Tony Cherry Creek, that swanky enclave full of chic boutiques and restaurants where stilettos and furs far outweigh flip-flops and fleece, is seemingly — inexplicably — becoming a Mexican-food mecca. See also: – Machete will bring tacos and tequila to Cherry Creek – Photos: Margs Taco Bistro opens today in…

George Eder Pizza Republica 5375 Landmark Place, Greenwood Village 720-489-2030 www.pizzarepublica.com This is part two of my interview with George Eder, exec chef of Pizza Republica; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: Frasca, Beatrice & Woodsley, Fruition and Ian Kleinman’s pop-up doughnut…

Last April, Eric Chiappetta, the former chef of Pizza Republica, along with his wife, Jamie, left the piehole world behind to open Chia’s Breakfast & Lunch Counter in Golden. But last week, the couple shut the doors. See also: – Chia’s Breakfast & Lunch Counter is set to open next…

There’s nothing quite like a bubbling-hot chicken pot pie when the weather is chilly (despite today’s projected warm forecast, the air was was anything but balmy), and that’s exactly what I ordered for lunch at an off-the-radar restaurant in the suburbs that serves its pot pie in a cast-iron skillet,…

Gayor Geller grew up in Harvard Gulch, a tree-lined neighborhood near the University of Denver, and Maddie’s, the breakfast and lunch restaurant he’s opening on Friday morning in that same ‘hood, is a “family project,” he says, that’s been a dream for decades…

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. Family recipes run…

George Eder Pizza Republica 5375 Landmark Place, Greenwood Village 720-489-2030 www.pizzarepublica.com This is part one of my interview with George Eder, exec chef of Pizza Republica; part two of our conversation will tun tomorrow. George Eder grew up in Detroit, one of five siblings whose mother insisted on cooking breakfast,…

Hunter Pritchett’s first job on the line, at fourteen, was slinging fried fish at a Long John Silver’s, a gig that certainly could have persuaded him to go in a very different direction from cooking. But Pritchett, the executive chef of Luca d’Italia, wasn’t deterred, cooking at restaurants around the…

For concrete proof that I’m not a food snob, all you have to to do is look at those pepperoni rolls in the above snap. Nor am I ashamed to admit that I liked those little suckers…especially when chased with a stout. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…

David Payne Jelly Cafe 600 East 13th Avenue, 303-831-6301 1700 East Evans Avenue, 720-596-4108 www.eatmorejelly.com This is part two of my interview with David Payne, executive chef of Jelly; part two of our interview ran yesterday. Favorite dish on your menu: I love our French toast with freshly grated nutmeg,…

David Payne Jelly Cafe 600 East 13th Avenue, 303-831-6301 1700 East Evans Avenue, 720-596-4108 www.eatmorejelly.com This is part one of my interview with David Payne, executive chef of Jelly Cafe; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. My mom,” sighs David Payne, “wasn’t a good cook. At all.” Peppers…

It’s a roster that includes some of the biggest and boldest names in Denver’s culinary landscape: Matt Selby, Sean Yontz, Ian Kleinman, Kevin Morrison and Jorel Pierce. Those are the five chefs that Leigh Sullivan, president of Leigh Sullivan Enterprises, has chosen to round out this year’s FIVE, a jackpot…

Late last week, we broke the news that Living the Sweet Life, a bakery in LoHi, had shuttered, but the space already has new occupants, namely a cartel of sausage slingers — they who own the Über Sausage, a diminutive frankfurter house on East Colfax that opened in 2011 across…

Just shy of a month ago, Paul Attardi, the familiar front-of-the-house face of Fruition, Alex Seidel’s (still) spellbinding restaurant on Sixth Avenue, parted ways with his sidekick after a ten-year business partnership. And now, what may very well be the best front-of-the-house job in a Denver restaurant is up for…

When Tamayo, chef Richard Sandoval’s modern Mexican restaurant, opened in Larimer Square in 2001, it was easily one of the most innovative design schemes — and food concepts — on what has now become one of the city’s liveliest blocks for a dose of culinary artistry. But while the majority…

There’s nothing quite like a basket of fried pig’s ears to start a conversation, although at this bar, which was recently given a major makeover, conversation is at the heart of the convivial vibe. The ears share menu space with Salisbury steak and perogies, too, making it every bit as…

Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, ranging from a plate of burrata, asparagus and sopressata, which hails from the Oven, to a platter of tacos and salsas from Tacos Marlene, a new brick-and-mortar on Alameda that’s an extension of the namesake owner’s food cart on Federal,…

“Celebrating now!” read the text from Paul Reilly, who just inked a deal to take over Olivéa, Stephanie Bonin and Keith Arnold’s beloved New American restaurant, which the couple, along with exec chef John Broening and pastry chef Yasmin Lozada-Hissom (the betrothed twosome now own Spuntino), opened three-and-a-half years ago…

Next year, Smashburger, the smashingly successful Colorado-based burger chain, will unleash sixty to seventy more locations, not just in Colorado, or nationally, but around the world, all of which will incorporate a new design concept that’s just been unveiled in Colorado, including the newest outpost at 6305 East Hampden, just…

We ordered a pizza, too, from the massive wood-fired oven, which is the focal point of this restaurant that also dispenses sopressata, burrata and asparagus, all on the same plate. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post…

Soon, within the next few months, the clan behind Udi’s Foods will open another full-service restaurant in a vacant space in the Lowenstein CulturePlex that, up until last April, housed Encore, Paul Reilly’s former restaurant. But before that happens, Etai Bar-on, along with other members of his family, will unveil…