Most of you will be eating turkey tomorrow, which was always the tradition in our family, too, until this year, when my mom suddenly announced that she was doing a leg of lamb instead. Nonetheless, I embrace the change and even started celebrating early with skewers of grilled lamb at…

Drew Hardin Lola 1575 Boulder Street 720-570-8686 www.loladenver.com This is part one of my interview with Drew Hardin, exec chef of Lola; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Drew Hardin grew up watching Julia and Jacques, sometimes begrudgingly, but when dinnertime came around, he appreciated the fact that…

Last Friday, the world as we know it nearly collapsed when Hostess Brands announced that it would shutter all of its distribution centers and bakeries and file for bankruptcy in light of a worker strike. This, we cried, was the day the Ding-Dong died. And before you could mutter “icing…

In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, which runs tomorrow, I chat with Drew Hardin, exec of Lola, and when I asked him which food trend he’d like to see fall by the wayside, he had this to say: “I don’t know if it’s the worst trend, but it’s definitely…

I’m not an advocate of the tacos at this taqueria, but the salsa bar has merit and the enchiladas, draped with a tomatillo green chile, aren’t bad, either. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is…

Those of you who have had this cheeseburger will know exactly where I ate it. As for the rest of you, shame! Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a pool — and…

Last week, I posted a letter from Christian Spinello, a guy who lives in Lyons and cures his own salumi at home. His missive, which is lengthy, inquisitive and pointed, was directed at Mark DeNittis, an owner of Il Mondo Vecchio, the artisan salumeria and manufacturing plant that he started…

First thing’s first: Patxi’s is pronounced “pah-cheese” (‘t’ before ‘x’), and its name, which is Basque, also happens to be the first name of co-owner Patxi Azpiroz, who opens his namesake restaurant — a shrine to pizza — late this afternoon at Cherry Hills at Kent Place, a new mixed-use…

Cafe Society served four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a Russian Imperial Stout, aged in whiskey barrels, from Dry Dock Brewery, to pails of peanuts from Texas Roadhouse (yee-haw!), to a cup of tom kha talay, a Thai seafood soup that arrived mostly absent of seafood…

The dining room (and bar) was a circus, peanuts (and off-key staff renditions of “Happy Birthday”) included. Only things missing were the elephants and Cracker Jacks. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into…

Earlier this month, I broke the news that Il Mondo Vecchio, Mark DeNittis’s artisan sausage plant, would cease production at the end of November. And within minutes of the announcement, you could hear the collective sighs of despair all over the state — and beyond. When I interviewed DeNittis, he…

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. “I found this…

Yesterday afternoon, just hours before Ben Parsons would unveil his new wine lab, part of the 30,000 square-foot plot he leased last year in RiNo that’s now the quarters of the Infinite Monkey Theorem manufacturing facility and tasting/taproom (Parsons refers to it as a wine lab), the British-born winemaker was…

Kevin Morrison Pinche Taqueria 1514 York Street 720-475-1337 pinchetacos.com Part one of my interview with Kevin Morrison, exec chef-owner of Pinche Taqueria, ran yesterday; this is part two of our chat. What do you enjoy most about your craft? It’s always changing, so it fits my personality. I get bored…

The sandwich — a Reuben-like creation with housemade Thousand Island dressing — was good, but it was the conversation between a straight man and a bisexual woman, who was discussing whether her sex is better with men or women that kept me lingering at the one table that doubles as…

After months — hell, years! — of waiting and watching, Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink, Robert Thompson’s 24,000-square-foot gastro-diner, coffee bar, lounge, bowling alley, ping-pong powerhouse, pool hall, marbles mecca, throwback video arcade and game hang (deck-shuffle, shuffleboard, darts, pinball, Foosball and board games round out the amusements),…

The kitchen where the above snap was shot much be suffering a seafood economic crisis, because while I ordered my tom kha with seafood, it arrived with exactly two shrimp and a whole boatload of mock crab, a cheap, unappealing substitute. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone…

Kevin Morrison Pinche Taqueria 1514 York Street 720-475-1337 pinchetacos.com This is part one of my interview with Kevin Morrison, exec chef-owner of Pinche Taqueria; part two of our conversation will run tomorrow. “Just shut the fuck up and give me the taco.” That was the order Kevin Morrison received years…

When Tao Tao Noodle Bar, a stellar Chinese joint in Aurora famed for its xiao long bao, mysteriously shuttered in March of this year, the space, which has seen its share of restaurants, sat vacant for quite a while, but late last month, it reopened as El Rico Dicho Menuderia…

If you like the unmistakable taste of whiskey, then you’ll love this beer, a Russian Imperial stout aged in whiskey barrels in a local tap room that continues to rack up awards for its craft brews. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…