Last weekend, I went on a taproom crawl north of Denver, hitting up small towns affected by the devastating Colorado floods, and not surprisingly, there were plenty of people commiserating at their local watering holes, including this one, which was packed to the rafters with resilient beer hounds. Can you…
Iain Chisholm Amerigo Delicatus Restaurant & Market 2449 Larimer Street 303-862-9850 amerigodelicatus.com This is part two of my interview with Iain Chisholm, chef-owner of Amerigo Delicatus Restaurant & Market; part one of our chat, in which Chisholm admits that he doesn’t mess with Asian ingredients and likens the absence of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The signature signs of a city that’s on the culinary fast track reside in its willingness to take aggressive risks, push infinite boundaries and continually adapt to a fickle dining public whose expectations are always on the upswing. Denver is that city — a major metropolis that refuses to slow…
Despite the fact that the spirit in this cocktail is vodka — and vodka is evil — the ghostly cloak of liquid nitrogen that swirls around the glass definitely makes for an interesting conversation piece. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer…
OpenTable, the popular online restaurant reservation service, recently revealed its coveted list of the 100 restaurants in the United States that are most “Fit for Foodies.” And the roster, which is based on more than five million restaurant reviews submitted by OpenTable diners for more than 15,000 restaurants in all…
The signature signs of a city that’s on the culinary fast track reside in its willingness to take aggressive risks, push infinite boundaries and continually adapt to a fickle dining public whose expectations are always on the upswing. Denver is that city — a major metropolis that refuses to slow…
You know what most pasta salads are like: potluck blasphemies harboring overcooked macaroni slathered in mayonnaise. But this pasta salad, trumpeting orbs of fresh mozzarella, leafy spinach, heirloom tomatoes and handmade strands of fettuccine, is a summer stunner. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the…
Adam Brock The GrowHaus 4751 York Street 720-515-4751 thegrowhaus.com This is part two of my interview with Adam Brock, founder of the GrowHaus; part one of my chat with Brock ran yesterday. What do you grow at the GrowHaus? Mostly leafy greens and herbs like lettuce, kale, cilantro, bok choy…
“Just take a walk around Denver and you’ll encounter a variety of regional and international cuisines that are unparalleled anywhere else in the state; everything is represented here, even Peruvian,” says Pepe Aparicio, the chef and co-owner of Taita Peruvian Cuisine & Bar, a restaurant that he opened just over…
The signature signs of a city that’s on the culinary fast track reside in its willingness to take aggressive risks, push infinite boundaries and continually adapt to a fickle dining public whose expectations are always on the upswing. Denver is that city — a major metropolis that refuses to slow…
Skillet-cooked cornbread has always been one of my guilty pleasures, and I enjoy it even more when it’s specked with jalapeños and drizzled with a bit of butter, but this cornbread was a disappointment, its interior too dry and devoid of sweetness, its exterior absent of that essential crustiness. Can…
Adam Brock The GrowHaus 4751 York Street 720-515-4751 thegrowhaus.com This is part one of my interview with Adam Brock, founder of the GrowHaus; part two of my chat with Brock will run tomorrow. Growing up, I couldn’t have cared less about cooking food, much less growing food,” says Adam Brock…
