The Comfort Cafe has been a dream more than 20 years in the making, and today, that dream became a reality when the restaurant opened for lunch at 3945 Tennyson Street on a tree-lined stretch of sidewalk in Berkeley Park that includes Big Hoss Bar-B-Q, Kyle’s Kitchen and Brasserie Felix…
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of la cocina. Back in 1995, Saul Sierra was a nineteen-year-old high-school drop-out and dishwasher when he opened Mi Cocina Grille at 4935 West 29th Avenue with the help of his mother. Three years later, he sold that location (it’s now LaCocinata)…
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. “I love a…
Say what you will about the guilty train wreck that is the Twilight series, but the indulgent fluff that’s being spooned up by teenage girls (and voyeuristic women) the world over has got a lot of people laughing all the way to the bank. Including Gina Meyers, who penned Love…
Bob Wiltshire Morton’s Steakhouse 1710 Wynkoop Street 303-825-3353 www.mortons.com This is part one of Lori Midson’ Chef and Tell interview with Bob Wiltshire, To read part two of that interview, check back here tomorrow. Blame Bob Wiltshire’s mother and a vocational high school for his culinary prowess. “When I was…
The smart people at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University just delivered a brand-spankin’ new study that shows a correlation between licensed cartoon characters and kids’ affinity for snacks. A motley crew of forty munchkins between the ages of four and six was subjected to…
Greenwood Village, with its affluent socialites, mega-priced steakhouses and chain horrors, wallet-robbing boutiques and multi-million dollar mansions, is hardly the kind of suburb where you’d expect to find what may very well be the most interesting Indian restaurant in the city. But it’s there, just a samosa’s fling from Cool…
I’ve been on the front lines of the service industry long enough to have seen some pretty weird requests accommodated. I once came upon a diner who wanted to have his food cut into little pieces by the chef, just the way his mother did when he was five. I…
On a recent Friday night on the patio of a bar that’s dormant during the day but overflowing after 11 p.m. when the dance floor becomes a sweat pit, a gaggle of girls paraded trays of fruity adult slushies from table to table. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special…
Slim Cessna hasn’t lived in Denver for a decade but that doesn’t mean he’s forgotten where he came from. Cessna, who fronts the band Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, has lived in Pittsburgh since 2000 but still practices and records his brand of country-punk-gospel rock in Colorado — all but one…
While Jean-Philippe Failyau races to get Park & Co., a new burger barn at 439 East 17th Avenue, open by the first week in July, the owner of Park Burger, 1890 South Pearl Street, is basking in the accolades bestowed upon his Platt Park joint by Bon Appetit magazine, which,…
Last Sunday night, on the lovely property of Colorado’s Best Beef Ranch, Phil Armstrong waxed poetic about Hush Denver’s mission to highlight the people who create great restaurants. It was the launch dinner of Hush Boulder, and the chef and restaurant Armstrong extolled was Tim Payne, executive chef of Terroir…
Hometown burrito hero Chipotle tends to launch quirky marketing campaigns that inspire strong reactions — sometimes adoration, sometimes not. But all we can say about the restaurant chain’s latest gimmick — emblazoning its takeaway bags with garbled Latin usually used as placeholder text and translating more or less into a…
Robert Thompson’s Argyll was the surprise hit of 2009; despite being labeled a “gastropub,” it even took top honors for Best New Restaurant in our Best of Denver 2010. Argyll was doing so well that Thompson had considered taking on the space next door to the restaurant at 2700 East…
Organic soda-company Oogave is taking over the universe, boasts Gannon Merrell, the company’s Fulcrum of Finance, and it’s starting with Colorado. As two new flavors hit local convenience-store shelves, this boast may not be far off. The soda’s namesake refers to the agave nectar that Stephen Anson used as an…
Thus ends four days of liver damage, debauchery, hangovers, embarrassments and a swollen stomach. The 2010 Food & Wine Classic in Aspen officially came to a close yesterday, and while the weekend isn’t without its fuzzy moments, my brain isn’t so washed up that I’m not without a fleet of…
Good Housekeeping has been keeping an eye on a lot of buns lately. The ladies’ magazine recently voted Boulder-based Rudi’s Organic Bakery’s buns the hottest of them all. Rudi’s buns won out over the likes of Sara Lee and Pepperidge Farm buns in a taste test comparing eight brands of…
Last week, if you recall, I brought you a list of five bar types adults should avoid. Now I’m back with a rundown of what your drink order says about you. Most bartenders aren’t judgmental people. We never really want to bite the hand that feeds. If you want your…
Pay-what-you-want is coming to Boulder. A new cafe modeled after Denver’s SAME Cafe is in the works with the operating name Community Cafe and a guiding philosophy of “giving back, giving forward.” Sandy Robinson, the brains behind the restaurant, says two things inspired her to pursue the pay-what-you-want model: a…
Mezcal mastermind Ron Cooper, who spent the weekend draining bottles of the Mexican distilled spirit at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, is in Denver today for a blowout dinner at Tambien, 250 Steele Street, where he’ll mix and pour cocktails made with his single village mezcals, including Del…
BenchWarmers will open its third Colorado location on Thursday, June 24, and in touting this accomplishment, the Colorado-based company offers the most succinct business plan ever: “I was at a Colorado Avalanche game one evening with friends,” founder and chief executive officer Kevin Foote, explains in this earlier Cafe Society…
In between feedings of pig skin from José Andrés’s own hands, the hysterical father-daughter banter between Jacques and Claudine Pépin during their caviar cooking demo, Tom Colicchio’s mighty fine guitar playing and passable singing and a really, really sloshed middle-aged drunk throwing up really, really good wine just outside the…
