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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2006 Stories by Jason Sheehan

• From Moment to Moment

  published October 26, 2006

  Sometimes these weekly missives are about time and the progression through it of a menu, a chef, an address. Sometimes they're about history,... More >>

• Change of Plans

  published October 26, 2006

  My visits to Venice Ristorante (see review) reminded me that I needed to stop by... More >>

• New York Pizzeria

  published October 26, 2006

  The original New York Pizzeria on Leetsdale Boulevard -- huddled among the liquor stores, taquerías and liquor stores -- was a classic... More >>

• Night and Day

  published October 19, 2006

  For a long time, restaurants have played a cruel game with diners, vacillating wildly between opposing schools of menu-writing theory. On one side... More >>

• Homecoming

  published October 19, 2006

  Talk about a blast from the past, eh?" I've got Mel Master on the phone, and he's talking about his own October surprise: the sudden... More >>

• Taste of Philly

  published October 19, 2006

  The guys behind the counter got my order wrong three times -- but from past experience eating at the Taste of Philly on Colorado Boulevard in... More >>

• Going to Dumpling Town

  published October 12, 2006

  Location, location, location, my ass. For decades, Szechuan Chinese Restaurant has been doing business in one of the worst imaginable... More >>

• Green Acres

  published October 12, 2006

  Everyone's favorite punk-rock, vegetarian, earth-friendly tempeh joint, WaterCourse Foods, is leaving its longtime home at 206 East 13th... More >>

• New Ocean City Restaurant

  published October 12, 2006

  Four years ago, I had one of the greatest, strangest, most affecting meals of my life at Ocean City. It was during the Chinese lunar festival, and... More >>

• American Idyll

  published October 5, 2006

  As an achievement in design, Steuben's is unparalleled. No hackneyed, cliched or sardonic architectural detail was spared in the... More >>

• Road Warriors

  published October 5, 2006

  What are your first three food and drink related visits when you head to your childhood hometown? What do you order? Fried Clams from Kelly's?... More >>

• Frasca Food and Wine

  published October 5, 2006

  While Steuben's (see review) has that whole American regional thing going, scores of other... More >>

• Elvis Lives

  published September 28, 2006

  As we pull into the parking lot, I see the sign for live entertainment, Saturdays from nine until one in the morning. I find live music in a... More >>

• Good Morning, America

  published September 28, 2006

  As I left Vietnam House (see review), I was briefly sexually assaulted in the parking lot... More >>

• Mee Yee Lin

  published September 28, 2006

  I miss Mee Yee Lin -- the old Mee Yee Lin on West Alameda Avenue, the little dim sum place where I first ate crispy fried intestine, where I could... More >>

• Grill of My Dreams

  published September 21, 2006

  After dark, this stretch of 22nd Street can be rough. The sidewalks are unlit, every open space is a parking lot, and the storefronts are... More >>

• Spain Cycle

  published September 21, 2006

  I've got Chris Golub from Swimclub32 on the phone, just back from a trip to Spain with his partner, Grant Gingerich. Chris is... More >>

• Sam Taylor’s Bar-B-Q

  published September 21, 2006

  The worst thing about barbecue is waiting for it. I hit Sam Taylor's Bar-B-Q during a shift change last week, and I had to wait fifteen whole... More >>

• A Pirate's Life for Me

  published September 14, 2006

  There's one thing you'll never want for at Ocean: service. On a Thursday night, dozens of bodies are on the floor -- servers and bussers... More >>

• Family Affair

  published September 14, 2006

  Chef Troy Guard is holding forth on his restaurant philosophy. It's pretty simple. "The way I look at it," he says, "you do the same... More >>

• Pesce Fresco

  published September 14, 2006

  From the outside, Pesce Fresco looks like just another strip-mall Italian joint shoved between nail salons and auto-parts stores. Even inside, it... More >>

• A Federal Case

  published September 7, 2006

  Federal Boulevard stretches almost thirty miles down the spine of the metro area, from Bowles Boulevard in Littleton, where the Southglenn... More >>

• Taco Wonderland

  published September 7, 2006

  Life is full of small pleasures and little joys. Sometimes, they're all you get. The bad stuff is big, often overwhelming, frequently spinning... More >>

• Room With a View

  published September 7, 2006

  There are a lot of very cool things about living in Denver. The availability of cheap tacos and Mexican Coca-Cola (see my More >>

• Lola

  published September 7, 2006

  El Coyotito #3 (see review) is a real Mexican restaurant -- all tacos and menudo, sopas de... More >>