Bob Wiltshire Morton’s Steakhouse 1710 Wynkoop Street 303-825-3353 www.mortons.com This is part one of Lori Midson’ Chef and Tell interview with Bob Wiltshire, To read part two of that interview, check back here tomorrow. Blame Bob Wiltshire’s mother and a vocational high school for his culinary prowess. “When I was…
Greenwood Village, with its affluent socialites, mega-priced steakhouses and chain horrors, wallet-robbing boutiques and multi-million dollar mansions, is hardly the kind of suburb where you’d expect to find what may very well be the most interesting Indian restaurant in the city. But it’s there, just a samosa’s fling from Cool…
On a recent Friday night on the patio of a bar that’s dormant during the day but overflowing after 11 p.m. when the dance floor becomes a sweat pit, a gaggle of girls paraded trays of fruity adult slushies from table to table. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special…
While Jean-Philippe Failyau races to get Park & Co., a new burger barn at 439 East 17th Avenue, open by the first week in July, the owner of Park Burger, 1890 South Pearl Street, is basking in the accolades bestowed upon his Platt Park joint by Bon Appetit magazine, which,…
Thus ends four days of liver damage, debauchery, hangovers, embarrassments and a swollen stomach. The 2010 Food & Wine Classic in Aspen officially came to a close yesterday, and while the weekend isn’t without its fuzzy moments, my brain isn’t so washed up that I’m not without a fleet of…
The menu, an otherwise predictable swamp of pedestrian enchiladas, tacos,chiles rellenos, burritos and tamales, swaggers one dish that’s worth coming back for — namely the camarones rancheros, plump shrimp swathed in a garlic-spiked, chile-jolted sauce of tomatoes, onions and cilantro. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
Mezcal mastermind Ron Cooper, who spent the weekend draining bottles of the Mexican distilled spirit at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, is in Denver today for a blowout dinner at Tambien, 250 Steele Street, where he’ll mix and pour cocktails made with his single village mezcals, including Del…
In between feedings of pig skin from José Andrés’s own hands, the hysterical father-daughter banter between Jacques and Claudine Pépin during their caviar cooking demo, Tom Colicchio’s mighty fine guitar playing and passable singing and a really, really sloshed middle-aged drunk throwing up really, really good wine just outside the…
Project Angel Heart executive chef, Jon Emanuel, the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview, serves nearly 800 dishes a day to people with life threatening illnesses, including an herb-roasted pork with pan juices, a brining recipe, says Emanuel, that’s easy to do at home. “Everyone should know the…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Jon Emanuel. To read part one of that interview, click here. Culinary inspirations: Without a doubt, my dad is my number-one culinary inspiration. When I was a real little guy, he was taking classes for his job, which kept him away…
Starting today, the glitterati of the food world will descend upon Aspen, when that glitter gulch town uncorks the Food & Wine magazine Classic, four days of over-the-top gluttony overrun with super-star chefs and their wide-eyed Food Network groupies who fork over nearly $1,200 to catch a glimpse of Mario…
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and where there’s fire, there’s barbecue. That’s more or less the motto of Frisco’s annual Colorado BBQ Challenge, whose heat begins rising today and continues through Saturday night on the town’s Main Street. “We’re the largest barbecue competition in Colorado, with 68 teams across the…
One of summer’s hottest galas goes down tonight at twilight, when five local bands and more than thirty restaurants and watering holes share air with lions, tigers and bears at Do at the Zoo, the Denver Zoo’s largest fundraiser of the year. “This really is a great summer party with…
Outdoor Divas, the Boulder store specializing in funwear for women who camp, paddle, bike, board, strike perfect yoga poses, scale big boulders and adventure-race has teamed up with Savory Spice Shop to host a free outdoor cuisine cooking class tonight at 7 p.m. The demonstration, part of the shop’s Evening…
The New York food scene is renowned for all sorts of things, but green chile isn’t one of them. That, as we all know, is a Colorado thing. But Dennis Krieger, a New Yorker, insists that his pork green chile, a family recipe, will put all others to shame. “I…
Five bucks for three cheese-blanketed mini burgers in one of the most expensive restaurants in town is a good deal, not just here, but anywhere. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered…
There are good chefs and chefs who do good: Jon Emanuel is both. During his career, the head cooker at Project Angel Heart has fed everyone from rocket scientists to garbage men, but his position at Project Angel Heart — a Denver nonprofit that dishes out 800 meals a day…
A swell of Denver’s top kitchen masters are playing with fire tonight at Elway’s Cherry Creek, 2500 East First Avenue, the stamping ground for the second annual Hot Rocks Griller Challenge, a blowout bash and smokin’ chef competition that benefits men’s programs through the Denver Health Foundation. Twelve of Denver’s…
Earlier this afternoon, Ryan Hardy, chef of the glitzy Little Nell Hotel and Residences in Aspen, braved the drivel of Today Show hosts Kathy Lee Gifford and, to a lesser extent, Hoda Kotb to wax poetic about pork shoulder and chimichurri sauce. Gifford, who predictably didn’t recognize fresh oregano and…
Believe it or not, the Hooters girls aren’t just about big tits and big tips. Turns out, the tight white T-shirt-clad females have a thing for pantyhose — namely donating 100,000 pairs of shredded and torn close-fitting legware in an effort to help clean up the disastrous Gulf Coast oil…
I spent Sunday afternoon shopping in Boulder and Sunday night at this longstanding Boulder restaurant that proffers an incredible happy hour, which includes, among other things, roasted bone marrow smeared on grilled bread. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the…
Last week, after Esquire magazine pimped 15 Bars Every Man Should Drink In Before He Dies, we supplemented its list with our own list of ten Denver watering holes where a man should drown himself in liquor before he stumbles through the gates of Hell. This week, we’re hustling ten…
