Late last week, we broke the very good news that Jensen Cummings, the ex-chef de cuisine at TAG, who resigned from Troy Guard’s Larimer Square restaurant after some high-voltage drama, had snapped up the exec chef position at Row 14, following the departure of Arik Markus, Row 14’s opening chef…
Patsy’s has been serving up red-sauce Italian fare in northwest Denver since 1921, and the bar and dining room — along with the menu itself — is a window into the neighborhood’s past. The restaurant keeps pulling in legions of diners, and now it’s added a new incentive to stop…
Close to a year ago, chef and restaurateur Frank Bonanno, whose colony of collections already included Mizuna, Osteria Marco, Luca D’Italia and Bones, inked a lease on a mammoth, 6,000-square-foot down-reaching space in Larimer Square that soon became the dwelling pads to Wednesday’s Pie, a one-day-a-week pie parlor, and Green…
The server made a mess of the French press coffee, serving it less than lukewarm and managing to spray coffee grinds all over the table with an unnecessarily severe push, but the kitchen, at least, has a deft hand, turning out a summery plate of prosciutto-wrapped honeydew forested with greens…
You’ve heard it all before: the local, sustainable, organic, farm-to-table, eco-conscious culinary buzzword chant that chefs, foodniks and food writers dispense to ballyhoo the food movement of the moment. Some chefs are professionally rehearsed in the hyperbole, despite the fact that a peek in their walk-ins raises skeptical eyebrows –…
After I ate at Bittersweet for this week’s review, I stopped by chef-owner Olav Peterson’s old stomping grounds, Bistro One, where owner Alex Waters has turned his three-year-old restaurant into a solid neighborhood joint with a menu full of Southern comfort food. And Bistro One is about to add another…
We’ve carped plenty about the lack of Colorado-created items at Denver International Airport, and a new program will not only introduce a few state-specific retail outlets, but will also be hiring some Coloradans to work at them at a job fair today. Over the next two weeks, up to fourteen…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a still-unidentified plate of “ewww” to a steak at Westerkamp that inspired an interesting comment from “disapointed culinarian” to this duck duet. For correctly identifying it as coming from Bistro Vendome, where Dana Rodriguez is now the executive…
Denver is going very Euro. IKEA, with its 550-seat, meatball-rolling restaurant that will provide sustenance for all those furniture shoppers, officially opens Wednesday. And last Friday, Chloe Mezze Lounge made its long-awaited debut — and in both concept and crowd, the hipper-than-hip Chloe could not have been more unlike the…
Earlier this week, we rolled out a contest to Cafe Society readers, in which two people would win the privilege to eat and drink for free at the Food Truck Renegades: The Sequel party, which kicks off tomorrow at 4 p.m. in a mammoth parking lot at 23rd and Walnut…
I definitely missed the memo — the one that stipulated that stilettos; perfectly coiffed hair; jaw-dropping, butt-hugging and breast-spilling black dresses; and fresh-from-the-salon manicures were prerequisites for last night’s VIP launch party of Chloe Mezze Lounge, a new nightclub/discotheque, lounge-restaurant and social garden (complete with its own bar and a…
Less than a year after opening a second location in downtown Louisville, In Season Local Market has branched out yet again, adding beer, wine and spirits to its repertoire of locally sourced products. “We wanted to provide something that Louisville lacked, a local marketplace as well as a quality liquor…
In the Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date, thanks to the constant crowd of young professionals who mingle there over cappuccinos. And because we’re big proponents of ditching online dating and blind set-ups every now and then in favor of meeting…
Two weeks ago, when we broke the news that more than a dozen staffers from TAG, Troy Guard’s restaurant in Larimer Square, had walked out the door or submitted their two-week notice as a result of personal issues between Troy and his wife (soon to be ex-wife) Leigh Sullivan, people…
I promised myself I’d eat just one, but one led to two and two led to three, and now I’m in a sausage stupor, thanks to Brad Arguello, the co-owner of Über Sausage, a weeny-size sausage parlor that opened two weeks ago at 2730 East Colfax Avenue in the former…
When it comes to food, I’ll try anything once — I’ve happily eaten tarantulas, ant eggs and ant dust, grasshoppers, crickets, duck tongues, rubber, crayons and toenails — but this Sicilian dish, the texture and flavors of which were pure funk and stink, is not something that I’d rush to…
UPDATE: The winners are announced here. Some food trucks might be falling off the curb — the Little Orange Rocket, Walnut A-Go-Go, Crazy Good and Fiddle My Griddle have all slammed on the brakes — but by our last count, there were more than eighty Denver-area food trucks still on…
IKEA’s grand opening on July 27 will give fervent foodie fans access to a veritable smorgasbord of reasonably-priced Swedish tongue-tempters.The restaurant menus and groceries available at each IKEA vary according to regional tastes, but Coloradans should know that the Centennial store — the 38th to open in this country –…
While residents of the South Gaylord Street neighborhood are still debating, and debating, Brown Dog Pizza’s stymied bid to get a liquor license, on the other side of Washington Park, Gary Lee’s Motor Club and Grub has finally gotten a green light on that project — after making a few…
After nine successful years at its 17th Avenue location, Marczyk Fine Foods has opened a second store on Colfax east of Colorado Boulevard. This location, which debuted today, is a beautifully renovated hardware store, and Marczyk II features the same quality dry goods, produce, meat and seafood as the original,…
Bob doesn’t want Diana DeGette showing up at his door anytime soon, expecting to get the Readers’ Choice Best Nachos from the Best of Denver 2011. On Monday, he received a letter from the congresswoman, congratulating the recipient for winning the award. “I hope she’s not referring people to come…
Dancing Noodle Thai Cuisine is open again after a brief summer break. After a sabbatical in Thailand, the couple who owns Dancing Noodle, our pick as Best Thai Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2010, are back in the kitchen, cooking up Thai fare that’s certain to be more authentic…
