Beginning today, and continuing through the end of the year — weather permitting — up to four local street-food trucks and carts will hustle their grub at Civic Center Park, the site of Civic Center EATS, this summer’s hit food parade that elevated Denver’s meals on wheels movement to superstar…
Were you a pleasingly plump baby? If so, you might have a case against your mother — if she was ingesting trans fat by the gallon while breastfeeding. Alex Anderson, assistant professor at the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and his team studied 96 women and their babies…
Looks like the old bungalow at 2637 West 26th Street that was the first home of La Loma, then went on to house ventures ranging from Cafe International to Bali Island to La Fabula to the Shooting Star coffeehouse, finally has a new tenant. Coming soon to this spot: Gordo…
Last week, Cafe Society served up six Guess Where contests (not including this unidentified entry from our seasonal green chile category), featuring everything from a scrumptious shrimp appetizer at the bistro at Tony’s Market to spring rolls at Pho-natic to a huge plate of oysters at Elway’s in Cherry Creek…
Frank Bonanno hosts a Slow Taste of Italy at 6:30 p.m. tonight at Osteria Marco, 1453 Larimer Street. The five-course Italian meal features local and sustainable ingredients; the courses are all paired with wines from around Italy. Tickets are $90; to snag a seat, call 303-534-5855 or go to www.osteriamarco.com…
Turn a new page today on your cookbook collection. Stop by Cook Street School of Fine Cooking, 1937 Market Street, which is having a sidewalk sale from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m…
This October afternoon is so mild that Marcyzk Fine Foods has resurrected its burger night. “It was supposed to end last week,” the Marcyzk website admits, “but the weather is so beautiful we are going to keep going until Mother Nature tells us to stop!” And that means from 5…
A few weeks ago, we reported that Frank Bonanno, whose expanding group of restaurants includes Mizuna, Bones, Osteria Marco, Luca d’Italia and, in December, Lou’s Food Bar, had signed a lease on a sizable subterranean space at 1422 Larimer in Larimer Square. At that time, his plan was to open…
The Larimer Associates and operating partner Brian Sifferman, of Larimer Square’s Corridor 44, haven’t even opened the doors to Madison Street, their newest project at 1222 Madison Street, and already they’re getting all kinds of flack from the neighbors, many of whom don’t want to see the space, which promises…
Back in June, Michelle and Steve Gelman shuttered their eponymous restaurant at 2911 West 38th Avenue and reopened the space a month later as Boston Fish Shack, a New England-influenced joint that turns out everything from seafood chowder to lobster rolls. And now that restaurant is up for sublease while…
Happy hour is prime time for getting awesome deals on the bar bites doled out where the above pic was flashed. We love the jalapeno poppers wrapped with prosciutto, but the jumbo shrimp, lightly battered and fried and glistening with a sweet and spicy Thai glaze, gratifies our bellies, too…
Let Matt Mather guide you to a bottle of wine, and you’ll get more than a perfect gruner veltliner to match your first-course vegetable dish. The wine director at Boulder’s Frasca Food & Wine, 1738 Pearl Street, is so well-versed in his craft, he can give you a history lesson,…
I was longing for hot and sour soup and soup dumplings yesterday, but when I pulled into the parking lot of Chopsticks China Bistro, 5117 South Yosemite Street, one of my favorite joints to get both, the dining room was dark and the front door and windows had been plastered…
Beer holds no grudges, and neither, apparently does Invesco Field. Beginning with the Denver Broncos game on October 17, the stadium will begin serving Rail Yard Ale in cans in its six River’s Edge beer stands. It joins just a handful of other Colorado microbrews in the stadium, which is…
Sean Kenyon, who recently left his bar manager post at Steuben’s, 523 East Seventeenth Avenue, just snagged a new gig slinging drinks behind the bar of the Squeaky Bean, Johnny Ballen’s irreverent food temple and watering hole at 3301 Tejon Street. Not surprisingly, Kenyon, one of the state’s most talented…
Neil and Jennie Bakewell — a very aptly named British couple — had eaten so well that they couldn’t sleep together, let alone get nude with each other. Before they called a halt to their very conspicuous consumption, their combined weight was an unbelievable 924 pounds, according to this story…
While harvest parties are cropping up all over town, other events are celebrating another fall favorite: chili. Groups are cooking up two very different chili cookoffs tomorrow: one at a neighborhood coffeehouse that’s definitely do-it-yourself, the other far more formal, but guaranteed fun, on the streets of Golden. But both…
At 6 p.m. tonight, St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 1615 Ogden Street, hosts a Dinner With Imam, with vegetarian and meat options prepared by Ibrahim Kazerooni. Admission is $25; call 303-832-4929. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Food & Drink listings…
Pizzeria Basta, at 3601 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, is on a roll. After opening early this year, it managed to lure crowds of diners to a location hidden in an unlikely apartment complex in east Boulder. In the process, Pizzeria Basta picked up enough steam to introduce several innovations this…
That was easy. Yesterday, we asked Cafe Society readers to guess the location of Olav Peterson’s new restaurant, scheduled to open in early December, and the only clue we gave was in the form of a black-and-white photo from way back when. But it was enough to generate several guesses,…
The comments posted on the Cafe Society blog always provide plenty of food for thought, even when they’re not particularly warm or fuzzy or supportive. And sometimes a reader will leave a real gem — a work of literary genius or a head-scratcher or something that just makes us burst…
Mac ‘n’ cheese is a delicacy in Denver, with some of our best restaurants turning out upscale versions of this downscale comfort food. But the Rackhouse Pub’s version recently caught the eye of the Los Angeles Times, which highlighted the gooey goodness in Culinary SOS, a column dedicated to helping…
