Cafe Society writers are serving up some of their favorite meal memories of 2010 on the blog this week. Laura Shunk led this trip down memory lane with her “Top Five Meal Memories,” which included tasty reminders of meals both near and far. The latter inspired this response from the…
Andrew Romanoff’s had one head-spinning year. Passed over by Governor Bill Ritter in his quest to be appointed to Ken Salazar’s Senate seat, Romanoff snubbed any White House entreaties regarding a job in international development in order to take on Senate appointee Michael Bennet. But even though Romanoff lost to…
Christmas is over, but the holiday show is still up at the Denver City & County Building. This season’s run will end sooner than usual, with the steps cleared of the Nativity and Santa’s horrific hoedown on January 15 to make way for the Big Air show coming to Civic…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where contests last week, with entries ranging from a holiday drink that stirred the finger of an unhappy drinker at the Bar Car (above) to a sad, closed restaurant at 2103 South Broadway, where no one will be eating again. For correctly identifying that…
If readers thought Kyle Garratt was whining about verbal tippers, his column about tea really landed him in hot water. One commenter stirred things up with the following: I guess bringing someone tea is pretty hard. No wait, being trapped in a mine shaft for two months because some soulless…
Judging from the comments posted on the Latest Word over the last few days, many people had a very green Christmas. For example, Sierra wrote the following after reading William Breathes’s latest dispensary review of Colorado Alternative Medicine:…
The lights are on but no one’s home at this sad spot, one of the local restaurants that closed in 2010. But there was more good news than bad on the dining scene this year, with many restaurants opening — and a few still hoping to squeak in before 2011…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program. You can…
Hair today, gone tomorrow. For his 2010 wrap-up, Michael Roberts looked through hundreds of crime reports to come up with his mug shot retrospectives. And that disgusted Disgusted American, who did some ethical hair-splitting over “Top 12 Bad Hair Mug Shots”:…
For anyone planning on driving outside of the MMJ-friendly state of Colorado this holiday season, we offer this recent post as a public service (and, yes, our second comment of the day)…
The Denver skyline is bright with Christmas lights, but a traditional blue glow still dominates the dark. And while the status of the Qwest sign will ride on the Qwest/CenturyLink merger proposal, that azure light isn’t expected to go out anytime soon…
Phillip Ray Greaves II, the 47-year-old Pueblo author of The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover’s Code of Conduct, sent a copy to the wrong person: a Florida sheriff’s deputy, a sale that will have him in a Florida court today on charges of distributing obscene material…
The comments keep coming in response to Kyle Garratt’s initial In the Weeds: A Waiter’s Rant. Yesterday, B2 posted this: Cafe Society is becoming the service industries yelp. Its an avenue for waiters, cooks and chefs to bitch and moan about paying customers, much like yelp is that means for…
The reminder for the memorial site at muchloved.com came in at 5:01 this morning. I did not need it: Not a day goes by that I do not think about Sandy Widener, John Parr and Chase Parr, the three members of a much-loved Colorado family who died in a horrific…
Every morning, I look east to where the oldest house on our historic block once stood — a Victorian bungalow that was delisted as a Denver landmark, then demolished and replaced by a gargantuan single-family home going up right on the edge of the bluff overlooking downtown, blocking many of…
Food deserts — that’s what areas without grocery stores are called. And Commerce City is ready to provide some irrigation for the desert area around Reunion, a planned community whose plan has so far lacked a supermarket. The result? About 16,000 people in the northern range of Commerce City are…
And here we thought marijuana made its proponents more mellow than our average cranky correspondents. Yesterday morning, shortly after Nick Lucchesi posted his piece on one of the products he’d seen at KushCon II, Prescription Lock, which ends the “need to hide your weed,” Mr. Mezzrow posted this comment: So…
After thirteen years in the restaurant business, Kyle Garratt knows what it means to be in the weeds. Still, he’s really feeling the heat after posting the first of what will be a series of weekly waiter’s rants under the “In the Weeds” title. Among the readers fueling the fire…
Prisoners in El Paso County got an early Christmas present yesterday, when county officials agreed to stop limiting outgoing inmate mail to just postcards. The ACLU had filed suit against that policy, which the El Paso County Jail adopted this summer, arguing that such restrictions for prisoners who are awaiting…
How smart are Denver’s new “smart” meters if they’re so dim you can’t read them at night? We could find out soon enough, if Denver City Council tonight passes the plan to allow all-night parking in parts of downtown — parking that you’ll have to pay for, according to new…
The Highlands Mommies, the northwest Denver neighborhood group profiled by Melanie Asmer in the most recent Westword cover story, have inspired raves and rants, including this one from Gringo Whiteycracker: Isn’t this how the crips and bloods got started ? will we soon see mommies doing drive bys tossing dirty…
In her Barolo Grill review, Laura Shunk said that she could think of three dozen places in the area where she’d rather drop $200 on dinner for two. And then she put her mouth where her money was, and offered a list of those restaurants. There’s been plenty of discussion…
