Denver foodbeasts who eat up the city’s culinary scene had plenty to chew on in 2011: Big-name chefs who abruptly closed their restaurants; other chefs who walked out; a restaurant that burst into flames — and rose from the ashes; a very public divorce; and sadly, unfathomably, a beloved restaurateur…
At the one-time home of Kuulture, 1512 Larimer Street, the lights are off, the doors are shuttered, everything is packed into cardboard boxes, and the telephone number is no longer in service. When it opened in 2008, Kuulture was one of the first LA-style frozen yogurt shops to hit town,…
Several New Year’s Eve restaurant closings surprised the city — including that of Se7en and M&D’s Cafe — but the three-way closings on South Pearl Street were a real triple whammy. As anticipated, the 29-year-old Pearl Street Grill closed…but India’s Pearl shut its doors just hours later, and OTOTO closed…
Close to 300 new restaurants opened in the metro area last year — and with that much action, perhaps it’s not surprising that two of them are named Cebiche, and two of them are named Chinook. But the local dining scene also lost a surprising number of mainstays: the 29-year-old…
The bistro at the Tony’s Market at 950 Broadway is a sweet little restaurant tucked inside a busy gourmet grocery store. You might not expect such a place to cater to vegetarian and vegan needs — but you’d be wrong. The staff is well-versed in food preferences — and they…
While we were ushering in the New Year with friends, family and booze, several Denver restaurants were closing their doors. Over the weekend, Pearl Street Grill, India’s Pearl and OTOTO all shuttered; after fifteen years in its Park Meadows location, California Cafe quietly closed; and in what could be some…
Last year saw nearly 300 restaurant openings on the books — but 2012 is already kicking off with several closures, including the long-lived Pearl Street Grill, next-door neighbor India’s Pearl and nearby Ototo. And now, from the southern suburbs, comes word of another shuttered restaurant…
Unfortunately, because it’s winter, a good portion of the produce in stock in Colorado right now, including In Season Local Market is from California. I’d been planning to buy some sweet potatoes for a soup recipe that’s been hanging on the fridge and was bummed to hear the news. Alas,…
My first meal of 2012 was here, at this Chinese restaurant, where a bunch of us gather every year to dish about the Denver culinary scene. 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 posts is…
Cafe Society dished up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a vile plate of chile rellenos from a still-unidentified, seedy restaurant in Commerce City to a panang curry with frozen peas to a cocktail at a splashy new restaurant in the Rocky Mountains. For identifying that cocktail as…
Jesus, it’s only day three of the new year, and already, in the span of one weekend, three restaurants have shuttered on South Pearl Street. After 29 years, the venerable Pearl Street Grill locked its doors after service on Friday night, India’s Pearl stopped slinging curries after New Year’s Eve…
Close to 300 new restaurants opened in the metro area in 2011 — by our count, at least, which you can see when our Restaurant roll call for 2011 is posted here later today. When Laura Shunk narrowed that big list down to the ten best new restaurants of last…
On my first visit to Cafe|Bar, I spent an inordinate amount of time making plans for art projects. I’m not much of a DIY-er, but just about every decor item in the place gave me an idea for my own home. “How do you think they made those ornaments?” I…
There’s always a lot of action at the end of the year, and 2011 was no exception: After last call early on December 31, the Pearl Street Grill closed its doors, after almost thirty years in business. The Pearl isn’t gone for good, though. It will reopen in 2012 –…
By 5 p.m., Pearl Street Grill, the iconic watering hole on South Pearl Street, was jammed with imbibers clinking pints of porter, embracing friends and lamenting the closure of one of Platt Park’s oldest neighborhood gathering spots. At 2 a.m., after last call, Pearl Street Grill will lock its doors…
Including this post, the total number of posts on Cafe Society in 2011 was 3,241. That’s a lot of bloggering for a local restaurant scene blog. And who has time to go through all of them? Certainly not you. Which is why we’ve tallied up the top ten posts –…
As the year draws to a close, I look back fondly at the breast, er, best restaurant that I had the pleasure of visiting in 2011. Twin Peaks opened last month just outside of Colorado Mills, and it’s a worthy adversary to Denver’s already established breastaurants, Hooters and Tilted Kilt…
It’s a new year, and 2012 should be another rich, full year of food, drink and, with any luck, a few more naked photos of Anthony Bourdain. It’s time to kick 2011 in the gnocchi and usher in a brand-new 365 days of fresh foodie resolutions. We all know that…
It’s been open for exactly 25 days — an infant — but Trillium, Ryan Leinonen’s Scandinavian restaurant in the Ballpark neighborhood, has already found its way onto one coveted roster — namely our “Ten Best New Restaurants in Denver” listacle. And tomorrow night, on New Year’s Eve, one Cafe Society…
Bradford Heap, owner of Boulder’s Salt and Niwot’s Colterra, has had a busy end of the year. Not only has he been drawing up plans to launch a distillery with his bar manager, Evan Faber, he’s also launched a catering business — Bradford Heap Catering — that’s about to kick…
Of all the Mexican meals I had this past year — and there were dozens of them — this was by far the worst. Worse than Blue Bonnet, worse than anything you can possibly imagine. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer…
While a few new restaurants and bars are still scrambling to open before 2012 — and get some business on New Year’s Eve — other longtimers are calling it a night. The last Marie Callender’s restaurant in Colorado closed its doors last weekend, after 21 years at 51 West Dry…
