The first night I stopped in at Jezebel’s Southern Bistro and Bar, it was hotter than a bottle of Tabasco. With an overloaded swamp cooler and no ceiling fans in the back room where we were seated, and not a hint of breeze on the patio where we later moved,…
Look! A bottle holder that tips a miniature Corona into your margarita! There’s really nothing else to say about this new concoction that’s popping up in Mexican joints all around the city. Except this: #pleasedrinkresponsibly. Urp. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
“I started cooking because my parents wouldn’t buy me a snowboard,” says Joshua Bitz. And at the age of twelve, he was in his first kitchen, scrubbing plates to save money for a snowboard and lift tickets to get him on the hill. The kitchen, he says, has been his…
Davies’ Chuck Wagon Diner, a horse-topped diner that’s become a Lakewood landmark at 9495 West Colfax Avenue, has opened another Davies’ at 10151 West 26th Avenue in Lakewood. It’s just the latest chapter in more than fifty years of chicken-fried history. See also: Jason Sheehan’s review of the original Davies’…
Iain Chisholm Amerigo Delicatus Restaurant & Market 2449 Larimer Street 303-862-9850 amerigodelicatus.com This is part one of my interview with Iain Chisholm, chef-owner of Amerigo Delicatus Restaurant & Market; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. My mom never used salt. She thought it was the devil,” chuckles Iain…
In A Federal Case, I’ll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard — south to north — within Denver city limits. I’ll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I’ll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here’s the…
Denver looked good on Monday Night Football this week, but it could look even better tonight. Jen Jasinski, chef/co-owner of Rioja, Bistro Vendome and Euclid Hall has made it to the finals of Top Chef Masters. At 8 p.m. tonight, Bravo will air the last episode, in which Chef Jen…
South Gaylord Street has seen a lot of restaurants come and go, but Restaurant Japon is a stalwart, not just on South Gaylord, but in the Denver dining scene, standing court in the middle of Washington Park’s most bustling block for eighteen years, a feat for any restaurant. But on…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our EatDenver Harvest Week contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many heads of lettuce does the GrowHaus harvest in a week? Congratulations to mini_d, who guessed 1,000 heads of lettuce, which is the exact number. Mini_d, we’ll…
Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year — which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn’t it? But all…
All too often, Vietnamese noodle bowls are undermined by a crop of lettuce lurking at the bottom of the bowl, but the bún at this Vietnamese restaurant brims with generous amounts of savory meats, glistening herbs, noodles with a spring in their step and crisp vegetables, which give the traditional…
Everyone agrees that Denver Restaurant Week has been a delicious deal for the city, but there were a few things about it that didn’t make sense. For starters, Denver Restaurant Week hasn’t been a week-long for years; when the economy tanked in late 2008, it was extended to two weeks,…
There are 26 Tokyo Joe’s location in Colorado — a state that may pump out more fast-casual chain stores per capita than any other (see: Chipotle, Garbanzo, Qdoba, Smashburger, etc.). Although the menu includes a vegetarian sushi roll that’s not bad (it has cream cheese, which is bad news for…
Chipotle got its start in Denver, when founder Steve Ells opened the first Chipotle at 1644 Evans Avenue in July 1993. There are now 74 Chipotle locations in Colorado — and another thousand around the globe — and yesterday all of this state’s stores introduced the first new protein in…
Rise and shine! Not one, but two Dunkin’ Donuts locations are debuting today in Denver: a Dunkin’ Donuts at 366 Broadway, which opens today at 5 a.m. and bills itself as “the city’s flagship Dunkin’ Donuts restaurant”, and one at at Denver International Airport’s new waiting area, Final Approach, which…
When you talk to Duy Pham, executive chef of Epernay, he sounds like a scientist, jazzed about everything from sous vide cooking to the way acids interact with certain foods. But Pham also has an artistic side, which comes across in his cooking. “I’ve always been into art and try…
Whoa, what a difference a remodel makes! But the menu? It still pimps an American-Italian board of standards, including a very cheesy lasagna. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post is entered into a pool — and…
You can’t live in Colorado without having a good guacamole recipe. Naturally vegan, it’s a fantastic accessory to just about any dish you want to serve — from burgers to enchiladas. This version lets the avocado shine through, without a lot of additions to overpower one of nature’s perfect foods…
If I had one wish, first I would go standard and ask for more wishes — but then I would ask that all the fall-themed, pumpkin-flavored foods and drinks continue year- round. I would do this because I am absolutely, admittedly one of the lamestreamers who not only overindulges in…
Last Friday, after months of delays (read: back-and-forth with the city about this, that and the other), Rod Dupen and his business partner John Power, opened their third Waffle Brothers in Uptown. And unlike the Waffle Brothers in Alamo Placita, or their kiosk in Boulder, this third waffle incarnation, which…
Cafe Society dished up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a vodka-based cocktail shrouded in liquid nitrogen from 1515 Restaurant, to a lovely pasta-and-mozzarella salad from Amerigo Delicatus Restaurant and Market, to a lackluster skillet of corn bread from a bar with numerous locations…
For the first time in close to two decades, Chipotle is rolling out a new protein. The Denver-born chain will debut “sofritas” in all 74 of its Colorado stores today. In advance of the roll-out, we got a chance to try the new protein (spoiler alert: it’s meat-free, but so…
