No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as an incentive to join the growing Meatless Monday movement, we’re featuring an animal-free recipe each week. This vegetable barley soup is beef-broth-free — but the cooking sherry and barley miso add a full-bodied flavor to…
On the same menu stamped with housemade pupusas, empanadas and Salvadorian enchiladas, you’ll find conch soup, creamed spaghetti and meatballs and chop suey, which our server swore was one of the kitchen’s best dishes. Maybe next time. In the meantime, can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a meaty Friday night dinner at Frasca to a still-unidentified avocado margarita to clam linguine at a relatively new strip-mall Italian joint. For correctly identifying the dish as coming from La Scala Trattoria , Erinlstilwell wins an EatDenver…
“I was really hoping you’d go on the Jason Sheehan diet: whiskey, cigarettes, and Lucky Charms,” writes Mantonat in response to the second installment of Bar Belle, Laura Shunk’s new series about how a food critic can indeed get fit. In last Monday’s installment, Shunk kicked gluten to the curb,…
From 6 p.m. six until closing tonight, all locations of Chipotle — the homegrown big-burrito chain that Steve Ells started in Denver almost twenty years ago — will be offering a real treat to anyone in a costume inspired by the family farm. Dress like Old McDonald or a Niman…
If a weekend of Halloween parties left you thirsty for more, this is the last day to get spooky cocktails at Edge Restaurant & Bar, in the Four Seasons at 1111 14th Street. The special menu of mixed drinks includes several that are Twilight-inspired. For more info, call 303-389-3343 or…
Sorry, that headline is cruel. In-N-Out Burger, which now has locations in California, Nevada, Dallas-Fort Worth and Utah, is not opening a store in Denver, but if you don’t want to drive the 350-plus miles to get your double-double burger fix, you can have it delivered straight to your door…
Tyler Baer’s foray into the kitchen started during a year abroad in Germany. “Food is a very important thing for me and it always has been,” he says. “My mom always made things from scratch and organic ingredients, so I was really used to having good food. But during college,…
There’s something so sweet about sweet. The cavemen knew it, and were willing to risk limbs and whatever other body parts weren’t covered in hair in order to grab honey from beehives. Over many, many thousands of years, the preferred form of sweet evolved from honey to all kinds of…
A couple of months ago, we noticed that Mt. Everest Restaurant and Bar, the home of one of our favorite lunch buffets, had shuttered. And while we lamented the loss of goat curry, we were pleased to see that a restaurant was slated to rise quickly in its place…
If you ask Foad Aftahi what he thinks about Denver’s Persian restaurant climate, he wrinkles his nose and shakes his head. “I don’t think you’ll find any good Persian restaurants in Denver,” he claims. And that, he insists, is why he opened Chicken Kabob, a tasteful, contemporary, fast-casual Persian restaurant…
Happy Place: Lime XS, 730 East Sixth Avenue, 303-722-5463. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $3 house wines, well drinks, margaritas, and draft beer; $3 appetizers. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Before Liu Zeng Qun opened Chef Liu’s Authentic Chinese Cuisine, his Szechuan restaurant in Aurora (which I review this week), he spent eight years working for the man who secured the visa that brought him over here: Johnny Hsu. Hsu is the man behind Imperial Chinese Restaurant; he’s owned restaurants…
Six breweries have opened in the Denver area so far this year, and there are more on the horizon. And while craft beer lovers might say it’s impossible to have “too many breweries,” it is becoming exponentially more difficult to stand out in the ever-growing crowd of competition. But the…
Last weekend, I strolled through a Front Range farmers’ market (one that I’d never been to), and after picking my way through baskets of beautiful tomatoes, tri-colored carrots and beets, I came face-to-face with a food truck I’d never seen — a truck that turns out a damn good breakfast…
After a four-month delay, Arvada Beer Company will open today at 11 a.m. in a 95-year-old brick building that has been gutted and restored to make room for the brewery and other shops. “It’s been a long journey, but we are really excited,” says co-owner Kelly Floyd. The delays were…
Inspired by the parillada at Caminito Tango, last week Laura Shunk served up Denver’s five best weekend-only restaurant specials…
Get into the Halloween spirit at Beatrice & Woodsley, 38 South Broadway, which is hosting Ghosts by Lantern Light tonight and tomorrow night. The event, which start at 6:30 p.m., features uncommon, Halloween-themed cuisine that will be served in the cellar of the restaurant. Tickets run from $48 to $72…
Crimson Canary, the second restaurant from the owners of Interstate Kitchen & Bar, opened at 6 p.m. today in the former home of Mona’s at 141 South Broadway. The Italian-American restaurant is named after a 1945 who-done-it. As co-owner Joey Newman told Cafe Society last week: “We’re drawing from the…
Trick-or-treating always seemed so harmless. Sure, candy isn’t great for your teeth — but are those little morsels of sugary-goodness more sinister than we ever imagined? A common argument against marijuana is that it’s a “gateway drug” — but what if Halloween candy is, too? After all, long before candies…
Colorado’s children suffer from two seemingly contradictory food-related health problems: hunger and obesity. That’s the word from the Colorado Children’s Campaign, a nonprofit advocacy organization focused on improving children’s well-being, which organized a luncheon/discussion on the issues of childhood hunger, obesity and poverty yesterday…
We ambled down to Freshcraft last night looking for a pint of beer and a snack. But to our dismay, the spot was dark…
