Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a still-unidentified sub-par sub sandwich to a divine dessert platter at Bocadllo to a plate of carne adovada from a long-standing suburban Mexican joint…

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…

I keep trying to find a great sub sandwich in this city, and aside from Carbone’s, I keep coming up short — and this sub only added to my discouragement. Can you guess where I’m eating? And while you’re at it, tell me where I should go to satisfy my…

“New York City is the culinary mecca of our country, if not the world,” declares Hosea Rosenberg. “It’s a place like no other, where ingredients and techniques of every conceivable style congregate. It’s where the best chefs on the planet come to shine.” See also: – The Denver FIVE culinary…

Barman Sean Kenyon, who occasionally pens a booze-centric column for Westword but spends the majority of his time designing — and pouring — innovative cocktails at the Squeaky Bean and Williams & Graham, received a major kiss-up shout-out in Food & Wine magazine, which just released its list of the…

People ask me what my favorite restaurant is on a daily basis, and it’s a question that’s impossible to answer. But I will say that the restaurant where the above snap was taken is very, very high on my list, and while desserts aren’t its focus, the pastry chef is…

JP Krause Aloft Broomfield 8300 Arista Place, Broomfield 303-635-2000 www.aloftbroomfielddenver.com Part one of my interview with JP Krause, exec chef of Aloft Broomfield, ran yesterday. This is part two of our interview. Favorite restaurant in America: Denver’s own Bennett’s BBQ, but not because of the food. It’s all about the…

Mark DeNittis, the co-founder of Il Mondo Vecchio, a local artisan sausage factory, has his hands in a lot of different projects, and up until today, one of them was Cinque Soldi Salumeria, a tiny Italian market and deli exclusively selling Il Mondo Vecchio products that DeNittis co-owned with Tony…

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. “The delicious smell…

JP Krause Aloft Broomfield 8300 Arista Place, Broomfield 303-635-2000 www.aloftbroomfielddenver.com This is part one of my interview with JP Krause, exec chef of Aloft Broomfield. Part two of our interview will run in this space tomorrow. “Right. My name. It’s John Patrick, but ever since high school, I’ve gone by…

After two and half years spearheading the line at Jonesy’s EatBar, chef Beau Simmons is no longer in the kitchen. It all went down last week, he says, when owner Leigh Jones pulled him aside and suggested that it was time for the two to part ways, a decision, he…

My accountant recently turned me on to this west-side suburban Mexican joint that’s been a fixture in the ‘hood for years, and while we don’t always see eye-to-eye when it comes to food, he steered me in the right direction here, although ordering the carne adovada was all my idea…

Two weeks ago, we broke the news that Cherokee Dining on 12th Avenue, an iconic Golden Triangle gathering place and watering hole that’s occupied the turf at 1201 Cherokee Street for 28 years, is closing on October 14. But that’s just one part of a larger story. I also mentioned…

Big — BIG — portions of Southern-inspired cuisine are on the menu at this newcomer, where just about everything is done on a large scale. 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…

Back before we had rock star chefs strutting their gimmicks on the Food Network, Denver had Duy Pham, who first made a (big) name for himself as the ridiculously young chef of the long-departed Tante Louise. He followed that illustrious gig with stints at Opal on Ninth Avenue, a restaurant…

Cafe Society served up three Guess Where contests last week, ranging from a sea-offending heap of worthless calamari from Odyssey Italian Restaurant, to an omelet topped with a thicket of superfluous arugula leaves from Early Bird (catches the weeds), to a bacon cheeseburger flipped by an abrupt short-order cook who…

Duncan Smith Dazzle 930 Lincoln Street 303-839-5100 www.dazzlejazz.com Part one of my interview with Duncan Smith, exec chef of Dazzle, ran yesterday; this is part two of our conversation. Rules of conduct in your kitchen: They’re really quite simple. First, show up clean and ready to work before your shift…

I’m on my way to the Big Apple for a few days to cover the FIVE dinner at the James Beard House, where Denver chefs Samir Mohammad, Hosea Rosenberg, Jenna Johansen, Jessica Scott and Tyler Wiard will be cooking — but the NYC culinary cognoscenti won’t be getting cheeseburgers. And…

Duncan Smith Dazzle 930 Lincoln Street 303-839-5100 www.dazzlejazz.com This is part on of my interview with Duncan Smith, exec chef of Dazzle. Part two of our conversation will run in this space tomorrow. Here’s what you’ll find in Duncan Smith’s refrigerator at home: a six-pack of beer, several types of…

Remember how your mother told you to keep your damn mouth shut if you didn’t have anything nice to say? It’s been a while since I put those words of advice into play, but I’m doing so here. Oh, screw it: This is some of the worst fried calamari I’ve…

Here’s a little tidbit about Dylan Moore, the exec chef-owner of Deluxe and Delite that you likely didn’t know: Throughout high school, Moore cooked — and served — at the long-defunct Juanita’s in Uptown, as well as Juanita’s in Boulder, which stood for nearly thirty years on the Pearl Street…