Last fall, the folks behind Organic Pizza Co., a nascent local chain, threw an introductory party in the top-floor party room of the spiffy Spire, where they demonstrated their commitment to top-notch ingredients and innovative pies. But there were delays in the build-out of the spot planned for the ground…
Green beer, St. Paddy’s Day, blah, blah, blah. Why not try something besides Guinness or Coors Light dyed green this year? FreshCraft will be pouring $4 Irish Divides (a name it made up), which are similar to black and tans and consist of Great Divide Hoss and O’Hara’s Irish Stout…
The Wash Park ‘hood, especially the stretch of Alameda, between Logan and Downing, is turning into a bona fide restaurant row, thanks to new restaurants like Bittersweet, Pho Pasta, and soon, a fifth outpost of Larkburger, joining stalwarts like Pete’s Central One, Lucile’s Creole Cafe, Fontana Sushi, Thai Basil and…
Dry Dock Brewing in Aurora will change the name of its acclaimed Seven Seas Double IPA sometime in the next few weeks after getting a “nasty” letter from a lawyer representing 7 Seas Brewing Company in Gig Harbor, Washington. “I was disappointed I didn’t get a phone call,” says Dry…
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. Pete and Barb…
Robert McCarthy Rialto Cafe 934 16th Street 303-893-2233 www.rialtocafe.com This is part one of my interview with Robert McCarthy, exec chef of Rialto Cafe. Part two of our interview will run in this space tomorrow. Robert McCarthy shakes his head in aggravation and rolls his eyes. “The hoods went down…
It was sixty years ago that Jerry Feld, then a student at the University of Denver, decided to get into the bar business and bought a watering hole at 404 Broadway from a man who’d opened it on the day Prohibition ended. At the time, Jerry was too young to…
Denver Restaurant Week ended at the close of service on March 11, with a record number of restaurants participating: 303. “Talk about a Denver number,” says Rich Grant, the spokesman for Visit Denver, the convention and visitors bureau that organizes the seven-year-old event. Even more impressive was the number of…
After Laura Shunk received an e-mail from a national food pub working on a list of the best pastas around the country, she posted a piece spilling some of her own favorites, and asked readers for their own. And out poured some saucy suggestions — Luca D’Italia, Rioja, Mizuna (fair…
Get in the mood for St. Patrick’s Day at Cherokee Ranch and Castle, 6113 North Daniels Park Road in Sedalia, which will present a Taste of the Emerald Isle Irish Single Malt Whiskey Celebration from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. tonight. The event, which costs $65, features a tour of the…
Over the course of my life in Denver, I’ve eaten a lot of mediocre Thai food, putting down bowls of curry and plates of pad Thai that were edible — but forgettable — up and down the Front Range. But this winter, after I returned from Southeast Asia, where I’d…
The Berkeley neighborhood certainly isn’t lacking for bars and restaurants. But when the owners of Tennyson’s Tap decided to set up shop on West 38th Avenue at the start of the year, they were betting that the neighborhood didn’t have another bar like it. “There are a lot of local…
Last night, in the midst of making final preparations to open Caffé, Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson put together a momentous Monday night wine dinner at Frasca Food and Wine featuring Sasa Radikon, a wine producer from Friuli that makes unique, complex macerated wines — but rarely leaves the vineyard,…
It’s official: after months of construction, oven problems, delays and, finally, stocking, outfitting and training, the third member of the growing Frasca Food and Wine family, Caffè, opened this morning. The sliver of a spot, tucked next to Pizzeria Locale, is filled with quirky artifacts that include paintings of roosters…
Once the Stock Show leaves town, there are only a few places where a bartender wearing a cowboy hat doesn’t look ridiculous. But here — ka-ching! Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is…
Three years ago, designer Tran Wills took a trip to Chicago and was inspired by some of the cute stores she saw there — so inspired that she decided to open the Shoppe on East Colfax. “The concept was always going to be cupcakes, cereal and coffee, open till two…
A national publication is working on a list of the best pasta spots in the country; we got an e-mail this morning asking for a few of our favorite pasta plates in Denver. Early contenders:…
When Coloradans elected former beer man John Hickenlooper to the state’s top post last November, they had no idea they’d be letting the entire craft-brewing industry into the Governors’ Mansion as well. But that’s what happened last night when the residence played host to Pints & Bites, a gourmet food-and-beer…
If you hurry, you can still grab yourself a nice, big Italian breakfast — with some eye-opening Italian/American/Mexican green chile on the side. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a…
After the fourteen-day eating orgy of Denver Restaurant Week, Cafe Society has finally had time to digest all the entries in our best and worst stories from Denver Restaurant Week contest. And here they are:…
Cafe Society was already giving EatDenver decks to the best/worst Denver Restaurant Week stories (read the entries here), but our bonus offer of an EatDenver deck for the server who serves up the best story about surviving Denver Restaurant Week set off warning bells for SmokingLoon: Oh-oh, here comes the…
Japan may be halfway around the world, but you can help earthquake relief efforts here in Denver: Several restaurants are hosting benefit events that start today. Ototo Food and Wine (www.facebook.com/ototoden), Izakaya Den (www.izakayaden.net) and Sushi Den (www.facebook.com/sushiden) will host fundraisers starting today and running through Saturday, March 19. A…
