Cafe Society dished out four Guess Where? contests last week, zigzagging from a spectacular seafood stew from Cafe Brazil, to a plate of duck meatballs from Cafe Bar, which now has a new chef, to a flight of potent beers that induced a long, long slumber…
Duck, duck…meatballs — and just in time for Monday’s opening of the Slotted Spoon, but these duck orbs are not from Jensen Cumming’s new meatball hut. They were, however, the best dish I tried on a menu that’s now overseen by a new chef after the opening kitchen commander made…
Curtis Caldwell — beloved partner, brother, son, friend, chef, philanthropist, master hula-hooper, magician and one of the kindest souls the Denver restaurant community has ever known — passed away just under a week ago at Denver Health. And while we continue to try and cope with his loss, the Vesta…
Holy tequila! What a difference a cool million makes. That’s the approximate coinage spent on remodeling Tamayo, Richard Sandoval’s modern Mexican restaurant in Larimer Square that was closed just under four weeks to significantly upgrade the two-tiered space, which now looks like a brand new restaurant that fits beautifully into…
If you’re one of those optimistic types who think that you can haul a bucket of Kentucky fried chicken to a Super Bowl shindig and generate a touchdown for your meager efforts, you might want to rethink your place on the playing field, because the people who created the ten…
Buried beneath all that roughage is a hearty winter soup, a medley of black-eyed peas, diced ham and vegetables, that paired with a hefty sandwich, is the ideal dinner on a blustery day. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a…
Paul Nagan Zink Kitchen + Bar 7801 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village 303-779-1559 www.zinkdtc.com This is part two of my interview with Paul Nagan, exec chef of Zink Kitchen + Bar; part one of our interview ran yesterday. Favorite dish on your menu: I like our housemade lamb sausage. We…
For the last several months, Duy Pham, who solidified his cooking prowess years ago at the long-departed, French-inspired Tante Louise, has been working on opening Epernay, a splashy new downtown restaurant and Champagne lounge near the Denver Center for the Performing Arts — a restaurant with a small kitchen, and…
Beloved Curtis Caldwell – my belief is that your radiant soul is making its journey to the next life and when you get there it will be the most vibrant place with more colors than you can ever imagine even exist. And of course, hundreds and hundreds of hoola hoops…
Paul Nagan Zink Kitchen + Bar 7801 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village 303-779-1559 www.zinkdtc.com This is part one of my interview with Paul Nagan, exec chef of Zink Kitchen + Bar; part two of our interview will run tomorrow. I was always interested in cooking,” says Paul Nagan. “My grandparents…
I go to a lot of restaurants that I’m not likely to go to again. This is not one of those restaurants. In fact, if I could camp out here every night, I would, as much for the festive atmosphere and gracious service as the sensational seafood stews that emerge…
Announcement: We have a winner of our Denver Restaurant Week contest. The correct number of restaurants that participated in the first Denver Restaurant Week in 2005 is 89 restaurants, the number of which comes directly from Visit Denver, the organization that sponsors the event. The person who come the closest…
How does a guy who worked at Domino’s wind up opening a pizza joint that couldn’t be more different from a chain whose reputation for quality ‘za is one of life’s biggest jokes? Turns out Will Harris, who just recently unleashed A-Town Pizza in Aurora with the help of his…
It’s official: I am most definitely not a day drinker, and after a few beers at Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs, where I was judging a green chile contest on Saturday, I made the dire mistake of thinking I could continue the rampage elsewhere. I got home at 4:30 and slept for…
Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalog 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…
Cafe Society served up numerous Guess Where? posts over the past few weeks (since last Monday was a holiday, we didn’t announce a winner last week), ranging from a platter of artery-clogging pepperoni rolls from Old Chicago (yeah, yeah, yeah…I know), to a chicken pot pie from Zink Kitchen +…
The Slotted Spoon, Denver’s first bona fide meatball emporium, opens on Monday, February 4, and while that’s more than a week away, co-owner and chef Jensen Cummings, along with his partners, Johnny Coast and Alex Comisar, are way ahead of the curve (ball). See also: – Photos: Behind the scenes…
Food, in all its lusty glory, was on display last weekend at the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco — an immense marketplace of hedonistic gluttony that showcased more than 80,000 products from 35 countries, in every edible and drinkable ilk imaginable. See also: – Trends without end: chef predictions…
There was absolutely nothing wrong with this dish — it was lovely…and healthy — but watching my friend dig her spoon into the chicken liver mousse made it difficult to concentrate on all those vegetables. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer…
It was a little late coming out of the gate — the opening was slated for New Year’s Eve — but last night, the Armoury, a new pub that’s themed around live music and European football, unlocked its doors in the Ballpark neighborhood. See also: – Armoury, an “old-world pub,”…
In case you haven’t heard, Guy Fieri, the bleached-blond, back-of-the-head-sunglass-obsessed Food Network TV personality that foodniks love to loathe, is prancing around Denver, his film crew on his heels. He’s here, of course, to film footage for Triple D, otherwise known as Diners, Drive-ins and Dives — and it’s not…
I just returned from San Francisco, where I pigged out on everything from oysters and noodles to quail and “world peace” peanut muscovado milk. I also made the unfortunate mistake of hitting up an Indian restaurant — Dosa, if you want to to know — that sucked, but the vegetarian…
