Mel Master, the man who brought us Mel’s (in all its incarnations) as well as numerous other notable local restaurants, returns to Denver for the first monthly wine-tasting at Sketch, 101 Broadway, where his son, Charlie, runs the bar. Mel, who’s also a winemaker, will be pouring his Tortoise Creek…
When Jason Sheehan bemoaned the loss of Nosh last month, I shared in his solemnity. Not only was the gelato parlor in my ‘hood, but it was damn good gelato, and the spot’s lovely courtyard gardens, bedecked with wrought-iron benches and chairs and a trellised gazebo, were a communal pit…
What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society…Cafe Star has reopened as a second Trattoria Stella, while Park Burger is still on the back burner and a new Santoro’s is on the way.As if you need another excuse to buy that burrito bowl you love so much–drop into…
This week is all about eating on the cheap. First, I wrote about the Columbine Steak House and its ten-dollar steaks. Then Cowbobas, with its equally inexpensive beef (and corn dogs and boba tea and grilled cheese sandwiches). And finally, Andrew Schutt’s awesome Tin Star Cafe barbecue-and-donut restaurant–a place that’s…
There was much lamenting last month when owners Tom and Marna Sumners announced that they would be closing Cafe Star, at 3201 East Colfax Avenue, a restaurant I loved back in the days when Rebecca Weitzman was running the kitchen. But that was a long time ago, and Cafe Star…
Santoro’s Brick Oven Pizzeria, our Best French Fries–Boardwalk winner in 2004, is opening another location. It’s at Broadway and Mineral, in the Safeway shopping center — and about ten miles from Santoro’s current spot at 9500 Heritage Hills Circle in Littleton. I grew up near the original Santoro’s, and know…
Kelley Coffman-Lee, the vegan Centennial mom who made national headlines this month when she announced that the Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles had rejected her attempts to buy a vanity license plate announcing ILVTOFU, is already a punchline. On April 18, the “Not My Job” segment of National Public Radio’s…
“Sour gummy” is usually a good place for a candy to start. But when it’s followed by “popcorn,” that presents a bit of a problem. It gets slightly better with the promise that the gummies are fruit-flavored…then slightly worse with the warning that one of the fruit flavors is, in…
Aubrey’s expecting her first baby any day now, and at a recent shower her friends presented her and other shower-goers with the following challenge: Identify the chocolate bar that has been melted down in a diaper to look like really disgusting poo. While we certainly all hope that her baby’s…
Food for thought about the upcoming weekend: Lucile’s, at 275 South Logan Street, will be celebrating the start of crawfish starting at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 25 with mud bugs, beer and live music; for details, call 303-282-6258. At 6 p.m. on April 25, Maggiano’s Little Italy in the Denver…
They call them convenience stores for a reason: gas, a Red Bull, some Advil and a frozen burrito. But not all convenience stores offer the same conveniences. For instance, a couple of Diamond Shamrocks in Denver, including the one at 255 Speer Boulevard, sell fresh-baked kolaches. That’s not something you…
To celebrate Colorado Architecture Month, the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects has paired up with local chefs for the Delicious Design program, creating desserts inspired by specific buildings in Colorado. Yesterday’s dessert was from Steuben’s; today’s featured design is from Carelli’s Restaurant in Boulder…
The Rib House, which got its start in Longmont, has opened the Boulder outlet we reported on two months ago here on Cafe Society — and business is smoking. “It’s jamming today,” owner Tracy Webb told me. “It was a beautiful lunch. April 6 was our official opening, and April…
When the weather starts to heat up, all I want is a nice patio, a great happy hour and some friends with which to enjoy the day. On a recent sunny afternoon, the patio at Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria fit the bill perfectly. Since I’m eight-and-a-half months pregnant, happy…
When last I talked to Park Burger owner Jean Phillippe Failyau, he hoped to get his restaurant at 1890 South Pearl Street up and running in about a month. That was a month ago.I just got off the phone with Park Burger kitchen manager Brad Putrycus (formerly chef at Osteria…
Back from Tucson, the land of cheese crisps but no green chile, I ran to Benny’s yesterday to get a late-lunch fix. Benny’s is a Denver institution that serves Colorado-style Mex to softball teams, book clubs, hatboys, party girls and anyone else who can escape their office on a Wednesday…
I’m leaving for a girls weekend in New Orleans on April 30 and hoping to make it out of the Big Easy with no permanent tattoos and both kidneys, so I was trying to stay off the cocktail circuit for the rest of April. But there’s that COBG contest I’m…
It’s no secret that we Westworders are seriously obsessed with green chile, which is why we could barely contain our enthusiasm when word hit the pavement back in early March that the executive decision-makers who oversee important things at Qdoba Mexican Grill, a homegrown chain headquartered in Wheat Ridge, planned…
Katie Mullen’s, the Irish restaurant and bar at 1550 Court Place, opened two months ago, but it’s hosting a grand-opening party from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 23 that’s a benefit for Friends of the Denver Fire Department. Tickets are $25, and include cocktails and appetizers; for more…
The barbecue scene is smokin’. First I heard that Mike Frislie, ex of the late, lamented Bugling Bull Trading Post, has his hands in a new barbecue operation, The ‘Que, which just opened on Yosemite Street off Park Meadows Drive. Then I got word from my prime barbecue-and-doughnut pusher, Andrew…
See more photos of Columbine Steak House at westword.com/slideshow. It’s 1983, I’m ten years old — and it’s steak night at the Sheehan household. Steak nights didn’t happen very often at my house. But every now and again, Mom would go to the freezer and pull out a frost-rimed, plastic-wrapped…
I love a challenge, and as soon as I saw the “limit 3 per customer” advisory on the menu for the Bar Sketch White Sangria ($7.50), I knew what I had to do. From the first sip, I knew I would not be taking on a traditional “sangria” made from…
