Food & Drink

As of May 1, soda pop and candy — “a preparation of sugar, honey, or other natural or artificial sweeteners in combination with chocolate, fruit, nuts, or other ingredients or flavoring in the form of bars, drops or pieces,” according to the Colorado Department of Revenue — are no longer…

A traditional Scotch egg tucks a not-quite-hard-boiled egg inside a sausage casing — but from there, this brunch starter breaks with all traditions. Can you guess where I was eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into…

It’s time for our monthly round-up of restaurant opening-and-closing action — and there was plenty in April, much of it caffeine-fueled: RESTAURANTS/VENUES OPENING IN APRIL*: Abrusci’s, 300 Fillmore Street Backcountry Provisions, 1617 Wazee Street Bardo Coffee House, 238 South Broadway Big Game, 1631 Wazee Street Boulder Organic Pizza, 1175 Walnut…

There are several links in the homegrown Mercedes Mexican Restaurant chain around the metro area, but perhaps none more welcome than this new outpost, which occupies a former Taco Bell at 14th Avenue and Santa Fe Drive. Which means that not only does this Mercedes offer the same great $2…

Jared Jacang Maher’s February 2009 Westword cover story on SAME Cafe just won a prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for newspaper feature writing about restaurants and/or chefs. The name of Brad and Libby Birky’s restaurant at 2023 East Colfax Avenue stands for So All May Eat, and speaks to the…

Cafe Society served up six Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything from the view from the door of the Squeeze Inn to a giant (and still unidentified) breakfast burrito to the new fois gras on Shanahan’s revamped menu. For identifying that starter — which may be one…

In the four hours that David Bravdica had been slinging pizzas, the skies rained, sleeted, snowed, dropped gropple and kicked up enough wind to blow flour from here to Tuscany, which is where Bravdica, a former airport manager, learned the art of making pizza — pizza that he began peddling…

Picture this commercial: In a split screen, two attractive young women are both in rumpled beds with the silhouette of a man in the shower behind them. The girls talk into the phone at the same time: Girl 1: “Did you…” Girl 2: “We did…” Girl 1: “It was..” Girl…

I’m picky — really picky — about my scrambled eggs, which I always order soft and which, more often than not, arrive every way but that way. The exception are the scrambled eggs in the above snap, which the kitchen always prepares beautifully, even when it’s weeded with tickets and…

The towering milk can poking out of the lower Highland neighborhood is hard to miss. Owner Paul Tamburello designed his ice cream stand as an homage to the Coney Island hot dog stand (the one that looks like a hot dog, not the one on Coney Island), liking the idea…

Marczyk Fine Foods, the Uptown market at 770 East 17th Avenue, is kicking off its seasonal sidewalk burger bash tonight at 5 p.m. “We started the burger night as a way to get people in the neighborhood to taste one of our favorite products — Niman Ranch beef — and…

Angelina Soleno, who recently opened University Groundz Coffee House at 2493 South University Boulevard, won’t say where she gets her breakfast burritos — only that they come from a secret spot in Brighton and are “the best breakfast burritos anywhere in Denver.” She’s wrong about that (the best breakfast burritos…

Big Game just opened last night at 1631 Wazee Street, and as promised, the restaurant brought to us by TurnTable Restaurant Group — New York restaurateurs Jeffrey and Zach Chodorow, and Dan Smith — looked like it was going to be very hot. But this is ridiculous. Five fire trucks…

In Lincoln, Nebraska, there are numerous homegrown items to sink your teeth into, including steak, pork and corn. Anna Godfrey has now put another item on the menu: human ears. According to this report, Lincoln’s finest were called to a local hospital after receiving a report that a patient was…

Chris Graves says he decided to open a coffee shop after 25 years of hanging out in them, all the while taking stock of various details and inconveniences that he would change at his own place. “There were just little things about them that bothered me,” he says. “Like, why…

Hat’s off to a Cafe Society reader who tipped us to the unfortunate demise of Aviano Coffee at 955 Lincoln Street in the beleaguered Beauvallon building. A woman who answered a call to Aviano yesterday gave a “no comment” when asked about the closure, but then said details would be…