Lucas Forgy Freshcraft 1530 Blake Street 303-758-9608 www.freshcraft.com This is part one of my interview with Lucas Forgy, exec chef of Freshcaft; part two of our chat will run in this space tomorrow. It’s crazy. It’s always crazy,” says Lucas Forgy, describing the Great American Beer Festival, which hits Denver…

While the single guy fidgeting in the the nearby booth creeped me out with his lusty lip movements, the omelet, soft and stuffed with vegetables and bacon, and sided with Texas toast and butter-glossed hash browns, was a welcome distraction. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…

“I’m ready to roll,” says Dylan Moore, clad in a black T-shirt and jeans in the kitchen that feeds diners at Deluxe, and now, Juanita’s, the Mexican restaurant he’ll open tonight at 4:30 in the space that formerly held Delite. See also: – Dylan Moore closing Delite and reopening as…

My affinity for Mexican food knows no bounds, but when I’m searching for some of the best, the trail inevitably leads me here, where everything from the green chile to the carne abobada fajitas leaves me wistful for more. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…

“It’s Downtown Denver’s Mexican alley,” quips Whitney Olmstead. At the very least, the arrival of T|ACO, which opens in Denver (the original location sprouted in Boulder earlier this year) at 11 a.m. on Friday, will make the 1500 block of Blake Street a trifecta of Mexican restaurants, given that the…

Update: For photos of Lancer Lounge’s final night, visit “Slide show: Lancer Lounge’s last night.” For more on the developing story, read “Lancer Lounge seized by State of Colorado for back taxes.” I don’t remember the first time I went to the Lancer Lounge — it was more than a…

Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a plate of tacos (with black olives!) from the Cherry Cricket (stick with the burgers), to an all-American hot dog from Mustard’s Last Stand to a pathetic excuse for crab legs from a national chain that really should…

The Taste of the Nation, arguably one of Denver’s best local food soirees, gets under way Sunday, October 14, at Mile High Station, where more than thirty restaurants, food carts and trucks, along with numerous mixologists, will gather to cook, mix and muddle and raise funds for the nonprofit, whose…

When I called to order take-out from this Middle Eastern restaurant (no, it’s not Jerusalem!), I couldn’t make a decision, so the incredibly patient man who answered the phone suggested that I just throw caution to the kitchen and let the staff decide what to put on the plate. They…

In this week’s Chef and Tell interview with Matt Lewis, exec of Bones, he extols the virtues of women in the kitchen, pho and pop-up restaurants. But Lewis also has a passion for the food he cooks at Bones, including the noodle joint’s famous escargot pot stickers. “The escargot pot…

Barack Obama may wish that he’d bitten off a bit more of Mitt Romney’s noggin last night during the first presidential debate, but while he ponders that, the rest of us who are still flummoxed by what exactly happened last night, can take solace in wrapping our jaws around an…

Both locations of the Wine Loft, a New Orleans-based chain that occupied storefronts in LoDo and and the Landmark Project, closed last month, but yesterday, I spotted a new sign plastered on the LoDo space inked with the words “Classified: Coming soon November 2012.” See also: The Wine Loft dries…

Matt Lewis Bones 701 Grant Street 303-860-2929 www.bonesdenver.com Part one of my interview with Matt Lewis, exec chef of Bones, ran yesterday. This is part two of our conversation. Favorite restaurant in America: My experience at Bouchon was amazing, even more so because the chef de cuisine came out and…

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Taste of the Nation, a national nonprofit that has its own Colorado chapter, which was started 25 years ago by humanitarian Noel Cunningham, the former owner/chef of Strings, who passed away late last year. The annual event, which features a bounty of foodstuffs…

Moral of the story: Do not order tacos — at least these tacos — at a joint renowned for its burgers. Lesson learned. 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 –…

Matt Lewis Bones 701 Grant Street 303-860-2929 www.bonesdenver.com This is part one of my interview with Matt Lewis, exec chef of Bones. Part two of our conversation will run tomorrow. “Every time I walked through the door of my Italian grandmother’s house, even if it was after dinner, the first…

Independent of his wife’s stance on healthy eating, here’s what we know about President Obama’s food preferences: He likes pizza, as evidenced by his recent jaunt to the Sink in Boulder; he has a special fondness for burgers, a fact that’s been documented in just about every city he’s graced,…

The kid wanted crab legs; my dad wanted somewhere quiet. We settled, mistakenly, on this shrine to shitty seafood and fish, which was definitely quiet, presumably because everyone but us realized how much it well and truly sucks. And those crab legs? $28 of sea garbage. #canihavemymoneyback? Can you guess…

This, says Robert Thompson, is the “most ambitious project I’ve seen in Denver in a long, long time, and I guarantee you that it’s going to be worth it.” “This” refers to Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink, the 23,700-square-foot, 900-person-capacity gastro-diner, bowling alley, Ping-Pong hall, marbles arena, java…

The last time I was at this Middle Eastern restaurant, I left shrugging my shoulders, and while a return visit didn’t convince me that I’d struck gold, the food was far better than the first time around, and the server — just one guy overseeing the whole house — was…

Twenty-five years ago, Noel Cunningham, along with Pat Miller, the “Gabby Gourmet”, launched Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation, a nonprofit childhood hunger relief organization that Cunningham, the former owner/chef of Strings, worked tirelessly to grow and advocate. It soon blossomed into an annual event, where dozens of the…