First thing’s first: This scallop ceviche tostada is not from T|ACO, which, in addition to a lineup of t|a|c|o|s, does, in fact, serve ceviche. But if you were planning to go in that direction, you’d be mistaken. Rather, the ceviche in the above snap hails from another taco joint that…
Tonight, at 4 p.m., on the corner of Ninth and Bannock, a fleet of food trucks and carts are gathering for the season opener of the Food Truck Renegades, a coalition of mobile vendors that includes Crock Spot, the Steuben’s food truck, NZ Smoking Guns, Mikes2Kitchen, Sweetness, Brava! Pizzeria, Stick…
The Justice League of Street Food hosted its first bash of the season last weekend, and on Friday, the Food Truck Renegades will follow up with a street-food party of their own. Twelves trucks and carts — Crock Spot, Street Eats, NZ Smoking Guns, Mikes2Kitchen, Sweetness, Brava! Pizzeria, Stick it…
Serena Romeo Comida Cantina 721 Confidence Drive, Longmont 720-204-6455 www.eatcomida.com This is part two of my interview with Serena Romeo, exec chef of Comida Cantina. Read part one of my interview with Romeo. What’s your best piece of advice to culinary-school grads? Be open to learning things beyond what you…
If you like your cocktails the hue of neon turquoise blue, and your belly has the capacity to endure the waves that come along with it, then this, people, is your poison. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’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 the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. “Most of us…
Serena Romeo Comida Cantina 721 Confidence Drive, Longmont 720-204-6455 www.eatcomida.com This is part one of my interview with Serena Romeo, exec chef of Comida Cantina. Part two of our interview will run in this space tomorrow. Before her two-year stint on a food truck, Serena Romeo had never worked in…
Here, at this tap house, which overlooks an expanse of green, you can get a generic bloody Mary with vodka, or a bloody Mary liquid-fueled with vodka and a craft beer. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess…
When you eat at T|ACO, which opens in Boulder on Wednesday, you’ll be sharing space with John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, Annie Oakley, Raquel Welch and Robert Duvall — or at least their likenesses…
It appeared that Saturday’s downpour would dampen the first Justice League soiree of the season, but at the last minute, Mother Nature cooperated, and right before the ticker struck 6 p.m., the clouds sailed off into the sunset, giving way to a sky of cobalt blue, making the League’s spring…
The au gratin potatoes, available at breakfast, which is served all day, are overrated (and hardly worth the upcharge), but the eggs? I love a kitchen that does eggs right, and this one doesn’t yolk around. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
You have six more nights to behold the wizardry of Ian Kleinman, the molecular genius behind the Inventing Room — the Willy Wonka of Denver who’s currently on center stage at Studio F, the culinary event space and cooking school that James Mazzio unleashed a few months ago to give…
Cafe Society dished up three Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a cheesesteak with tater tots that still hasn’t been linked to the correct restaurant (or bar…with very loud music), a Thai curry that also has readers stumped and a burger with fries from an Uptown pub…
Paul Reilly, the former executive chef/owner of Encore, which closed last month, along with a posse of local big-name chefs and mixologists, are convening in the kitchen of Yia Yia’s, the home turf of chef Aaron Whitcomb, on Sunday night for Eat Drink Give, a benefit for the neo-natal ICU…
On Saturday night, the season’s first Justice League of Street Food party will take over the pavement at TAXI, and earlier this week, we held a contest, giving one Cafe Society reader the opportunity to eat and drink for free. Ten trucks will be at the bash, including Manna from…
The new Lowry Beer Garden, which opens next Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Hangar 2 project, is not, insists Joe Vostrejs, a German mimic. In fact, says Vostrejs, the COO of Larimer Associates, a coalition of partners who are developing the Hangar 2 project, it’s a homegrown, Colorado-style beer…
I’ve been a junkie of this Thai joint for years, and while its reputation is no longer what it used to be, its longevity, coupled with the fact that there’s usually a wait, suggests that there are plenty of Thai food zealots — industry folks, included — who continue to…
UPDATE: The winner is announced here. Paul Reilly may no longer have his own restaurant — after a last hurrah Sunday brunch, he shuttered Encore last month when he and the landlord couldn’t agree on lease terms — but he has the support of plenty of Denver chefs, many of…
Last October, after the Justice League of Street Food, a confederation of food trucks that pioneered the city’s love of pavement grub, held its final street food bash at TAXI, there were rumblings that this could be the end for the Justice League. “We haven’t made any decision about whether…
Boulder has been burgerfied. Later today, at 4 p.m., H Burger Co, which already pimps a location in downtown Denver, along with a smaller sibling named Little H Burger Co, in southeast Denver, will introduce Boulderites to its first foray into the collegiate city. And it’s been a long time…
Beau Green Denver Zoo 2300 Steele Street www.denverzoo.org Read part one of my interview with Beau Green, exec chef of the Denver Zoo. Most memorable meal you’ve ever had: Chef Travis Kight — our corporate chef here at the zoo — always takes me out to the best/coolest places to…
Beau Green Denver Zoo 2300 Steele Street www.denverzoo.org This is part one of my interview with Beau Green, exec chef of the Denver Zoo. You can read part of our interview in this space tomorrow. It was a juvenile-court judge who forced Beau Green into a kitchen. The 37-year-old chef…
