Rod Dupen Waffle Brothers 393 Corona Street; 303-733-1212 1707 Lafayette Street; 720-708-5150 1326 College Avenue, Boulder; 303-593-0510 wafflebrothers.com This is part two of my interview with Ron Dupen, exec chef of Waffle Brothers; part one of our chat ran yesterday. Most memorable meal you’ve ever had: Right before I was…

Rod Dupen Waffle Brothers 393 Corona Street; 303-733-1212 1707 Lafayette Street; 720-708-5150 1326 College Avenue, Boulder; 303-593-0510 wafflebrothers.com This is part one of my interview with Ron Dupen, exec chef of Waffle Brothers; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. When you swish through the door of Waffle Brothers,…

Kevin Morrison, chef-owner of Pinche Taqueria, was absent from last night’s Denver FIVE dinner at Studio F. It was the first in a series of upcoming dinners and events from Leigh Sullivan’s newest crew of Denver chefs, who cook at various local restaurants, represent the Mile High City at the…

Announcement! We have a winner of our Mateo rosé wine dinner. We asked Cafe Society readers to guess how many glasses of rosé Mateo poured in May, 2012. The correct answer is 144 glasses. The person who came the closest to that number without going over, is Rex_Grant, who guessed…

Ron Dupen and his business partner John Power are building a mini waffle empire, capitalizing on the sweet or savory Belgian street food that, says Dupen, an Australian, is as American as apple pie. In mid-May, on the corner of Seventeenth Avenue and Lafayette, in Uptown, the two partners will…

It doesn’t matter that deviled eggs are the ultimate picnic food — and picnic weather is still weeks away. If deviled eggs are on the menu, I’m ordering them, and in the case of these eggs, I’m ordering two. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…

There are three menus at this excellent Asian restaurant: An Americanized menu that preaches all the usual suspects, a Chinese menu that requires translation (unless you read Chinese) and a Korean menu. The dish in the above pic — sizzling pork — isn’t on any of those menus, but it’s…

Matt Selby (Corner House), Kevin Morrison (Pinche Taqueria), Jorel Pierce (Euclid Hall) and Ian Kleinman (The Inventing Room) will congregate in the kitchen of Sean Yontz, exec chef of El Diablo, on Monday, April 22, for the first FIVE dinner showcasing the new crop of chefs that comprise Leigh Sullivan’s…

Tommy Lee Uncle 2215 West 32nd Avenue 303-433-3263 uncledenver.tumblr.com This is part two of my interview with Tommy Lee, exec chef of Uncle; part one of our chat ran yesterday. What do you enjoy most about your craft? Like most cooks, I enjoy the creativity of coming up with new…

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. It’s a good…

Food is — and always has been — secondary to the beer at this watering hole, but the housemade pretzel rolls, sided with a cup of (average) queso, are a necessity when all that beer gets the best of you. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…

Tommy Lee Uncle 2215 West 32nd Avenue 303-433-3263 uncledenver.tumblr.com This is part one of my interview with Tommy Lee, exec chef of Uncle; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. At 4:45 on a Saturday afternoon, a swarm of restless ramen geeks congregates around the door of Uncle, Tommy…

Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year — which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn’t it? But all…

From the labor-intensive Japanese cakes to the fashionable French macarons, everything at this gorgeous bake shop makes me swoon. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select…

Last night’s “Good vs. Evil” throwdown of jabs between Eric Ripert and Tony Bourdain solidified three things that most of us already know: Bourdain’s favorite noun is “motherfucker,” his adjective of choice is “motherfucking,” and Paula Deen, according to Bourdain, is a motherfucking motherfucker who doesn’t know fuck about Southern…

My teenager is currently on a Thai food kick, which couldn’t make me happier, because next week, when we’re in California on vacation, it’s going to be all In-N-Out, all the time, at least if he has his way. In the meantime, we Thai-d one on at this iconic Denver…

Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year — which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn’t it? But all…

Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a crock of macaroni and cheese topped with Chex Mix from ViewHouse, to a huge mound of green chile-smothered carne asada fries from El Alamo Mexican Bakery, a taqueria and panaderia at 3165 West 38th Avenue, to a…

Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year — which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn’t it? But all…

You can sink a cheap drink at just about every watering hole in Denver, a city that’s indisputably obsessed with the ritual of happy hour. The bar at Interstate Kitchen & Bar features a late-night happy hour, wherein a cooler of cold beers in cans — barkeep’s choice — are…

I have a simple rule when it comes to making macaroni and cheese: Somewhere, in the mix, there needs to be a processed cheese, a rule that makes a lot of chefs cringe in disgust. Whatever. It’s the white trash in me — and the fact that I like my…