Jason Sheehan’s favorite festival is messin’ up my market. On Cafe Society’s Twitter account, Sheehan expressed his love for the Boulder Creek Festival: “With any luck, I should be posting pics of giant turkey legs and damp hippies from the Boulder Creek Festival this weekend. Stay tuned.” Well, that made…
Cafe Scientifique, the knock-out nerdfest that explores assorted scientific topics, devotes May’s monthly meeting to the mystery of beer. Brewmaster Alan Simon will review the process of brewing beer, and provide some samples, at 7 p.m. tonight at Backcountry Brewery, 720 Main Street in Frisco.For information, call 970-453-2685 or go…
Special K Blueberry Kellogg’s Rating: Two spoons out of four Cereal description: Rice and wheat flakes that are large, rough-hewn and speckled with dark dots that would probably cause most folks to phone their physician if they started showing up on their forehead. There are also supposed to be “blueberry-flavored…
Patios are so popular in Denver that bars and restaurants fight for every square foot of turf or sidewalk where they can plant a table, a chair, a stool. As a result, this city is full of great places to sit outside — some spots garden-like and secluded, others street-side,…
In case you haven’t noticed (or in case you’re too lazy to scroll down the page just a little), we–the indomitable staff of the Westword Cafe section–now have a twitter feed. We’re also sporting a couple of new bylines, some fresh blood, and have been working hard to keep the…
What you might have missed on this week’s Cafe Society…Just don’t call it a gastropub. Jason Sheehan lists his favorite places to belly up to the bar for eats.We were teased with the promise of Tony’s Market opening this week, but ultimately denied.Much anticipated Park Burger did open, but is…
The Q Worldly Barbeque (which I reviewed this week) might claim to have the market cornered on all manner of international barbecue styles, but like all other ‘cue joints in this town, it doesn’t offer everything that a big hungry boy needs when he’s got barbecue on his mind.Like cornbread,…
Beginning at 5 p.m. tonight, and continuing through Monday evening, when the Denver Nuggets take on the LA suckers Lakers at the Pepsi Center, Dixons Downtown Grill, the LoDo watering hole at 1610 16th Street, is offering a hoop of Nuggets-inspired dinner and drink specials to keep everyone in winning…
It’s Memorial Day weekend, which means it’s time for the Bolder Boulder, when over 50,000 people will run around the Green City. But there’s an even more enthralling competition happening in Boulder this weekend. And it involves cupcakes. Lots of them. Thank the people at Tee & Cakes at 1932…
It’s a good time to be a college kid with an appetite. Greeks Gone Wild: Souvlaki, Wings & Things, at 2039 South University, and Aroma Cafe & Grill, at 2017 South University, are the two latest restaurants to take up residence on a one-block stretch of asphalt near the University…
I just got off the phone with Danny Rosacci, son of Tony Rosacci and the guy behind the brand spankin’ new Tony’s Market that was due to open today at 950 Broadway. But now it looks like Tony’s will not be opening today. “The fire department made us jump through…
Primebar, a restaurant “that proudly features local products, including produce and proteins from around the state, local spirits and wine and and all-Colorado draft beer list,” opens this evening at 1515 Arapahoe Street, in the space that formerly housed Palomino, which closed in January 2008. The menu, created by Max…
Many Whole Foods stores in the Rocky Mountain region are featuring a special kind of meat right now, a meat that has some meaning. Panorama Grass-Fed Meats Inc. and the Arapaho Ranch, a native American enterprise, have partnered to bring organic, grass-fed meat to you.At the Belmar Whole Foods yesterday,…
If you’re heading to the hills Memorial Day weekend, sustainability advocate Bill McKibben will be the keynote speaker at the Moving Mountains Symposium in Telluride today. It kicks off this weekend’s Mountainfilm festival. For details, go to http://mountainfilm.org. From 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 24, brewmasters from Summit…
Brunch isn’t a very French meal, so William Wahl, chef/owner of Indulge French Bistro, the Best French Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2009, isn’t quite sure what to call the Sunday lunch that the restaurant started serving on May 10. “Let’s call it Sunday dejeuner,” he decides. Whatever it…
The good people of Boulder are mere hours away from contact with the Great Green One. Yes, Michael Pollan, the Godfather of sustainability, is coming to the green mecca for a reading and book-signing at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Unity Church, 2855 Folsom Street.You may have to watch from the…
The grape geeks at Murphy Goode Winery are offering one fellow wine nerd “A Really Goode Job.” Specifically, the winery is searching for a “Wine Country Lifestyle Correspondent who will report on the cool lifestyle of Sonoma County Wine Country, and, of course, tell people what you’re learning about winemaking,”…
Put a little sprinkle in your step this Saturday, May 23, when D Bar Desserts, the magnificent bakery, sugar shack and savory foods shop at 1475 East 17th Avenue, celebrates its first anniversary with free cupcakes — just one of the attention-grabbers at the food-porn patisserie that chef (and Food…
Patios are so popular in Denver that bars and restaurants fight for every square foot of turf or sidewalk where they can plant a table, a chair, a stool. As a result, this city is full of great places to sit outside — some spots garden-like and secluded, others street-wide,…
Ice cream season is upon us, and we didn’t need to look too far down Broadway to find our cold indulgence for the summer. Sweet Action Ice Cream opened its doors in early March to the general enthusiasm of the entire Baker neighborhood. After moving from New York to Denver,…
See photos of The Q Worldly Barbeque, the subject this week’s restaurant review, at westword.com/slideshow…
Jax Fish House, which is part of the Big Red F Restaurant Group, has introduced its own wine — with the help of vintner Sineann, a small winemaker in Yamhill County, Oregon, run by Peter Rosback. That’s after Big Red F head honcho Dave Query traveled up and down the…
