Email Author Lori Midson

2012 Stories by Lori Midson

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  Hawt Dog & Sausage Eatery opens in Cherry Creek

  published Jan 23, 2012

  "No self-respecting Cherry Creek snob would go to someplace named 'Wrap Dawgs,'" wrote a frequent Cafe Society commenter when I announced that a new hot dog joint, whose name was Wrap Dawgs, planned t... More >>

• Guess where I'm drinkingr

  published Jan 23, 2012

  "No Jack!" yelled one of the bar mistresses to a drunk regular. "You can have a beer -- one beer." Then again, if your beer is a liter, which is what the guy sitting next to us was pounding, you may a... More >>

• Guess where you're eatingr At an EatDenver restaurant, if you're Jay

  published Jan 23, 2012

  Cafe Society served up four Guess wherer contests last week, ranging from a plate of gnocchi from Seven 30 South, which has an extremely loyal base of regulars, including one couple who ate there 450... More >>

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  The top thirty food porn pics from the Fancy Food Show

  published Jan 20, 2012

  Seventeen meals in four days, excluding bakery stops; 26 miles of walking (give or take), plus an additional 4.3 miles of exhibition halls clustered with more than 80,000 specialty foods and beverag... More >>

• Cooking with Pete and Barb Marczyk: Roasted sausages, peppers, potatoes and onions

  published Jan 20, 2012

  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 the... More >>

• Guess where I'm eatingr

  published Jan 20, 2012

  I tend to go to this neighborhood restaurant three or four times a year, but when I stopped in for lunch yesterday, the owner, who once presided over one of the most (inexplicably) popular restaurants... More >>

• Work Options for Women launches chef-driven cooking classes at Cafe Options

  published Jan 19, 2012

  Work Options for Women, a local -- and laudable -- non-profit that enables impoverished women to work in the food service industry by giving them hands-on job training, is always cooking up new ways f... More >>

• Guess where I'm eatingr

  published Jan 19, 2012

  I just got back from the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, which pimped, among other indisputably un-fancy weird shit, clam chowder (from a can) pizza and bacon lube (more on those later this afternoo... More >>

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  Round two with David Bumgardner, exec chef of Williams & Graham

  published Jan 19, 2012

  David Bumgardner Williams & Graham 3160 Tejon Street 303-997-8886 www.williamsandgraham.com This is part two of my interview with David Bumgardner, exec chef of Williams & Graham. Part one of my ch... More >>

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  David Bumgardner, exec chef of Williams & Graham, on moving your ass

  published Jan 18, 2012

  David Bumgardner Williams & Graham 3160 Tejon Street 303-997-8886 www.williamsandgraham.com This is part one of my interview with David Bumgardner, exec chef of Williams & Graham. Part two of my c... More >>

• Wild Eggs celebrates its three-millionth yolk with free breakfast for a year

  published Jan 12, 2012

  Oh, the wild schemes that restaurants will hatch in order to get to us eat. Take Wild Eggs, for example: The Kentucky-based breakfast and lunch spot, which recently opened in Denver at 300 East Alamed... More >>

• Guess where I'm eatingr

  published Jan 12, 2012

  Recently, over a leisurely business lunch, I sampled a succession of mostly pedestrian dishes, but there was one standout, namely the goat curry, which I liked immensely. Can you guess where I'm ea... More >>

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  Ryan Leinonen, exec chef/owner of Trillium, wants to stage at Le Bernardin

  published Jan 12, 2012

  Ryan Leinonen Trillium 2134 Larimer Street 303-379-9759 www.trilliumdenver.com This is part two of my interview with Ryan Leinonen, exec chef/owner of Trillium. Part one of that interview ran in thi... More >>

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  Margs Taco Bistro taking over Einstein's in Cherry Creek

  published Jan 11, 2012

  One of the most coveted locations in Cherry Creek, right next door to the "celebrity" Starbucks at Second and Filmore, will soon have a new tenant: The Einstein Bros Bagel store is shuttering at the e... More >>

• Guess where I'm eatingr

  published Jan 11, 2012

  Bacon! Whatr There's nothing else to say...except ...Can you guess where I'm eatingr Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week's Where am I drinking/eating posts is ente... More >>

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  Ryan Leinonen on "Mr. Wizard," Velveeta, pig's nipples and the raw vegan

  published Jan 11, 2012

  Ryan Leinonen Trillium 2134 Larimer Street 303-379-9759 www.trilliumdenver.com Hey!" hollers Ryan Leinonen to one of his cooks. "How's that cauliflower soup doingr Make sure you keep an eye on it." ... More >>

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  Our ten best pizzas in Denver (and Boulder)

  published Jan 10, 2012

  According to the Interwebs, it's National Pizza Week (who knewr), which seems like as good a time as any to update our 2011 list of Denver's six best pizzas. Herewith, a citywide guide to the top ten ... More >>

• Guess where I'm eatingr

  published Jan 10, 2012

  There aren't too many places where you can wrap your jaws around a $2 breakfast burrito, but here, at this weird little pit stop that has a drive-thru, two bucks and tax gets you a hefty gut bomb to s... More >>

• Guess where I'm eatingr

  published Jan 09, 2012

  Yes, Denver has far too many burger joints, but this one, where the above snap was flashed, is not only a keeper but a best burger contender. Can you guess where I'm eatingr Special bonus: Anyone ... More >>

• Another pig heist, this time at Williams & Graham

  published Jan 09, 2012

  Remember the pig heist of 2011, when a coalition of misfits from the Squeaky Bean swindled the prize pig mascot from Euclid Hall, who then returned the favorr That was all in good fun, but there seems... More >>

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  Win a three-day culinary sojourn to Boulder, courtesy of Big Red F Restaurant Group

  published Jan 09, 2012

  There's a reason why Dave Query, the brains behind the Boulder-based Big Red F Restaurant Group, generates so much respect: The restaurateur, who owns West End Tavern, Zolo Grill, Lola, Centro Latin K... More >>

• Guess where you're eatingr At an EatDenver restaurant, if you're Al Bacore

  published Jan 09, 2012

  Cafe Society dished up four Guess Wherer contests this week, ranging from a a fantastic Ethiopian feast at Nyala in Fort Collins to a pork chop that came every which way but the right way to a plate o... More >>

• Frank Bonanno wants to know: How much would you pay for a caviar tastingr

  published Jan 06, 2012

  Here's some food for thought on this fine Friday afternoon. Frank Bonanno, exec chef and owner of Mizuna, just posted a Tweet asking fellow Tweetsters if they'd dish out major dough for a caviar tasti... More >>

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  Holy moly! Euclid Hall invents the Tim T-boning Manhattan shot

  published Jan 06, 2012

  Leave it to the crew of Euclid Hall to take bone marrow, a Manhattan and a kneel on the knee and turn it into T-boning! It all started a few months ago, when chief bar mix-fit Ryan Conklin came up wi... More >>

• Guess where I'm eatingr

  published Jan 06, 2012

  I have an unwavering affinity for the the bar where the above tacos are turned out, but those tacos -- at least last night -- tasted old and cold, and the tampiquena, which the kitchen graciously rema... More >>