Don’t be fooled by the fact that The Wooden Table is located in a strip mall, because this neighborhood Italian restaurant is far from a generic suburban spot. In fact, we named it the Best Neighborhood Italian Restaurant in our 2013 Best of Denver. The upscale eatery serves up housemade…
UPDATE:The Denver Burger Battle is sold out, but we’ve been hoarding two tickets to give away to one Cafe Society commenter and a guest — specifically the reader whose guess came the closest to the answer of this question: Crave’s “Wiseguy” burger won the people’s choice vote at the 2012…
The current Westword cover story, “Fantasy Island,” tells of Glendale’s quest to build a riverwalk along Cherry Creek full of restaurants, theaters and bars serving booze in to-go cups. To make this dream project a reality, Glendale officials have made a series of smaller civic improvements — which, in turn,…
The Great American Beer Festival ticket pre-sale started a week ago today, and complaints started very soon after. But people who don’t live in an area as beer-blessed as metro Denver think it’s time for people to stop crying in their beer about the GABF. See also: – Reader: Great…
Chipotle Mexican Grill is participating in National Farmers’ Market Week by conducting salsa-making demonstrations, providing scavenger-hunt activity books for kids and encouraging shoppers to buy locally from their community farmers’ markets by offering market-goers $10 currency tokens (redeemable for food at that market location). See also: – For Chipotle’s birthday,…
A few short months after Racine’s opened in 1983, it won the Best Dessert award in Westword’s very first Best of Denver. The dessert was the Triple Crown, similar to a Dobos torte with layers of chocolate frosting, cake and ice cream. That dish is no longer on the menu,…
Last week, when I interviewed Delores Tronco about the end to the Justice League of Street Food — and the group’s pavement parties that pioneered Denver’s mobile food movement, the last of which took place on Saturday — the initial organizer of those gatherings had this to say: “We hope…
Summer’s hot, but it’s easy to cool off with your favorite beverage, and you can have your pick on Friday, August 16 at the Endless Summer Beer & Spirits Festival, which is dedicated to liquids in various forms. A benefit for Water for People, which is focused on water preservation…
Twelve local bartenders — Randy Layman (ACE), Ryan Layman (Steuben’s), Ken Kodys (Breckenridge-Wynkoop), Alex Kady (Epicurean Catering and Entertainment), Derrick Mund (Breckenridge-Wynkoop), Anika Zappe (Coohills), Les Baker (Tom’s Urban Diner), Mark Baldini (Cruise Room), Chad Gray (Lou’s Food Bar), Holland Rock-Garden (Green Russell), Jason Patz (Williams & Graham) and Luke…
It doesn’t matter if the sky is pounding the pavement with rain, or dumping flakes of white powder on grassy surfaces, because the forecast is always pouring chile at this Mexican joint. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess…
AC Golden brewer Troy Casey is one of Colorado’s foremost experts on wild and sour ales, which means he has to sample a lot of them (oh, the misery). But all that drinking means he looks forward to trying tart beers that are lower in alcohol. Enter Berliner weisse, a…
Cafe Society dished up five Guess Where? contests posts last week, ranging from a cup of curried tomato soup from Gather, to a corned beef sandwich from Finley’s Pub, to a parade of curries from an Indian restaurant…
What’s the oldest family-owned restaurant in the metro area? So far, we haven’t found anything to top the Blue Parrot, the red-sauce emporium that the Colacci family opened in Louisville back in 1919, and has been run by members of that clan ever since. Within Denver city limits, we’d thought…
Great American Beer Festival tickets went on pre-sale last Tuesday for members of the Brewers Association and the American Homebrewers Association, and the complaints to the Brewers Association started seconds later. There were so many, in fact, that the organization posted an apology on Facebook later that day: “Your staff…
The third annual Ballpark Plates will hit it out of the park on Thursday, August 8, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. For $30, enjoy complimentary food and drink samples at the following participating establishments: River North Brewery, Blake Street Tavern, Zi South, Breckenridge Brewery, Cheesesteak Connection, iFish Sushi, Chino Latino…
This week, Gretchen Kurtz tested the “Colorado Bar-B-Que” at Tin Star Smokehouse in Golden, Lori Midson headed to the Walnut Room to toss pies with executive chef Jonah Munson, and Mark Antonation paired sandwiches from Baker’s Palace Vietnamese with traditional brews from Wit’s End Brewing. Keeping reading for more of…
UPDATE: The correct answer to our contest question — How many kegs of beer has the Justice League of Street Food untapped since its first event in 2009? — is 131 kegs. The person who came the closest to that number, actually nailing it on the head, is ebethcheese. Ebethcheese,…
Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year — which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn’t it? But all…
So, this is adulthood. Grown men and women jostling for the last drops of spicy Bloody Mary mix. Zombie-eyed hangover victims marching grimly back and forth to fill their glasses. Is this what I have to look forward for the next fifty years, until I’m forced to take my booze…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, I chat with Jonah Munson, chef of the Walnut Room, a restaurant and bar that’s popular for its pizzas. Munson, who makes his own dough, also bakes desserts, a skill he learned at an early age, when he started baking cakes from scratch,…
Despite a menu that boasts a large vegetarian section — and mock meat — it’s not all carrots and mushrooms at this Chinese restaurant that also turns out an excellent plate of fried rice…liberally pelted with pork. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
McDonald’s recent posting of a hypothetical household budget for its minimum- wage employees has birthed an Occupy-style French fry revolution. Frustrated, vastly underpaid fast-food workers across the country are now asking their employers to raise their earnings from the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour to $15 per hour,…
