This is part two of my interview with Bob Blair, executive chef/owner of Fuel Cafe. To read part one of this interview, click here. Culinary inspirations: I was the second-oldest of eight kids, so we hardly ever got to go out to dinner. But when my mom was away, traveling,…
In Nepal, momo — the small, white-flour dumplings that represent the Nepali contribution to the world dumpling culture — are used as currency. Goats and yaks can be bartered for on the streets with buckets of momo. A fine woman is said to be worth her weight in momo. The…
The new India’s Restaurant is big. Seriously big. Big in the way that interstate chain restaurants are supposed to be big, or the doomed follies of restaurant owners with more hubris and cash on hand than brains. Whereas the old India’s (which was located across the street and out of…
After I watched Food, Inc., I was too traumatized to eat beef without seeing its resume first. But this burger has made the cut for being one of the best in town — and rightfully so. The servers don’t ask what temperature you’d like it, not only because they don’t…
Pet peeve: You go over to someone’s house for a dinner party, and you go to the bathroom, and there’s a fancy pair of hand towels hanging there with ridiculous embroidered gold snowflakes or something, and you can just tell that even though they’re towels, and they’re hanging there in…
At this past weekend’s auction for the former Dick’s Hickory Dock in Kittredge, Hamid Motarjemi made the winning bid of $247,500. This will be his fourth project in the area. He started in 2000 with 2101 Champa, which he renovated and turned into Club Boca. Then in 2003 he bought…
Do you have a propensity for cooking? Does the thought of an unhinged Brit spitting and swearing at you while you cook on national TV make you grin? Well, your time is nigh. The FOX network is holding tryouts for a new reality show, Masterchef, in major cities across the…
I touched down in Las Vegas Saturday night, went to Avis to get a huge SUV for the weekend, and immediately headed to the meat mecca, a shrine that calls our name. In-N-Out Burger. This wasn’t the first burger chain to make it in Southern California, but it was the…
Lori MidsonAs a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
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. Pete and Barb…
There are some chefs who insist on being called, well, “Chef,” and then there are other kitchen wizards, like Bob Blair, who roll their eyes, shake their heads and politely ask that you don’t address them as “Chef” at all. “I’m a cook,” argues Blair, whose real job is executive…
You gotta give Bobby Stuckey props. Anyone who’s willing to endure the clownish theatrics of Kathie Lee Gifford, co-bubble head host of NBC’s Today show, deserves his day in the spotlight, which is exactly where Stuckey, the master sommelier at Boulder’s Frasca Food & Wine, will be this morning when…
For those of you wondering where to grab some grub around 44th and Tejon, you’re in luck. Open less than a month, Cielito Lindo, a stucco storefront at 4401 Tejon Street, is pushing Mexican eats and treats from its polished quarters tricked out with bare woods and bright tile. It…
In Nepal, momo — the small, white-flour dumplings that represent the Nepali contribution to world dumpling culture — are used as currency. Goats and yaks can be bartered for on the streets with buckets of momo. A fine woman is said to be worth her weight in momo. There’s a…
Perhaps the third time’s a charm. That’s what Isaac Torres is betting on when he and his father, Raul, open Saucy at 2200 Market Street in the space that formerly held Otto’s Grill (for a nanosecond) and before that, Brix. “We’re doing a family-run barbecue joint where you can get…
I spent years trying to find a decent fish fry in this city, a fish fry that would transport me, however briefly, back to the Mick-ridden streets of my youth, where Fridays always saw legions of fathers trooping home through the streets, laden with steaming bags of take-away fish and…
After almost eight years of eating in Denver, writing about Denver and dragging Denver’s gastronaut community along with me, willing or not, to every pho shop, sushi bar, French restaurant and African goat butcher I could bluff my way into, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to step aside…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Beginning at 11:30 a.m. today, all metro area Jamba Juice locations are doling out free food, specifically the national chain’s California flatbreads. The four “great-tasting” (we’ll decide that) “guilt-free” varieties — Tomo Artichoko, Smokehouse Chicken, MediterranYum and Four Cheesy — will be available until 2 p.m. or until the stores…
Not that anyone needs an another excuse to eat tacos, but Jim ‘N Nick’s Bar-B-Q has declared Tuesday the day of the taco. And while barbecue and tacos may not sound harmonious on the surface, the principle behind “low and slow” cooking crosses any border. “When it comes to honoring…
Want to know why food is a great beat? Because there’s always someone out there who’s gonna think of jamming a full serving of pasta primavera into a waffle cone and selling it on the street (as pictured above). Usually, these people are going to be coming from a place…
Whether or not this is a shockingly discouraging testament to the page turners of America or Guy Fieri threatening to jam his back-ass headwords sunglasses down the throats of anyone who doesn’t purchase his books, it’s still a fact: Guy Fieri, who just dove into Denver with his “Culinary Road…
