Happy Place: The Irish Snug, 1201 East Colfax Avenue, 303-839-1394 The Hours: Daily from 3 to 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. to midnight. The Deals: Two-for-one draft beers, well drinks, and house wines by the glass; $3.95-$4.95 appetizer specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Comfort Cafe, the non-profit, pay-what-you-please restaurant in Berkeley Park, is back in business, after a three-week hiatus to “rest and restructure a bit.” “Construction on Tennyson Street was a big part of the break,” explains business and building owner Jan Bezuidenhout, “There’s no parking. We’ve seen almost a 50 percent…
In the Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date, thanks to the constant crowd of young professionals who mingle there over cappuccinos. And because we’re big proponents of ditching online dating and blind set-ups every now and then in favor of meeting…
Argyll, a restaurant that we have loved, stalked and ballyhooed since it opened in Cherry Creek in 2009 — it was our Best New Restaurant pick in the 2010 Best of Denver — has, for quite a while, been one of the only reasons to actually make the trek to…
The latest food truck to hit Denver will either have you shaking your head because the craze has gone mainstream, or nodding it for the same reason. On Thursday, Aramark Corporation, which runs the food venues at Coors Field, rolled out Wok in the Park, a truck serving noodle bowls…
With the news that Dylan Moore was garaging the Little Orange Rocket for good, a reader ominously predicted that this food truck wouldn’t be the last to go. That reader was right: Walnut A-Go-Go, the mobile arm of the Boulder-based Walnut Cafe group, is now parked permanently…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, Noah Stephens, exec chef/owner of Vert Kitchen, talks about the motivation behind his sandwiches, all of which are inspired by his travels around the world. I especially love Vert’s BLT, sandwiched with bacon, oven-roasted tomatoes, lashes of lemon mayonnaise and bibb lettuce. “There’s…
These are not your average tamales. To the contrary, these tamales, the tender masa fragrant with sweet corn, and rolled with cheese, chiles, chicken or pork, are flat-out delicious, and they’re offered solo, by the half-dozen or dozen. You can get them smothered, too, with what has got to be…
When we broke the news yesterday that Dylan Moore was putting the brakes on the Little Orange Rocket, his mobile meals on wheels, several Cafe Society readers wondered if this was the beginning of the end to Denver’s street food movement. Just like restaurants, food trucks come and go, but…
Husband-and-wife team Danielle Diller and Gilles Fabre opened Brasserie Felix three years ago on Tennyson, bringing neighborhood French bistro to an area that had supported mostly bars. Today, the Berkeley neighborhood supports a raft of restaurants, everything from a new ice cream parlor to barbecue — but Brasserie Felix is…
Shannon Piserchio, who co-owns The Bookery Nook with her husband, Gary, used to write posts on Facebook asking someone, anyone, to open an ice cream shop near their place at 4280 Tennyson Street. She didn’t know she was talking to herself: Three weeks ago, the Piserchios opened the Ice Cream…
The 1876 Restaurant at the Grand Hyatt downtown is revamping its menu this month. The new lineup will feature local, sustainable and organic ingredients whenever possible, in dishes that cater to special dietary needs; vegan and gluten-free options will be available. The move to greener pastures is part of a…
Dylan Moore put the brakes on the Little Orange Rocket yesterday, parking the food truck after a final appearance at Civic Center Eats in order to focus on his restaurants: Deluxe, Delite and Deluxe Burger. The news did not come as a surprise to Kaz: The food truck scene in…
Forget the Friday-night dinner-and-a-movie combo — so trite. Cook Street School of Fine Cooking, 1937 Market Street, is hosting a Culinary Date Night frm 6 to 9:30 p.m. today. Bring your date for an evening of cooking and fun; admission is $79 per person. For more information, call 303-308-9300 or…
Happy Bastille Day, Denver. We’ll grab just about any excuse to pop open a bottle of French wine and chow down on baguettes, but the storming of the Bastille on July 14 may be the best excuse we’ll find all year. While one of our favorite spots for a French…
It didn’t quite hit the July 1 target, but Belvedere Restaurant is now open at 323 14th Street, in the former home of Cafe Berlin. (That restaurant moved to a second-floor spot at 1600 Champa Street.) Kinga Klek, who also owns Kinga’s Lounge, transformed the spot into a fine-dining restaurant…
Williams & Graham, a new speakeasy that’s the vision of Todd Colehour, a former head honcho at Kona Grill, was slated to open in June with cocktail-tender Sean Kenyon. Until recently, Kenyon had been the star-tender at the now-closed Squeaky Bean, spearheading the beverage program. He was set to oversee…
Twisted Olive, the giant martini lounge and restaurant that opened in November 2009 in the Shops at Northfield Stapleton, has dried up. The Twisted Olive website says just this: “Twisted Olive is Closed. We’d like to thank everyone who supported us over the last two years.”…
It was late last year when we started spying beer cocktails in bars. There were just a few at first, and most of them were basic twists on micheladas or other fizzy drinks — experimental and not always tasty. But lately, the beer cocktail has become a veritable trend, with…
About a year ago, the Wash Park Underground opened on Downing Street in the alley below Mecca Grill. That spot, which sought to turn the address into one that was more savory than previous tenants, featured Foosball, shuffleboard, art by local artists, craft beer taplines and bar food served late…
Yesterday, in my Guess where I’m eating? post, I called out one of the worst offenders of green chile that I’ve ever seen. Disgusting doesn’t even begin to describe what was on that plate. Interestingly, I had high expectations for the Butcher Block’s green chile, mainly because more than one…
There are only a dozen or so bars or restaurants in Denver that have been around for four decades under the same ownership. It’s an exclusive club, and those who have been inducted are a testament to hard work — and in some cases to hard drinking. The Bull &…
