Despite yesterday’s earthquake that hit the Trinidad region, “Colorado is considered a region of minor earthquake activity,” according to the U.S. Geological Survey. But forty years ago, a series of quakes rocked the Denver area — quakes caused not by Mother Nature, but by Uncle Sam…
Steve Horner has moved his anti-ladies’ night crusade to Sin City (lots of luck there!) and Las Vegas resident Michael Marstellar, for one, doesn’t appreciate his manly efforts to shut down female-friendly pool parties. In response to yesterday’s update on Horner, he writes: Is there anyway to get in touch…
It was five years ago that Steve Horner went to Proof of the Pudding one hot August night and asked to get in free — just as women were on ladies’ night. When the doorman refused, Horner filed a complaint against the club, which soon spiraled into dozens of cases…
Yesterday Lori Midson started spilling some of the secret, off-the-menu items offered at local restaurants, starting with one at D Bar Desserts. But it was the photo accompanying the post that snagged the comment that warmed her heart. It’s no secret that Cafe Society photos have come in for criticism,…
Denver is renowned around the world for its weather, its scenery and its local institutions — most notably the Broncos, MMJ dispensaries and the Denver boot. But was displaying one of those car-immobilizing clamps at Sunday’s big tourism party really the best way to promote the city?…
“Denver residents who have been to one of the six restaurants and bars run by Frank Bonnano would most likely agree that the experience means good food and service to match. With Lou’s Food Bar, which opened late last year, the 43-year-old chef has broadened his repertory with an American…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a bananas foster waffle to a devilish plate of shrimp diablo to this monkfish liver. For correctly identifying the ankimo as coming from Uoki, Jon S wins an EatDenver deck…
Steve Horner has plenty of opinions about bars — both the kind that serve up drinks, and the kind that allegedly help serve up justice. During his several-year tenure in Colorado, he kept lawyers — and newspaper editors — busy with the complaints he filed about ladies’ night promos, as…
Restaurants whose websites have too little information. Restaurants whose websites have too much information. Restaurants whose websites don’t exist. Readers have plenty of their own gripes to add to our “Fifteen most annoying restaurant website mistakes.” And Cafe Society isn’t flaw-free, either. GFTW offers this: Good Lord. First of all,…
Frank’s Kitchen just celebrated its three-month birthday yesterday, but diners get the present today. The tiny cafe in the Whittier neighborhood — seating for ten, sixteen if it’s not too hot to sit outside — offered a fish fry last Friday that was so popular that Frank’s was out of…
Where do you take a toddler in Denver? Not to the Village at Edgewater, not anymore, not since the “soft play-cafe” closed this summer, after a noble attempt to provide a family-friendly environment. So where do you take a toddler in town? You stay home, suggests Dan5280:…
What’s next? Cows will get to cast ballots in Aurora? The Libertarian Party — like the National Western Stock Show, an institution that got its start in Colorado — is concerned that Aurora is about to give voting rights to a corporation: Gaylord Entertainment, the out-of-state company trying to rustle…
For five years, SAME Cafe has been doing good. And now its good works have been rewarded, again: The Restaurant Facility Management Association has made it the recipient of the RFMA Gives Program for 2012. Founded by Brad and Libby Birky in October 2006, SAME was the first restaurant in…
Do we cover Boulder too often? Not often enough? Too gently? Not harshly enough? Ellen’s suggestion that Cafe Society needs to take a more contemporary approach to Boulder inspired this response from chuckroast: For Ellen’s sake, instead of calling Boulderites the “Granola Set,” just call them “Humorless Assholes.”…
On his thirtieth day in office, Mayor Michael Hancock really got down to business yesterday, outlining a better, faster, stronger city government in a speech at the Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce’s State of the City Luncheon that included his opposition to Initiative 300, the paid sick leave proposal on…
One reader welcomed the news that Tiffin’s has opened in Boulder — but didn’t appreciate this start to Lori Midson’s piece on the all-vegetarian Indian joint: Seems that the Boulder granola set may be finally tiring of tofu. At least that’s what Justin Patel, co-owner of Tiffin’s, an all-vegetarian Indian…
With four communications staffers in Michael Hancock’s office and director Wil Alston focusing on raising the Denver mayor’s national profile, couldn’t one of them have returned a call to the L.A. Times about the potential move of the National Western Stock Show? Last time we looked, the Times had a…
Broadway is booming these days, with new ventures — everything from a new home for Argyll to the just-opened Thai Monkey Club — cropping up every week. And now the owners of Interstate Bar & Grill have revealed that they’ll be opening the Crimson Canary in the former home of…
Turns out that William Koch, the Florida billionaire who bought the tintype of Billy the Kid for more than two million bucks at a Denver auction in June, isn’t just interested in photos of the Old West. He’s interested in Old West towns, too. And he just bought himself a…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a classic breakfast at the Pepper Pod in Hudson to guacamole chips at Taco House to this plate of fresh mozzarella. For correctly identifying the cheese — and the plate itself — as coming from Portofino Pizza &…
First Applebee’s rolled out a food truck. Then the Gap introduced its own food truck, which will be rolling through several towns (although not Denver) as part of a “tacos and denim” campaign. Asks Owen: Where’s the Ikea truck?!…
Paxia – Alta Cocina Mexicana is set to open today at 40th and Tejon, and while fans of the nearby Los Carboncitos are overjoyed, at least one is also dubious: Dear Steve and Michelle: You really thought that the Sunnyside Neighborhood needed yet ONE MORE mexican restaurant?!?!? In the six…
