First, the good news: Venue executive chef James Rugile, Max Mackissock from Squeaky Bean, Shazz Cafe exec chef Benny Kaplan, Tyler Skrivanek of Duo and Brad Rowell of Colt & Gray have all hooked up to create the Highland Chef’s Collaborative, a five-dinner series that begins tonight at Venue, 3609…
Talk about a wake-up call! On weekend mornings, kitchens across Colorado start rolling breakfast burritos up and out — some served simply, to-go in aluminum foil; some served on fine china on linen tablecloths. This burrito is a cut above even that: offered only on Saturday and Sunday brunch, it’s…
What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were commiserating with Jason Sheehan over his abysmal dinners at Mark & Isabella, the Italian restaurant run by Arizona-based hot-shot restaurateur Mark Tarbell. A man was shot dead in an altercation inside Chopsticks & Sushi, the downtown restaurant…
In the market for a late lunch? At 3 p.m. today — or any weekday — you can pop into this spot and order meatball sliders, paired with a great, garlicky marinara sauce, for just $2 each. But first, you need to guess where I’m eating…
Tim and Nina Zagat just dropped the 2010 edition of America’s Top Restaurants (full disclosure: I edited the Colorado section), along with pages and pages of dining stats culled from eaters who responded to Zagat’s annual survey that, more or less, sum up the best and worst of each city…
The yellow tape and chain-link fence formerly surrounding the Tacos Rapido compound at 2345 West Alameda Avenue have finally been removed, which means that all you drunkards hankering for breakfast burritos, tacos, tostadas and and tortas at 2 a.m. now have another 24/7 pit stop at which to get your…
Denver has many great Italian restaurants. As I wrote this week, Mark & Isabella is not one of them. Here are ten of my favorites: Il Posto (2011 East 17th Avenue, 303-394-0100). Il Posto has an excellent location, crammed between other bars and restaurants, their patios shoulder to shoulder. The…
Chopsticks & Sushi, the Asian restaurant and bar at 1630 Welton Street that was the site of a fatal shooting yesterday, is not connected to Chopsticks China Bistro, the goofily-named restaurant that just moved from South Federal Boulevard to 5117 South Yosemite and is a Jason Sheehan favorite. But plenty…
Welcome to the first installment of our new feature, Sugar High. Check back here every Friday to see where we indulged our sweet tooth during the week. Granted, the chilly weather doesn’t make an ice cream shop immediately leap to mind when considering where to warm the belly, but…
As of late Thursday, there were just five reserved spots left at the tequila dinner being thrown by Sean Yontz at Mezcal. He’s putting together this dinner (the menu for which I posted a few days ago) in order to properly celebrate the TV pilot that will be filming at…
You could be surprised by who’s at your service tonight at Celebrity Server Night at Maggiano’s Little Italy, 500 16th Street. If you purchase a table for ten, you can choose your celebrity server — but if you buy tickets for a smaller group or an individual dinner ticket, you’ll…
For obvious reasons, most of my meals are eaten out. Almost all of them involve me getting up off my indolent backside, putting on trousers, finding my sunglasses, grudgingly leaving the care of my mountain compound to the hundred monkey butlers I employ, finding my way to my autogyro and…
The Tilted Kilt, a sports-bar chain popular enough to publish its own calendar, will start a new page the first week of November in Denver, when its latest location — in the former ESPN Zone in the Tabor Center — is now slated to open…
I love an ice-cold Manhattan almost anywhere, but the drink’s particularly delightful at this fine dining establishment in Denver — where the chef is smokin’ hot, and the bartender is adorable. Can you guess where I’m drinking?…
Patsy’s has been promising pizza for almost a year now. When the venerable red-sauce joint at 3651 Navajo Street was sold last fall to Kim DeLancey and Ron Cito (second cousin of founder Chubby Aiello), one of the managers there told me that pizza — a return to something that…
The Taste of Greenwood Village kicks off at 5 p.m. tonight at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center, 7800 East Tufts Avenue, with 32 restaurants, more than 30 wineries and a silent auction to benefit the Beacon Center, a Denver child-advocacy nonprofit. Ticket prices range from $50, which includes food samples…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Sean Kelly, exec chef of LoHi SteakBar. You can read part one of Midson’s interview with Kelly here. Ten words to describe you: Husband, father, cook, dedicated, extreme, blessed, impossible, critical, introspective and obsessive. Best food city in America: I adore…
The sandwiches: Benny Mac and Persian Chicken Sandwich What’s on them: The Benny Mac is a breaded chicken cutlet, with mac-n-cheese, bacon and BBQ sauce; the Persian chicken is spiced chicken meatballs, mild roasted green chiles, lettuce and tomato, harissa and tahini. Where to get them: Sputnik (3 South Broadway,…
It’s been a while since I’ve found a formerly untrodden (at least by me) taqueria that showed promise, but that changed yesterday when I stumbled across this upbeat taco shack in Aurora. It was out of horchata, but had an ample supply of Mexican coke in the bottle, jarritos and…
At 6:06 p.m. last night, my phone rang. It was my kid — distraught, in real tears and as pissed off as your kid would be if Santa Claus showed up at your house dressed like Barney or, worse, a Teletubbie. “It’s closed!” he wailed, in between heaves and sniffles…
Sushi Hai, at 3600 West 32nd Avenue, celebrates its fifth anniversary tonight starting at 7 p.m., with half-off on sushi and drinks. The Scott Davis Project will be playing acoustic blues in the downstairs Hai Bar — a space guarded by an off-duty cop this past weekend. It was an…
Put your money where your mouth is tonight at the annual Simmer & Stir for the Cure, which runs from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Kimball Distributing, 1400 West Third Avenue. The $30 ticket gets you in the door for chef demonstrations, wine tastings and more; all proceeds will…
