As fast-casual concepts go, meatballs make sense. They can be prepared ahead and finished to order, they’re bite-sized, and they travel well. The part that takes explaining, as I say in this week’s review of Slotted Spoon Meatball Eatery, is what this new place puts meatballs on. Bread makes sense…
I can’t imagine what you’d do with this Colorado spirit, which makes your mouth, lips and gums go numb — a lot like Sichuan peppercorns — but there’s at least one restaurant and bar that’s conjuring up ways to use the spirit in cocktails. Still, this has got to be…
A couple took their infant to a Denver Starbucks this week, and when they didn’t find a changing table in the restroom, they decided to do a ragey protest-change on a table in the dining room. This incident didn’t end well. After being confronted by store employees about the public…
Although downtown just lost another pizza spot, Toppings, today Pizza Republica will make its debut on 14th Street, right in front of the Colorado Convention Center — and this downtown version of a restaurant that got its start in Greenwood Village looks like more than a fair trade. And more…
Pizza palaces, as we reported earlier today, are peppered throughout the downtown Denver restaurant landscape, and while some of those same pizzerias that opened within the past year have since shuttered, Pizza Republica, the original of which resides in the Landmark development in Greenwood Village, has proven that it has…
Swapping out butter and eggs for applesauce and almond milk has been a sweet deal for Blair Ednie and Michael Craig, who started Beet Box six years ago as a vegan catering and wholesale baking company. And this month, they gave up their base in Arvada for a new home…
Talk about a cheap lunch: six tacos and a large pineapple agua fresca for $14. And these aren’t your average street tacos. In fact, in my humble opinion, these are the best street tacos in town — and the excellent salsa bar isn’t far behind. Can you guess where I’m…
A string of pizza joints opened in LoDo last year, in a neighborhood that already included the Wazee Supper Club and Two-Fisted Mario’s, with Mellow Mushroom and Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria just a few blocks outside of LoDo. Wazee Wood-Fired Pizza was the first to open — and also the first…
Cory Treadway Wynkoop Brewing Company 1634 18th Street 303-297-2700 wynkoop.com This is part two of my interview with Cory Treadway, exec chef of the Wynkoop; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Your five favorite local restaurants other than your own: Oak at Fourteenth in Boulder is doing a great…
Chocolatiers Andrew Starr and Jennifer Spielman of Colorado-based Black Star Chocolates weren’t satisfied with the first version of their lemongrass-kaffir lime-coconut truffle — specifically, how the chocolate overpowered the filling flavors — so they made some changes in time for the 2013 Colorado Chocolate Festival. And the revamped truffle took…
After my first visit to Slotted Spoon Meatball Eatery, a locally owned fast-casual joint that’s a meatball-slinging version of Chipotle, I thought about giving the guys who own it a present. Two, actually. The first was a blender, so they could offer milkshakes for dessert instead of just Lucky Charms-crusted…
At last night’s dinner — a birthday celebration for one of the most amazing fathers I’ve ever known — we feasted on everything from beet carpaccio to sweetbreads, but the star of the show was the single grilled scallop pooled in a puddle of squid ink. Can you guess where…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. If you’ve wandered…
In April, “ice cream-sandwich enthusiast” Peter Bredemann donned hot-pink sunglasses, hot-pink fannyback and hot-pink flip-flops and started pedaling a hot-pink, three-wheel bike around Denver, peddling ice cream sandwiches. Now from noon to 2 p.m. every Monday through Friday, Peteybird Ice Cream Sandwiches can be found by the D&F Clocktower at…
A “rising star.” That’s how Westword restaurant critic Gretchen Kurtz described Red Star Deli, a smashing sandwich joint that opened in the Icehouse, along with Studio F, a spacious culinary stage — and pop- up venue — for local and visiting chefs to shine in front of captive audiences, in…
Cory Treadway Wynkoop Brewing Company 1634 18th Street 303-297-2700 wynkoop.com This is part one of my interview with Cory Treadway, exec chef of the Wynkoop; part two of our conversation will run in this space tomorrow. “I was the first white kid — the first gringo — to ever roll…
In A Federal Case, I’ll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard — south to north — within Denver city limits. I’ll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I’ll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here’s the…
When Jenn Wohletz moved from the Midwest to New Mexico, she discovered Mexican food — make that New Mexican food — at Little Anita’s, and she got hooked on both red and green chile. During a stint in Utah, she almost had to go cold turkey — but here in…
Backcountry Provisions, the Steamboat Springs-based mini-chain that added a LoDo store in 2010, has changed its name to Backcountry Delicatessen. “The brand refresh represents more than a name change; it’s a progression of our business which positively represents our commitment to our customers and desire to expand to other locations,”…
Prince Harry might have stopped by The Market on Monday, but the real royalty was right down the street, at Rioja. Just a week before, Jennifer Jasinski, the chef who opened that Larimer Square restaurant with business partner Beth Gruitch almost a decade ago, was named Best Chef Southwest at…
Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year — which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn’t it? But all…
Update: We have a winner of our Trillium Norway dinner! Last week, we asked Cafe Society commenters to guess how many pounds of gravlax, on average, chef Ryan Leinonen serves in a month at Trillium. Congrats to sixfeetofsnow, who guessed fifteen pounds of gravlax. The actual number is thirty, a…
