The thirtieth annual A Taste of Colorado runs from Friday, August 23 through Labor Day. The four-day, free festival features food (well, you have to pay for that), music, and more. Festivities will be held at Civic Center Park and will showcase eats from over fifty local restaurants; visit the…
At some point in the distant past, someone — probably not a man — declared that a “woman always has the right to change her mind,” but that certainty applies to the other gender, too. Yesterday afternoon, in fact, Theo Adley, a male whose name was prominently featured this past…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Ruth Tobias book signing contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many hours did it take Tobias to complete her manuscript? Congrats to chrisdoubleyou, who guessed 500; the actual number is 513 hours! Chrisdoubleyou, we’ll send you…
This week, Gretchen Kurtz explored the Mediterranean fare at Yaffa’s Savory, 2200 South Monaco Parkway, where chef-owner (and former educater) Yaffa Hanouna is living her dream as a full-time restaurateur. And Lori Midson caught up with Marty Steinke of Linger about his decision to drop out of his last semester…
The second in a quartet of Modmarket locations slated to debut this year opened this week at Kent Place Center, 3475 South University Boulevard. “We are thrilled to introduce Modmarket to this part of the metro area,” said founders Anthony Pigliacampo and Rob McColgan in advance of Wednesday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony…
Taki’s Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar has been a mainstay on East Colfax for years. But Hisashi Takimoto, who opened it as Taki’s Healthy Japanese Food Restaurant in 1998, passed away in 2009, and the restaurant has gone through some changes since then. Now there are more under way: A…
Hurricane Grill & Wings opened this week at 8025 West Bowles Avenue in Littleton; it’s the first Colorado link in the Hurricane Grill & Wings chain that got its start in Florida in 1995 and quickly took off on the strength of its wings. The expansive menu includes more than…
As a follow-up to our list of productivity-inducing coffee shops, we wanted to highlight a few of the many Denver coffee shops that celebrate the exchange of ideas as well as the simple pleasure of sitting down, enjoying the atmosphere, and sipping on a cup of coffee. Here, in no…
This will never be Denver’s best deli, but it continues to carry on, turning out decent sandwiches to a golden age crowd, the women of which, judging from the really, really bad plastic surgeries and botox injections, are still trying to compete with the Forever 21 hipsters. Can you guess…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Fermentation Festival & Market contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many pounds of Napa cabbage did Dae Gee Korean BBQ turn into kimchi during the month of July? Congrats to D.M.C, who guessed 365; the actual…
As far as I’m concerned, fall can’t come fast enough — and it’s not just because I’m looking forward to cooler temperatures, the peak of my chile crop, the rustling of leaves and my favorite holiday, which happens to be Halloween. The foray into fall also signals one of my…
The 1500 block of Platte Street is quiet this morning, with regulars stopping by Paris on the Platte after exercising in Confluence Park and neighbors running in to grab coffee on their way to work. The scene is quite a contrast to the action on Wednesday night, when the roof…
At least ten new craft brewers hope to open their doors in the metro area before the Great American Beer Festival kicks off on October 11 — eight within Denver city limits alone. And there are many more to come, with plans for breweries up and down the Front Range…
The inaugural Fermentation Festival & Market will transform the Highlands Masonic Center this weekend. The festival, which showcases an extensive line-up all things fermented, will feature several breweries, including TRVE Brewing, Grand Teton Brewing, Sapporo, Our Mutual Friend Malt & Brew, Kokopelli Beer Company, City Star Brewing, Großen Bart Brewery,…
The 2013 edition of Chipotle-sponsored Cultivate attracted twice as many people to City Park as the 2012 festival did — a whopping 26,000 fans of good food and good music. But then, the weather on Saturday was also 60 degrees warmer than it was for the 2012 Cultivate. So it’s…
Edge Restaurant & Bar, 1111 14th Street, is extending its happy hour this evening for a pre-sale get-together for the After Party on the Bridge — a fundraiser for the Greenway Foundation that will take place Friday, September 13 on the 19th Street Bridge in Riverfront Park. The restaurant will…
Earlier this week, we reported that Max MacKissock, exec chef of the Squeaky Bean, would be leaving his position at the restaurant that shot to stardom in Highland and rocketed to national glory when it reopened in a brand new space in LoDo last year. On Monday, when we ran…
Quick — buy state senator Vicki Marble a copy of Adrian Miller’s Soul Food: The Surprising Story of An American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time. In his new book, Denverite Miller, an attorney and politico, tells the history of how soul food evolved, corrects plenty of misconceptions about the…
Diebolt Brewing opened last weekend as Denver’s newest small craft brewery, serving up beers and camaraderie in the Sunnyside neighborhood. The brewery plans to hold a grand opening event during the Great American Beer Festival, which returns to town October 10-12, but it will have some company by then when…
Fiery green chile on a fire-hot day can make a grown woman cry. Really good chile, though, and the habanero-ghost chile sauce that you can order on the side is definitely a new obsession. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…
Restaurateur Noel Cunningham was the heart and soul of Strings, the restaurant he’d opened at 1700 Humboldt Street in February 1986, and after he took his life in late 2011, the life seemed to go out of the place. Finally his widow, Tammy, closed the restaurant at the end of…
Platte Street is becoming a hot restaurant neighborhood — too hot last night, when a fire broke out on the roof of the Paris on the Platte bar. But one of the benefits of a hot neighborhood is neighbors: They spotted the blaze, and called the fire department. And the…
