There’s virtually nothing that you can’t buy on the streets these days, including sushi. 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…
After spending the weekend scrounging for food in Lakewood — more accurately, Applewood — I was ready to give up. I’d pushed away an inedible pizza, spit out sushi, sobbed over the limp and cold fries at Smashburger…and even the frozen yogurt I got to console myself sucked. The best…
By noon, there was a line slinking out the door of Red Star Deli, James Mazzio’s new sandwich shop that opened at 6 a.m. yesterday inside the Icehouse, 1801 Wynkoop Street, which is also home to Studio F, a behemoth space complete with a state-of-the-art professional kitchen that Mazzio will…
“Eat well, feel well. That’s what this restaurant is all about,” says Srijana Sharma, who, along with her husband and brother-in-law, recently opened Kathmandu Kitchen, an Indian and Nepalese restaurant in Aurora at 16611 East Smoky Hill Road…
There are small omelets and medium-sized omelets — and then there are these omelets, which are bigger than your face. 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…
Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a bloody Mary at Mona’s to a meat market of men (and beer and pretzels) at Denver Beer Co. to a still-unidentified plate of nowhere-near-spicy “Thai spicy shrimp” to a feast of fried chicken, pork chops, collard greens…
Brett Shaheen Wooden Table 2500 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village 303-730-2152 www.thewoodentablerestaurant.com This is part two of my interview with Brett Shaheen, exec chef of the Wooden Table. Part one of our chat ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Grizzly Bar in Roscoe, Montana. It’s located in a podunk town…
If Boulder is the “foodiest” town in the country — a declaration made by Bon Appetit magazine — then can its cocktail scene be far behind? You’ll have the opportunity to judge for yourself tonight, when bar stars from Aji, Hapa Sushi, Oak at 14th, the Pinyon, the Kitchen, Riff’s…
It all started with a rum collection and a tiki night. “I collect rum, and while I was bartending at Madison Street, I started bringing in my own rum collection, which then turned into a great tiki culture on Tuesday nights,” says Matty Durgin, who, along with Wade Kirwan and…
This was hailed on the menu as “Spicy Thai shrimp.” Spicy? Hardly. But if you have a sweet tooth, the sugary sauce could double as dessert. 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…
Jenna Johansen, the former exec chef — and still part owner — of Dish restaurant, in Edwards (she’s now in Denver, engaged to Il Mondo Vecchio sausage king Mark DeNittis, who’s involved with a new project, Salumeria Cansano in Wash Park), is strutting her culinary prowess on a new Bravo…
Brett Shaheen Wooden Table 2500 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village 303-730-2152 www.thewoodentablerestaurant.com This is part one of my interview with Brett Shaheen, exec chef of the Wooden Table. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Flipping pizzas at Pizza Hut. That was Brett Shaheen’s first introduction to a professional…
Denver Restaurant Half Month, not surprisingly, is bringing out the glutton in all of us, and while rezzies are filling up fast, it’s not too late to stamp your name on a seat at one of the 340 feedlots offering multi-course feasts between now and Friday, when the culinary orgy…
On March 29, when our Best of Denver® 2012 issue hits the pavement, we’ll announce which Denver joint has the best breakfast burritos. You have until midnight on March 22 to vote for your favorite, along with everything else food-and-drink-related, but in the meantime, this breakfast burrito may — or…
No. 34: Alfajores from Maria Empanada…
Rumors have been flying across Denver chef circles that Jensen Cummings, the executive chef of Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar, was ditching his gig behind the line to open a new restaurant — a rumor that’s only half true. See also: – Contest: Guess the location of the Slotted…
Last week, I broke the news that Jeremy Kittelson, the opening chef of Ambria, had been fired during the height of Denver Restaurant week — one of the busiest weeks of the year and an incredibly risky (some would say incredibly stupid) time to boot your executive chef off the…
Last March, Food & Wine magazine introduced a “People’s Best New Chef” competition to go along with its own yearly listage of the top ten best new chefs in the country, all of whom are introduced at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic in June. Max MacKissock, chef of the…
Fried chicken, pan-fried pork chops, collard greens, macaroni and cheese and sweet tea equals a soulful Saturday lunch — and a crane to carry your weighted gut and butt out the door. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s…
Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a caddy of salsas from Machete to a beer poured in the deserted bar at the Stanley hotel to a fruity caipirinha from Fogo de Chao that went down easy to a plate of stunningly fresh clams from…
No. 35: Savory waffle from City, O’ City…
Some of the best food I’ve had this year came from the kitchen of Ambria, a Mediterranean-New American restaurant on the 16th Street Mall, whose line was built — and quarterbacked — by Jeremy Kittelson, a brilliant kitchen magician whose culinary background is more than impressive: He cooked at Vong,…
