It’s what you like that matters. And I like science fiction movies and books about sailing ships and celebrity memoirs and amateur pornography. I like music made in the years that music really mattered to me — those years I spent in high school and in kitchens and had very…
Twenty-eight hours and sixty-five entries later, we know one thing for sure: You people out there in Hotcakesland certainly do love your dick jokes. And your Colfax jokes. And your vegan jokes. And your vegan-on-Colfax dick jokes… Still, we had to go with just one caption for our last set…
Denver got a shout-out last week on the food blog www.seriouseats.com, which listed what they believe to be four unique food trends in our fair city. Our fast casual chains, microbreweries, green chile, and Beau Jo’s all get mentions. But while we appreciate that they resisted mentioning Rocky Mountain oysters,…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com. No. 96 Pho – any pho — from Pho 95…
Rotisserie ducks and chickens, traditional Asian noodles bowls, a fresh fish counter, pastries, ready-made sushi and rolls, sandwiches, prepared foods, bento boxes and fresh-blended juices come to Platt Park the day after Thanksgiving. That’s when Den Deli and Seafood Market is slated to open at 1501 South Pearl Street, directly…
The New York Times blog “You’re the Boss,” ruffled the apron strings of restaurant servers nationwide when it ran Bruce Buschel’s two-part list of things restaurant staffers should never do. As someone who worked the FOH for 14 years, I have two words for Buschel: Bitch, please. While Buschel made…
There’s a contest for everything, including, as it turns out, muffins. And for Sharon Smith and Wendy Goldstein, owners of the Two Sisters Inn — a bed-and-breakfast in Manitou Springs — it was their muffins that took the cake on Monday, November 9 at the Bed & Breakfast Innkeepers of…
Working in the food industry has its hazards. Today at 11 a.m. at Denver Police Department headquarters, five Denver police officers will be honored with the Citizens Appreciate Police award. On June 9, these officers responded to Oliver’s Meat Market “on the unfortunate report of an employee who lost her…
Tomorrow night, Mayor John Hickenlooper will give Anthony Bourdain a fork to the city when he introduces the travelin’ man at “An Evening with Anthony Bourdain” at the Buell Theatre. Of course, Bourdain has already forked this city: After visiting Denver on a book tour in 2002, he said he…
After months and months and months of delays, Kaos, the take-out pizza shack from Patrick Mangold-White and Jon Edwards, will finally fire up its oven tomorrow at exactly 11:30 a.m. Mangold-White and Edwards, who also own Gaia Bistro, 1551 South Pearl Street, had hoped to open Kaos in the former…
We have been shamelessly shilling for Anthony Bourdain for the past few days, talking about his upcoming trip to Denver, giving away tickets to his lecture and Q&A on November 18, throwing up pictures of him whenever we can. Shameless? Absolutely. Not for nothing, the man is very popular –…
Yes, we’ve scored two more pairs of tickets to the Anthony Bourdain event that we’ve been so relentlessly hyping for the past several days — and earlier today, we asked all you slavering readers to come up with interesting ways in which we might give them away. And since my…
Udi’s Bread Cafe, which already has locations in Stapleton (7357 East 29th Avenue); Louisville (185 South 104th Street); Aurora (12700 East 19th Street); and north Denver (101 East 70th Avenue), officially opens its fifth location today at 7600 Grandview in Olde Town Arvada, directly across the street from Archive Room,…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com. No. 97 Soft egg ravioli from Prima…
Oxtails are everywhere. In the new Lola bowl on the new brunch menu at Lola, in this amazing dish from Pete Marczyk at Marczyk Fine Foods. But what, exactly, is the animal that contributes its tail to these delicious preparations? Here’s the answer from Marcyzk: “Ox can be any number…
Here’s what you’ve all been waiting for–the winning entry in our “win a dream date with Tony B” contest! After several days and 55 entries (most of which actually stuck to the rules for a change), we have chosen our favorite. The mission was to provide three places for Denver-hating…
What you may have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were busting your brain trying to compile a list of canteens worthy of Sir Anthony Bourdain’s refined palate during his pit stop in D-Town next Wednesday, November 18 to lecture at the Temple Buell Theater. By the way,…
We’ve got two closures to report in Boulder, both of them somewhat surprising. First to go down? Spud Brothers at 2010 10th Street, which closed the doors on August 28, much to the disappointment of Micks and stoners city-wide. According to the official report from Spud Brothers management, the big…
The new Broadway location of Tony’s Market (right across the street from the Westword offices, at 950 Broadway) was giving away nibbles of their complete Thanksgiving dinner feast today during the lunch hour. Unfortunately, if you’re reading this now, you already missed the fun. The good news? They’re doing it…
Deep-fried, smothered in spicy buffalo sauce and served with a side of fluffy mashed potatoes and gravy, the above sandwich isn’t one of Jason’s favorite dishes, but it’s certainly one of mine. Can you guess where I’m eating?…
Beginning Saturday, November 14 and continuing through Saturday, November 21, you can take a big bite out of First Bite Boulder, a weeklong event that offers three-course dinners for $26 per person (excluding tax and gratuity) at 40 restaurants in the People’s Republic. For a list of participating feed houses,…
Beginning tonight, Sushi Sasa, Wayne Conwell’s hip temple of Japanese cuisine at 2401 15th Street, is adding late-night hours to its lineup. “Over the past few months, we’ve had numerous customers showing up at our doors after 10:30 wanting to eat sushi, so we thought, hey, let’s stay open later,”…
