Suzanne C. O’Neill, an assistant professor with the Cancer Control Program at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University, has co-authored a study whose finding is the non-surprising: We’ll use any excuse we can. Her research found that the least healthy people surveyed excused their unhealthy lifestyles by saying they…
Perhaps you’ve heard by now about the legal scuffle that’s pitting The New White Meat against The Other White Meat. Here’s a primer, if not: About a week ago, the Pork Board sent a cease and desist letter, via Denver’s Faegre-Benson legal team, to ThinkGeek. The letter claimed the online…
“So who’s got two thumbs and the keys to the first Biker Jim’s restaurant?” read the text message from Jim Pittenger, who picked up the phone on the fist ring and answered with a “Yep. Jesus. Finally.” Pittenger, who already peddles two gourmet hot dog carts downtown, another in the…
Time to celebrate the birth of our nation by eating barbecue until we explode, blatantly ignoring open container laws and then lighting some things on fire. Or by eating good old American food in one of OpenTable’s top 50 American restaurants. The popular internet reservation site just released its annual…
It’s a messy plate, to be sure, what with all those potatoes scattered here, there and everywhere, but brunch at this unheralded gem is one of the best in Denver, and this plate, a mashup of black beans, cubed avocado, eggs and chorizo, with a side of excellent bacon, puts…
Despite the fact that Gourmet magazine had, more or less, run its culinary course by the time Condé Nast yanked it from the world of print food porn back in November of last year, I’ll admit that I kinda miss it. I’ve still got a hundred or so back issues…
Chances, a new sports bar/grill at 1135 Bannock Street, the former home of Wolfie’s and Bambino’s, opened soft — very soft — last week. But now it’s pulling out the stops for a grand opening celebration that includes food and drink specials all weekend. And expect those specials to be…
Just got off the horn with Chad Clevenger, chef/owner of Mel’s Bar and Grill, who called to say he was done — finito — with the restaurant that he took over from Mel Master in July 2008. “I’m pretty much over Mel’s, over making Cobb salads and salmon for old…
Yesterday, while interviewing a Denver chef, I asked him what he’d want to put on his menu, even if it wouldn’t sell, and he said “white cheese dip.” Sort of like the oil-slicked swamp of cheese and chorizo in the above snap. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
Chipotle Mexican Grill, the big-ass burrito-monger that started in a tiny renovated ice cream shop at 1644 East Evans in 1993 has reached a couple of milestones recently. The first European Chipotle started hawking the goods to Londoners in May, and yesterday, the chain opened its 1,000th restaurant in Flower…
As part of an upcoming photo essay project spotlighting Denver restaurant pros whose tatts are as prevalent as their dissections, burns, blisters, knife slashes and stabs, we promised that we’d post some of the best ink on the Cafe Society blog…
When Leigh Jones first moved to Denver a decade ago and was living in Park Hill, the Recovery Room, at 819 Colorado Boulevard, was her neighborhood bar. She went on to open several bars and restaurants of her own — Brasserie Rouge and B-52 (both of which she owned with…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Bob Wiltshire, exec chef of Morton’s LoDo. To read part one of that interview, click here. Proudest moment as a chef: I was hired as a line cook at Jay’s Bistro in Fort Collins, and like a lot of chefs, I…
The early episodes of any Top Chef season tend to feature nonsensical challenges, probably because a large number of chefs are still in play. (I constantly have to remind myself who in the current sixteen is whom. Is that Ed over there? Alex?) Someone has to get sent home each…
Food Network magazine just crowned King’s Chef Diner in Colorado Springs with the best breakfast in Colorado award in its July/August cover story touting the best breakfasts in the country. It wasn’t “The Thing” (The Food Network recently featured “The Thing” in its Outrageous Food show) or “The Grump” –…
Legend has it that the first owner actually was Brazilian,” our waiter muses as he admires the caramel-colored crema on top of our post-dinner espressos. “He left town after a year and a half because he couldn’t find fresh mangoes in the state of Colorado.” This is my aha moment,…
Cafe Brazil isn’t a trend-follower. The owners have had a good ride for close to twenty years without jumping on any passing bandwagons, and it’s worked just fine. But last year, as cocktail culture amped up, Marla, Tony and Mauricio opened the Rum Room to give the Front Range a…
Today’s a big day in the local supermarket world, and by big, we mean lines that reportedly started as early as 10 p.m. last night in anticipation of wee hour openings and accompanying giveaways and promotions. The newest of the new kids on the block, SmartCo, opened its first supermarket…
With the concentration of eateries in Larimer Square comes endless opportunities for roving culinary events, although the next manifestation of that won’t be roving, exactly. On Wednesday, July 21, the Square will be closed to traffic from 6 to 9 p.m. so diners can converge on the street for a…
Ever since I made my first trip to Oaxaca, six years ago, I’ve been enamored with mezcal, the distilled counterpart to tequila whose most recognizable asset is its smoky aftertaste. I once sat at the bar with a convoy of cowboys at the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Santa Fe…
Pho 95, 1002 South Federal Boulevard, has won over other writers on these pages: first, Jason Sheehan, who titled his August 2009 review “Bowled over by Pho 95”; and again when the restaurant won Best Pho in this year’s Best Of Denver. I haven’t been to the new location at…
A permit application has been posted in the front window of Frasca Food and Wine, 1738 Pearl Street, for some time now, indicating the Boulder restaurant’s plans to erect restaurant or retail square footage in the empty space next to their existing dining room. The permanent modification and liquor license…
