The sommelier title hasn’t always been a glamorous one. In fact, according to Rajat Parr and Jordan Mackay’s new book, Secrets of the Sommeliers, it was once a title relegated to restaurant workers who proved themselves unworthy of the kitchen, a lowly crew banished to the wine cellar for life…
Cozy Cottage has grown into a House: On Sunday, the breakfast-and-lunch spot opened in its new location at 4363 Tennyson Street, formerly occupied by House (and Gemelli’s before that). The old Cozy Cottage location, at 2423 South Downing Street, closed at the end of November, but owner Michael Mueller has…
Last week Govinda’s Buffet, a vegetarian mainstay, announced that it would be open Tuesdays through Thursdays for lunch, in addition to regular dinner hours on Friday and Saturday. But as it turns out, Govinda’s had more good news cooking: The restaurant will be open for lunch on Friday and Saturday…
In 2011, Denver should resolve to get better ethnic restaurants. That’s the word from Xarchy, who just found our post about Travel & Leisure slapping this city for its poor selection of ethnic eateries. The mag’s survey was conducted more than a year ago, but the situation hasn’t changed, according…
I checked the clock nervously, willing the car in front of me to step on the gas. “GO!” I yelled, six inches from the guy’s bumper. Mercifully, there was a break in the traffic and I zipped around the old white sedan, resisting the urge to cut it off entirely…
There are three sushi restaurants within a three-block radius in downtown Boulder — and each of them is almost always full. One caters to college kids who come for fusion rolls and cheap drink specials, another attracts crowds with sake bombs and a wide selection of nigiri. And then there’s…
Bittersweet, Olav Peterson’s new garden-to-table restaurant at 500 East Alameda Avenue opened on New Year’s Eve, after a series of unexpected construction delays that turned the dining room into an igloo, thanks to gale-force winds whipping through a light socket…
No. 86: Beef cheek enchiladas from El Diablo Sean Yontz is, arguably, the face of Mexican food in Denver, and when El Diablo, the restaurant that he co-owns with Jesse Morreale, opened last August, it did so with an ambitious menu that stretched far and above the conventional Mexican fray…
We’ve got high hopes for The Pinyon, 1710 Pearl Street in Boulder, which wowed us so much with its fried chicken just two days after it opened, it earned a coveted spot on our 100 Favorite Dishes roster. The Pinyon has been open since mid-December for dinner, but chef/owner Theo…
On the evening of January 1, we were traipsing around the ghost town that LoDo becomes in the aftermath of one of the biggest party nights of the year, and noticed that one restaurant missed the festivities entirely. D’Corazon Mexican Restaurant, 1530 Blake Street, has been on break since December…
Every year, on January 1, a bunch of us usher in the New Year at a popular Chinese restaurant that graciously puts up with our lingering hangovers and hungered stomachs. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am…
While many restaurants closed in 2010, many more restaurants opened — including such hot spots as ChoLon, Euclid Hall, Green Russell, Lou’s Food Bar and, on the very last day of the year, Bittersweet. Here’s the restaurant roll call for 2010, our compendium of all the spots that opened and…
The first mobile food vendor on wheels was launched nearly 150 years ago, in 1872, when a Rhode Island native called Walter Scott trotted his horse-drawn freight wagon, stocked with sandwiches, hard-boiled eggs, coffee and pies around the town of Providence, satiating the bellies of late-night factory workers. A century…
Just as he did two years ago with Bones, Frank Bonanno opened a new restaurant, Lou’s Food Bar, in the last days of the year. But there was much more action on the Denver dining scene, as documented in our Restaurant roll call for December:…
Denver’s restaurateurs are an incredibly generous group, with chefs and owners alike stepping up to contribute to endless good causes throughout the year. Olivea — the eighteen-month-old restaurant owned by Keith Arnold and Stephanie Bonin (who’re also responsible for duo) and chef John Broening and pastry goddess Yasmin Lozada-Hissom –…
Cafe Society served up four Guess where contests last week, ranging from an obscene sake container at Matsuhisa in Aspen to an unusual combo cocktail at Rackhouse Pub to a post-Christmas dish of steak and eggs . For correctly identifying that plate as coming from Pete’s Kitchen, Nate wins an…
Happy New Year! We’ll see you back here bright and early on Monday morning…
“Yeah, it’s been stressful, and there was a point where I felt like I was going to throw up,” confesses Frank Bonanno, who’s clinging to a glass of red wine while sitting at the bar of Lou’s Food Bar, his newest restaurant that opened last night at 1851 West 38th…
Tonight, one lucky Cafe Society reader will get to celebrate New Year’s Eve at Olivéa, the sensational Mediterranean restaurant in Uptown whose kitchen is overseen by the dynamic husband-and-wife duo of exec chef John Broening and pastry goddess Yasmin Lozada-Hissom. Earlier this week, we asked you to tell us, in…
All the talk about “In the Weeds” inspired Brian Melton to send in this missive about the restaurant industry. It’s our New Year’s Eve gift for everyone in the business –and anyone out on the town tonight who benefits from exemplary workers in the service industry. “My Love Affair with…
In this week’s Westword, I headed down to Alameda for a glimpse of the loncheras that ruled the streets before this year, when tricked out mobile vendors (or luxe loncheras) became a hot trend. And in the course of the time I spent with the family who owns La Villa…
I love the service here, and the wine list is both sensibly priced and well-crafted, but after a recent dinner that included a wad of paper in my chile rellenos and a woefully underseasoned seafood dish that arrived lukewarm, it’s on my shit list. Can you guess where I’m eating?…
