Casselman’s Bar & Venue opened this past weekend at 2620 Walnut Street, in the space where Shakespeare’s Pub, once an institution in the Platte Valley, lasted less than a year. Maybe that’s why owner Matt Casselman wants to refer to the neighborhood as “NoDo.” But he could soon rake in…
It probably won’t surprise you to learn that I haven’t been on a lot of dates. Thus far, my personal history of socio-sexual relations has been divided into two very distinct categories. Depending on the year, the place and my condition, I have either gotten by as some kind of…
While Charlie Master is now ensconced at Sketch, his former restaurant, Brix, is slowly settling into history. Although the original Brix space at 3000 East Fillmore Street is again empty (Barron’s died within weeks), the second Brix location, downtown at 2200 Market Street, should reopen on Friday, May 1, as…
Three Boulder Farmers’ Markets so far, and I’ve seen the sun only one time more than I’ve seen Rush Limbaugh. The first was sunny, the second snowy (and cancelled), and this past Saturday’s? Drizzly. It was still pleasant, though, sort of a natural version of a supermarket’s attempt at playing…
Bad times make for good deals, as restaurants and bars try to woo customers with great happy-hour deals. For example, at Emilio’s Super Chef, 338 East Colfax Avenue, you can get a “Fiesta Bucket” with five full-size Mexican beers for just $10 bucks from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday through…
If winter is the new summer when it comes to firing up the backyard grill (as I reported last December), then the big snowfalls of the past few weeks mean spring must be the new winter – which is fine, since winter is summer anyway. I think. And summer begins…
Frosted Mini-Wheats Little Bites Chocolate Kellogg’s Rating: A half-spoon out of four Cereal description: Whole grain wheat welded into a wiry-looking brown square diode, with one side flocked with white sugary spew and the other more or less naked to the world.They’re hard and heavy, although not hard and heavy…
Club Roxy, housed in the building at 2549 Welton Street that was once the down’s first black movie theater, turned into Pure late last year. Now it’s definitely having some impure thoughts, judging from a recent ad on Craigslist for “GOGO Dancers/ Coaktail Staff,” which announces: “We are currently looking…
When Jason Sheehan bemoaned the loss of Nosh last month, I shared in his solemnity. Not only was the gelato parlor in my ‘hood, but it was damn good gelato, and the spot’s lovely courtyard gardens, bedecked with wrought-iron benches and chairs and a trellised gazebo, were a communal pit…
What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society…Cafe Star has reopened as a second Trattoria Stella, while Park Burger is still on the back burner and a new Santoro’s is on the way.As if you need another excuse to buy that burrito bowl you love so much–drop into…
There was much lamenting last month when owners Tom and Marna Sumners announced that they would be closing Cafe Star, at 3201 East Colfax Avenue, a restaurant I loved back in the days when Rebecca Weitzman was running the kitchen. But that was a long time ago, and Cafe Star…
Santoro’s Brick Oven Pizzeria, our Best French Fries–Boardwalk winner in 2004, is opening another location. It’s at Broadway and Mineral, in the Safeway shopping center — and about ten miles from Santoro’s current spot at 9500 Heritage Hills Circle in Littleton. I grew up near the original Santoro’s, and know…
Kelley Coffman-Lee, the vegan Centennial mom who made national headlines this month when she announced that the Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles had rejected her attempts to buy a vanity license plate announcing ILVTOFU, is already a punchline. On April 18, the “Not My Job” segment of National Public Radio’s…
“Sour gummy” is usually a good place for a candy to start. But when it’s followed by “popcorn,” that presents a bit of a problem. It gets slightly better with the promise that the gummies are fruit-flavored…then slightly worse with the warning that one of the fruit flavors is, in…
Aubrey’s expecting her first baby any day now, and at a recent shower her friends presented her and other shower-goers with the following challenge: Identify the chocolate bar that has been melted down in a diaper to look like really disgusting poo. While we certainly all hope that her baby’s…
They call them convenience stores for a reason: gas, a Red Bull, some Advil and a frozen burrito. But not all convenience stores offer the same conveniences. For instance, a couple of Diamond Shamrocks in Denver, including the one at 255 Speer Boulevard, sell fresh-baked kolaches. That’s not something you…
To celebrate Colorado Architecture Month, the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects has paired up with local chefs for the Delicious Design program, creating desserts inspired by specific buildings in Colorado. Yesterday’s dessert was from Steuben’s; today’s featured design is from Carelli’s Restaurant in Boulder…
The Rib House, which got its start in Longmont, has opened the Boulder outlet we reported on two months ago here on Cafe Society — and business is smoking. “It’s jamming today,” owner Tracy Webb told me. “It was a beautiful lunch. April 6 was our official opening, and April…
When the weather starts to heat up, all I want is a nice patio, a great happy hour and some friends with which to enjoy the day. On a recent sunny afternoon, the patio at Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria fit the bill perfectly. Since I’m eight-and-a-half months pregnant, happy…
When last I talked to Park Burger owner Jean Phillippe Failyau, he hoped to get his restaurant at 1890 South Pearl Street up and running in about a month. That was a month ago.I just got off the phone with Park Burger kitchen manager Brad Putrycus (formerly chef at Osteria…
Back from Tucson, the land of cheese crisps but no green chile, I ran to Benny’s yesterday to get a late-lunch fix. Benny’s is a Denver institution that serves Colorado-style Mex to softball teams, book clubs, hatboys, party girls and anyone else who can escape their office on a Wednesday…
It’s no secret that we Westworders are seriously obsessed with green chile, which is why we could barely contain our enthusiasm when word hit the pavement back in early March that the executive decision-makers who oversee important things at Qdoba Mexican Grill, a homegrown chain headquartered in Wheat Ridge, planned…
