St. Kilian’s Cheese Shop is a boutique-style gem within walking distance of Mondo Vino and The Denver Bread Company — making Highland Square a convenient stop for gathering party supplies — and it specializes in French, Spanish and Italian cheeses, with a few select Swiss and Dutch wheels, and cheddars…
When Frank and Dina Berta opened Frank’s Kitchen earlier this year, it quickly became part of the neighborhood, integrating into the community and picking up a crowd of regulars that use it as a go-to spot. Frank’s won’t be joining the festivities with its neighbors on New Year’s Eve –…
We’re in the home stretch of the holiday season, but we’ve still got one more big blow-out before the post-festivity depression sets in: that epic drink-fest that is New Year’s Eve. We fully acknowledge that by the time we ring in the new year, we’ll be too, um, happy to…
Over the past four weeks, we’ve ponied up a list of wines guaranteed to make your Thanksgiving a party, the perfect set of locally sourced, wine-themed gift ideas, and our picks for the twelve most holiday-worthy bottles of 2011. And you know what? We are officially exhausted. And because you’re…
As we’ve discovered in our weekly Chef and Tell interviews, Denver’s kitchen commanders are, if nothing else, unapologetically opinionated. We pepper them with dozens of questions, and sometimes their answers are salty — especially their responses to what they’d like to see less of in Denver from a culinary perspective…
Colorado breweries released dozens of amazing beers this year, further expanding their range and making once-exotic beers easy to find and enjoy. A few stood out above the rest, though. To make this list, the beers needed to have been new year-round offerings, seasonals that will return, old beers that…
On the Thursday before Christmas, Laura Shunk highlighted five festive cocktails that don’t include hot chocolate with peppermint schnapps, including the Figgy’s Manhattan at Steuben’s, which is made by combining Wild Turkey 81, Carpano Antica vermouth and Navan vanilla liqueur and infusing the whole thing with figs for five days…
I couldn’t wait to get to the mountains to try out this new, big-name restaurant. While I enjoyed my cocktail at the bar, I’m looking forward to some apres ski action next to the fire outside. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
Get a jump on your New Year’s celebrating at the brand-new Ignite!, 2124 Larimer Street, which will host a complimentary spirits tasting today through Friday, December 30, from 5 to 6 p.m. For more information, call 303-296-2600 or visit www.ignite-denver.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit…
Jim Abajian and his wife, Patsorn, made their first connection over Thai food: they met at the Thai restaurant she ran in Washington, D.C. where Jim was a frequent customer. So when they moved to Golden, it didn’t take long for them to spot a gap in the market. “We…
The year started off lovingly for this Veggie Girl, and throughout weeks and weeks of eating somewhere different, there were lots of great dishes that stood out. Here, in chronological order, are the ten best meals I ate this year…
We’ve shared our list of the top ten New Year’s Eve dining events, but that’s far from everything that’s taking place this weekend. Keep reading to see a full rundown of what’s happening before, during and after the big day; we’ll continue updating the online listings until the eleventh hour…
Truth be told, I haven’t celebrated Christmas with my family in years, much to their chagrin. I do take time to visit them on my own accord, though, which is why I’ll be happily soaking in the sun down south and supping upon unpretentiously badass food with family and friends…
Over the last few months, I went from the worst shape of my life to the best while continuing to eat like a food critic. Don’t punch me in the face; instead, read how I did it in part nine of this series: Try and guess what I ate for…
Out in the northwest suburbs for family events this holiday season, I was looking for a low-key place to unwind with some out-of-town relatives after all the feasting and present-wrapping concluded. Unwilling to settle for one of the strip-mall chain restaurants that are so prevalent on that side of town,…
I asked the bartender to make her favorite specialty cocktail — and I got a very, very sweet, lemony vodka martini that I’m sure most women would love, but I did not. My fault, not the bartender’s. For our next course we switched to wine, and it turned into a…
Cafe Society dished up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a still unidentified Christmas sweater-clad bottle of Maker’s Mark to a plate of Rocky Mountain oysters from the Fort Restaurant to a bourbon, basil and balsamic cocktail. For identifying that drink as coming from Cafe|Bar, Dave wins an…
For the last Chef and Tell interview of 2011, Lori Midson talked with Dana Rodriguez, the executive chef of Bistro Vendome, about everything from a Mexican girl making French food to her inspirational life story. The result left readers hungry to know more…and eat more…
Tahona Tequila Bistro, 1035 Pearl Street in Boulder, is offering Meal & Marg tonight — a deal that will deliver an appetizer, entree and blue agave margarita for just $18. For details, call 303-938-9600 or visit www.tahonaboulder.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Food…
It was the year of the entrepreneur and the restaurateur,” says Jim Pittenger, owner of Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs. After six years of slinging sausages from street carts, he opened his own brick-and-mortar outpost at 2148 Larimer Street this past spring. And Pittenger has a point. By our count, close…
Growing up, I was a fat kid — things haven’t changed — and I looked forward to egg nog every Christmas. I would drink tons of the stuff — thinking, “It’s milk, so it’s good for you, right?” It wasn’t until years later, during one of my thinner periods, that…
Cafe Society is ho-ho-home for the holidays. The Westword office is closed until 8 a.m. Tuesday, December 27, and Cafe Society scribes will be off-duty — but still eating and drinking — until then. There’s plenty to savor in the posts below, though, and if you have a pressing concern,…
