The news that Cafe Berlin is moving to the 16th Street Mall reminded us that it was time to check in on the status of another longtime German restaurant, Chinook Tavern. When the Georg family closed their restaurant at 265 Detroit Street back in June 2008, they promised that Chinoook…
Justin Brunson is one of the busiest chefs in Denver right now. Masterpiece Deli, with which we have a serious love affair, is applying for a liquor license, Brunson is prowling to open a second Masterpiece Deli location, and while Lechon, a pig-centric restaurant project between Brunson and Ben Parsons,…
The combination of beer and pizza is one of our favorite pastimes here at Cafe Society headquarters — and here, where the above snap was flashed, both ring in cheap during happy hour. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the…
I spent the past weekend preparing for summertime fun and frolic, and that means just one thing: vodka. Vodka not just in my glass, but vodka in my food. Summer is a great time to brown-bag both a beverage and a meal, and these libation-licious dishes are some of my…
Cafe Berlin just vacated its spot on 14th Street for the 16th Street Mall, saying it couldn’t move forward in a space so close to Civic Center. But another restaurant is ready to give that location a go: Belvedere Restaurant just landed its liquor license…
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines: The Great American Food Truck Race descended on Denver this past weekend, bringing lots of food and fun, as well as comments like this from Kay Ryan: Uhmm… try not to use the term, “paddy wagon,” which originated from a time when the Irish…
For concrete, unassailable proof that Denverites have well and truly embraced the street-food phenomena, all you had to do was walk outside this weekend — straight into food-truck utopia. As you all know by now, the Food Network’s The Great Food Truck Race made an extended pit stop in the…
Not all festivals are as interesting as the Colorado Chocolate Festival, a Dana Cain creation that started out with chocolate-covered Twinkies, wine slushes, a guy dressed up like a box of Swiss Miss cocoa, some fine local chocolate makers kicking ass and winning awards — and ended with an introduction…
Spinach is in season at Berry Patch Farms, a family-owned certified organic farm in Brighton, and Berry Patch spinach — deeply forest green in color and bitter and sweet in flavor — is some of the best around. While I was munching on some of that spinach the other day,…
Luciano’s Pizza and Wings, a Buffalo-style joint that has attracted numerous fans over the years (including upstate New York native Jason Sheehan) and sparked some discussion after our recent “Denver’s five best wings” list, is closed — at least for now. The “open” sign is off, and there’s a lockout…
Six years ago, Cafe Berlin gave up its longstanding Seventeenth Avenue address to move downtown, picking up the lease on a vast, bright space on Tremont and Fourteenth Streets. But the spot served its last meal in those digs on April 23, in anticipation of a new move just a…
Blink — and you’ll miss it. Not that Frankie Gallegos is worried about anyone actually doing anything of the sort, despite the fact that Frankie’s Cheesesteaks and More, his new cheesesteak joint, which opened promptly at 3:30 p.m. last Friday, is about the size of a button mushroom…
Tonight, chefs and restaurateurs from around the country will claim medals — shiny tokens that dub them the best in the country at their craft — at the James Beard Awards ceremony in New York City. In anticipation of the event, Andrew Knowlton, restaurant and drinks editor at Bon Appetit,…
There are all sorts of new additions to this old restaurant, but the board, entrenched in Americanism, has largely remained the same, holding true to its canvas of steaks, chops and side dishes like creamed spinach. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
Dave Query, the man behind the Big Red F restaurant group — including the Jax Fish House outposts in Denver and Boulder (and, soon, Fort Collins), Lola, West End Tavern, Centro and, most relevant right now, Happy — is happy. At least, he sure looked that way Sunday, shown fly-fishing…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, featuring everything from Russo’s Kitchen + Tavern, which pours Nora beer, to a platter of In-N-Out burgers (which means Lori Midson definitely wasn’t eating in Denver) to this plate of African cuisine, including goat meat. For correctly guessing that it…
The discussion of our Denver’s five best wings list has really taken off, with readers pushing everything from Highland Tap and Burger to Moe’s Original Bar-B-Que to Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria. From Toddicus: I’ve eaten wings at most of the places listed and still have yet to find wings as good…
We’re just about ready to take off to join the trucks taking part in the Food Network’s The Great Food Truck Race, which is happening all around Denver, right this very minute, but before we venture out, we wanted to give you the very latest round of truck location updates:…
The Roslyn Grill was always one of Denver’s most colorful dives, both in its original location on 14th Street and then when it relocated two decades ago to 504 East Colfax Avenue. The Roslyn closed for good early this year, but the space will soon be resurrected as Prohibition…
No. 63: Bouillabaisse from Deluxe…
Just got off the phone with someone very closely connected to the Lime Truck, the Irvine restaurant on wheels that’s barreled into Denver this weekend to strut its stuff during the The Great Food Truck Race — and we’ve got a few updates to pass along…
Armed with a portable oven and mobile sous vide license, Kelly Whitaker has been putting the finishing touches on Mobile Basta, the traveling extension of Pizzeria Basta that’s capable of reproducing the entire menu of the Boulder restaurant on the street. He’ll debut the fruits of his labor today: Mobile…
