Earlier this week, we gave Cafe Society readers the chance to eat and drink free at tonight’s Halloween-themed Justice League of Street Food party, soliciting photos of you eating from the food trucks. We don’t yet have a winner, though, so we’re going to make this easier. Ready?…
Oh, brother! The battle between My Brother’s Bar and Brothers Bar & Grill is over. Attorneys for the two restaurants — one of which is the oldest continually operating saloon in the city, at 2376 15th Street, the other a link in a Wisconsin-based chain that took over the former…
A new Chick-fil-A restaurant opens this morning at 5260 South Wadsworth Boulevard in Lakewood (the building was previously a Black-Eyed Pea), but the line started forming yesterday. That’s because for the past seven years, the Atlanta-based company has celebrated every store opening with the First 100 Celebration, giving the first…
Head to Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, for Margaritas 101, part of a series of spirit and cooking classes at the restaurant taught by mixologist Jimmy Zanon and chef Duane Walker. Class starts at six and tuition is $25; for more info, call 720-570-8686 or go to www.loladenver.com. For information on…
We don’t know whether the two hotties pictured above will be participating — or whether they eat a lot of Italian food to keep those bodies fueled — but this much we do know: Maggiano’s Little Italy, 500 16th Street, is hosting Great Balls of Fire at noon today, when…
What with the Food Network and the proliferation of culinary personalities all over the place, do you ever wonder what those folks might do in a zombie apocalypse? They’d die, of course. And then become zombies themselves. But what then? They’d do what they’ve always done, obviously. They’d annoy the…
It seems about as premature as the holiday commercial that annoyingly awoke me from deep slumber this morning, but 2010 must be drawing to a close, because consultants across the country are racing to call the big food trends of 2011. Last week, Andrew Freeman & Co., a nationwide hospitality…
Next year, sometime in February, the SPIRE, downtown Denver’s new 42-story, skyscraping structure that’s currently home to residents and, soon, Organic Pizza Company, will introduce fervent gastronauts to Row 14, a joint venture between David Schneider, a part-time server at Rioja and restaurant business consultant and Arik Markus, the former…
Channel 7 recently stopped by the 5300 block of East Colfax Avenue, to talk to Jill Warner and Erick Roorda, the owners of Mod Livin’, about the neighborhood dispute that’s gone “ballistic,” as Roorda says, since they opened Deluxe Burger with restaurateur Dylan Moore, then launched the Little Orange Rocket…
Just about everyone in town has heard of Parisi, the Italian restaurant/deli/bakery at 4401 Tennyson Street. In addition to serving excellent Italian food, it has a full deli stocked with delicious treats and a gelato/espresso station for dessert. Now there’s another reason to to visit Parisi: the Halloween Harvest Week…
Don’t be confused by the sign over the door: The 9th Avenue Grill is gone, but the space at 900 Jersey Street is back in business as Jersey Street Bar and Grill. It’s been open for a few weeks now, and the owners are hoping for a long run in…
Props to the Spicy Pickle for having the guts to roll out its new Harvest Panini, essentially a Thanksgiving — or Pilgrim — sandwich remade and given a less holiday-specific (or politically thorny) name. I have a long and delicious history with Thanksgiving sandwiches but have bemoaned the difficulty of…
Charley Sinden The Lobby 2121 Arapahoe Street 303-997-9911 www.thelobbydenver.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with chef Charley Sinden. We’ll run part two of Sinden’s interview tomorrow. By his own admission, Charley Sinden was a teen who liked trouble. He was the kind of kid who would smack…
After a six-month battle to place its McCruelty statue — a giant maimed chicken — near the McDonald’s on the 16th Street Mall, a fight that involved plenty of legal squawking, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has given up on Denver. City officials should be lovin’ it. The…
Six weeks ago, Boulder’s Frasca Food & Wine, 1738 Pearl Street, closed its doors for a complete remodel of its space, undertaken in order to expand the dining room of the flagship and add two new restaurants to the family: Pizzeria Locale, featuring wood-fired Napolitano pizzas, and Caffè, a grab-and-go…
Get your vine on: West End Wine Shop, 777 Pearl Street in Boulder, will present a wine tasting featuring vintages from Oregon and Washington with importer John Salamanski and Manuel Sanchez from 5:30 to 7 p.m. tonight. It’s free to attend; for more info, call 303-245-7077 or go to www.westendwineshop.com…
Firenze a Tavola, 4401 Tennyson Street, is rolling out the orange carpet for Halloween this month with a Halloween Community Table, a mobster-themed dinner (four courses served family-style) with traditional East Coast Italian-American cuisine. Admission is $28, and the meal starts at 7 p.m tonight.; for details, call 303-561-0234 or…
I am a simple woman. My heart can be won by various forms of carbohydrates, meat and fat, combined in excess and presented in one glorious dish. So it took just one look at the folded paper menu on my table at Euclid Hall to stir my interest. The restaurant,…
After falling in love with Euclid Hall, I decided it was time to return to Rioja: Jen Jasinski and Beth Gruitch’s first restaurant, the place where I sometimes take out-of-town guests but rarely go to otherwise. Still, this Larimer Square spot has been packed since the moment it opened six…
My strange aversion to the smell of some Asian restaurants dates back to my glamour days as an advertising exec in Manhattan, when I was barely eking out a living and my lifestyle was a lot more like Dick Whitman’s than Don Draper’s. I lived with three roommates in a…
Euclid Hall, 1317 14th Street, the third restaurant within one block for partners Jennifer Jasinski and Beth Gruitch, who also own Rioja and Bistro Vendome, was one of the hottest openings of the summer. The crowds packed into the beautifully refurbished space that most recently held the grimy Martini Ranch…
Maybe it’s the change in seasons, or the fact that I live in an ancient bungalow with single-pane windows and a thermostat that doesn’t understand the concept of heat, but whatever the reason, I’ve been on a macaroni and cheese kick for the past two weeks, even guiltily breaking out…
