A new cafe run by Panera Bread in St. Louis has caught the nation’s attention. Why? Hint: It’s not because of the bread. The cafe, operating under the name St. Louis Bread Co., is a non-profit — a pay-what-you can afford non-profit. Ring a bell? Cafe Society readers know that…
Since launching a contest earlier this week seeking a new name for its 16th Street Mall food cart, Pinche Tacos has been receiving an influx of suggestions via its Facebook page (as well as our post). The name Pinche Tacos, while earlier passing muster with the Downtown Denver Business Improvement…
Three years ago, in 2007, Jeffrey and Zach Chodorow, the father and son partners behind Big Game, which opened three weeks ago at 1631 Wazee Street in the long-vacant Il Fornaio space, toured the country in search of markets where they could expand their restaurant empire. “Denver was on our…
At this Middle Eastern joint, whose air reeks with garlic, anyone who’s sensible orders hummus. Smooth, splashed with olive oil, sprayed with a jolt of lemon and ashed with cumin and sumac, it’s one of the best of its kind in Denver. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
If you recently went looking for Häagen-Dazs in the Cherry Creek mall, instead you no doubt found a sleek frozen yogurt vendor with a line of self-serve dispensers and a toppings bar floating oddly close to the flow of passerbyers. Cherry On Top is the latest entry in a string…
HHorton sees a Hooter. If you’re into breasts and thighs for happy hour, there’s no better place to find them than your local Hooters, where the servers wear skimpy attire and hang on your every word, if not your wallet. Cassie Smith of Roseville, Michigan, had been hoofing it at…
The Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, which owns several bagel and coffee chains, including Einstein Bros, recently announced that it will start using cage-free eggs in its stores. “We’re proud to be launching this initiative and believe that moving in this direction will help improve the treatment of hens,” says James…
Chipotle Mexican Grill, the ever-expanding Denver-based burrito chain, which just opened its first international store in London, is now upping the ante in the local produce department by committing to use 50 percent of at least one produce item from locally grown sources in its restaurants. In Colorado, that means…
Last week, during one of our recent torrential downpours, I ducked into a restaurant to dry off and shake off the shivers with a hearty bowl of steaming minestrone soup. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Oak Tavern exec chef Jeremy Roosa. To read part one of that interview, click here. Proudest moment as a chef: I’m always growing and learning, so I would like to think my proudest moment has yet to really happen. Looking back,…
There are more than forty restaurants in Denver’s Lower Highland neighborhood, and that’s if you stop counting at I-25. Extend the boundary by one block to the Platte River and you pick up another seven: a sushi place, a gourmet pizza shop, a wine bar/coffee shop, a date-night destination, a…
This classic dive was recently purchased by a new owner, who did a little updating inside — including adding the new “signage” hyping the patio. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered…
I love Paula Deen. I mean, which other high-profile chef whose mug is plastered all over your TV screen, gets hit in the face with a ham, loads her promotional videos with lewd sex talk and profanity, accidentally drops her pants, revealing her beige granny undies, while strutting across the…
After last Saturday’s “Spring Chicken” Hush Denver dinner on the roof of the Denver Art Museum Residences, the chefs from Sweet Basil pined for a platter of tacos, which they got in abundance (and happily shared) at a local restaurant renowned for its Mexican grub. Can you guess where I’m…
The city’s band of Brothers is about to get larger. As Jon Solomon reports in this week’s Bar Back column, the former Red Room at 320 East Colfax Avenue will soon be home to Uptown Brothers Brewing Company, which is slated to open May 24. But unlike My Brother’s Bar,…
Ted Turner’s bringing his bison to Boulder. Ted’s Montana Grill will open its ninth Colorado restaurant the first week of October at 1701 Pearl Street. The city is a good fit for the steak and comfort food chain says Ted’s co-founder and chief executive officer George McKerrow Jr. “We chose…
Jeremy Roosa Oak Tavern 1414 Market Street 303-888-0655 www.oaktaverndenver.com “I dress like a clown, I play with food, fire and sharp knives, and they pay me. Does it get any more fun than that?” asks Jeremy Roosa. The executive chef of Oak Tavern, a LoDo watering hole that serves sandwiches,…
Govinda’s all-you-can-eat vegetarian buffet is back! The restaurant, located at the Hare Krishna temple at 1400 Cherry Street, closed its doors last fall when its former cooks went to India. It reopened last month with a new chef, Sri Raga, who is carrying on the restaurant’s tradition of serving up…
Crime doesn’t pay — especially when you’re stealing 3.2 percent beer. Dominic Lujan and Demetrio Rivera were thirsting for adult beverages and not acting like adults — so at 5:30 a.m. one recent morning, they hatched a brilliant plan to rob the local Loaf ‘N Jug. Since options are limited…
Kevin Morrison thought he was onto something when he created his new Mexican street food venture, but naming it “Pinche Tacos” — “pinche” is Spanish slang roughly equivalent to the F-bomb — hasn’t exactly struck a positive chord with everybody. The Downtown Denver Business Improvement District was so uncharmed, in…
At the Italco Spring Food Show, held yesterday and today at Mile High Station, it was all about charcuterie, salumi and cheese and me slinging all the cheese, charcuterie and salumi I could down my throat. I’ve admitted, albeit not publicly (until now), that I’m a salumi slut — that…
Scott Taylor wants Denver residents to wake up every morning in the coolest cycling city in the world – and he plans to help by serving them coffee from a bike-thru window. The owner of the Salvagetti Bicycle Workshop at 1611 Platte Street opened the bike-thru, called Happy Coffee, three…
