling out the stops for a grand opening celebration that includes food and drink specials all weekend. And expect those specials to be…
Just got off the horn with Chad Clevenger, chef/owner of Mel’s Bar and Grill, who called to say he was done — finito — with the restaurant that he took over from Mel Master in July 2008. “I’m pretty much over Mel’s, over making Cobb salads and salmon for old…
Yesterday, while interviewing a Denver chef, I asked him what he’d want to put on his menu, even if it wouldn’t sell, and he said “white cheese dip.” Sort of like the oil-slicked swamp of cheese and chorizo in the above snap. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
