You know the other night when we got that wet, sloppy snow disturbance that amounted to little more than nothing? Right. Anyway, much to my chagrin, several neighborhood bars and restaurants shuttered early, which is never good news to a lush in search of her next liquor rush, or to…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
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. “This is really…
Samir Mohammad The Village Cork 1300 South Pearl Street 303-282-8399 www.villagecork.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s Chef and Tell interview with Samir Mohammad. To read part one of that interview, click here…
Screw cupcakes and chocolate chip cookies: Good, old-fashioned pies are the dessert du jour, at least today, when Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs, Steve Ballas’s eponymous wiener joint at 3525 East Colfax Avenue, hosts the Best Tasting Pie Contest. More than a dozen local bakeries, pie palaces and restaurants will compete for…
Peter Ryan, the former chef of Z Cuisine, Denver’s best French restaurant at 2239 West 30th Avenue, is returning to his roots as an instructor at Cook Street School of Fine Cooking, the culinary institution from which he graduated in 1999 and then taught at for eight years as a…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
The dish in the above snap doesn’t appear on any Denver restaurant menu. That’s because it’s an amuse-buche, which you’ll likely receive from the kitchen, just so long as you sit at the chef’s counter. Can you guess where I’m eating?…
Samir Mohammad The Village Cork 1300 South Pearl Street 303-282-8399 www.villagecork.com Long before Samir Mohammad could legally drive a car, he’d flipped burgers, rolled taquitos, tossed pizzas, blistered his hands cooking red and green chile, washed dishes, waited tables, prepped and drunk from the bottom of a keg. “Yeah, I…
At 7 a.m. this morning, the former Daphne’s Deli space at 393 Corona Street officially became the new storefront location for Waffle Brothers, making it the second outpost for waffle engineers Rod Dupert and John Power, who already run a waffle cart on the 16th Street Mall. “Even though Rob…
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Vodka is not my friend. Nonetheless, I recently knocked back a few shots of the clear liquid, which had been infused with murderously spicy Fresno peppers, and mellowed by a plate of pickles. And much to my surprise, I didn’t gag,…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
While Denver chef and restaurant consultant Michel Wahaltere scours the city for a space to open a new steakery, tentatively called Meet, he’s also teamed up with Cucina Colore owner Venanzio Momo, who hired Wahaltere to tinker with the menu. “I’ve started to work with Venanzio to bring new ideas…
Last week, historic downtown Littleton, which already has a formidable restaurant row, welcomed Delizios, 2299 West Main Street, to the ‘hood. The joint serves scones, danishes, quiches, croissants and pastries, along with organic coffee, to early risers, and then morphs into a lunch spot offering panini, soups and salads in…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Denver has just bagged one of the sexiest chefs on the culinary planet. Lon Symensma, a former New York kitchen magician with a helluva lot of kitchen street cred and pedigree, is leaving the Big Apple, where he was the former chef of Buddakan, to open ChoLon Bistro in LoDo…
More than twenty of Denver’s star chefs will converge on the Colorado Convention Center this Sunday, March 21, for Chefs Up Front, a culinary bash to benefit Operation Frontline Colorado, a local nonprofit that fights hunger and malnutrition through food education. “This is such a fantastic event, because all of…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Dino’s Soda Bar, the Washington Park ice cream parlor, breakfast stop and burger barn at 2217 East Mississippi Avenue that was the ‘hood hang-out for toned and tanned mommies and their stroller-strapped children, has defaulted on its lease, which hasn’t gone unnoticed by the landlord, who’s demanding “compliance or possession.”…
I realize that it’s still morning, but as I watch the snowflakes dance outside my window, all I can think about is a big plate of pasta and a bottle of vino. Perhaps not the exact heap of noodles in the above pic, which were less than ordinary, but another,…
There are three things in life that you can never get enough of: foreplay, sex and charcuterie. Not necessarily in that order. Was this the best charcuterie board I’ve ever humped? No. Would I hump it again? Absolutely. Blame the caperberries. Or the membrillo. Whose charcuterie board got me all…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
