Rod Dupen and John Power aren’t waffling around when it comes to their next move. The owners of the Waffle Brothers, the 16th Street Mall concession stand at 16th and Arapahoe, have snapped up the Daphne’s Deli space at 393 Corona Street, where they’ll continue to dish out deli sandwiches…

This is part two of Lori Midson’s Chef and Tell interview with Ian Kleinman; to read part one, click here. Proudest moment as a chef: When my dad and I cooked Father’s Day brunch together at the James Beard House. We had a 22-hour prep day and cooked for seventy…

If you’re infatuated with flavor-bombed curries laced with heat and intensity, keep sniffing, but the chutneys, especially the spicy chutney redolent with mint, are perfect for dunking your peppery papadums. Question is, where was I dipping?…

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. With Saint Patrick’s…

“Anything I can possibly dream up is now doable, because I’m able to really play around with food,” says Ian Kleinman, Denver’s answer to Alton Brown, the wacky culinary scientist (and only food personality worth watching) on the Food Network. Kleinman, too, is a culinary chemist — a molecular gastronomist…

There are a multitude of Chinese joints in Denver to satisfy your yearning for chicken feet, sea cucumber, preserved eggs and duck tongues, none of which has ever graced the menu of the Imperial, 431 South Broadway, which will mark its 25th anniversary of serving American-Chinese favorites with a month…

I’m a sucker for soups, and there aren’t too many places around town that feature a flight of them. Bummer, then, that not a single one satisfied my craving. The lobster bisque was pelted with a mine of salt; the French onion soup arrived watery and lukewarm; and I’m still…

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…

Just got off the phone with Patrick Mangold-White, co-owner of Kaos Pizzeria, the tiny pie shack at 1439 South Pearl Street that’s located just down the block from Gaia Bistro, the lovely breakfast and lunch refuge that Mangold-White also runs with his partner Jon Edwards. The reason for the call?…

For the love of Buddha, what the hell is so appealing about the Chinese joints that promise a scoop of substandard sesame chicken for next to nothing? Yesterday, while driving down Federal, I saw the same sign that you see in the above snap and nearly crashed. Instead, I cried…

You people clearly take Restaurant Week seriously, as evidenced by the 108 comments that came in over the past 17 days of gluttony. Some of you, we found out, are annoying nitpickers who probably pick your nose as much as you pick on restaurants; at least one of you believes…

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…

That right there is Americanized Chinese food at its finest, or its worst, depending upon how you look at it. It’s got that familiar sheen, all the standard vegetables and a handful of perfectly fine scallops lobbed in to remind that you that you’re not eating at one of those…

Think it’s too late to snag a last-minute seat at one of the 281 restaurants celebrating Denver Restaurant Week? Think again. As of 5:15 p.m., there were prime time spots (6:30 to 8:30 p.m.) still available all over the city, according to www.opentable.com. Here’s a full plate of what’s available:…

See that snap up top? That massive fortress is slated to become Virgilio’s Pizzeria and Wine Bar, the second outpost for Virgilio Urbano, whose original namesake pizzeria in Belmar is roughly the size of a pea compared to the 6,700-square-foot palace that Urbano will open later this summer at 10025…

One of my favorite pizza combinations in the world involves prosciutto, arugula and a yolky egg spilling gold. Was this version transcendent? No. But it wasn’t bad either. Where did I stuff my piehole?…

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…

Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation event, one of Denver’s top bonanzas for bona fide gastronauts, comes down on Sunday, July 18 at Mile High Station. Tickets to the culinary blowout, which is all about raising funds to stamp out childhood hunger in Denver and across the country, are…

Kate Horton Black Pearl 1529 South Pearl Street 303-777-0500 This is part two of our interview with Kate Horton, exec chef of Black Pearl. To read part one of that interview, click here. Culinary inspirations: Professionally speaking, I was fortunate enough to have some great mentors in kitchens early on…

The line had already spilled out onto the sidewalk when I stopped in early this morning to pick up my crack quiche from this unassuming storefront that turns out some of the most decadent baked goods in Denver. Can you guess where I got egg on my face? Special bonus:…