Days like this are meant for soup, and the soups at this tiny neighborhood hideaway are nearly as good as the sandwiches, which are nothing short of phenomenal. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post is entered…
Super Bowl Sunday is the second largest calorie-consuming holiday of the year after Thanksgiving, but while Thanksgiving is all about the turkey and mashed potatoes, Super Bowl Sunday, at least in Denver, is all about the celebration of the orange-and-blue. We’ve gotten a full crush of press releases trying to…
The chef of the joint that serves the chicken-liver pâté in the above snap has been suspended (doctor’s orders) from eating it, which sucks. On the upside, it just means more for me, at least until my own doctor steers me back toward kale. Can you guess where I’m eating?…
Steve Scott Babettes 3350 Brighton Boulevard 303-993-8602 cbabettes.wix.com/babettes This is part two of my interview with Steve Scott, owner of Babettes at the Source; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Are there any current trends or innovators in the bread world that you find particularly interesting? Chad Robertson of…
Michel Wahaltere has cooked all over Colorado, most recently at Gisella, in Aspen, which closed last year. He was the opening chef of Campo de Fiori in Cherry Creek — now Pikkas; the original exec chef of the 9th Door in LoDo; the opening chef of MiniBAR, a concept that…
Breakfast — and brunch — are my favorite meals of the week, and while there’s no shortage of egg dishes in the Mile High City, the bacon-and-egg dish at this particular restaurant has become one of my all-time favorites. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Curt and Pam Sims, the married couple — and owners — of Lime, have been nothing short of busy, simultaneously closing and reopening their signature series of Lime cantinas, which got their start more than a decade ago on Larimer Square. In 2012, they closed the Larimer Square location and…
Steve Scott Babettes 3350 Brighton Boulevard 303-993-8602 cbabettes.wix.com/babettes This is part one of my interview with Steve Scott, owner of Babettes at the Source; part two of our conversation will run tomorrow. Somewhere, the American queen of French cooking is smiling. And Steve Scott, the owner/baker of Babettes, which opened…
Range, says Paul Nagan, “is a name I came up with because of its significant ties to cooking and Colorado: mountain range, free range, open range and cooking range.” Nagan, the former executive chef of Zink Kitchen + Bar, recently left his post there to take on a new restaurant…
I’m not a day drinker, but yesterday’s blast of arctic air convinced me to do away with old habits and embrace a hot cocktail with plenty of bourbon, apple cider and a cinnamon stick tossed in for good measure. Day drinking isn’t so bad after all. Can you guess where…
“Welcome back to Denver,” proclaimed Denver mayor Michael Hancock, who held his knife steady as he sliced into a bloody filet at yesterday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony at Ruth’s Chris Steak House, the beefy, New Orleans-based shrine to cow that reopened last night in a swanky, 10,000-square-foot space in downtown Denver, nearly…
Early last spring, Delores Tronco and her boyfriend, Tony Maciag, both of whom are Denver restaurant industry veterans, signed on the dotted line, inking a lease that would make them the owners of their own restaurant — a restaurant, says Tronco, whose name is also synonymous with the Justice League…
The menu at this Vietnamese restaurant is so voluminous that it’s difficult to know what to order. And because of vast mass of choices, it’s all too easy to feel submerged. Still, the kitchen excels at just about everything, including its seafood dishes. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a plate of burrata dotted with figs and pistachios from Curtis Club to a sea urchin pancake from State Bird Provisions, a remarkably good restaurant in San Francisco, to a glass of red porter from a local brewery…
The Winter Fancy Food Show, held every year at the Moscone Center, a labyrinth of 212,000 square feet that showcases new finds in the food world, took place earlier this week in San Francisco, and I spent god knows how many hours shuffling through the halls stuffed with 1,300 exhibitors…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, Martin Campos, exec chef of Comida at the Source, admits that while he was a picky eater as a kid, a seafood feast in Oregon — his first food epiphany — paved the way for a future in cooking. The chef is still…
The beers at this local brewery and taproom are fantastic, and so are the custom-shaped glasses in which they’re poured. Should you desire a pair, they’re available for purchase at the brewery for $20. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our HUSH Table: Great Roads to Great Chefs contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to tell us, in fifty words or less: What culinary contraption do you wish you could invent, and why? From the five submissions entered, we chose this answer…
Last week, Patty Calhoun admitted to waiting a whopping ninety minutes for brunch at Highland Tavern, which is just fifteen minutes shy of how long I waited in line for what amounted to twenty different dishes (!!!!!!!) at a San Francisco restaurant that, in my opinion, is quite possibly the…
Martin Campos Comida Cantina 3350 Brighton Boulevard 303-296-2747 eatcomida.com This is part two of my interview with Martin Campos, exec chef of Comida at the Source; part one of our interview ran yesterday. Your three favorite Denver restaurants other than your own: Bourbon Grill, because, well, it’s bourbon chicken. It’s…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s best ingredients home with them and cook up a feast, and when they’re not…
If it weren’t for something called breaking and entering, I’d likely sneak into this charmingly elegant restaurant in the quiet of the night and curl up on the velvet Victorian sofa with a weathered copy of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, a bottle of whiskey and a plate of the terrific…
