Last week Cafe Society served up four Guess Where contests, featuring everything from a very controversial Sazerac to an appetizer of sweetbread “sandwiches” at Bittersweet to this plate of falafel and hummus. For correctly identifying it as coming from Udi’s, steveandtinacater wins an EatDenver deck…
Could a new machine make servers obsolete? That was the question posed by Kyle Garratt’s most recent In the Weeds column, which contemplated a future in which the automated E La Carte would be taking your order — and replacing servers like Garratt. “We can only hope!.” replied JeffParker. And…
Udi’s Pizza Cafe Bar will present another Udi’s Supper Club, an all-you-can-eat vegan/plant-based, family-style dinner that earned raves from our Veggie Girl. Admission is $18, $5 for kids under twelve; a portion of the proceeds benefit charitable causes. For more info, call 303-421-8000 or go to www.udisfood.com. For information on…
Copper Kettle Brewing, a new brewery on the border of Denver and Aurora, opens today at 3 p.m. with five beers on draft — a saison, a pale ale, a helles, a summer ale and an altbier — and a beautiful 52-seat living room-like tasting room. Owned by Jeremy Gobien…
We’ve got a roster of gatherings this weekend that includes baby showers, birthday parties and Easter. Charged with bringing something to each, we contemplated just phoning in a beverage pairing — until an urge to get into the kitchen overcame us. So instead, we baked carrot cake cupcakes with cream…
Happy Place: Shells and Sauce, 2600 East Twelfth Avenue, 303-377-2091. The Hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 4 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $2-4 beers; $4.50 wines by the glass and well drinks; $4.95 antipasti. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
I was out in Stapleton last night when I found myself with a late-night craving for pupusas, the El Salvadoran staple that looks like a fat corn tortilla stuffed with cheese, pork or vegetables. And since it wasn’t practical to drive up to Boulder to Pupusas Sabor Hispano, our pick…
It’s been a busy spring for Troy Guard and Leigh Sullivan-Guard, who opened TAG | RAW BAR in a below-ground spot in Larimer Square just before they became operating partners at Madison Street, the Larimer Associates project over on 12th Avenue and Madison Street. And now, they’ve announced a couple…
Strange Brewing will celebrate a bittersweet anniversary Saturday, April 23, with a slightly sweet beer, a Belgian trippel that has been waiting for a year. The brewery actually opened on May 19, 2010, but owners Tim Meyers and John Fletcher brewed their first Strange beer a few weeks earlier, called…
Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle will be right with you — most likely to complain about something. Usually he is pleasant, but this is his place to blow off some steam. Don’t take it personally; he just needs to vent because he’s been doing this for about thirteen years…
Last September, Rich Wong and his partner, Sharyn Nissen, rolled out a food cart, named it Street Eats and began pimping everything from Hawaiian-style kalbi ribs and Peking barbecue pork buns to chicken and andouille sausage gumbo and wild boar dogs tricked-out with cranberries and apricots from behind the confines…
In honor of Earth Day, participating Starbucks stores are giving free brewed coffee or tea, hot or iced, to everyone who brings in a reusable mug or tumbler. But the big news today is the return of Alfalfa’s to the same Boulder location at 1651 Broadway where the store first…
News of Williams & Graham, a speakeasy opening in Highland in June, has people licking their lips — “darling,” “awesome,” they rave — but also worrying about the crowds it might attract. Bigskrimping, for example, offers this: Sound super sweet! But really why tell people about it on this blog,…
Head for the hills: Devil’s Thumb Ranch, 3530 County Road 83 in Tabernash, will present a Steamworks’ Beer Dinner from 5 to 9 p.m. It’s a benefit for Trout Unlimited and the endangered Fraser River and $35. Reservations are required; call 800-933-4339 or visit www.devilsthumbranch.com. For information on dozens of…
What started as girlish gossip between Ashley Routson, a California-based beer blogger better known as the Beer Wench, and Jess Hunter, a Denver Off the Wagon booze blogger and beer aficionado, quickly became a discussion among female beer geeks nationwide focused on answering this burning question: Who is the most…
Almost two months after Jorge Pingarron first told Cafe Society that he was opening a “Mexican, but not Mexican” restaurant on South Broadway, the native of Acapulco has made good on his word: El Olvido opened last night with a fiesta, and when we stopped by today, there wasn’t a…
There are some restaurants that start off with a bang and falter, others that never even make it off the ground, and still others that put their best foot forward straight out of the gate and never stop evolving. The above snap was flashed at a restaurant that, while still…
Three months after Shannon Aten moved back to Boulder to make her dream of owning a pastry truck a reality, she’s ready to debut her wheels. The Tasterie Truck, which Aten and company have affectionately named “Madeline,” is getting wrapped in shades of teal, purple and green today, and it…
AC Golden Brewing, the tiny MillerCoors-owned beer maker located inside the Golden factory, will begin packaging its signature Colorado Native in cans for the summer; it will be sold in twelve-packs starting May 1. “Our retailers and drinkers have been requesting cans, especially for summer, so they can take Colorado…
For the past several months, behind the walls of a two-story, converted apartment building in Highland, Todd Colehour, a former executive with Kona Grill, along with his business partners and startender Sean Kenyon, who works behind the bar of the Squeaky Bean and writes our weekly “Ask the Bartender” column,…
Justin Cucci Root Down 1600 West 33rd Avenue 303-993-4200 www.rootdowndenver.com This is part two of my interview with Justin Cucci, owner and executive chef of Root Down and Linger. Part one of my interview with Cucci ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I don’t have one. Like…
Lori Midson’s new Chef and Tell interview with Justin Cucci, chef/owner of Root Down, has people talking. From booyah: this man gets it From Lipster: It’s interesting that he uses “pussies” as a derogatory term and then, in nearly the same breath, refers to all of the women who work…
