Drove by the Denver Pizza Company last night, the pie palace at 309 West 11th Avenue reputedly owned by Mark Huebner, a self-described “pizza entrepreneur” and our homeboy contestant on The Bachelorette, whose season premiere aired last night on ABC. (Huebner will be around for the next prickly rose ceremony,…
Let’s talk burgers. At Westword, we have no problem spending hours deconstructing the mechanics of ground beef, a bun and then who-knows-what-else. Which means we’ll probably be discussing Park Burger for quite some time. I strolled into the neighborhood joint last night with Westword web editor Joe Tone, who fell…
Two very different wine-tastings tonight.The Fort, at 19192 Highway 8 in Morrison, features more than forty wines from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight; admission is $37, and includes the Fort’s appetizers. For reservations, call 303-697-4771.And down in Denver, Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria,…
At Il Posto tonight, “A Slow Evening” will feature chef/owner Andrea Frizzi preparing a seasonal menu in honor of Slow Food Denver. Dinner is $65 per person (members of Slow Food Denver and/or Denver Independent Network of Restaurants), $75 others, and includes wine, tax and gratuity. For reservations, e-mail rsvp@slowfooddenver.org…
During a weekend scouting mission for new restaurants, I’m pretty sure I scared the shit out of Andy Koncsik. He’s the guy who, along with his wife, Estela, is opening La Brisa Mexican Restaurant in the former Cafe Etoile space at 375 South Pearl Street. And I don’t blame him…
I’m a huge fan of Lost. Have been since episode 1, will be until the day it rolls the final credits. And like all Lost fans, I am currently going through the first, worst stages of withdrawal now that this season’s final episode has aired and I’m staring at something…
Considering it is currently 86° outside, the Boulder Farmers’ Market might want to set up a Slip ‘n Slide right along the row of booths, so farmers can throw bags of arugula, chicken thighs, candy stripe beets and everything else they have on hand into my satchel as I gleefully…
Sultry cocktails, social food and a whole gaggle of really sociable Denver chefs, many of them still wired from a recent cooking stint at the James Beard House in New York, made for one helluva fun Sunday preview night at TAG, Troy Guard’s new restaurant at 1441 Larimer Street that…
Got off the phone thirty seconds ago with someone at the original Tony’s Market at 4991 Dry Creek Road in Centennial, and she just told me that the plan — as it stands right now — is to have a soft-open for the new Tony’s at 950 Broadway (right across…
In this corner — weighing in at seven pounds (if you’re going for the official Big Burrito challenge, as Adam Richman did on a recent episode of Man v. Food), or a more reasonable pound or so, if you just want to grab a breakfast burrito when the place opens…
Trix General Mills Rating: Two spoons out of four Cereal description: Puffed corn orbs in a variety of notably radioactive colors: a light green that would result in thousands of casualties if it was ever used on camouflaged uniforms, an orange that looks like a nugget of hellfire, a yellow…
Big Papa’s BBQ is about to get bigger. Andrew Besemer’s homegrown chain — which Jason Sheehan raved about a few years ago, earning himself a “This I Believe” slot raving about barbecue on National Public Radio — is about to get another link. Big Papa’s, which already has a store…
Tonight at Frasca, 1738 Pearl Street in Boulder, winemaker Etienne Hugel will present the wines of Hugel & Fils at a Monday Night Wine Dinner devoted to the flavors of Alsace. Dinner is $45 per person, with optional wine pairings extra; for reservations, call 303-442-6966. Osteria Marco, 1453 Larimer Street,…
Gastropub, gastropub, gastropub… This week’s Cafe section was all about gastropubs and my intense dislike of the term. So this week’s list is simple: my favorite places where it’s just better to eat at the bar, places that would never think about calling themselves gastropubs. No knock againt their dining…
What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society…Jason Sheehan got people talking about the best barbecue in Denver. Have an opinion?We had a crush on cans for American Craft Beer Week. Check out our profiles of local breweries perfecting the art of canning craft beer.It was also World…
It’s American Craft Beer Week – seven days that even the United States Congress felt should be set aside for drinking micro brews. But Colorado’s beer culture is worth a deeper look, since 100 craft breweries operated here in 2008, producing 75,000 barrels of delicious beer. Of particular interest is…
Here it is, halfway through the month of May, and we nearly forgot to tell you: May is National Hamburger Month. That’s right, the hamburger, and its sexier sibling, the cheeseburger, get an entire month devoted to their all-American virtues. Coincidentally, May also marks the eleventh anniversary of CityGrille, the…
Okay, so even though the name — Highland Micro-Market — clearly refers to a market on a miniature scale, I laughed out loud when I pulled up to the itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie patio at Generous Servings Cooking Classes and Cafe, the site of the new Highland Micro-Market, or MiMa, which debuted yesterday…
It’s 1:30 in the morning and, regardless of what substance I may or may not be on, my stomach is yelling at me to eat. I scour my kitchen but finding nothing pre-made, stare at some beets, hoping they will miraculously become a meal. This is about the time when…
When Cebiche, the Peruvian restaurant at 2257 West 32nd Avenue, closed right after the start of the year, its phone message promised to announce a new location within a couple of weeks. Cebiche’s Sergio Iraola says he’s still looking for the perfect spot — and in the meantime, there’s some…
When Jason Sheehan checked in with Joe Vostrejs a couple of weeks ago, he had high hopes that the LoHi Steak Bar that’s moving into 3200 Tejon Street — the old home of North Star Brewery — would be open in June. He just didn’t know when in June. “We…
Chefs and restaurateurs in New York City (Jeffrey Chodorow, in particular) are likely breathing a collective sigh of relief at news that Frank Bruni, restaurant critic at the New York Times, is kicking his food beat to the curb to pimp his new memoir, Born Round: the Secret History of…
