Cafe Society posted five Guess Where? contests last week, two of which — a “smurf fart” and mochi ice cream — are still up for grabs. The bibimbap, however, was correctly linked to House Korean BBQ, while the Vieux Carré was concocted (correctly) at The Kitchen. The same can’t be…
Pete Marczyk Marczyk Fine Foods 770 East 17th Avenue, 303-894-9499 5100 East Colfax Avenue, 303-243-3355 www.marczykfinefoods.com This is part two of my interview with Pete Marczyk; read part one of Pete Marczyk’s interview Rules of conduct in your kitchen: Show up; try hard; think; keep making it better; and no…
Everyone, insists Jensen Cummings, the exec chef of Row 14 Restaurant & Wine Bar, and one of the partners of a new fast-casual restaurant that will haul balls, owns a slotted spoon, knows someone who owns a slotted spoon, or, at the very least, has seen a slotted spoon in…
Pete Marczyk (who’s interviewed in this week’s chef and tell) 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…
I know, right? A smurf fart, otherwise known as blue vodka and Sprite in a shot glass. I’m seriously too old for this shit. And while my kid is too young to drink it, he’s also at that age where saying “smurf fart” five billion times can keep him and…
Pete Marczyk Marczyk Fine Foods 770 East 17th Avenue, 303-894-9499 5100 East Colfax Avenue, 303-243-3355 www.marczykfinefoods.com This is part one of my interview with Pete Marczyk. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Bread head, wine geek, cheese gigolo, butter junkie. Ask Pete Marczyk, the chef and co-owner of…
When the new Squeaky Bean finally opens next week in LoDo, much of what will appear on your plate will come directly from Squeaky Acre, a one-acre farm in Lakewood that’s growing the majority of vegetables that executive chef Max Mackissock, his kitchen crew and the rest of the Bean…
Our waitress — she was tiny — nearly fell over from the weight of the bibimbap at this funky Korean restaurant, where the gargantuan portions result in leftovers for days to come. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s…
Amanda Cohen, the chef-owner of Dirt Candy, a vegetarian restaurant in New York that’s generated national accolades, will be in Denver Wednesday night as part of the Celebrity Chef Tour, a moveable feast that traverses venues all over America to pay homage to the late James Beard, the “father of…
I love these bright-hued Japanese ice cream orbs with their soft mochi exterior, and after a wonderful dinner of sushi, sashimi and udon noodles, it’s the perfect sugar finale. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts…
Ian Kleinman isn’t interested in opening his own restaurant. He’s having way too much playing around in everyone else’s. Last month, Kleinman, the mad scientist behind the Inventing Room, a roving stage of entertainment that revolves around molecular gastronomy, orchestrated a series of fantastic (and fantastical) pop-up dinners at Studio…
Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a salad with sheets of salty pig at Lowry Beer Garden, to an unsalted burger from Five Star Burgers, to an Italian grinder from Cinque Soldi Sulumeria. We also served up a plate of lasagna from Gaetano’s, whose…
After having lunch recently at Masalaa, the excellent vegetarian Indian restaurant in Aurora, which has recently undergone a spiffy facelift, I spotted a sign around the corner of the strip mall that simply reads “Mexican Empanadas: Coming Soon.” The space, located at 3140 South Parker Road, is undergoing construction, and…
I ate out nearly 500 times last year, and when you eat out as often as I do, you’re bound to witness truly bad behavior, both on the side of the server and on the side of the guest. But recently, I’ve seen far more diners than servers exhibit the…
I’d rather have a burger (or a sausage) with my brew, but a salad with swine will suffice. 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 every Monday, we select…
Next Monday night, Samir Mohammad, the exec chef of the Village Cork, is cooking a five-course French-inspired feast as part of the ongoing dinner series hosted by FIVE — a ring of five chefs, two mixologists and a coffee roaster. And last week, we put up a contest, giving Cafe…
You’re back!” booms Steve Clifton, diverting his eyes away from the flattop just long enough to greet a customer who’s on his third day straight of tortas. “It’s been like that ever since we opened,” says Clifton, who, along with his wife, Ardeni, took over the former Pineapple Grill at…
Why is it so difficult for restaurants, especially restaurants that ballyhoo their burgers, to properly season their beef? The burger in the above snap, which had never been introduced to salt or pepper, is a perfect example of my gripe, plus it was way overcooked: Can you guess where I’m…
Randy Balch Wazee Supper Club 1600 15th Street 303-623-9518 www.wazeesupperclub.com This is part two of my interview with Randy Balch, chef of Wazee Supper Club. Read part one of my chef and tell interview with Balch. Favorite dish on your menu: The meat-over pizza, with Canadian bacon, pepperoni, Italian sausage…
The new menu has moved far, far away from the decades-old menu of the past at this long-standing Italian restaurant, but you can still get the lasagna…for now. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is…
Randy Balch Wazee Supper Club 1600 15th Street 303-623-9518 www.wazeesupperclub.com This is part one of my interview with Randy Balch, chef of Wazee Supper Club, which will reopen Friday following a remodel. Part two of our chat will run in this space tomorrow. Before waltzing through the door of the…
Next Wednesday night at Linger, local chefs Frank Bonanno (Mizuna, Luca d’Italia, Osteria Marco, Bones, Green Russell, Lou’s Food Bar and Russell’s Smokehouse), Eric Skokan (Black Cat Bistro and Bramble and Hare), Ann Cooper (the Renegade Lunch Lady), Daniel Asher, Samm Sherman and Justin Cucci (Root Down and Linger) will…
