Yesterday, to celebrate Mother’s Day, I inhaled a green chile-cloaked breakfast burrito from El Taco de Mexico and then spent the afternoon sunning myself on another restaurant patio with a margarita, chips and salsa, guacamole and a plate of blue corn-fried oysters that go for dirt cheap during happy hour…

Back in late March, we reported that Frank Bonanno was in the market for a new restaurant. The chef/restaurateur, who already operates four Denver restaurants — Bones, Osteria Marco, Mizuna and Luca D’Italia — said he was “looking for something we can buy, the right opportunity. We’ve made offers on…

This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Mark Tarbell. To read part one of that interview, click here. Culinary inspirations: Chef Fernand Chambrette, the former chef de cuisine — he passed away in January — at La Varenne École de Cuisine in Paris. On the surface, he was…

This is part one of Lori Midson’s Chef and Tell interview with Mark Tarbell. To read part two of this interview, click here. “If it seems like I’m not paying attention to you, it’s true,” quips Mark Tarbell, the renowned restaurateur/chef who operates Tarbell’s, his namesake restaurant, in Phoenix, his…

In the four hours that David Bravdica had been slinging pizzas, the skies rained, sleeted, snowed, dropped gropple and kicked up enough wind to blow flour from here to Tuscany, which is where Bravdica, a former airport manager, learned the art of making pizza — pizza that he began peddling…

I’m picky — really picky — about my scrambled eggs, which I always order soft and which, more often than not, arrive every way but that way. The exception are the scrambled eggs in the above snap, which the kitchen always prepares beautifully, even when it’s weeded with tickets and…

Marczyk Fine Foods, the Uptown market at 770 East 17th Avenue, is kicking off its seasonal sidewalk burger bash tonight at 5 p.m. “We started the burger night as a way to get people in the neighborhood to taste one of our favorite products — Niman Ranch beef — and…

Angelina Soleno, who recently opened University Groundz Coffee House at 2493 South University Boulevard, won’t say where she gets her breakfast burritos — only that they come from a secret spot in Brighton and are “the best breakfast burritos anywhere in Denver.” She’s wrong about that (the best breakfast burritos…

Argyll, the Cherry Creek gastropub (and winner of Westword’s Best New Restaurant 2010 award) at 2700 East Third Avenue, is celebrating its one-year anniversary on Friday, April 30 by offering one starter and two lunch entrees for $14, excluding tax and gratuity. “We’re thanking Denver for all the support they’ve…

Up until very recently, my favorite breakfast burrito, which we smothered with accolades in Westword’s Best of Denver 2010, came from Pico de Gallo Mexican Grill. And while I still believe that it’s the best breakfast burrito in the Mile High City, I’ve found another breakfast burrito, outside Denver, that’s…

This is part two of Lori Midson’s Chef and Tell interview with Eric Stein, chef/instructor at Johnson & Wales. To read part one of that interview, click here. Most embarrassing moment in the kitchen: I worked for a restaurant called Adesso in Providence, Rhode Island, that featured an open kitchen…

After months and months of speculation, anticipation and dropping gazillions of dollars in rent on a space that sat vacant for more than a year, the parcel of land at 1631 Wazee Street, formerly Il Fornaio, is finally springing back to life…

Same concept, new chef and a revamped menu that now includes a generous terrine of foie gras that may very well be one of the most expensive starters at a metro Denver restaurant. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the…

Emily and Chris Deutschman, owners of Magnolia Restaurant & Sushi Bar, in Lafayette, are opening kaTcH Fish House in June at 1300 Pennsylvania Street, in the former home of Pizzicato Pizza. “The restaurant concept emphasizes seafood recipes found on the East Coast, West Coast and Gulf of Mexico,” notes the…

This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with Eric Stein, instructor and chef at Johnson & Wales University. To read part two of that interview, click here. Eric Stein Chef/instructor Johnson & Wales University Eric Stein is using his fingers to count. “Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,” he says to himself,…

There’s hardly a day that goes by that someone — usually a Texan (no offense) — doesn’t bitch and whine about their unfulfilled quest to find enchiladas suizas in Denver. See that photo up top? That’s a big plate of enchiladas suizas that I’m sure will generate all sorts of…

Steve Progar, who opened Abrusci’s Italian Eatery two weeks ago in the former space occupied by Campo De Fiori, 300 Fillmore Street, is betting that Creekers will embrace a restaurant that’s intended to be an everyday dining experience absent of sticker shock prices…

Eleven Denver restaurants are taking part in tonight’s SOUP! event at the Cable Center on the University of Denver campus, 2000 Buchtel Boulevard. The benefit, which raises funds for the Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition, a local nonprofit that increases childhood immunization through coalition building, provider education, community outreach and legislative…