After last Saturday’s “Spring Chicken” Hush Denver dinner on the roof of the Denver Art Museum Residences, the chefs from Sweet Basil pined for a platter of tacos, which they got in abundance (and happily shared) at a local restaurant renowned for its Mexican grub. Can you guess where I’m…
The city’s band of Brothers is about to get larger. As Jon Solomon reports in this week’s Bar Back column, the former Red Room at 320 East Colfax Avenue will soon be home to Uptown Brothers Brewing Company, which is slated to open May 24. But unlike My Brother’s Bar,…
Ted Turner’s bringing his bison to Boulder. Ted’s Montana Grill will open its ninth Colorado restaurant the first week of October at 1701 Pearl Street. The city is a good fit for the steak and comfort food chain says Ted’s co-founder and chief executive officer George McKerrow Jr. “We chose…
Jeremy Roosa Oak Tavern 1414 Market Street 303-888-0655 www.oaktaverndenver.com “I dress like a clown, I play with food, fire and sharp knives, and they pay me. Does it get any more fun than that?” asks Jeremy Roosa. The executive chef of Oak Tavern, a LoDo watering hole that serves sandwiches,…
Govinda’s all-you-can-eat vegetarian buffet is back! The restaurant, located at the Hare Krishna temple at 1400 Cherry Street, closed its doors last fall when its former cooks went to India. It reopened last month with a new chef, Sri Raga, who is carrying on the restaurant’s tradition of serving up…
Crime doesn’t pay — especially when you’re stealing 3.2 percent beer. Dominic Lujan and Demetrio Rivera were thirsting for adult beverages and not acting like adults — so at 5:30 a.m. one recent morning, they hatched a brilliant plan to rob the local Loaf ‘N Jug. Since options are limited…
Kevin Morrison thought he was onto something when he created his new Mexican street food venture, but naming it “Pinche Tacos” — “pinche” is Spanish slang roughly equivalent to the F-bomb — hasn’t exactly struck a positive chord with everybody. The Downtown Denver Business Improvement District was so uncharmed, in…
At the Italco Spring Food Show, held yesterday and today at Mile High Station, it was all about charcuterie, salumi and cheese and me slinging all the cheese, charcuterie and salumi I could down my throat. I’ve admitted, albeit not publicly (until now), that I’m a salumi slut — that…
Scott Taylor wants Denver residents to wake up every morning in the coolest cycling city in the world – and he plans to help by serving them coffee from a bike-thru window. The owner of the Salvagetti Bicycle Workshop at 1611 Platte Street opened the bike-thru, called Happy Coffee, three…
It’s fairly obvious from the above pic that the electric green sake bottle perched on the table wasn’t photographed at a restaurant. In fact, the snap was shot in my living room, just minutes after I’d swallowed a few glasses of the stuff to soften the sting from the spicy…
Thanawat Bates, the exec sous chef of the Palace Arms at the opulent Brown Palace hotel, 321 17th Street, is circling the dining room, stopping intermittently at tables seated with wealthy business types to inquire about their lunch. “I’ve never done lunch in a fine-dining setting, so there was an…
Advice for the lovelorn: Lettuce alone. Lisa Leigh Allen of Highlands Ranch decided that she had had enough of being married and decided to skip divorce court by simply poisoning her husband, Jonathan Allen, a police officer in Jefferson County. And so she served him a special dinner salad that…
Sure, there are some new items on the new, slicker menu — but the real news at this long-time favorite is the updated decor: new lights, paint (miss the old murals), carpet, lights, tables and chairs put in over the past two weeks, new booths going in right now. Can…
The Streets at SouthGlenn, which is fast becoming a food utopia, thanks to restaurants like Pho 95, The Oven and Restaurant Home, is about to yield another new restaurant: Hodson’s Bar & Grill will open at 6851 South Gaylord Street in early June. “Our main focus is on rotisserie cooking,…
Yes, running a restaurant in this economy can be hell, as the previous tenants of 2200 South Broadway discovered when South Broadway Grill opened and closed in less than a year, after a major renovation of the former El Ranchito space. But the spot fired up again earlier this month,…
Piece of pigs masquerading as sheep are the latest delicacy in New York. For the astounding price of just $82.99 a pound, you can sample a creature that looks like a cross between a sheep and a pig and tastes like pork, but has a shaggy coat. The fur keeps…
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…
Sexy Pizza’s now offering up a little politics with its pie. The Capitol Hill pizzeria, located at 1018 East 11th Avenue, started offering a new pizza last week, with a portion of each purchase going to Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation, a local drug policy reform organization. The SAFER pizza…
Seven kitchen guards from Vail’s Sweet Basil, including sous chefs Chris “Cactus Jack” Douglas and Chris “Cupcake” Youmans, braved the gales, unseasonably cold temps and rain on Saturday night, when they left the snow-thumped ski resort to cook at the fourth Hush Denver dinner on the rooftop of the Denver…
What, more Asian restaurants? Exactly, says the Flat Out Crazy Restaurant Group. The Chicago-based company, owner of the fast-casual Stir Crazy Fresh Asian Grill and the make-your-own stir-fry FlatTop Grill restaurant chains, is banking on our affection for Asian food and eating out to support its new venture into the…
Colorado is full of fairs and festivals in the spring — and anyone who held down the fort with a Frito pie at this annual event over the weekend left full, too. Can you guess where I was eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the…
Cafe Society served up seven Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything from this still-unidentified bowl of deliciousness to Firenze a Tavola, the community table at Parisi; to this gigantic baked potato. For correctly spotting the spud at Oak Tavern, Jordan wins a DINR deck. Jordan, send your…
