Denver’s street-food scene is exploding, what with all those cupcake trucks, biscuit-mobiles, gastro-carts on wheels and upscale taco wagons hawking their foodstuffs all over town. And the trend hasn’t gone unnoticed by the Denver Public Library’s free Fresh City Life programs, which integrates culinary demonstrations, recipe contests and other food-centric…

Dylan Moore will start firing up food at the Little Orange Rocket, his new, mobile meals on wheels that launches tonight in front of Deluxe and Delite, Moore’s side-by-side restaurant and bar at 30 and 32 South Broadway, respectively…

Sometime between February of last year and now, Hosea Rosenberg, the Boulder cooker who won Top Chef: New York, got himself a Girl Friday personal assistant, name of Rachel Bachman, who doesn’t approve of our photo choices — specifically the photo below, which I snapped during a viewing party at…

In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, Cafe Options chef Craig Dixon talks about why he believes Denver is the country’s top city for slinging food, how he wishes that citizen journalism reviews were more factual and his role at Cafe Options as both a chef and teacher to the…

Just a few hours ago, I wrote that Tony Bourdain is holding an essay contest, the winner of which will get his or her own chapter in the forthcoming paperback edition of Medium Raw. Which is all fine and fucking dandy, except for the fact that he wasn’t offering to…

I’m currently paused on page 61 of Anthony Bourdain’s newest memoir, Medium Raw, in which the ex-chef, as usual, litters his prose with “fuck,” “fucked,” “fucking” and “motherfucker” while sucking us in with his drama-filled, demented stories of sexual encounters, drug-filled hazes and, for good measure, the day he watched…

See those doughy perogies up top soaking in a butter bath? Worst things I’ve put in my mouth this year. Can you guess where I’ll never eat again? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool…

This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Cafe Options executive chef Craig Dixon. To read part one of that interview, click here. Favorite ingredient: Butter. Animal fat is where it’s at. You can’t fake butter. Humans have survived for thousands of years eating animals. Why try to find…

What began as a friendship between winemaker and chef has morphed into a business partnership between Infinite Monkey Theorem winemaker Ben Parsons and Masterpiece Deli executive chef Justin Brunson. The two met not long after Parsons moved from Palisade to Denver last spring to open his urban winery in the…

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. Barb and Pete…

Craig Dixon Cafe Options 1650 Curtis Street 303-573-0733 www.cafeoptions.com Craig Dixon, chef of Cafe Options, is struggling. I’ve just asked him what it’s like to work in a kitchen staffed predominantly by females — the restaurant is a project of Work Options for Women, a local nonprofit that provides women…

Over the weekend, I settled into my usual routine of eating — only on Sunday, this entailed stuffing (and stupefying) my belly with dishes from more than twenty restaurants hawking their grub at the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, where I was a culinary judge alongside SAME Cafe’s Brad and Libby…

While everyone else in Denver was lighting up the sky with explosive fireworks over the weekend, I managed to sneak in a quiet dinner with a friend at a neighborhood hang whose near-empty dining room was in no way indicative of my hanger steak, squeaky green beans and twice-baked potato,…

Those are stacked enchiladas, and you’ll either immediately recognize where they came from, or you’ll be completely stumped. Here’s a clue: Up until just a few weeks ago, you had no choice but to inhale them from the confines of a comfortably grungy, dimly lit bar that doubles as a…

Maybe I’m just a cynic, but yesterday, while getting lost in the suburban sprawl of Northfield Stapleton, I passed by the sign in the above pic announcing the impending arrival of Guy Harvey’s Perfect Spot Bar & Grille — and I heaved. Maybe it was the ridiculously perfect hair, the…

“In short, The Local is by locals, for locals,” says Jeff Estey, who opened his Wash Park daylight diner yesterday at 2217 East Mississippi in the space formerly occupied by Dino’s, which closed earlier this year due to non-payment of taxes. Estey, who also owns Washington Park Grill and Max…

Ready, set, sizzle! You know that summer’s in full swing when the sun beats down on the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, which kicks of its three-day crowd-burst tonight at 7 p.m. on Clayton Street, between Second and Third Avenues. The annual event draws throngs of grubniks and arty-farty types to…

I’m not a sugar fiend — never have been, never will be. But that doesn’t stop others from trying to convince me to change my weird ways, which is what happened the other night when a friend all but forced me to lap up the orange Creamsicle ice cream with…

Spit-shine your cowboy boots and dig out your hats, y’all! In just two months, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill is putting its shit-kickin’ foot stomp on a 20,000-square-foot plot of land at Northfield Stapleton. According to Paul Sewell, the chain’s corporate marketing director, the mammoth restaurant, bar…

This is part two of my interview with Leo Harvey, executive chef of Big Game Restaurant & Lounge. To read part one of that interview, click here. Favorite dish to cook at home: Braised chicken thighs and Yukon Gold mashed potatoes. It’s a very comforting dish that’s hearty, easy to…