Georgia Boys BBQ started as a scheme between Matt Alexander and Nick Reckinger to scrape together enough money to buy lift tickets for the slopes, and it quickly became a sprawling sack lunch delivery business and mobile operation, thanks to the pair’s popular ‘cue. Recently, the men had an opportunity…
I’ve always fantasized about living in a neighborhood that had everything within walking distance that I needed to be happy: a stroll away from a nice cup of coffee, a comfortable place to wet my whistle and, most important, a quality marketplace. It’s part of my ongoing and typically American…
New Belgium is a bike-focused brewery, which organizes two-wheeled tours, encourages people to turn in their cars for cycles, and even has custom bikes made. But unless you work at New Belgium, where those cruisers are stored and gifted for years of service, the only way to get one is…
Robert Thompson’s Argyll isn’t the only restaurant that’s bolted from Cherry Creek North, a tony neighborhood dotted with blinged-out boutiques and swank art galleries, but has a losing streak when it comes to dining dens, several of which have shuttered over the past few years (and still remain vacant). While…
There’s no phone number listed anywhere for this ramshackle temple to steer that also doubles as a meat market, green chile utopia and shrine to Biblical verses. 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…
Despite Colorado’s short growing season, there’s a growing movement in town of restaurants starting their own gardens. And Parsley has taken the local movement to a new level — its roof…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from some still-unidentified tamales to what could be the world’s worst green chile at the Butcher Block on Washington to this decent deli sandwich. For correctly identifying it as coming from Delaney’s Pub, Lucy wins an EatDenver deck…
The owners of City, O’ City were at the Wellington E. Webb building last Friday, going for an expanded liquor license that will cover their soon-to-expand space. The plans have been approved, and work on the much-needed expansion into the former hair salon next door will take place next month…
The news that Argyll serves its last meal in its East Third Avenue location yesterday in anticipation of a move to Baker next year has dozens of commenters weighing in on Argyll and, more significantly, dissecting the current character of Cherry Creek: Here’s Kimberly’s view: I must say that when…
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…
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…
