Martin Campos Comida Cantina 3350 Brighton Boulevard 303-296-2747 eatcomida.com This is part one of my interview with Martin Campos, exec chef of Comida at the Source; part two of our interview will run tomorrow. “I was an incredibly picky eater as a child,” laments Martin Campos, who admits that while…
If you happen to find yourself in Los Angeles between March 21-23, you’ll be in esteemed culinary company: Jennifer Jasinski, chef-owner of Rioja, Euclid Hall, Bistro Vendome and the forthcoming Stoic & Genuine, along with Alex Seidel, chef-owner of Fruition and Mercantile Dining & Provision, which will open in Union…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a plate of kung pao chicken from Shanghai Garden to a bowl of cumin-spiced green beans from Shish Kabob Grill to a parade of side dishes from a stalwart Japanese restaurant…
Sure, it’s winter, but just because there’s a chill in the air doesn’t mean that we stop craving ice cream. For proof, just look in my freezer. Nonetheless, the crew from Sweet Action Ice Cream, one of the most popular ice cream spots in the city, is on a month-long…
The dishes at this suburban strip mall restaurant are straight-ahead Americanized Chinese, which appeases my picky parents, who don’t have adventurous palates and always order their fish and meat at temperatures that would set a house ablaze. But while chicken feet, duck blood soup and fried cow stomach lining are…
Noah French Sugarmill 2461 Larimer Street 303-297-3540 sugarmilldesserts.com This is part two of my interview with Noah French, pastry chef and co-owner of Sugarmill; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Most underrated Denver restaurant: TAG|RAW BAR. It gets tons of awards and accolades, but somehow people still look at…
The menu at this enduring Japanese restaurant boasts, among other marvels, huge bowls of unadulterated, delicious ramen, each of which comes with seven side dishes, all of the Japanese persuasion — and if you’re anything like me, you’ll want to eat every last bite. Can you guess where I’m eating?…
Noah French Sugarmill 2461 Larimer Street 303-297-3540 sugarmilldesserts.com This is part one of my interview with Noah French, pastry chef and co-owner of Sugarmil; part two of our conversation will run tomorrow. It’s just before noon on a Wednesday, and already Sugarmill, the Ballpark-neighborhood dessert temple from pastry chef Noah…
Back in October of last year, Don Fox, the CEO of Firehouse Subs, a national chain with thirteen outpost in the metro Denver area, had this to say about the Affordable Care Act (ACA). “October 1st will be a watershed moment,” wrote Fox in Forbes magazine. “On that day, the…
Federal Boulevard, that long stretch of asphalt that takes joyriders on culinary excursions through Mexico, Latin America and Asia, has never been short on pho parlors, and it’s about ready to get one more: Pho Market Vietnamese Restaurant, which just erected a kaleidoscopic can’t-miss-it sign on its exterior, is set…
It was back in 2009 when Ruth’s Chris Steak House, a national chain of beef emporiums, shuttered its downtown Denver space at 1445 Market Street, an address that’s now occupied by Chloe. At the time, the shrine to steak had defaulted on taxes owed to the City of Denver, which…
Slow-cooked vegetables are a staple in the Middle East, and while I’m partial to vegetables that are cooked al dente, there’s no denying that the cumin-spiced stew with slow-cooked green beans, tomatoes and garlic from this Middle Eastern joint creates a richly flavored appetizer that could easily become a mainstay…
I only had a few bites of the burger in the above snap, mostly because I’m a purist and would never — not in a million years — christen my burger with fried onions, but my own burger, which was naked save for a blanket of melt-y American, was judiciously…
A lot of Denver restaurants bake their own bread, but a lot more rely on bread baker extraordinaire Michael Bortz, a veteran bread head, whose company, City Bakery, supplies rolls and loaves to dozens and dozens of local restaurants, including Elway’s Cherry Creek, Oceanaire, Ocean Prime, Steuben’s and Ace, Charcoal,…
Seventeen chefs — amateur and professional — convened at Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs on Saturday afternoon for the hot dog joint’s inaugural grilled cheese competition, a spirited face off that ended with nothing but de…brie, thanks to the cheese-chomping crowds who ate everything but the rind. A panel of judges, including…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a bottle of Phuket that’s on the beer syllabus at Bangkok Cafe to a Middle Eastern dish with chicken, rice and vegetables from Jerusalem to a sandwich served on frozen bread halves from a longstanding Italian deli that…
“At last. 24-hour Voodoo Doughnut availability,” reads the note from Tres Shannon and Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson, the duo behind Voodoo Doughnut, which opened last month, on the thirteenth of December, to crushing crowds that braved frigid temps to get first crack at doughnut mania. Since then, the cult doughnut…
Four notable winemakers, including Andrew Vingiello, a graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, will uncork ten of their wines, many of which strut 100-point ratings from Wine Spectator, on Monday night at Oak at Fourteenth, the Boulder restaurant overseen by grape guru Bryan Dayton and chef Steven Redzikowski, both…
Holy torta! That’s pretty much, give or take an expletive, what I mouthed when the kitchen at this divey Mexican joint presented me with what can only be described as a gut bomb. I manged to knife-and-fork my way through about a quarter of a it, before a homeless dude…
If you live in Denver, Monsoon, a new Indian restaurant that’s way the hell out in Aurora, is a trek, but its location, on the east side of Southlands shopping center, is a welcome addition to that chain-ganged suburb. And if what I ate while I was there is indicative…
Oh, get your mind out of the gutter. It’s pronounced “pū’kĭt” — and it’s a beer from the largest island in Thailand, which just happens to be named Phuket. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post is…
Udi Bar-on Udi’s Yesterday, in part one of my conversation with Udi Bar-on, founder of Udi’s, he recalled his midlife crisis, his Christmas miracle and the rapid growth of his empire. Today, in part two of our interview, Bar-on talks about the gluten-free business that made him a millionaire and…
