Project Angel Heart executive chef, Jon Emanuel, the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview, serves nearly 800 dishes a day to people with life threatening illnesses, including an herb-roasted pork with pan juices, a brining recipe, says Emanuel, that’s easy to do at home. “Everyone should know the…
Perky Cups has covered up. The Aurora coffee shop, which delighted some locals and infuriated others by offering up scantily-clad baristas along with caffeine, has apparently closed amid a dispute with its landlord. Store owner Jason Bernal couldn’t be reached for comment, but an Aurora Sentinel article says the dispute…
Starting next Tuesday, Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant is going to spice up Broomfield by introducing a limited-time Caribbean menu and a new Kolsch-style beer at its 1 West Flatiron Circle location. The menu features an assortment of seafood, fruit and spice combinations, including shrimp and lobster spring rolls, a Kobe…
Former Top Chef contestant Richard Blais was in Denver recently, and he’s still all shook up over what he found when he visited H Burger: a copycat version of his Burnt Marshmallow and Nutella milkshake. “Maybe I should just be flattered?” he asks in this steaming-mad blog post. “But instead,…
Greg Goldfogel checked in a couple of weeks to reveal his new plans since abruptly closing Alto, the restaurant that replaced the beloved Ristorante Amore, last summer. “I have finally got my head back on straight,” he said, “filed for bankruptcy, and decided to launch Amore Natural Foods, bringing back…
While by day you’ll find him teaching aspiring bartenders how to mix up a martini and what garnish to put in a White Russian, you won’t necessarily find Tom Lucas honing his cocktail-shaking skills at home…
“Eat*Drink*Play,” urges the logo of Chances, a new joint that just opened today in the spot at 1135 Bannock Street that had been Wolfie’s and, before that, Bambino’s. Make that half of the spot — the space has been cut back (the other half is a salon), but there’s still…
Gelman’s Restaurant and Bar has been turning out American classics like burgers and wedge salads and veal meatloaf since November 2005. Now it’s last call: The restaurant will be closing its doors on June 27 to make way for a new concept the Gelman Group is creating, a seafood restaurant,…
If this was a world in which the dining scene was scrutinized like professional sports, with gamblers placing bets on the what pastry will be the next cupcake, what technique will become the new foam or which chef is most likely to win a James Beard award, we’d head down…
Beer pairings aren’t the newest movement on the culinary scene, but how about an entire menu full of pairings — dessert included — numbering some sixty all told? That’s how many matches made in heaven Baker St. Pub & Grill has put together for diners interested in suds selected specifically…
Elway’s was hot, hot, hot at last night’s Hot Rocks Griller Challenge, a benefit for the men’s programs at Denver Health. Governor Bill Ritter welcomed the crowd — and got to speak from experience about Denver Health’s care, since he spent several days in the hospital in March after his…
The first episode of Top Chef D.C. aired last night, and like every other food obsessive I know, I was glued to the set. Now in its seventh season, at this point the show is pretty much pure formula — Quickfire Challenge, chefs’ race through Whole Foods, Elimination Challenge, critics’…
The new season of Man V. Foodstarted last night, and featured Adam Richman attempted to become a Wing King at the West End Tavern, a challenge that involves eating fifty wings in half-an-hour. Since the challenge was introduced almost a year ago, fifteen eaters have been crowned Wing King. Richman…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Jon Emanuel. To read part one of that interview, click here. Culinary inspirations: Without a doubt, my dad is my number-one culinary inspiration. When I was a real little guy, he was taking classes for his job, which kept him away…
I am not a dieter. I am not equipped with the willpower required to say no to delicious morsels like pork belly buns or triple creme brie or basically anything that’s battered and fried. Likewise, I’m never going to forgo a particularly good bread basket; in fact, I’m going to…
Starting today, the glitterati of the food world will descend upon Aspen, when that glitter gulch town uncorks the Food & Wine magazine Classic, four days of over-the-top gluttony overrun with super-star chefs and their wide-eyed Food Network groupies who fork over nearly $1,200 to catch a glimpse of Mario…
Seven hundred and twenty-six steps. Every morning she counts the steps, one by one. She counts them as she walks past frat brothers staggering back home from the night before, past early-morning hipsters in Wayfarers burning butts, past yogis traveling from the cafe to the studio. This is not Indianapolis,…
Following in the footsteps of fellow Colorado-based fast-casual chains like Chipotle, Noodles & Company and Qdoba, Bombay Bowl is swinging for the fences. Amar Singh, founder of the restaurant at 12023 East Arapahoe Road in Centennial, expects to open two dozen more restaurants within the next five years in Colorado…
A Japanese/French fusion restaurant is going into the one-time nine75 spot in the Beauvallon building. Lawrence Yee, former front-of-the-house man at Jing, plans to open Japoix at 975 Lincoln Street in mid-August. While the Beauvallon building, which is still swathed in scaffolding, has seemed jinxed, one former tenant is optimistic…
Man V. Food guy, no shot; the fat baldie who eats it all, nada. Anthony Bourdain? No way — although Paula Deen might have a chance. What is it that these culinary whizzes won’t dare do? They wouldn’t go near these creations cooked up by lunatics. For example, the blog…
The New York food scene is renowned for all sorts of things, but green chile isn’t one of them. That, as we all know, is a Colorado thing. But Dennis Krieger, a New Yorker, insists that his pork green chile, a family recipe, will put all others to shame. “I…
In March, Adam Richman traveled to Boulder — 926 Pearl Street, to be precise — to tackle the Wing King Challenge at the West End Tavern: fifty chicken wings in thirty minutes. Since the West End introduced the contest a year ago, only fifteen people have managed to finish, even…
