Cafe Society posted five Guess Where? contests last week ranging from a still-unidentified creepy coconut to a breakfast feast of “truck stop cuisine” from Johnson’s Corner to a terrific plate of chiliquiles from Tacos/Carnitas Estilo Michoacan to a sphere of glistening oysters. For correctly identifying those pearls as coming from…

While scouring this week’s tweets, I came across this snarky slam from Ali Wallers, a stand-up comedian, former writer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Best Week Ever and, it appears, an advocate of a reality show…that would pursue pretentious vegans. The show could start with Clueless star Alica…

The woman sitting in the booth behind us was beside herself: “We kept telling city council that we needed a barbecue place out here. We’ve been to every single barbecue place in Denver and this is by far the best,” she declared, waving her arms dismissively when I interjected something…

Come Sunday, downtown Denver will benefit from another reason to rise and shine when Ryan Leinonen, exec chef/owner of Trillium, the Scandinavian-inspired restaurant that he unleashed in the Ballpark neighborhood just a few months ago, opens his restaurant at 10 a.m. with what he calls “infinite mimosas.”…

I’ll never forget the first time I attended the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen. It was the final year that Julia Child, the late, great American chef who demystified French cuisine — and passed away in 2004 — made an appearance at the annual Aspen culinary orgy, back when…

The bartender insisted that the Greek salad was the bomb, but a Greek salad without feta is blasphemy. It arrived later, upon request, but someone in the kitchen was clearly snoozing. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where…

If you can’t snag at seat at Jelly — and who can? — the insanely popular breakfast and lunch joint that Christina Smith and Josh Epps opened in early 2011, there’s hope on the horizon…

Downtown Littleton, claims Vanessa Menke, has neither a java joint nor a craft beer bar, so why not pimp both under one roof? Menke, along with her mom, Jayne Barth, who runs Kate’s Wine Bar on Littleton’s Main Street, plan to integrate both beans and beer when they open Jake’s…

Everything about this restaurant is simply beautiful, from the dining rooms to the bar to the staff to the cooks to the glistening oysters on the half shell. 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…

No. 32: Lamb posole from Encore…

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. Pinch pie, says…

Most chilaquiles make me happy, even the ones that aren’t as good as they should be, but none make me happier than the ones you get here — a plate-spanning stack of stale tortilla chips smothered in a chile-laced verde topped with three large eggs that stream rivers of school…

The gather and huddle in the early afternoon, often under the threat of ominous skies threatening to dump buckets of snow in their champagne flutes and on their foie gras. But that doesn’t stop the hearty oenophiles and gastronauts from making the airborne gondola pilgrimage to the mountaintop picnic on…

Yesterday, while driving down Hampden, I noticed a sign for a forthcoming Texas Roadhouse, just one of many chains that gang the River Point at Sheridan, a mega-mall sprawl at Hampden and Santa Fe that gives shoppers at Super Target and Costco the opportunity to chow at Chili’s, Subway, Panera…

If this thing had bulging eyes, insists my kid, it would look like Jaws. That’s a bit of a stretch, but the mouth, which opens to a clear pond of fresh coconut water, is a bit creepy. As far as I know, there’s no restaurant in Denver proper that serves…

Alex Waters, the owner/chef of Bistro One, is taking a sabbatical, albeit a short one. “My kids and I are heading to the mountains today for a little break, and then it’s back to work,” says Waters, who will close Bistro One, his four-year-old restaurant, on Thursday and reopen it…

Colorado chefs cook their asses off — not just in their respective restaurants but at culinary events all over the city, and last night was no exception, as thirty chefs from Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs convened at the Colorado Convention Center to cook at Colorado Chefs Up Front, a…

“This here’s the first time I’ve ever seen anyone take a photo of truck stop cuisine,” declared the dude from Alabama, who was clearly bewildered. But not as bemused as I was by someone using “truck stop” and “cuisine” in the the same sentence. Can you guess where I’m eating?…

Last week, Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests, ranging from a bowl of guacamole from Las Margaritas that had tongues wagging while fingers were pointing to a flute of bubbles at Crimson Canary to a plateful of pasta with red sauce at Patsy’s to a heap of excellent…

Five years ago, Leigh Sullivan was hellbent on showcasing Denver’s dining landscape — and the chefs who define it — to a national audience. Her determination paid off in spades when she handpicked a ring of five local chefs who would eventually become the first incarnation of FIVE, a quintet…

At last night’s one-year milestone bash at Row 14, chef Jensen Cummings managed to throw one of the best stoner food parties we’ve ever seen: carne asada fries, rabbit nachos, hellaciously hot frog legs slicked with sauce killing us softly with ghost chiles, and tempurara-battered meatball sliders. Oh, and he…