Brace yourselves. The World Cup is coming. Every four years, nations come together as they try to earn soccer immortality, and bar managers work their asses off to get you in their doors and keep you there. By the time the games start on June 12, almost every sports bar…
In March, Glaze: the Baumcake Shoppe, a gorgeous Japanese bakery in Congress Park, shuttered, leaving a litany of ardent admirers of the bakery’s macarons and baum cakes starving for news that co-owner Heather Alcott would make a comeback. And she has, collaborating with Wayne Conwell, chef-owner of Sushi Sasa, on…
The restaurants I reviewed over the past two weeks both had names featuring an ampersand: Work & Class and Chai & Chai. For the hat trick — that’s for all you soccer fans out there — I’m about to review one more: Olive & Finch, Mary Nguyen’s fast-casual eatery that’s…
The small cocktail syllabus at this neighborhood hangout doesn’t require a mixologist and a bag of tricks, but the admittedly sleep-deprived bartender who mixed my cocktail — a concoction of whiskey, berries, lemon and basil — rose to the occasion, making me a strong cocktail was just what the long…
You may not be familiar with Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, but in Wisconsin, he’s a big deal. In the early 1800s, the botanist, geographer and explorer traveled through the state in search of the source of the Mississippi River. He eventually found it in 1832 (it’s Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota);…
When Robert Thompson opened Brasserie Rouge in LoDo a decade ago, it ran away with our Best New Restaurant award. And when — after a bumpy stretch that saw Brasserie Rouge close and Thompson leave town for a while — he returned to open Argyll in Cherry Creek, that restaurant,…
At 5 p.m. today, Session Kitchen will host the kickoff pre-party for the ninth annual Climbing for Kids mountain climb benefiting Children’s Hospital Colorado. Session Kitchen will be donating 20 percent of all food sales and 100 percent of specialty beverage sales to Climbing for Kids. Learn more here. See…
“I didn’t even know that Cinsault was grown in Colorado,” says Rob Corbari, bar manager at The Populist. But once he found out it was, he incorporated a wine made from the Cinsault grape into a drink that won the Colorado Wine Cocktail Competition last week at Green Russell. See…
Baba’s Falafel has expanded its already innovative menu with new takes on fried chickpeas — including Tex Mex-style nachos and an Italian-influenced inspired dish that will certainly surprise you, and just may change the way you look at the ubiquitous falafel. See also: Baba’s Falafel takes to the street with…
I recently spent several days eating my way around Los Angeles, and whenever I’m there, I clamor for Korean food, and then I clamor for it again as soon as I get back to Denver, and this Korean restaurant, in particular, always gives in to my cravings. Can you guess…
It’s been a long haul, but you soon may hear that swish-swish coming from Kobe An Shabu Shabu, the Japanese restaurant that’s transforming the LoHi building at 3400 Osage Street that once held Little Pepina’s. The deal was announced more than a year ago, and although Kobe An didn’t hit…
Tonight at 5 p.m., restaurateur Robert Thompson, along with an incredibly pedigreed pool of talent, including executive chef John Broening, beer-and-whisky king Ryan Conklin and front-of-the-house czar Steve Kingsbury, will open Argyll Whisky Beer Gastropub in Uptown, in the former Las Margaritas space. See also: Exclusive: Robert Thompson opening Argyll…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a box of noteworthy scones from Adagio Baking Company to a vase of citrus-sprayed bay scallop ceviche from El Chingon to a plate of chicken wings from a steak joint in LoHi…
Restaurant-hungry east Denver is about to get another option: The Office, which Hugh Evans is creating in the 5,000 square foot space that used to house the Denver Rodeo Nightclub. And with any luck, the sports bar/eatery/music venue will start pouring by the start of the World Cup. See also:…
Since gourmet food trucks first rolled out in Denver four years ago, with the Steuben’s truck leading the way, their popularity has shown no sign of slowing down. New ventures are joining the lineup all the time, including Chuey FU, which made our list of ten food trucks to follow…
Wine dinners this week will transport you from Larimer Square to the South Rhone, and from Boulder to Italy. And at a special spirits tasting at the Museum of Colorado Denver on Wednesday, you can celebrate drinking right here at home: MCA will feature Denver-based Leopold Bros. at the event…
Come up with the best name for this year’s Do at the Zoo’s specialty drink, and you could win two tickets to the June 19 party, a 25th anniversary celebration featuring food from more than sixty restaurants, live music and a menagerie of cocktails. We’ll drink to that — and…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Chai & Chai in Aurora, an inconsistent but still intriguing dual-identity restaurant. For Chef and Tell, Lori Midson talked with Jeff Jones, the chef at P17, which Mary Nguyen opened in what had been the home of Parallel 17. And Mark Antonation…
Denver Pearl Brewing, which opened quietly in the Platt Park neighborhood last week, will hold its grand opening party on Saturday, June 7, with a wide variety of beers. “We have seven beers on tap right now, and we’ll have ten on Saturday,” says Colby Rankin, who owns Denver Pearl…
Each year, after the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, a feast of piggish proportions follows, namely Grand Cochon, a swine showdown that gives the pork entourage the opportunity to stuff as much pig down their gullet as possible. Ten chefs compete in the battle, all of whom have won…
Last night, on the stage of George Washington High School, my kid received his certificate of continuation — he’s now a high schooler — and to celebrate, we went out for a late Thai dinner, which sucked, so to compensate, I fed him his favorite breakfast: hot scones from a…
“As excitement builds over the World Cup 2014 hosted by Brazil this summer — and with the Olympics taking place in Brazil in 2016 — there’s more and more interest among Coloradans in Brazilian culture and food,” insists Jessica Dries, who, along with her husband Edglas Prado, recently launched Brazilian…
