Cafe Society served up six Guess where contests last week, ranging from a still-unidentified Italian breakfast (the photo above is another clue) to a breakfast burrito at La Fuente to a plate of crab legs. For correctly those kickers as coming from Shanahan’s, Simoney wins an EatDenver deck…
Last week, we gave two EatDenver decks to the diners who had the best/worst Denver Restaurant Week stoies. Now, as thanks to all the hard-working restaurant employees who had to slog through two weeks of the promotion, we’re giving an EatDenver deck to one of their own: Brian Melton of…
For two decades, the Westword office was in lower downtown, where the parking rules seemed to change inexplicably, almost overnight. Or actually overnight: We emerged from one all-nighter to discover that our cars had been turned around by city trucks when the direction of Market Street was reversed. But the…
The news that Jason Sheehan is leaving the Pacific Northwest to return to the East Coast and a job at Philadelphia Magazine inspired numerous comments that indicated Sheehan may be long-gone as the Westword food critic, but will never be forgotten. And there was no love lost on either Philadelphia…
…But no, he’s not returning to Denver. In early 2010, after almost eight years as Westword’s Cafe critic (and six months after his memoir, Cooking Dirty, was published), Jason Sheehan moved to our partner paper in Seattle, the Seattle Weekly. But now he sends us this update: I swore for…
Today is the last day for servers to serve up their Denver Restaurant Week survival stories and win an EatDenver deck (earlier this week, we gave decks to diners with the two best/worst DRW stories). The deadline is 5 p.m., but we already have a contender: Brian Melton of TAG,…
House Democratic Leader Sal Pace’s proposal to restrict travel at Pinnacol Assurance passed an initial reading yesterday, and could move on to a final House vote as early as today. And Pinnacol, is unlikely to fight this move…
Comments have been pouring out over the news that Dry Dock Brewing in Aurora (one of our “Top ten places to drink like a pirate”) has to change the name of its acclaimed Seven Seas Double IPA after getting a “nasty” letter from a lawyer representing 7 Seas Brewing Company…
Yes, timing is everything. Last night, opponents of a proposed nuclear power plant in Pueblo County pointed to the situation in Japan as just one reason to stop the project. And tonight, experts will talk about how nukes already resulted in plutonium contamination outside the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons…
It was sixty years ago that Jerry Feld, then a student at the University of Denver, decided to get into the bar business and bought a watering hole at 404 Broadway from a man who’d opened it on the day Prohibition ended. At the time, Jerry was too young to…
Denver Restaurant Week ended at the close of service on March 11, with a record number of restaurants participating: 303. “Talk about a Denver number,” says Rich Grant, the spokesman for Visit Denver, the convention and visitors bureau that organizes the seven-year-old event. Even more impressive was the number of…
Denverites love the arts — but the arts didn’t officially become a part of the city structure until “1 percent for the arts,” a program established under Mayor Federico Peña that earmarked one percent of any city construction project for art works. Even as that project grew, so did the…
After Laura Shunk received an e-mail from a national food pub working on a list of the best pastas around the country, she posted a piece spilling some of her own favorites, and asked readers for their own. And out poured some saucy suggestions — Luca D’Italia, Rioja, Mizuna (fair…
If you hurry, you can still grab yourself a nice, big Italian breakfast — with some eye-opening Italian/American/Mexican green chile on the side. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a…
After the fourteen-day eating orgy of Denver Restaurant Week, Cafe Society has finally had time to digest all the entries in our best and worst stories from Denver Restaurant Week contest. And here they are:…
Cafe Society was already giving EatDenver decks to the best/worst Denver Restaurant Week stories (read the entries here), but our bonus offer of an EatDenver deck for the server who serves up the best story about surviving Denver Restaurant Week set off warning bells for SmokingLoon: Oh-oh, here comes the…
Janet Napolitano is in town today for the National Fusion Center Conference, a meeting of the country’s joint intelligence centers. Not included in that local fusion lineup are some of our homegrown terrorism experts, including John Elway, who narrated “8 Signs of Terrorism,” a film at the CELL, our home-grown…
I’m hooked on an illegal substance. For the past few months, I’ve somehow managed to cajole my contacts into handing over icy-cold contraband, thinking that each fix could be my last. And at least in Colorado bars and restaurants, it very well could be: My beloved Corona Light is being…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where contests last week, ranging from Lori Midson’s favorite watering hole to a $52.80 foie gras sandwich with duck egg, caviar and black truffles at Beatrice & Woodsley, to a terrific pizza at a just-opened joint. For correctly identifying that joint as Stingray, which…
Timing is everything. With gas prices going up, up, up due to the chaos in North Africa last month, suddenly a nuclear power plant started looking good to Pueblo County, where the commissioners are considering a proposal to make that county one of the spots in the country vying for…
On Friday, Cafe Society writers and commenters alike were all at your service, talking about what makes a great server — and what servers should watch for during Denver Restaurant Week from stingy diners, and every day from potential check-skippers. In response to Jenn Wohletz’s list of the top five…
Two decades ago, when the first LoDo Limelight Awards were handed out, restaurants were few and far between in lower downtown. But today the restaurant and hospitality industries are the heart of LoDo, and businesses ranging from the venerable Oxford Hotel to the brand-new ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro were honored…
