Food & Drink

Here’s a second helping of some of what we served on Cafe Society this past week: Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink, and found a lot to like…even if she’s not in love with the place. Mark Antonat continued his travels up Federal Boulevard, and stopped…

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…

Hungry for new dining options this weekend? Pho Nam recently opened at 13736 East Quincy Avenue in Aurora, and Westword’s Danielle Lirette stopped by for a look at the space. Keep reading for her photos. See also: – China Jade reopens in Aurora after a remodel and expansion – From…

You can sink a cheap drink at just about every watering hole in Denver, a city that’s indisputably obsessed with the ritual of happy hour. The bar at Interstate Kitchen & Bar features a late-night happy hour, wherein a cooler of cold beers in cans — barkeep’s choice — are…

I have a simple rule when it comes to making macaroni and cheese: Somewhere, in the mix, there needs to be a processed cheese, a rule that makes a lot of chefs cringe in disgust. Whatever. It’s the white trash in me — and the fact that I like my…

There are some foods that are so vile that it defies belief that they ever got created — let alone stuck around through always-changing markets and tastes. Necessity is the mother of invention, in some cases with shortages and substitutions, but imitation can be flattery, or just cooked up to…

People often ask why Westword’s policy is to wait three months after a restaurant opens before going in for a review, rather than jumping in while the paint’s still fresh. I’m sympathetic to the argument that if a restaurant is charging full price for food, it’s fair game. But if…

Readers are still digesting our hefty Best of Denver issue, which included more than a hundred editorial picks in the Food & Drink section alone. One of the most hotly contested categories is Best Burger; this year, our choice was Highland Tap & Burger. And at least one reader heartily…

The city’s second Über Sausage, owned by Marco Macchiaroli, Alex Gschwend, Brad Arguello and Henry DeMetteis, opened today in LoHi with a similar menu of sausage sandwiches augmented by a case slinging fresh sausages and several new dishes, including salads, a burger, a southern fried chicken sandwich and sweet and…

Blustering snow and winter temperatures may have blown into Denver this week, but that didn’t stop ChoLon from shedding its winter coat and lightening up both its lunch and dinner menus for spring — swapping out celery root soup for asparagus soup with soy-glazed mushrooms and spring onion, for example…

Cliff Young and his son, Zachary, are planning to open a bar right around the corner from CY Steak, the restaurant that Cliff opened next to the Diamond Cabaret in October 2009, next September. The name of the spot: O Bar. “It’s something my dad always liked,” says Zachary, explaining…

Back in the early ’80s, Cliff Young’s eponymous spot at 700 East 17th Avenue (today the home of Hamburger Mary’s) was about the swankiest spot in town, during an era when swank was definitely in. But price point isn’t the only thing that’s changed in Denver over the past three…

Mad Greens is mad about Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy — and last month ditched its national cheese purveyor in favor of a new partnership with Haystack Mountain. Its chevre is now used exclusively in Mad Greens’s eleven locations along the Front Range, and anyone who’s tried even a taste of…

It’s not often that I’ll order anything with chicken, arguably the world’s most boring protein, but the chef at the restaurant where the above snap was shot convinced me to try the curried chicken panino — and I’ll admit that it was a fantastic recommendation. Can you guess where I’m…

Jose Guerrero ViewHouse Eatery, Bar & Rooftop 2015 Market Street 720-878-2015 viewhouseco.com This is part two of my interview with Jose Guerrero, exec chef of ViewHouse Eatery, Bar & Rooftop; part one of our chat ran yesterday. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: Oak at Fourteenth. The pickles, kale…

Fast-casual Japanese food like rice bowls, udon noodles and simple sushi rolls at cheap prices, served in a compact bistro environment that encourages come-as-you-are, quick-service dine-in or even faster carry-out: That’s a golden dragon of a concept. But the unfortunate reality I saw while recently having lunch at Tokyo Joe’s…

There may still be some snow on the ground, but predictions of a warmer weekend have people thinking about patios. And there are plenty of patios to think about around town. Yesterday we offered our suggestions for the five best — and readers have many, many more (as well as…