Last week, after Esquire magazine pimped 15 Bars Every Man Should Drink In Before He Dies, we supplemented its list with our own list of ten Denver watering holes where a man should drown himself in liquor before he stumbles through the gates of Hell. This week, we’re hustling ten…
A local bartender recently poured out this story to Cafe Society: There comes a time in every adult’s life when he or she starts to drink like an actual adult. In an ideal world, that time would coincide with the drinker’s 21st birthday. Unfortunately, after December 6, 1933, “adults” lost…
A new bakery and cafe slated to spin sugar this summer on Broadway has pushed back its opening as a result of an unforeseen delay. Owner Natalie Slevin Sugar Bakeshop were hoping to have the bakery’s first storefront open this summer until learning, three months into the lease, that the…
The opening of one of Denver’s new pay-what-you-can restaurants has been pushed back while its owner gets the space in fighting shape. Cafe 180, slated to open at 3315 South Broadway in Englewood, was aiming for a mid-June debut. “[W]e’ve been working on the installation of the kitchen and we…
In the sea of California and New York cafes vying for the coveted American Institute of Architecture design award, there lurks a lone Colorado joint that wants to prove to the rest of the country — namely New Yorkers and Californians — that it’s savvy design scheme can out-architect its…
I’m seeing a lot of commentary about this New York Post story detailing how a growing group of chefs, including Momofuku’s David Chang and Anthony Bourdain, are refusing off-menu requests from diners. Their comments are mostly triumphant validations, declarations of an era in which the restaurant-goer will finally acknowledge that…
For anyone who was born and raised in Denver, especially all you westsiders, the above snap should be instantly recognizable. It’s been at least twenty years since I stepped foot inside this Mexican compound that still commands thirty-minute waits on a Saturday night and still squiggles its frozen margaritas with…
Wild Ginger, the excellent Thai restaurant at 399 West Littleton Boulevard in Littleton, is on hiatus until August 28, an extended holiday of sorts, while owner Somsak Damrongsang hangs out in his native Thailand and the kitchen gets a makeover. “We remodeled the dining room four years ago, but we…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything from World Cup drinks at the Irish Snug to some very fresh mozzarella. For correctly tracing that cheese to Luca D’Italia, the Real Joe pegging wins a DINR deck. Real Joe, send your contact info to…
Our favorite table scraps of the week from the Cafe Society blog: 1. The fact that Coors Field made PETA”s list of the country’s most vegetarian-friendly ballparks, coming in at number five on its annual list, made the rest of us darksiders swear to eat steaks, cheeseburgers, bratwursts and as…
In case you missed it, Esquire magazine just released its globe-groping list of the “15 Bars Every Many Should Drink In Before He Dies.” Much to our disappointment, there’s not a single Colorado watering hole on the roster, which does, however, ballyhoo bars in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York,…
The British Bulldog may have had the crowds on the opening day of World Cup soccer, but there were a few other spots around town to get your soccer hooligan on — especially if you like Irish whiskey. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the…
The line that snaked around Larimer Square last night was a mix of old men and young women, all trying to get into Suite 200, site of the Ms. Colorado Hooters pageant. And inside, it seemed like everyone who ever was or still is connected to Hooters was in the…
It’s not the same as $10,000, but Diego Zhang’s, the burger-centric joint with two locations in Centennial, will certainly make do with $2,500, the third place prize awarded in the finals of a local business plan competition sponsored by the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado at…
It’s BrewGrass time on Old South Pearl Street, the kick-ass bluegrass block party that combines energetic guitar picking with dirty dancing, feasting and imbibing. The annual celebration, which rocks the 1200 block of South Pearl, kicks off at noon tomorrow with suds from 15 breweries, many of them local, numerous…
Indian food is always a feast, and here, where the above snap was flashed, dinner is a parade of delicious dishes that always ends with lugging home my kid’s leftovers, because, according to him, Indian food is “gross,” except, he contends, for the naan, which in this case is pelted…
Westword — thirty-plus years your weekly, ink-stained guide to Denver — now lives in your iPhone. The Westword iPhone app went live last night and is stocked with much of the same content you get here at westword.com. More specifically, you’ll find:…
By year’s end, Broomfield-based Noodles & Company will have brought its total number of Colorado locations to 43. And with the opening of a store this August in Republic Plaza, there will be two Noodles & Co outposts on the 16th Street Mall alone, one at 303 16th Street; the…
After more than a year of planning and construction, Cellar Wine Bar is now officially open at 2556 15th Street. It’s a great corner location, right at the turn where 15th becomes 29th Avenue — or it would be a great corner location, if not for the fact that the…
First came an appearance on Oprah. Now Steve Ells, founder of Chipotle, is a panelist on America’s Next Great Restaurant, joining chefs Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone (The Biggest Loser) and Lorena Garcia. They’ll be the judges as potential restaurateurs vie for what’s being billed by Magic Elves, the production team,…
“I’ve been doing raw food for six years and was shocked when I moved from meat-and-potatoes Chicago to healthy Boulder and saw that there was such a big gap in raw food restaurants,” says Daniel Asher, chef of Root Down and the former chef of Organic Orbit, a vegetable-focused Boulder…
As swiftly and suddenly as Carmen’s Cafe opened in April, the coffee shop at 1115 Grant Street in the Grant Street Mansion has now morphed into the Front Porch Cafe. The shop’s former namesake, Carmen Sanchez, dropped out (or was dropped, depending on who you talk to) as a result…
