I tore through Jonathan Safran Foer’s book, Eating Animals, and then sat back and watched the weak-willed and easily influenced suddenly declare their vegetarian sovereignty with a blood-streaked smile on my face and a bloody rare cheeseburger in my hand. Novella Carpenter’s Farm City was one of the best food…
Talk about a warming trend! We’re heading into the holiday season, a time of red and green chile cheeseburgers. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Every Friday, anyone who gave the first correct answer to any of the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts will be entered in…
Is this the apocalypse or what? Last week, Eggo devastated Jason Sheehan, school children and bachelors everywhere by reporting that a massive waffle shortage was taking place. And now Libby’s and Nestle have put the kibosh on their canned pumpkin production for the rest of the year. That’s right. No…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com. Number 91: Burrata from Osteria Marco…
Kevin Taylor’s eponymous restaurant has attained Denver’s first Forbes (formerly Mobil) Travel Guide Four Star rating, making it into the first round of 2010 winners named since the Mobil brand moved to Forbes. The Forbes Travel website describes the insane criteria process for rating hotels, spas and restaurants, which sounds…
Back in September, during the Mile High Chef Competition at Dish-the Westword menu affair, Jay Spickelmier went knife-to-knife against Argyll GastroPub chef Sergio Romero in a spirited battle to see who would saunter away with the Pillsbury Doughboy-esque statue of distinction. At the time, Spickelmier, who emerged victorious, was the…
The phone kicks callers over to a cheery-voiced hostess talking about the hours of operation and the happy-hour specials, but take a cruise by the website and the news is very plain, typed out in black against a plain background. “mark & isabella has closed its doors” That’s all there…
That picture there? That’s what Ondo’s looked like a few weeks ago. The space at 250 Steele Street was still coming together, and even as recently as last week, there was no set menu because no one on staff had actually been able to get into the kitchen to cook…
Fresh off the breasts heels of last Friday’s news that Perky Cups has opened in Aurora, at 12101 East Iliff Avenue, comes Perky Cups owner and self-described Chief Bikini Inspector, Jason Bernal, mouthing off for the cameras, while his bikini-clad buttercups awkwardly reassure Barbara Bush types that all is well…
Bummer. Tosh’s Cantina, which opened in March in Marina Square, at 8101 East Belleview Avenue, has gone dark and empty, which, to be frank, isn’t even slightly surprising considering the off-any-beaten-path location which — let’s face it — utterly and completely sucked. Still, it’s sad to see it shuttered, especially…
My love of Manhattans is no secret — but the happy hour at this downtown establishment is not nearly as well-known as it should be. Four-ounce well Manhattans, vodka/gin martinis, cosmos and lemondrops for just $6 each — and a great happy hour menu as well. So on a gloomy…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com. Number 92: Apple pancake from the Original Pancake House…
On Friday night, I went to Lincoln’s Road House to see Dear Marsha play its last gig (the frontwomen are moving away, and the band will be no more). The club was packed, and a rumor quickly ran through the crowd that Dan Aykroyd, who was in town for a…
If you haven’t heard about NYC restaurant owner Vadim Ponorovsky and his epic acts of douchebaggery, get ready for a story that plays out like a white trash reality soap opera. Podorovsky, who owns a restaurant called Paradou, told his waitstaff to start collecting e-mail addresses from the guests in…
In case you’ve been living in a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket, and haven’t heard the news, Chipotle is opening its first London store in April of next year. This got me thinking…which, if any, Brit-Based fast food joints might be cool to have in our humble burg? I haven’t been to…
Although Earls has yet to make its debut, just up the block at 287 Columbine Street, Cafe Colorado is now open for business, serving coffee, sandwiches and other snacks for the shopping-fatigued. And while its patio may not be as “vibrant” as the one promised at Earls, there are still…
What you may have missed this week on Cafe Society while bitching and moaning and posting very, very weird comments about Perky Cups, a new java joint that’s coming to the streets of Aurora, complete with babes in bikinis: Coming next March to the Streets at SouthGlenn is a second…
We asked faithful (and ruthless) commenter Weege to recap this week’s Cafe Society posts. Here’s his offering: Passion. As the work week comes to a close, there can only be one truth to be held as self-evident. Westword has officially lost their minds. So I give to you my snarky,…
I have sworn for a long time that I would never include recipes in this blog. I have raised a (completely ineffectual) stink over the notion of other people including recipes. I have my reasons — the biggest of which being that I neither like nor trust recipes not written…
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. Last month, Pete…
Last week, I asked whether pho could be on the horizon for the Streets at Southglenn — specifically a second outpost of Pho 95, Aaron Le’s original temple of pho at 1002 South Federal Boulevard. I have an answer…
After fifteen months of reviewing sandwiches, it’s time to take a step back, time to consider what has passed between many, many slices of bread, time to take a break from sandwiches and offer a countdown of the ten best I’ve had. It’s easy to pick twenty good sandwiches, but…
