More than a dozen new restaurants opened this month — some, like Comida in the Source, new spots in ancient, converted spaces, and other old favorites reborn in the same places, including Angelo’s Taverna, in the forty-year-old home of Angelo’s. The scene also lost some mainstays, with Cafe Berlin closing…
“This heirloom tomato salad represents me as a chef, pure and simple,” says Carrie Shores, exec chef of Table 6 and the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview. The salad, a dish on the restaurant’s current menu “is how I eat every day, and now is the perfect…
Aside from the misplaced green peppers (Why do they always taste like dirt?), this joint’s version of an Italian beef sandwich isn’t bad (more gravy, please) — but it definitely doesn’t outshine the wieners, for which the place is renowned. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
The nose knows. You walk into a room, and instantly a smell connects you to a memory. And when that smell is connected to food, it’s often a family memory. “Smell is such a powerful sense, and it lives in the base of your neck, where all your memories are…
Fast-food workers struck around the globe yesterday, including at two Denver-area McDonald’s locations, demanding an increase in the minimum wage — to $15 an hour in this country. Do fast-food workers deserve $15 an hour? With Labor Day looming, more than a hundred readers weighed in on that question yesterday…
Grab your turkey legs: The thirtieth annual Taste of Colorado will return to Civic Center Park this weekend, filing the space with more than fifty eateries and food establishments, as well as chef demonstrations. Keep reading for a list of participating food vendors and a taste of what else is…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Gourmet on Gore Tasting Tour contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many lobster tacos did Matsuhisa serve at last year’s Gourmet on Gore? Congratulations to haleyhennes, who guessed 2,320, just one digit off the actual number…
Angelo’s is back — under a slightly new name, with new owners — but back. Almost forty years after it first opened on East Sixth Avenue, Angelo’s closed at the end of May for three months of renovations, and reopened as Angelo’s Taverna last week. While much of the place…
For years, The Thin Man has attracted an eclectic crowd of patrons to a space that’s just as eclectic. Inside, you’ll find red mood lighting and walls crowded with Jesus figurines, crosses and saint portraits; outside, you’ll find both a welcoming front patio and, in back, a glorified parking-lot-turned-relaxation-haven. See…
Trying to find a memorable fresh clam linguine in this city is a lot like panning for gold coins in Clear Creek (good luck with that), but as luck would have it, I struck culinary gold at this Italian restaurant, whose chef must have read my mind. Can you guess…
The British have invented many things that keep us cool: a Scotsman named William Cullen designed the first artificial refrigeration system; our friends across the pond continue to send us the bone-chilling English breeze; and a delightful, red-tinted drink called Pimm’s Cup has been a summer refresher since the 1800s…
Justin Cucci, perhaps more than any chef-restaurateur in this city, is full of surprises. Who would have thought, for example, that the New York native whose prominent rise to fame in Denver was the result of two citified restaurants in the hip Highland ‘hood, would ever consider opening a restaurant…
I loved the mole at Tamayo, the restaurant I review this week, and it got me thinking about another mole I’ve loved over the years. Not coincidentally, it was made by a Tamayo veteran, Sean Yontz, who learned the secrets of this complex sauce from a woman in Oaxaca who…
Carrie Shores Table 6 609 Corona Street 303-831-8800 table6denver.com This is part two of my interview with Carrie Shores, chef of Table 6; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Most noteworthy meal you’ve ever eaten: I don’t remember the name of the place, but it was this small hole-in-the-wall…
After months…and months…and months of hungry impatience on the part of Denverites yearning for a year-round culinary showroom, The Source, a promising — and pioneering — new project from urban developers Mickey and Kyle Zeppelin, the progressive trailblazers behind the TAXI development in River North, unveils its first tenant today:…
Denver Botanic Gardens is hosting Boots, Bulls & Blossoms from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. this evening. Tickets are $25 for members and $30 for non-members, and include three drink tickets. See also: – Taste of Colorado has grown into a major eating orgy…
If someone at Visit Denver were to conduct a survey, I’ll bet most tourists would say that they still consider Denver a steakhouse town. It isn’t, as they’d surely concede after stops at the likes of Rioja, the Populist and ChoLon. But in 2001, when Tamayo flung open the doors…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Great Divide/Harman’s Eat & Drink contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many beets are in the box in the above photo? Judging from the number of submissions, dozens of you clearly want to go this, but…
Grab your turkey legs: The Taste of Colorado will return to Civic Center Park on Labor Day weekend. This is the thirtieth incarnation of the festival, but the tradition stretches back much, much further. After the Silver Crash of the 1890s, the city introduced the Festival of Mountain and Plain…
So many breweries wanted to be a part of the Great American Beer Festival this year that all of the spots filled within two hours on July 9, a rapid sellout that stunned both organizers and the brewers, leaving 375 would-be attendees on a waiting list. But the Boulder-based Brewers…
New Belgium Brewing, which has been making beer in Fort Collins for 22 years, plans to update the look of its beer labels beginning in 2014. The new designs will take some of the “iconic and playful watercolor imagery” that the brewery has used and update it “through a modern…
The other night at dinner, after eating multiple courses, we were way too stuffed to contemplate dessert — even a cheese course, which is something I rarely pass up. Then again, that restaurant didn’t have burrata on its menu, but this restaurant does, pairing the generous portion of silky cheese…
