Restaurants

No. 46: Xiao Long Bao from Lao Wang Noodle House…

Like bubble tea and flavor-it-yourself water, kombucha is yet another trendy liquid. It’s a tea-based beverage that’s fermented with yeast and bacteria, which is supposed to yield some kind of “healthful” results — or so we’ve heard. Healthful or not, the stuff does give you a bit of a boost,…

Hot dogs are haute in Cherry Creek, where The Hawt Dog & Sausage Cafe opened last week. And now Geisty’s Dogg House, featuring gourmet sausages, sliders and wings, is set to open next month at 1116 13th Street on The Hill in Boulder. The Geisty’s website promises that customers can…

We’ve written before about the vegetarian food at Elway’s Downtown, 1881 Curtis Street. The restaurant remains one of our favorite (and least obvious) places to grab a bite to eat in the area — you wouldn’t think a steakhouse would cater so well to vegetarians, but this one does. In…

Hooked on Colfax, the eclectic, buzzy java joint at 3213 East Colfax, is planning a big expansion, one that will double its square footage and seating capacity, which is busting at the seams, says barista Zach Griffin…

Denver lays claim to several noteworthy Middle Eastern restaurants, but there are plenty of flops, too, including the place where the above snap was flashed. Achingly slow service, a server whose vocabulary consisted of nothing more than “no problem” and lukewarm food completely devoid of seasoning made this a total…

Richard Sandoval opened his first restaurant in New York City fifteen years ago, and since then, his empire has expanded across the United States. He currently has six spots in Colorado, including the recently opened Cima in Avon, Venga Venga in Vail and a pair of La Sandias in Northfield…

Cherry Creek, once a dining hot spot, has cooled off considerably in recent years. But the area saw several new restaurants join the Creek lineup last year, and two of the first openings of the new year are both in Cherry Creek North. An outlet of Pasquini’s , the fifth…

It wasn’t long ago that I demoted Cherry Creek to a culinary wasteland — or something like that — but as soon as the words slipped from my fly trap, I had to eat them. Over the past few months, Cherry Creek has been blitzed with new restaurants: La Merisse,…

We noticed last week that Campagna Pizzeria — the restaurant Alex Gurevich opened almost two years ago in a Sixth Avenue storefront that has seen a lot of eateries come and go over the years — was closed and undergoing renovations. It appeared that the space would reopen as a…

“No self-respecting Cherry Creek snob would go to someplace named ‘Wrap Dawgs,'” wrote a frequent Cafe Society commenter when I announced that a new hot dog joint, whose name was Wrap Dawgs, planned to open at Second and St. Paul…

No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. My grandma seemed to always have a big bowl of cucumbers and onions to munch on. Crunchy and salty-savory like potatoes –…

“No Jack!” yelled one of the bar mistresses to a drunk regular. “You can have a beer — one beer.” Then again, if your beer is a liter, which is what the guy sitting next to us was pounding, you may as well just drink Jack, or knock back a…

Coffee started as a hobby for Phil Goodlaxson, owner of Corvus Coffee. “I have a business degree, I did the corporate life for a bit, and when I’d had enough of that, I started looking for something that would be an artisan craft. I started getting more and more interested…

Denver Restaurant Week just posted the menus of the almost 300 restaurants participating in this year’s Denver Restaurant Week, which begins February 25 and runs for two weeks. We’re running a DRW contest for the best tips on how to get the most out of this annual eating orgy –…

Cafe Society served up four Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a plate of gnocchi from Seven 30 South, which has an extremely loyal base of regulars, including one couple who ate there 450 times in 2011, to an exquisite lamb dish at Burmese Superstar in San Francisco to…

Seventeen meals in four days, excluding bakery stops; 26 miles of walking (give or take), plus an additional 4.3 miles of exhibition halls clustered with more than 80,000 specialty foods and beverages from nearly forty countries. Artisan cheeses and charcuterie; beans that don’t make you fart; bacon beer that probably…

Bringing a food truck to the National Western Stock Show is no Wok in the Park. That’s because when Aramark, which handles food/beverage concessions at the Denver Coliseum, decided to add food trucks, including Biker Jim’s, to its side of the Stock Show, right under the I-70 viaduct, it changed…

Less than a year after opening, the Brauns on Blake sports bar has closed at 2401 Blake Street. The spot was Brauns’s second location. The first — and most well-known — Braun’s on Auraria Parkway closed last summer after the Pepsi Center, which owned the building where Brauns Bar and…

I’ll admit it: I’m stuck in the past, using a crockpot to cook meals. And I learned at chef Lynda Lacher’s One Pot Cooking Class at Cherry Creek Whole Foods last night that I am guilty of many crockpot sins, the worst of which is not using a pressure cooker…

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. Super Bowl Sunday…

I tend to go to this neighborhood restaurant three or four times a year, but when I stopped in for lunch yesterday, the owner, who once presided over one of the most (inexplicably) popular restaurants in Denver, revealed that one Denver couple — and their teenage daughter — ate here…