In the rough-and-tumble restaurant world, staying in business for a decade is a major accomplishment — and making it for eighty years, all in the same family? That’s something to celebrate. Which Bonnie Brae Tavern will be doing all day today, as the Dire family marks the eightieth birthday of…
A Boulder County Commissioners panel voted yesterday to review the permit issued for a large marijuana grow operation and hold a public hearing on the plan. The decision came after neighboring farmers, including the owners of Cure Organic Farms, and other community members loudly voiced their opposition. See also: Boulder…
It’s the first weekend of June, and that means National Donut Day! It also means that Robert Thompson will finally roll out his latest restaurant, Argyll Whisky Beer. Keep reading to find out where you can find free doughnuts today, preview Argyll and enjoy other goodies on the culinary calendar…
Great Divide Brewing will open a small tap room called the Barrel Bar next spring at 35th Avenue and Brighton Boulevard, on the site of its future brewery in the River North neighborhood. With a patio outside and room for an estimated forty to fifty people inside, the Barrel Bar…
I picked up a small bunch of dill from Far Out Gardens at Saturday’s Boulder Farmers’ Market. Dill is such an ordinary, unassuming herb. You see basil, cilantro and rosemary — with their connotations of full-flavored summery warmth — all over the place these days, but we associate dill with…
The brothers behind the homegrown Brothers Barbecue chain apparently have a sweet tooth, because they’ve just opened Nuggs Ice Cream Parlor in the South Park Hill neighborhood, at 5135 East Colfax Avenue. The shop features a rotating list of homemade ice cream (the current lineup is posted on the Nuggs…
UPDATE: Chai & Chai made another big change in October 2014, switching its dinner service to a strictly Indian menu and expanding the number of vegetarian options. Besides adding Indian chef Prakash Maroju to its roster, the restaurant plans to complement its menu by offering visiting Arabian, Thai and other…
Work is progressing on the former Longo’s Subway Tavern, a choice piece of corner real estate on the edge of LoHi/Sunnyside that Larimer Associates purchased in 2012 and is turning into a second location for Troy Guard’s TAG Burger Bar. The Longo family, which ran the Subway for more than…
Summer heat and bountiful sunshine are bringing more food trucks to Denver’s streets than ever before this year. From events like Civic Center Eats and the upcoming Best of Denver’s Gourmet Street Food Tour — and even right to your office — thrill-seeking diners can play tourist with international cuisine…
Chefs, like the rest of us, have their guilty pleasures, and yesterday, during a late-afternoon lunch, one particular Denver chef admitted that his guilty obsession is chicken wings, and to prove his point, he horded the little suckers…but not so much that I couldn’t snatch one off his plate when…
Jeff Jones P17 1600 East 17th Avenue 303-399-0988 p17denver.com This is part two of my interview with Jeff Jones, chef de cuisine of P17; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Your three favorite Denver restaurants other than your own: I love Snooze on Larimer, and when I’m craving a…
The Bonnie Brae Tavern looks pretty good for turning eighty this Friday, and not much different than the day it opened. The roadside eatery will celebrate eighty years of family operation on June 6 with 80 cent draught beers, $1.80 orders of burgers and fries and spaghetti and meatballs, and…
It was the end of an era. After thirty years, the T-Wa Inn — Denver’s first Vietnamese restaurant — went dark last weekend. But T-Wa’s future started looking dim long ago, as other Vietnamese restaurants popped up all over town. And as owner Tom Lam told Jason Sheehan seven years…
This is how the West was fun! Prairie Ridge Buffalo Ranch, Left Hand Brewing and Kachina Southwestern Grill are teaming up to put on a night of bison and beer this evening. See also: Beer calendar: Cool down with fruit beers, a festival and a grand opening…
Chai & Chai is located in a stretch of fast-food restaurants serving the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. The eatery is owned by Venu Alla, who enlisted dosa chef Rajesh Kannan to make Indian food and Jordanian chef Enas Khalili to make Arabian food. But rather than offer a culinary…
Black Crow, the outdoor extension of the Rio Grande in Lodo, is hosting a Maestro Dobel Tequila tasting event from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight — and there are still a few $15 tickets left. Tequila isn’t the only thing you’ll be able to taste; there will also be an…
It started with a reflective traipse through the mountain wilderness, says Samir Mohammad, recounting the day he made the difficult decision to quit his job at Black Pearl, where he’s been the executive chef since January of this year. But he’s not just departing the kitchen of Black Pearl; he’s…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Avery beer vs. Peach Street spirits dinner contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many barrel-aged Cheeky Peach cocktails can Green Russell get out of its Peach Street barrel before the barrel runs dry? Congratulations to dlitfin,…
The consumption of certain products can contain inherent ethical conundrums — and those are the sorts of conundrums that cause outright hostility between, say, vegans and carnivores. What you eat is part of the issue, but another equally important component is how that food product was created and, perhaps, how…
Although they’ve both been operating in Fort Collins for more than two decades, Odell and New Belgium had never collaborated on a beer. That changed last month when the two Colorado stalwarts teamed up on FOCOllaboration Ale, a pale ale made with Fawcett Crystal Malt (an Odell favorite), Centennial, Cascade…
When the joint next door sternly turned us away, claiming that a catering order would prohibit the kitchen staff from cooking for its customers for at least thirty minutes (seriously?), we opted, in a pinch, for Italian food instead. And my kid, who’s obsessed with Caesar salads, ordered one here,…
The brand new owners of the popular Craft Lager Festival — which has taken place in the Manitou Springs area for eleven years — announced this week that they have canceled the event this August because of poor planning and a lack of available breweries. “We only got eleven signups;…
