Aside from the fact that the floor was so sticky that it stuck to my shoes like glue, this deli turns out a decent sandwich, and the fries, when hot, are good, too. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the…
Notice the date? It’s July 11, or 7-11, and 7-Eleven, the nation’s most prolific convenience-store chain, is giving away free 7.11-ounce size Slurpees all day until midnight at participating stores throughout Colorado. To mark its 84th birthday, the chain, which has 8,600 locations in North America, and 41,500 stores worldwide,…
Dancing Noodle Thai Cuisine, the family-run spot we named Best Thai Restaurant in 2010, is closed until Thursday, July 21, while the couple that owns it is on sabbatical in Thailand. And that’s ultimately good news: Once Dancing Noodle reopens, its commitment to authentic Thai fare should be reinvigorated with…
Cafe Society served up six Guess where? contests last week, ranging from an incredible bowl of berry/basil ice creams to a sign at the Welcome Inn to a good white clam pizza — in a town that’s definitely short of them. For correctly identifying that pie as coming from Ernie’s…
The fat’s in the fryer now! Our list of “Denver’s five best plates of fried chicken” has some readers squawking. No Steuben’s? No Welton Street Cafe? No Castle Cafe? And no Cora Faye’s Cafe? That omission inspired this from Sarcasumsus the Magnificent: Amazing that this list does not include Cora…
Isabelle Farms, 10029 Isabelle Road in Lafayette, will host the second annual Farm Dinner in conjunction with Mateo, featuring Isabelle’s produce, Colorado-based drinks and more. The party begins at dusk and costs $80; call 303-443-7766 or e-mail info@mateorestaurant.com to sign up. For information on dozens of culinary events around town,…
Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle will be right with you — most likely to complain about something. Usually he is pleasant, but this is his place to blow off some steam. Don’t take it personally; he just needs to vent because he’s been doing this for about thirteen years…
Right, so we do have other big news to report today, namely the announcement of a superhero champion in our Justice League of Street Food contest, the winner (and a guest) of which gets to eat and drink for free at the Justice League soiree on Saturday night. There were…
Crema Coffee House, the eclectic cafe on Upper Larimer, is just putting the finishing touches on a new kitchen. After two-and-a-half years of providing much-needed caffeine along a somewhat desolate stretch of Larimer Street, owner Noah Price has decided to offer breakfast and lunch to his ever-growing crowd of regulars…
New Belgium Brewing announced this week that it will add a massive new canning line to its fifty-acre Fort Collins compound. When construction is complete, the brewery will have the ability to can around thirty percent of its total output. But just because it can doesn’t mean it will, says…
The Great American Beer Festival sold out — all 55,000 or so tickets — in an amazing seven days this year, or roughly twelve weeks before the world’s biggest beerapalooza begins on September 29. Last year’s fest sold out about five weeks before the event, while the 2009 festival didn’t…
A scoop of basil ice cream and a second scoop of berry ice cream, paired with a split of prosecco, was the finale to dinner earlier this week. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating…
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…
While Facebook pages and Twitter handles have become a staple on most restaurants’ business cards, Boulder-based Modmarket wants to stand out. Sure, it will continue to use Facebook and Twitter accounts, but they’d be seamlessly integrated into the official website. “The idea is that we’d like to get way beyond…
The Justice League of Street Food, the convoy of food trucks and carts that gave a whole new meaning to pavement cuisine when it became a superpower of street food last summer, is gearing up for its second party of the season — and we’re giving one Cafe Society reader…
It was a Las Vegas, tunnel-of-love, drive-thru wedding. Leigh Sullivan and Troy Guard, the chef/owner of TAG and TAG| RAW BAR, met just three months before they took off for Las Vegas and tied the knot in 2004 in the back seat of a cab at Sin City’s Little White…
Theo Adley, the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview, is getting rave reviews both for his food at The Pinyon — and for his comments. Says AmyDenver: One of my all-time favorite Chef and Tell comments: “Shut up, all of you, especially you, Thomas Keller, you blabbermouth. Oh…and…
Il Mondo Vecchio, 1174 South Cherokee Street, presents Loading Dock Fridays every Friday, with tours and tastings from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. Call 303-744-6328 or visit www.mondovecchio.net. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Food & Drink listings — and if you have information for…
We’ll eat fried chicken any time of the year, but we really crave it during the summer, sided with coleslaw, cobbler, mac and cheese or watermelon. We credit that yearning to a subconscious association with picnic season. But instead of unpacking a bucket of KFC, we head instead to a…
On July 27, IKEA will unveil its first store in Colorado, complete with the 550-seat IKEA Restaurant & Café and a Swedish food market. Although both a market and restaurant are integral parts of most IKEA outlets, the restaurant in Centennial will be the largest to date. That’s a lot…
We were checking out the current home of the National Western Stock Show, doing an inventory of the scenic bars (not to mention their very cheap 32-ounce draft beer deals) that Aurora will need to match if it successfully rustles that event, when we spotted this very strongly worded sign…
I’m a writer so I’m always in a state of coinus interruptus, but imagine my surprise when I recently discovered a dollar store where things actually cost a dollar each: Dollar Tree. This economical sanctuary at 4923 East Colfax Avenue has some splendid buys for a crumpled George Washington, and…
