AC Golden Brewing Company, a tiny, Coors-owned microbrewery located inside the company’s Golden headquarters, released a new beer today called Colorado Native lager. It is only available in Colorado, in bottles and on tap. Created and brewed by AC Golden’s four-person staff, the amber lager is made with 99 percent…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
For the past 25 years, Ba Forde has been the matriarch behind Kim Ba, the excellent Vietnamese joint at 2495 South Havana that’s been the recipient of numerous Westword Best of Denver awards, including Best Vietnamese Restaurant, a prize it snagged every year between 2005 and 2009. And now her…
There’s a lot going on in food this week: The West End Tavern is releasing the long-awaited Pappy Van Winkle seventeen-year bourbon; the Green Route Restaurant Tour kicks off at 1515 Restaurant; and the Denver Central Library’s Food Fight: Retaking Our Plates, a Fresh City Life Film Series, will open…
Despondent over a breakup with his girlfriend on Friday, Chad Allen did what any 22-year-old would do: He drank a lot. Unfortunately, he decided to take his binge on the road on the afternoon of April 2, stopping off at the New Panda restaurant at 17732 South Golden road in…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything from D Bar’s delicious fries to a still-unidentified order of eggs Benedict to the chiles relleno at La Pasadita, a former Best of Winner. For correctly identifying that dish, Lisa is now the lucky winner of…
The West End Tavern, 926 Pearl Street in Boulder, has been waiting years to release the Pappy Van Winkle exclusive bourbon — seventeen years, in fact. Julian Van Winkle hand-selected the barrel to be bottled by the Tavern, and this is the only place you can get it. Celebrate at…
Green Route — a green map to the city — is kicking off a series of Green Route Restaurant Tours tonight, starting with a stop at 1515 Restaurant, 1515 Market Street. Attendees will meet owner Gene Tang and enjoy a special appetizer plus discounts on drinks. The tours are free,…
What you may have missed this week on Cafe Society, while bickering over whether Argyll, Colt & Gray, Olivea or TAG should have walked away with the Best New Restaurant award in this year’s Best of Denver 2010 (Argyll, if you didn’t already know, won that award):…
The United States government thinks your child is an obese, junk-eating machine. How to put a stop to this? The best idea the feds have come up with is to remove the toys from fast-food meals — because the meals contain so many calories and the toys contain lead from…
As part of an upcoming photo essay project spotlighting Denver restaurant pros whose tatts are as prevalent as their dissections, burns, blisters, knife slashes and stabs, we promised that we’d post some of the best on the Cafe Society blog. Earlier this week, we posted the food ink of Brandon…
Avery Brewing Company will release the fourth in its series of experimental one-and-done barrel-aged beers today at 5 p.m. at its tasting room in Boulder. The new brew is called Depuceleuse which, according the brewery, is a French term for a woman who deflowers men. It’s an extremely unusual beer…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
We swung by Buffalo Doughboy Bakery, which just won our Best of Denver Best Bakery award, early Thursday morning to see what was on offer. The pastry case overflowed with fat danishes and hefty croissants, making it hard to decide what would best accompany that morning cup of coffee. Though…
While the service can be brusque — even rude — at this quirky neighborhood feeding hole, the kitchen doesn’t miss a beat, turning out plate after plate of excellent food, including a comforting chicken pot pie fashioned with biscuits, to appreciative crowds squeezed into the vividly painted dining room. Can…
We became a big fan of Junie Garcia’s food when she manned the stove at the Bamboo Hut. Since 2002, she’s been running the kitchen at Phil’s Place, her son’s saloon at 3463 Larimer Street, where she cooks up big pots of green chile, stuffs incredible burritos (including, on the…
Green chile could well be this state’s major contribution to the culinary canon. Unlike the stew of green chiles, and sometimes just green chiles, served in New Mexico, Denver’s various green chiles can feature pork, tomatoes, even beans. We thought we’d tried them all (and loved most of them) until…
Bernie’s Hot Dog Co., Joe Zemla’s year-old joint at 1601 Mayberry (in the Highlands Ranch Town Center) in Highlands Ranch, introduced a new menu last month. Now it has another treat on tap: beer! Bernie’s just got its liquor license, and will begin selling beer today. To mark the august…
Operation Fortune Cookie, the colorfully named drug investigation that led to the largest weed bust in Colorado history and then imploded in allegations of crooked cops, paid-off politicians and bureaucratic cover-ups, has caused serious blowback for the law-enforcement agencies and elected officials involved. Now it may have similar repercussions in…
Denver-based Novo Coffee roasts some of the best beans in the city from their Larimer Street roasting facility, and while the company’s three Novo coffee bars located in the Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building and Duncan Pavilion and Museum residences are all doing well, the Arvada location will stop percolating…
In case you’re surfing the Internet today and are flummoxed by reports of Guy Fieri winning a Peabody award or a controversy surrounding a dessert app replacing real sweets (not to mention Google officially changing its name to “Topeka”)…don’t forget to check the date on those posts. After the jump,…
I love a good tamale, and at this Denver stalwart, the tamales, smothered in a piquant green chile, are just as good now as they were back when Westword bestowed them with a Best of Denver award. Can you guess whose tamales have withstood the test of time?…
