It’s not imperative to seek out an Italian restaurant to get good pasta in this city. In fact, here, where the above snap was flashed, you’ll find pasta dishes that far surpass most of the joints that hold the noodle in high esteem. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…
Yesterday, while sharing space at the bar with Jensen Cummings, the executive chef of Row 14, he couldn’t wipe the grin off his face. “This is going to be a big, very cool party, and you know why it’s going to be big and cool?” he asked. “We’re one of…
Long story short: Daniel Kuhlman, who abruptly shuttered Roam two days ago, leaving fourteen staff members bereft of jobs (including his former exec chef Tony Clement), and flipped out when yours truly photographed the crew he’d left high and dry, has sold the space to Gary Hvizda, one of the…
“I could have kept it open for a few more weeks, but I was just done and wanted to get out,” admits Ghugi Singh, the owner of India House, which served its last meal in LoDo on Saturday night. Singh, who opened the elegant India House in 2007 in the…
Patrik Landberg Charcoal 43 West Ninth Avenue 303-454-0000 www.charcoaldining.com This is part two of my interview with Patrik Landberg, exec chef of Charcoal. Part one of our conversation ran in this space yesterday. Best thing about cooking in Denver: We’re on the cusp of being a bona fide food-centric city…
After the “holy shitstorm!” came the holy guacamole! Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll receive an EatDenver dining…
This is part one of my interview with Patrik Landberg, exec chef of Charcoal. Part two of our conversation will run in this space tomorrow. Patrik Landberg Charcoal 43 West Ninth Avenue 303-454-0000 www.charcoaldining.com Patrik Landberg had no choice: It was either learn how to cook or succumb to a…
The text from Mandi Clement read, “Please call me when you get a moment. Fairly urgent.” Thirty minutes later, I was at Roam, the Uptown restaurant that Daniel Kuhlman owns with his wife, Kristel — the same restaurant that originally opened as Wild Catch, an upscale sustainable seafood den that…
Next Wednesday, when our Best of Denver® 2012 issue hits red kiosks all over Denver, we’ll reveal our pick for the city’s best French fries. In the meantime, chew on these spuds, which are most definitely fries to live — and die — by. Can you guess where I’m eating?…
Last week, when Cinque Soldi Salumeria, the Italian deli, market and exclusive retailer of Il Mondo Vecchio’s cured meats and fresh sausages, was putting the final touches on its South Pearl Street salumeria, a guy from Boston stopped dead in his tracks. “He came in off the street and said,…
In February, the James Beard Foundation released the names of the chef, restaurateur and restaurant semi-finalists vying for a coveted spot as a James Beard finalist. And today, just minutes ago, the Foundation announced its 2012 finalists…and guess who’s in it to win it?…
Dorina Miller, Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, the pastry chef at Duo and Olivea, and her husband, John Broening, executive chef of both restaurants, quietly re-opened Spuntino last week, the Italian cafe that Miller co-owned with Simone Parisi, who bowed out of Spuntino to concentrate on Parisi and Firenze a Tavola, his two…
Homemade spaghetti and meatballs, Sinatra and Chianti makes for a fine dinner on a Sunday night. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select…
Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a still-unidentified plate of sushi at an Asian restaurant whose service was atrocious to a charcuterie platter at Charcoal to a Frisbee-size omelet from the Original Pancake House to a saucer of hummus that made me weep tears…
Two weeks ago, when I sat down with Matty Durgin, the bar manager of Adrift, a forthcoming tiki bar on South Broadway that’s owned by Jay Dedrick and Brent Kimball, he couldn’t have been more excited. Durgin, who was bartending and hosting Tuesday tiki nights at Madison Street prior to…
The sushi, even at happy hour prices, is unmemorable, but the absolutely abysmal service — some of the worst I’ve ever had in Denver — will linger in my mind for days to come. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…
No. 33: Seafood hot pot from DaLat…
A little of this, a little of that, a little more of this, much more of that…and call it dinner. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and…
Dean Huang Super Star Asian 2200 West Alameda Avenue, #5A www.superstardenver.com 303-727-9889 This is part two of my interview with Dean Hunag, exec chef of Super Star Asian. Part one of our conversation ran in this space yesterday. What you’d like to see more of in Denver/Boulder from a culinary…
This, in my humble (or not) opinion, gets my vote for the best hummus in Denver. Smooth, nutty, tart with lemon, dusted with sumac and wreathed in olive oil, it’s so good that I always order a second one to take home. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
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 humble carrot…
Dean Huang Super Star Asian 2200 West Alameda Avenue, #5A www.superstardenver.com 303-727-9889 This is part one of my interview with Dean Hunag, exec chef of Super Star Asian. Part two of our conversation will run in this space tomorrow. Clad in a starched white chef’s jacket with ornate gold lettering,…
