Unfortunately, the website for “Jerk and Go” was already taken (har), so Brian Levin settled on naming his company “Perky Jerky.” While the name is a step down on the Crude-O-Meter, it’s a step up in the accuracy department. Perky Jerky is caffeinated meat. Levin, a Colorado native, and friend…
Memorial Day is all about barbecues: in the backyard, at the park and in the woods, near the pee tree, if you’re so inclined. But if you don’t feel like throwing wood chips on the grill this year, there are plenty of barbecue barns in and around Denver that can…
Gimme a Y! Gimme an O! Broncos cheerleaders will be on hand tonight for the opening of a new self-serve fro-yo shop in Cherry Creek. Yogurt Guru, 2636 East Third Avenue, also has other treats in store for tonight’s opening, including 50 percent off all yogurt between 5 and 8…
The cast of the Denver FIVE — chefs Matt Selby (Steuben’s and Vesta Dipping Grill), Troy Guard (TAG) and Tyler Wiard (Elway’s Cherry Creek) — is joining forces with Big Red F culinary director Jamey Fader tonight at Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, for a six-course dinner, beginning at 6 p.m…
As part of an upcoming photo essay project spotlighting Denver restaurant pros whose tats 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…
This spud’s for you. Potato skins — they’re not just for happy hour anymore. Can you guess where we were presented with this platter of breakfast potato skins?Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and…
Cafe Society served up seven Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything from the new patio sign at the Star Bar to a Frito pie at the Fort to this plate of hummus. For correctly identifying its origins as Mecca Grill, Konk wins a DINR deck. Konk, send…
Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, the quick-casual chapel to falafel, hummus and shawarma, is turning Saturday, May 22, into family funday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at its Highlands Ranch location, 1100 Sergeant Jon Stiles Drive. The store is hosting an afternoon of games, music, face painting and most important, free…
After my fourth trip to Oaxaca, arguably Mexico’s most vibrant food city, I’m still convinced that it’s one of the most magical places on earth. The open-air markets, which seem infinite in scope and scale, are extraordinary, the people of colonial Oaxaca are some of the most intensely welcoming in…
A new cafe run by Panera Bread in St. Louis has caught the nation’s attention. Why? Hint: It’s not because of the bread. The cafe, operating under the name St. Louis Bread Co., is a non-profit — a pay-what-you can afford non-profit. Ring a bell? Cafe Society readers know that…
Since launching a contest earlier this week seeking a new name for its 16th Street Mall food cart, Pinche Tacos has been receiving an influx of suggestions via its Facebook page (as well as our post). The name Pinche Tacos, while earlier passing muster with the Downtown Denver Business Improvement…
Three years ago, in 2007, Jeffrey and Zach Chodorow, the father and son partners behind Big Game, which opened three weeks ago at 1631 Wazee Street in the long-vacant Il Fornaio space, toured the country in search of markets where they could expand their restaurant empire. “Denver was on our…
At this Middle Eastern joint, whose air reeks with garlic, anyone who’s sensible orders hummus. Smooth, splashed with olive oil, sprayed with a jolt of lemon and ashed with cumin and sumac, it’s one of the best of its kind in Denver. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
If you recently went looking for Häagen-Dazs in the Cherry Creek mall, instead you no doubt found a sleek frozen yogurt vendor with a line of self-serve dispensers and a toppings bar floating oddly close to the flow of passerbyers. Cherry On Top is the latest entry in a string…
HHorton sees a Hooter. If you’re into breasts and thighs for happy hour, there’s no better place to find them than your local Hooters, where the servers wear skimpy attire and hang on your every word, if not your wallet. Cassie Smith of Roseville, Michigan, had been hoofing it at…
The Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, which owns several bagel and coffee chains, including Einstein Bros, recently announced that it will start using cage-free eggs in its stores. “We’re proud to be launching this initiative and believe that moving in this direction will help improve the treatment of hens,” says James…
Chipotle Mexican Grill, the ever-expanding Denver-based burrito chain, which just opened its first international store in London, is now upping the ante in the local produce department by committing to use 50 percent of at least one produce item from locally grown sources in its restaurants. In Colorado, that means…
Last week, during one of our recent torrential downpours, I ducked into a restaurant to dry off and shake off the shivers with a hearty bowl of steaming minestrone soup. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Oak Tavern exec chef Jeremy Roosa. To read part one of that interview, click here. Proudest moment as a chef: I’m always growing and learning, so I would like to think my proudest moment has yet to really happen. Looking back,…
There are more than forty restaurants in Denver’s Lower Highland neighborhood, and that’s if you stop counting at I-25. Extend the boundary by one block to the Platte River and you pick up another seven: a sushi place, a gourmet pizza shop, a wine bar/coffee shop, a date-night destination, a…
This classic dive was recently purchased by a new owner, who did a little updating inside — including adding the new “signage” hyping the patio. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered…
I love Paula Deen. I mean, which other high-profile chef whose mug is plastered all over your TV screen, gets hit in the face with a ham, loads her promotional videos with lewd sex talk and profanity, accidentally drops her pants, revealing her beige granny undies, while strutting across the…
