Lakewood’s Cafe Jordano has gotten some love on these pages before, from a series of Best Of awards (including 2009’s Best Strip-Mall Italian Restaurant) to a glittering review in 2004 by Jason Sheehan. It deserves all of those accolades. But I like the place for a different reason — although…
Five bucks for three cheese-blanketed mini burgers in one of the most expensive restaurants in town is a good deal, not just here, but anywhere. 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 posts is entered…
El Diablo may be the most appropriate name ever for a restaurant. Jesse Morreale, who took on the massive project of renovating the old First Avenue Hotel at First and Broadway, turning the front area into a restaurant he named El Diablo (an adjacent portion is already Sketch), was in…
There are good chefs and chefs who do good: Jon Emanuel is both. During his career, the head cooker at Project Angel Heart has fed everyone from rocket scientists to garbage men, but his position at Project Angel Heart — a Denver nonprofit that dishes out 800 meals a day…
A swell of Denver’s top kitchen masters are playing with fire tonight at Elway’s Cherry Creek, 2500 East First Avenue, the stamping ground for the second annual Hot Rocks Griller Challenge, a blowout bash and smokin’ chef competition that benefits men’s programs through the Denver Health Foundation. Twelve of Denver’s…
Phil’s Place, 3463 Larimer Street, is a family enterprise. Phil Garcia bought the former home of Our Place in 2002; in 2004, he turned the game room into a kitchen for his mother, Junie, who had nearly 25 years of cooking expertise under her flower-print apron at the Bamboo Hut…
Comfort Cafe, one of Denver’s forthcoming pay-what-you-can restaurants, won’t be opening its doors this week as originally planned. It’s looking more like next week, says Jan Bezuidenhout, the brains (and much of the brawn) behind the restaurant, located at 3945 Tennyson Street. “There’s just a tremendous amount of red tape,”…
The Civic Center Eats Outdoor Cafe returned to Civic Center Park today for its weekly run through the summer, and what was once a somewhat half-hearted farmers’ market has fully morphed into an orgy of gourmet mobile food vendors…
Earlier this afternoon, Ryan Hardy, chef of the glitzy Little Nell Hotel and Residences in Aspen, braved the drivel of Today Show hosts Kathy Lee Gifford and, to a lesser extent, Hoda Kotb to wax poetic about pork shoulder and chimichurri sauce. Gifford, who predictably didn’t recognize fresh oregano and…
A new coffee shop going into 710 East 26th Avenue, in the heart of Five Points, hopes to fill the void left by the recent departure of Blackberries, but the former tenant left a pile of debt that the city of Denver is still trying to recover. Much of a…
Believe it or not, the Hooters girls aren’t just about big tits and big tips. Turns out, the tight white T-shirt-clad females have a thing for pantyhose — namely donating 100,000 pairs of shredded and torn close-fitting legware in an effort to help clean up the disastrous Gulf Coast oil…
The rubber-band installation in the back room of the Corner Office, 1401 Curtis Street, snapped a while ago, but its been replaced with a far cooler piece of art: a mural created by renowned graffiti artists David Villorente and Robert Cartwright, who created New York street art under the name…
I spent Sunday afternoon shopping in Boulder and Sunday night at this longstanding Boulder restaurant that proffers an incredible happy hour, which includes, among other things, roasted bone marrow smeared on grilled bread. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the…
Wendy’s, which touts its “real” food, had a real mess on its hands at a Kalamazoo, Michigan outlet when a fight broke out after an order wasn’t filled correctly. Officers were called to the scene, where they “encountered a loud disturbance between unsatisfied customers and frustrated employees inside the business,”…
Since it first came on the scene in 2003, the Blake Street Tavern has been a prime spot to pre-game a Rockies game. Last Friday, it opened the doors to a busy first weekend in its new location, one block away from the old–and one block closer to Coors Field–at…
Last week, after Esquire magazine pimped 15 Bars Every Man Should Drink In Before He Dies, we supplemented its list with our own list of ten Denver watering holes where a man should drown himself in liquor before he stumbles through the gates of Hell. This week, we’re hustling ten…
A local bartender recently poured out this story to Cafe Society: There comes a time in every adult’s life when he or she starts to drink like an actual adult. In an ideal world, that time would coincide with the drinker’s 21st birthday. Unfortunately, after December 6, 1933, “adults” lost…
A new bakery and cafe slated to spin sugar this summer on Broadway has pushed back its opening as a result of an unforeseen delay. Owner Natalie Slevin Sugar Bakeshop were hoping to have the bakery’s first storefront open this summer until learning, three months into the lease, that the…
The opening of one of Denver’s new pay-what-you-can restaurants has been pushed back while its owner gets the space in fighting shape. Cafe 180, slated to open at 3315 South Broadway in Englewood, was aiming for a mid-June debut. “[W]e’ve been working on the installation of the kitchen and we…
In the sea of California and New York cafes vying for the coveted American Institute of Architecture design award, there lurks a lone Colorado joint that wants to prove to the rest of the country — namely New Yorkers and Californians — that it’s savvy design scheme can out-architect its…
I’m seeing a lot of commentary about this New York Post story detailing how a growing group of chefs, including Momofuku’s David Chang and Anthony Bourdain, are refusing off-menu requests from diners. Their comments are mostly triumphant validations, declarations of an era in which the restaurant-goer will finally acknowledge that…
For anyone who was born and raised in Denver, especially all you westsiders, the above snap should be instantly recognizable. It’s been at least twenty years since I stepped foot inside this Mexican compound that still commands thirty-minute waits on a Saturday night and still squiggles its frozen margaritas with…
