Construction of Ace — a new ping-pong hall, restaurant and bar that the Steuben’s and Vesta Dipping Grill partners hope to open by the end of summer — has been moving along steadily, thanks to Xan Creative, the design firm tasked with renovating the old Storz Garage space next door…
A great burger needs to stand on its own, a Westword reader noted last week in response to my review of Red Robin’s Burger Works, a new concept that the Colorado-based chain tried out at the Shops at Northfield Stapleton before rolling it outside Colorado state lines. That means the…
I’m a sucker for salted ballpark pretzels — they’re one of my guilty pleasures — and while the insipid cheese sauce didn’t even make it to first base, the pretzels hit a home run. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…
Not every vegetarian or vegan likes substitute meats — but those who do understand that there is such a thing as a fake meat that tastes like the real thing. Gardein is one brand that does fake meat really well, and many of its products are available on the menu…
Attivo Pizza & Subs, home of the “life changing” Pancho Villa sub, is now helping to bring new life to the revitalized Beauvallon complex…
Hurry to Denver Beer Co. if you want to get a taste of Clown Question, Bro, a Canadian lager-style beer that DBC brewed after the Washington Nationals’ Bryce Harper called a query regarding his favorite beer “a clown question.” But the rookie phenom took the homage in stride, and even…
Every Tuesday night, iFish Japanese Grill & Sushi Bar, 2200 Market Street, offers bottomless house sake with the purchase of an entree (minimum $15)…
Breckenridge Brewery is running out of time. Two years ago, the brewpub was making 31,000 barrels of beer annually — which was more than it had produced in two decades of Colorado history. But by the end of 2012, thanks to the explosive growth of the craft-beer industry nationwide and…
The Justice League of Street Food held its latest summer party in the parking lot of the Denver Design District on South Broadway on Saturday, June 30.Jim Wills brings back these mouth-watering photos from the bash. See also: – Slideshow: Justice League of Street Food in the Denver Design District…
Colorado stands at the forefront of the nation’s organic movement, and Grower’s Organic is helping to lead the way, finding organic suppliers and then connecting these farms with retail outlets, delivering fresh fruits and vegetables to more than 150 restaurants, grocery stores and local co-operatives across Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New…
I’m not happy, and if she were still here, outgoing Westword restaurant critic Laura Shunk wouldn’t be happy either. And if you, like us, bowed in gratitude to the xiao long bao (named Best of Denver in 2012) at Tao Tao Noodle Bar, an excellent Chinese joint in Aurora that…
When Shazz Cafe opened in Highland in late 2008, people couldn’t stop giggling at the name, but no one was laughing at the food, a hyper-local shrine to sustainable greenmarket ingredients that chef/owner Benny Kaplan transformed into innovative culinary emblems that proved that he could meddle with purity while preserving…
Renegade Brewing celebrated its one-year anniversary on Saturday, June 30, with a party and the release of its first canned beer, Ryeteous IPA. Festivities included live music, the Manna From Heaven food truck and a photo booth where patrons could capture their good times. The sixteen-ounce Ryeteous cans will be…
There are people who can’t bear to think of a world without chicken wings. I’ve never been, nor will I ever be, a chicken wing worshiper, but on the rare occasion that I get a jonesing for sauce-slathered cluck, you’ll find me here at this joint, where the wings fly…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. It’s smart to bake up a batch of these quinoa-cranberry muffins made with wheat and almond flour early in the week; that…
Cafe Society dished up five Guess Where contests last week, ranging from an Italian sandwich from Waffle Brothers to housebaked puffed pita bread from Phoenician Kabob to a glass of rosé that did its part to fight last week’s insufferable heatwave…
A little over a year — an one tense week while a state snafu held up its liquor license — the Squeaky Bean has opened in its new home. That was the biggest restaurant opening in June, and one of the biggest so far this year, but dozens of other…
A little over a year after it left LoDo — and after a very long week in which its liquor license got caught in a state snafu — the Squeaky Bean finally opened in its new, much larger home last week…
Because of the wildfires, many of the official firework displays around the state have been cancelled. But there are plenty of reasons to take pride in Colorado’s exploding culinary scene this week. Here’s what’s on the menu:…
Earlier today, we posted a contest giving one Cafe Society reader (and a tagalong) the chance to eat and drink for free at tomorrow night’s Justice League of Street Food Factory party at the Denver Design Center. Specifically, we wanted to know how many glasses of Avery beer were poured…
“Why not?” deadpans Eric Skokan when I ask him about opening Bramble & Hare, the new restaurant he’ll unveil to the public on Monday, directly adjacent to Black Cat, the gospel of seasonality that Skokan introduced to Boulder in 2006 just off the Pearl Street Mall…
Spuntino has added happy-hour specials and brunch to a roster that includes its renowned gelato, which rated our best ice cream list. Spuntino, which closed earlier this year to retool its concept, reopened in March with a new lineup that included Yasmin Lozada-Hissom and John Broening, along with original owner…
