Growing up, I spent summer vacations with a pack of cousins, running around a small town in North Dakota, and while the walleye was plentiful, as were the pan-baked dessert bars, the area was not known for its culinary treats. Meals, whether served in a restaurant or the basement of…
The sign haphazardly taped to the door of Leobardo’s Taco Shop, a 24/7 street-taco shack at 825 South Federal that’s one of our frequent pit stops for a fast lunch (or late-night feast) of tacos al vapor, has been in place since last Thursday (at least), which begs the question:…
I woke up slightly hungover the other morning — though not terribly so: These days, I prefer to maintain a buzz rather than chase one down. Still, I happened to have maintained that buzz a bit too long the night before and didn’t feel like doing much for the duration…
When Curt and Deicy Steinbecker opened Ondo’s Spanish Tapas Bar in late 2009, they wanted to give Denver a true Spanish experience, channeling the country where they’d met and learned to cook. And in that spirit, they’re importing another of their favorite Iberian traditions: the Basque pintxos happy hour…
Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen is celebrating its first anniversary tomorrow night with a pig-centric party, which exec chef Jorel Pierce promises will be “a liquor-infused, gastro-visio musical blowout.” We imagine it’ll be all that and more — and one really, really lucky Cafe Society reader, who entered our free-ticket…
After garnering a legion of fans at the original Mona’s Restaurant on 15th Street, which features a pair of high-heeled legs dangling above the door, Linda and Garen Austin opened a second location on South Broadway, followed by a third Mona’s Cafe on 17th Avenue and Sherman Street, which began…
The woman who runs the Thai street cart on the 16th Mall? You know — the one that commands queues that sometimes stretch beyond an hour during the lunch rush? The same Thai street cart that we heaped praise on in this year’s Best of Denver? That cart? Yeah, well,…
So many coffee shops… so few actually doing coffee and espresso drinks right. And even fewer that are owned or operated by people who really know their beans. Eric Yochim knows his beans…
If you haven’t been to this roadside institution that’s been slinging breakfasts for more than eighty years (the chef, by the way, is a Culinary Institute of America grad), then you’re really missing out: The eggs, with their marigold yolks, are plucked fresh off the farm, and the ham, bacon…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a shrimp noodle bowl at Crash 45 to an order of tacos dorados drowning in sour cream at Juarez to a plate of ravioli with what might be the Worst.Sauce.Ever — and a meatball that was no better…
It was bun while it lasted. But yesterday, Deluxe Burger closed its doors, just a month after the Little Orange Rocket also parked itself permanently. Co-owner Dylan Moore says he wants to focus his efforts on Deluxe and Delite, his side-by-side establishments on Broadway; Jill Warner and Eric Roorda, his…
Plans tonight? If not, and you happen to be looking for a kick-ass way to get your food and drink on that’s a little out of the ordinary, head over to Tennyson Street and partake in some First Friday activities. A scaled-down version of the busy Santa Fe First Friday…
When I reviewed Boulder’s Salt the Bistro almost a year ago, it seemed to have unfulfilled potential. “Every detail at this place, so painstakingly crafted to fit perfectly into an ideal rendering of a Boulder restaurant, is fine on its own — but added together, those details equal exactly a…
First the Deluxe food truck, the Little Orange Rocket, drops off the curb, and now Deluxe Burger, the cow palace that Dylan Moore, the chef/owner of Deluxe and Delite, opened last year on Valentine’s Day, is going dark…
Twisters Burgers and Burritos, the Albuquerque-based fast-casual chain with a New Mexican menu and seventeen outposts, crossed the border into Colorado a couple of years ago, opening shops in Parker, Lakewood and Aurora. And now the company is getting ready to open a fourth Denver-area spot, planting a Twisters in…
There’s nothing worse than having high hopes for a restaurant, only to have them completely dashed, and that’s exactly what happened last night when I ordered the tacos dorados, which arrived with little more than lettuce and enough sour cream to overburden a landfill. And if that wasn’t bad enough,…
It’s going to be “a liquor-infused, gastro-visio musical blowout.” That’s how Jorel Pierce, the chef at Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen, Jennifer Jasinski’s nearly unassailable shrine to pig parts, poutine, offal and everything else we love in the food world, describes Euclid’s Hall upcoming first-anniversary party, which kicks off at…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview with Doug Anderson, the chief baker and owner of Hi*Rise, he talks about everything from his mother’s epic cinnamon rolls to baking bagels at Moe’s in Boulder, where he churned out more than 300-dozen bagels a day — just for the University of…
El Diablo, which won our Best New Bar award in the Best of Denver 2011 and is reviewed this week in Cafe, turns one this month. It’s been busy from the start — and that’s both good and bad news, according to Angel Hernandez. as good as this place may…
AmRest, which owns and operates over a hundred Applebee’s in eight states, had challenged its Colorado stores to create the perfect “Colorado Burger” — ideally, one that incorporated “Stinkin” Good Green Chile, created by Bronco Mark Schlereth, spokesman for this campaign. He met up with four other judges at the…
We here at Cafe Society headquarters love our taquerias, and Los Carbonicitos, which has three locations scattered across the city, is definitely one of our favorites. We can’t get enough of the joint’s street tacos, the Goliath-size tortas, the namesake carboncitos, the superb huaraches, the incendiary salsas. The trio of…
The kid always goes with pepperoni, occasionally risking his gag reflex with mushrooms, whereas I prefer, at least on this occasion, arugula, roasted garlic and prosciutto — and the kitchen was happy to oblige us both. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
