Forget the backyard barbecue, water balloon fights at the pool and fighting with your in-laws over how to grill a perfect steak. The Truffle, the hopelessly addicting cheese, truffle and gourmet food shop at 2906 East Sixth Avenue, is offering something much better today — namely, whisking you “a-whey” to…
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. “There’s always something…
Icehouse Tavern 1801 Wynkoop Street 303-292-3775 www.icehouselodo.com…
Pete Ryan Cook Street School of Culinary Arts 1937 Market Street 303-308-9300 www.cookstreet.com After a fifteen-month pan-pounding stint at Z Cuisine, in March Pete Ryan became the executive chef/instructor at Cook Street School of Culinary Arts, a move that brought him back to the institution where he’d been a student…
The blots of yellow that you see on the pizza in the above pic are not yellow cheese, but canals of yolk from a just-cracked egg that wind through the valley of mushrooms, bacon and tender pea shoots. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the…
David Pellegrin and his wife, Rebekah Donovan Pellegrin, concede that Denver has nearly as many burger barns as Colorado has cattle, but Eco-Burger, their new Cherry Creek North burger joint taking up residence in the former Soleil Mediterranean Grill space (which the couple owned and closed in March) at 2817…
At last night’s Denver FIVE dinner at Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, Jamey Fader, culinary director of Big Red F Restaurant Group, the empire that oversees Lola, had this to say about his partners in cooking: “There are great things going on in Denver right now because of the incredibly talented…
Big plates of fries and big burgers crowned with just about every conceivable topping — in this case, arugula, caramelized onions and roasted poblano peppers bolstered with a side of “secret” sauce jolted with cayenne. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
It’s spring cocktail season, and you know what that means: the drinking is easy. And at the Hotel Teatro, which houses Prima and Restaurant Kevin Taylor, sommelier Brandon Tebbe has concocted the Summer-tini, a cocktail shaken with Vodka14, a Colorado organic vodka that’s distilled in the Rockies. “It’s a top…
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,…
“I celebrate the color of my cottage, the flavor of fresh herbs, the festivity of food, the whimsy of my garden, and an occasional shot of tequila. Welcome to the fiesta!” writes Lucinda Hutson, author of the Herb Garden Cookbook and Tequila! Cooking With the Spirit of Mexico, who’ll be…
“The spirit of this event really embodies the mission of Mi Casa, which is that you truly can be anything you want to be,” says Cheryl Balchunas, events manager for Mi Casa Resource Center, a local nonprofit that assists Latino and low-income families achieve financial independence. The organization is hosting…
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…
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…
