Organic Pizza Company, an eco-conscious take-and-bake pizza joint, opened on Friday at 4500 West 38th Avenue in Highland, the first of a forthcoming wave of organic pizza dens from partners Allen Milham and Darrell Naughton, who plan to open a second outpost in SPIRE Denver, 891 Fourteenth Street, in early…
We weren’t offered the happy hour menu, even though the bartender made sure that everyone else around us got one; the flank steak, albeit a perfect mid-rare, was so chewy that I gave up; and then the computers failed, which made paying by credit card all but impossible. But the…
This post is for deal lovers only (and quit reading if you hate hearing about chains): Jamba Juice has extended its buy one, get one free deal on all drinks through September 29. Just print out the coupon you’ll find here, and take it to your nearest Jamba Juice outlet…
Last week, Cafe Society served up four Guess where contests (not including our seasonal green chile category), featuring everything from this still-unidentified sea urchin roe (sorry, not Long John Silver’s) to a champagne cocktail at Capital Grille to some unexpected tacos. For correctly identifying them as coming from the new…
First came Chick-fil-A’s Spicy Chicken Sandwich. Now Denver is among the five markets testing Chick-fil-A’s new Spicy Nuggets — think of them as Spicken Little. From today through October 2, you can get a free taste (eight nuggets) by making a reservation at getspicynuggets.com. All twenty stores in the metro…
Helping the unfortunate rarely tastes this good — and because the Fourmile fire hit so close to home, this is the perfect time to put your money where your mouth is. Tonight, Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th Street in Boulder, hosts the Fourmile Fire Benefit featuring a four-course dinner collaboration between…
Behold the highlights from this week’s Cafe Society blog:…
Last week, Sean Kenyon, one of Denver’s most championed bartenders and mixologists, vacated his post as bar manager of Steuben’s, where he’d been slinging drinks and crafting cocktails since 2007…
I’m not much of a champagne drinker, but at the posh digs where the above photo was taken, I couldn’t resist this summery champagne cocktail made with Averna, an Italian liqueur. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where…
Never before has a coupon led to so many dick jokes. As one of the party favors at this week’s Dish, Tony’s Market, the excellent shop and bistro across the street from our office, offered 10 percent off coupons — at the top of which was this cryptic phrase: “Gift…
If you’ve been living in a box of Bisquick, then you probably already know that this Sunday is National Pancake Day. If, on the other hand, you just live for breakfast, then National Pancake Day gives you one more reason to flip your jack. Herewith, six of our favorite joints…
It’s Hatch chile season, and for a pair of local breweries, that means Hatch chile beer. Boulder’s Twisted Pine Brewing will be making three kinds of beer using the specialty chiles, which are grown around Hatch, New Mexico, and shipped by the truckload to Denver, where fiery food lovers buy…
On Wednesday night, as part of Dish, Westword’s annual tribute to Denver’s dining scene, seven local cocktologists participated in a mixology battle judged by yours truly, Westword Drink of the Week scribe Nancy Levine, and Ian Grzybowski, the district manager for Coca-Cola North America. The competition, emceed by Sean Kenyon,…
Granted, chili is something of a sacred thing — and the nature of that sacredness varies, depending on where you were brought up, and what your grandma ladled into a bowl. Still, there are some things that you can do to chili that seem like anathema, whether or not you…
The already-extended Civic Center Eats will hold its last Tuesday event of the year next week — but the fun isn’t over yet. “Starting in October, we will be shifting to a much smaller-scale version, but on a daily basis,” explains Lindy Eichenbaum Lent, director of the Civic Center Conservancy…
Roberto Diaz, the chef featured in this week’s Chef and Tell interview, was born and raised in Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico, where gorditas are king. “They were always served with our meal on Sunday while I was growing up, and I could never get enough of them,” says Diaz…
Missoula, Montana, is a lovely town in the middle of nowhere with a population consisting primarily of cowpokes and carnivores. Yesterday, the two met in a standoff on the back porch of a house just outside of town, when a black bear paid a surprise visit to a local woman…
Nothing says fall like roasting green chiles, and Pueblo is celebrating in style — plus adding beans to the mix with the annual Chile and Frijoles Festival, which starts today with a farmers’ market. Tomorrow, there’ll be a chile and salsa showdown; on Sunday, a jalapeno-eating contest. Get more information…
Dessert’s a funny thing in fancy restaurants these days. No more slices of cherry tart, chocolate cake or apple strudel unless they’re miniatures, deconstructed, flavored with something incongruous like curry, set on curlicues of sauce you have to sample with your finger because there’s not enough to get on a…
Smother love: It’s easy being green in Denver in September, when the smell of roasting chiles overrides the odor of exhaust along Federal Boulevard, and the green chile at your favorite Mexican joint carries the heat of the new harvest. For the next several weeks, Cafe Society will feature some…
For years, Gaetano’s, the iconic neighborhood Italian joint at 3760 Tejon Street, has billed itself as “Italian to die for.” And now it’s pouring cello, the potent Italian liquid that infuses fruit with vodka and packs the kind of lethal punch that knocks you on your ass in no time…
Trinity Brewing in Colorado Springs has released the label for its Double Rainbow saison and there’s only one way to describe it: “It’s so intense!” That’s right, the brewery is a beer — due to be tapped on October 24 as a dessert beer during a saison dinner — based…
