Last night, while sitting at the bar where the above pic was snapped, Olivia Newton-John’s Physical was blasting over the speakers, part of some ’80s mix that, thankfully, got progressively better, as did the trio of tacos, which the menu claims are grilled. But judging from the persistent grease dribble…
Last night, I had the best cup of coffee of my life. It was the Novo-roasted Brazil Cup of Excellence poured from a French Press, hot and complex, and so good I wanted the owner of Crema Coffee House, who sells the java, to relinquish the whole pot, letting me…
You know what’s really annoying? When you’re having a cookout for some kind of holiday — say, the Fourth of July — and one of your guests mentions they don’t eat meat anymore. What the hell do you feed those people? We’ll be covering hot dogs in July, in honor…
Since the fleet of food trucks and gourmet mobile carts hit the streets of Denver,, there have been relatively few regulatory obstacles, and the vehicles have been proffering goods to the masses from curbs and parking lots all over town. Now, though, there could be a roadblock in the most…
Leo Harvey Big Game Restaurant & Lounge 1631 Wazee Street 303-623-1630 This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with Leo Harvey, exec chef of Big Game Restaurant & Lounge. To read part two of that interview, check back here tomorrow. Leo Harvey is shaking his head, bewildered and befuddled…
The cupcake trend appears to be gasping its last breath in a fully saturated market, and national eat blogs and food writers are having a heyday with bidding farewell. Dessert must go on, though, and Jezebel just polled its readers on what sweet they thought would become the post-cupcake trend…
Health.com just called out the most fattening foods in all 50 states, and the seven-pound breakfast burrito at Jack-n-Grill, a gut bomb that Man v. Food host Adam Richman forfeited after barely making a dent, was awarded the fattiest food in Colorado…
A recent CNN investigation uncovered a dirty little secret about the difference between Chicken McNuggets in this country and their British counterparts: BP may be polluting the Gulf, but the Brits are at least getting chemicals out of their food. McNuggets in the USA were found to contain an “anti-foaming…
Morton’s Steakhouse isn’t part of tonight’s LoDo Bites, the eating orgy featuring twenty restaurants and watering holes in lower downtown, but it’s still offering something special tonight for diners who duck out of the heat and into the cool confines of the Morton’s at 1710 Wynkoop Street: Two new items…
After being pleasantly surprised to be nominated at all for a prestigious American Institute of Architecture’s Los Angeles Chapter, restaurant design award, Boulder sandwich shop Modmarket was thrilled to walk away last week with not one but two cafe design awards: people’s choice and the jury prize (which it shares…
For more than fifteen years, Chef’s Noodle House commanded the corner of Havana and Sixth Avenue, but back in February, its Vietnamese chef and noodle emperor, Billy Lam, whose family once owned T-Wa Inn, shuttered the joint and disconnected the phone. But the space didn’t stay empty for long. Earlier…
As with everything at this excellent restaurant, the vegetable dishes are done extremely well, including the plate in the above pic that benefits from a lob of butter and soft, chewy rolls, called pav, that are perfect for scooping up the mixed vegetables, or bhaji. Can you guess where I’m…
Denver’s mobile food scene just keeps rolling. Today’s Civic Center Eats Outdoor Cafe will mark the third outing for the “Steamin’ Demon,” a new vegetarian and vegan food cart from City O’City executive chef Chris Medved and sous chef Max Maxfield. The two are keeping company with several other mobile…
Jesus. It’s not horrible enough cruising at altitude with a full two inches of legroom, a middle seater with flatulence and seat belts slimed with Jell-O. Now FDA inspectors are unearthing everything from fruit flies and ants to live roaches and dead rodents in the country’s airline catering companies. And…
Boulder foodniks and lushes whose wallets run on empty aren’t likely to fork over their beer or burger coinage at the Flagstaff House, Boulder’s treasure in the sky, where the average check is well over a hundred bucks per person, the extraordinarily wide-reaching wine list is dictionary-thick and the coffee…
I wanted to try the happy hours deals at the restaurant where the above snap was flashed, but the happy hour menu isn’t offered at the chef’s counter, which is where we had our butts parked. So instead, we ordered a cheese plate, the rotisserie lamb and a few other…
Pupusas Sabor Hispano, the Boulder joint that doles out its namesake spheres of griddled masa shaped around redolent fillings of chicharron, fiddlehead ferns, zucchini, Anaheim peppers, smears of refrieds and molten white cheese, has long been one of my favorite restaurants in the People’s Republic, as much for the pupusas…
Not a braised beef sandwich inspired by Florence’s San Lorenzo market nor grilled shrimp with risotto and basil could keep ’em coming for lunch at Farro, Matthew Franklin’s Italian joint at 8320 South Holly Street. After a six-month spin, Franklin is calling it quits in the lunch department. In an…
SmartCo Foods — the new grocery store concept started by California-based Smart & Final, and being tested out in Colorado — is holding a job fair Tuesday to staff a hundred positions at locations opening soon in Centennial and Littleton. (The first SmartCo, at 1442 South Parker Road in Aurora,…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything heat-beating cocktails at La Rumbato this still-unidentified breakfast to a molten cheese dip at La Sandia. For correctly guessing that one, Ben wins a DINR deck. Ben, send your contact info to cafe@westword.com, and we’ll send…
Our favorite table scraps of the week from the Cafe Society blog: 1. Holy hot dog! After more than a year of searching for a freestanding restaurant to augment his fleet of carts, Biker Jim, aka gourmet wiener hustler, finally signed a lease on a build-out space at 2145 Larimer…
Early this year Sushi Sasa, the wildly popular sushi joint at 2401 15th Street, took over the vacated Wilderness Exchange spot next door, with plans to double the size of the dining room, adding 70 seats to the original 62. Now that space is finally — thankfully — open, a…
