Food & Drink

“No self-respecting Cherry Creek snob would go to someplace named ‘Wrap Dawgs,'” wrote a frequent Cafe Society commenter when I announced that a new hot dog joint, whose name was Wrap Dawgs, planned to open at Second and St. Paul…

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. My grandma seemed to always have a big bowl of cucumbers and onions to munch on. Crunchy and salty-savory like potatoes –…

“No Jack!” yelled one of the bar mistresses to a drunk regular. “You can have a beer — one beer.” Then again, if your beer is a liter, which is what the guy sitting next to us was pounding, you may as well just drink Jack, or knock back a…

Coffee started as a hobby for Phil Goodlaxson, owner of Corvus Coffee. “I have a business degree, I did the corporate life for a bit, and when I’d had enough of that, I started looking for something that would be an artisan craft. I started getting more and more interested…

Denver Restaurant Week just posted the menus of the almost 300 restaurants participating in this year’s Denver Restaurant Week, which begins February 25 and runs for two weeks. We’re running a DRW contest for the best tips on how to get the most out of this annual eating orgy –…

Cafe Society served up four Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a plate of gnocchi from Seven 30 South, which has an extremely loyal base of regulars, including one couple who ate there 450 times in 2011, to an exquisite lamb dish at Burmese Superstar in San Francisco to…

Seventeen meals in four days, excluding bakery stops; 26 miles of walking (give or take), plus an additional 4.3 miles of exhibition halls clustered with more than 80,000 specialty foods and beverages from nearly forty countries. Artisan cheeses and charcuterie; beans that don’t make you fart; bacon beer that probably…

Bringing a food truck to the National Western Stock Show is no Wok in the Park. That’s because when Aramark, which handles food/beverage concessions at the Denver Coliseum, decided to add food trucks, including Biker Jim’s, to its side of the Stock Show, right under the I-70 viaduct, it changed…

Less than a year after opening, the Brauns on Blake sports bar has closed at 2401 Blake Street. The spot was Brauns’s second location. The first — and most well-known — Braun’s on Auraria Parkway closed last summer after the Pepsi Center, which owned the building where Brauns Bar and…

I’ll admit it: I’m stuck in the past, using a crockpot to cook meals. And I learned at chef Lynda Lacher’s One Pot Cooking Class at Cherry Creek Whole Foods last night that I am guilty of many crockpot sins, the worst of which is not using a pressure cooker…

Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. Super Bowl Sunday…

I tend to go to this neighborhood restaurant three or four times a year, but when I stopped in for lunch yesterday, the owner, who once presided over one of the most (inexplicably) popular restaurants in Denver, revealed that one Denver couple — and their teenage daughter — ate here…

Shelby Grebenc wakes up at 6:15 each morning to give the chickens on her Broomfield farm food and water, and to collect and wash the hens’ eggs. Shelby isn’t a typical farmer whose work feeds and supports her family, though: She’s a twelve-year-old who simply loves farming and chickens. And…

Unless you’ve been trekking in the Himalayas this week, you’ve undoubtedly heard all about celebrity chef Paula Deen’s admission that she has Type 2 diabetes. Deen is known for her signature deep-South-deep-fried-deeply-buttered cuisine, and the criticism of her condition/food/pimping diabetes drugs is almost as painful as the day after eating…

Campagna has closed for “remodeling,” leaving a gap on an otherwise hot restaurant strip. But this spot at 1120 East Sixth Avenue has been dark before; it’s been revamped more times than Joan Rivers. It was the home of the legendary Dudley’s, then became Chives. But after Blair Taylor closed…

Work Options for Women, a local — and laudable — non-profit that enables impoverished women to work in the food service industry by giving them hands-on job training, is always cooking up new ways for chefs and foodniks in the community to become involved, and beginning in February, WOW will…

A few hours after lunch, students across America start to get cranky. Their blood sugar plunges, their eyes glaze over, and their stomachs start to rumble. They find a quick fix in the school’s vending machines by gorging themselves on greasy potato chips and sugary sodas. Energy levels skyrocket before…