Email Author Jason Sheehan

Awards

• 2010 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published October 22, 2009

  "Mourning"

• 2010 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published February 19, 2009

  "Wonderland"

• 2010 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published May 7, 2009

  "White on White"

• 2008 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published December 13, 2007

  "After Dark"

• 2008 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published September 13, 2007

  "Holiday"

• 2008 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published June 2, 2005

  "Lost and Found"

• 2007 - Bert Greene Award/International Association of Culinary Professionals, published January 5, 2006

  "Mama's House"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 6, 2006

  "Sum More, Please"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 1, 2006

  "Wedded Bliss"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 5, 2006

  "Mama's House"

• 2006 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published November 24, 2005

  "Kokoro Bebop"

• 2006 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published November 10, 2005

  "Z Whiz"

• 2006 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published February 17, 2005

  "Girl Trouble"

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2004 Stories by Jason Sheehan

• Bite Me

  published October 7, 2004

  Recounting the history behind Chez Thuy's exquisite cuisine (see page 61), I was reminded of this episode: During the siege of the... More >>

• In the Beginning...

  published September 30, 2004

  The International House of Pancakes seemed like the obvious choice for breakfast. I had friends in town -- non-foodie friends who couldn't pick a... More >>

• Bite Me

  published September 30, 2004

  Agave Underground never really had a chance. It was simply the wrong place in the wrong space at the wrong time. And what a wrong space:... More >>

• See Food

  published September 23, 2004

  I saw successively imprinted on every face the glow of desire, the ecstasy of enjoyment, and the perfect calm of utter bliss. -- Jean... More >>

• Bite Me

  published September 23, 2004

  While I enjoyed Little India (see review), eating there made me think about the best... More >>

• Mambo Italiano

  published September 23, 2004

  SAT, 9/25 One of the big-city touches that Denver has always had down cold is the tradition of the downtown street fair. If nothing... More >>

• Isle Be Seeing You

  published September 16, 2004

  I stopped by on a whim, at about five-thirty in the afternoon, drawn in by both the action and the tickle on my internal culinary Geiger counter.... More >>

• Bite Me

  published September 16, 2004

  It's been two years and change since I walked out of my last kitchen. That last one, in Albuquerque, wasn't even a good kitchen, but I remember it... More >>

• The Simple Life

  published September 9, 2004

  It's the simplest thing, and it's almost universally overlooked in the fast-paced, big-business kitchens of the world. There it's a throwaway, a... More >>

• Bite Me

  published September 9, 2004

  It was a deeply and profoundly abysmal lasagna that I wouldn't feed to an enemy. A few layers of limp pasta swimming in an acid bath of red... More >>

• Coming Together

  published September 2, 2004

  We'd both woken up mad, the wife and I. Rolled out of bed pissed off, brushed our teeth pissed off, then gotten dressed pissed off, each under our... More >>

• Bite Me

  published September 2, 2004

  Sean Yontz has been at Mezcal (see review) from the beginning. He wrote the menu,... More >>

• Slice of Heaven

  published August 26, 2004

  It was a knee-jerk New Yorker's reflex that led me to Famous Pizza. Make that Famous Pizza #1. "The Original Famous Pizza," as spelled out... More >>

• Bite Me

  published August 26, 2004

  I've never understood the draw of gummy Chicago deep-dish, and I loathe those smart-ass nouveau California cracker-crust abominations. I'll choke... More >>

• So Pho, So Good

  published August 19, 2004

  What's that?" asks the young Vietnamese guy sitting at the table across from mine. He brings his hands together, palms touching, then opens them... More >>

• Bite Me

  published August 19, 2004

  Breakfast King has finally completed its promised remodel -- but if you didn't know what to look for, you could miss it, easy. The 24-hour... More >>

• Give and Take

  published August 12, 2004

  The kitchen at Zengo is a mess, a riot of white jackets, ice and fire. I count six, eight, maybe as many as ten cooks bouncing, spinning in... More >>

• Bite Me

  published August 12, 2004

  Six weeks have passed since Colorado's new booze legislation took effect -- the give-a-little/take-a-little double whammy of decreased... More >>

• Talking Shop

  published August 12, 2004

  On vacation in Vancouver, Denverites Cal Smith and David Citizen wandered into a fragrant Chinese spice shop and fell in love with the place. More... More >>

• The Truck Stops Here

  published August 5, 2004

  My buddy Gracie and I have this map -- a U.S. highway diagram torn from the front of an old Rand McNally atlas, showing all of the major... More >>

• The Answer Man

  published August 5, 2004

  Questions for "Ask the Critic" have come from all corners of the restaurant cosmos this month. A sampling: Q: Enough about Sean... More >>

• Simple Pleasures

  published July 29, 2004

  Japanese cartoons are lysergic-acid freak shows of giant robots and big-eyed children, blinking lights and talking cats, and jumpy, herky-jerky... More >>

• Bite Me

  published July 29, 2004

  While out wandering a few weeks ago, I stumbled across the Bugling Bull Trading Post out on Highway 67, west of Sedalia, where I had one of... More >>

• Patty Melt

  published July 22, 2004

  Cheeseburgers are the single most recognizable American contribution to the world culinary scene (and, according to a monument on Speer Boulevard,... More >>

• Bite Me

  published July 22, 2004

  What can I tell you? Clair de Lune is definitely not going to make it through the summer." I've been waiting for this call for weeks.... More >>