Dish (formerly Menu Affair), Westword’s annual culinary bash that extols the city’s best bites, wine sips, suds and sounds, kicks off tonight at Ninth Avenue Historic Park with food from thirty restaurants and food trucks all invited to participate by Cafe Society scribes, along with such liquid assets as beer…
Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of Highland Tap and Burger — but you’ll have to wait until October 5 to really celebrate. Although the party was originally scheduled for September 17, the start of football season and events booked during the Great American Beer Festival with the likes of Left…
After a five-week makeover, the expanded City, O’ City made its debut yesterday — to both raves and rants. The vegetarian restaurant has merged its original home — which was once the home of its sibling, WaterCourse Foods — with the space next door, gaining twice as much dining area,…
Cafe Society invited some of our favorite restaurants and food trucks to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Avenue Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: Manna from Heaven www.mannafoodtruck.com/ What are you serving at Dish? We’re doing our version of a bánh mì with our own signature-marinated…
An Oklahoma City restaurant slated to open its doors this week will feature gourmet onion burgers, “vintage modern decor” (according to EatAroundOKC) — and, as pointed out by the Oklahoma City Egotist, a logo that looks like it was blatantly ripped off from one of this city’s busiest restaurants: Steuben’s…
Cafe Society invited some of our favorite restaurants and food trucks to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Avenue Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: Jorel Pierce Euclid Hall euclidhall.com/ What are you serving at Dish? Short-rib beef kielbasa and uncensored hoppwurst with mustards, pickles and bretzels…because…
We’d heard rumors that Shazz may not reopen after its August sabbatical, but now we have confirmation. The restaurant has clearly been cleaned out, and a neighboring business owner tells us that chef/owner Benny Kaplan has definitely pulled out. That same neighbor also says that he’s noticed some groups looking…
Cafe Society invited some of our favorite restaurants and food trucks to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Avenue Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: Brad Arguello The ÜBER Sausage www.theubersausage.com/ What are you serving at Dish? The Swiss sausage, which is a typical European street food…
Cafe Society invited some of our favorite restaurants and food trucks to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Avenue Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: Zach Hines OG Burgers www.ogburgers.com/ What are you serving at Dish? A few of our signature, grass-fed burgers. We’re probably going with…
We’re still in the throws of street-food season, and this Saturday, from 5 to 10 p.m. at TAXI, 3507 Ringsby Court, the Justice League of Street Food will be out in full force, hustling grub from Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs, Pinche Tacos, The Biscuit Bus, Sully’s Slice Truck, Cream City…
Some restaurants do rotisserie chicken very, very well. Other joints, however, like the one where the above snap was flashed, should stick to what they know best, which is most definitely not rotisserie chicken. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…
Cafe Society invited some of our favorite restaurants and food trucks to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Avenue Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: Ian Kleinman The Inventing Room inventing-room.com/ What are you serving at Dish? I’m doing an heirloom tomato and Thai basil space foam…
Sean McGaughey Opus 2575 West Main Street, Littleton 303-703-6787 This is part two of my interview with Sean McGaughey, exec chef of Opus. You can read part one of that interview here. Favorite restaurant in America: Blue Hill at Stone Barns, a restaurant directly on a farm in Pocantico Hills,…
“It’s pretty unprecedented, what we’re doing here,” says City O’ City chef Brendon Doyle, who’s champing at the bit to open the restaurant’s expanded space today — after more than a month off for renovations. “And we’re all super-excited about it,” he continues. “We use the word ‘unprecedented’ a lot…
A week ago, three young entrepreneurs launched a new concept: Sabi Sushi, a restaurant without a restaurant that takes orders online, fills them at a local kitchen, then delivers the goods to a predetermined downtown drop zone. “First there were traditional restaurants,” co-owner Shaan Puri told Laura Shunk. “Then fast-casual,…
Cafe Society invited some of our favorite restaurants and food trucks to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Avenue Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: Pete List Beatrice & Woodsley beatriceandwoodsley.com/ What are you serving at Dish? A lemon-and-goat ricotta beignet filled with either garlic caramel or…
Cafe Society invited some of our favorite restaurants and food trucks to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Avenue Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: Sergio Romero Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar www.legranddenver.com/ What are you serving at Dish? We’re serving a steak tartare of diced…
For the past seventeen years, Westword has paid tribute to Denver’s celebrated dining scene with its annual Dish soiree, a culinary blowout of the city’s best bites, sips and sounds. This year, Dish will be bigger and better than ever, and at a new venue: Ninth Avenue Historic Park at…
I’ve been scouring Denver’s Mexican joints for the best molcajete in the city, and a local chef turned me on to this one, which was good, but definitely not good enough to make me stop searching for one that’s better. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
Sean McGaughey Opus 2575 West Main Street, Littleton 303-703-6787 This is part one of my interview with Sean McGaughey, exec chef of Opus. Part two of that interview will be posted here tomorrow. Sean McGaughey grew up in Wray, a town of 2,000 on the plains where Colorado, Nebraska and…
We’ve been wondering what was going into the old Holiday Theater building on 32nd Avenue and Clay, and now we have at least part of the answer: The bottom floor has been partitioned into three restaurant or retail spots, one of which is under construction and bearing a sign that…
Was Stranahan’s the punk rock of whiskey? That was the question posed by Sean Kenyon yesterday, in the first of his several-part series on the sale of Stranahan’s late last year — and the recent departure of head distiller Jake Norris from the company. That news inspired this response from…
