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The Kitchen Denver whips up the Chocolate Nemesis -- and you can, too

Don't let the name mislead you: The Chocolate Nemesis may soon be your new best friend. The "oldie but goody" dessert that won fans at The Kitchen in Boulder has now been imported to The Kitchen Denver, and is winning hearts (and stomachs) across town. The flourless chocolate cake, accompanied by c ... More >>

Happy birthday to The Kitchen Denver

The Kitchen Denver, 1530 16th Street, is celebrating its one-year anniversary with a benefit for the restaurant's nonprofit efforts to promote gardening in local schools. See also: - Ten best patios on the 16th Street Mall - Best Snapshot of a Season 2013 The Kitchen Denver - The Kitchen's Hugo Ma ... More >>

Tonight: live music, half-price beer and wine at the Kitchen [Next Door]

Local folk quintet Monocle will perform at The Kitchen [Next Door], 1035 Pearl Street in Boulder, this evening from 7 to 10 p.m. See also: - The Kitchen's Hugo Matheson on escapism, a contrary vegan and fair wages - Now open: The Kitchen [Next Door]

Trends without end, round three: Vegetables, spice and Scandinavia

What will be the big culinary trends in 2013? As we prepare for a new year in gastronomy, we posed that question to dozens of people in the local food business, everyone from chefs and pastry magicians to restaurant brokers and PR consultants, from brewers and grape gurus to realtors and pig farmers ... More >>

Trends without end: Dining insiders offer predictions for 2013

Part two: Denver and Boulder's most quotable chefs

Thanksgiving is a day that gives us food for thought and time to reflect on the things for which we're thankful -- our health, our friends, our kids, our jobs and dogs, wine, and the family master baster whose glossy golden turkey supplied leftovers for the next week. And this year, as we were going ... More >>

Part one: Denver and Boulder's most quotable chefs

Check back tomorrow to see another round of our favorite Chef and Tell quotes. Thanksgiving is a day that gives us food for thought and time to reflect on the things for which we're thankful - our health, our friends, our kids, our jobs and dogs, wine, and the family master baster whose glossy gol ... More >>

Reader: Appetizer sizes are small, but prices are creeping up

As Gretchen Kurtz notes in her review of The Kitchen Denver, much of the menu is devoted to starters and small plates. Why? To find out, she went straight to the source, Hugo Matheson, chef/co-founder of the Kitchen empire that now includes four restaurants. "Being able to eat without having to com ... More >>

Attention to detail would safeguard the Kitchen's brand in Denver

The Kitchen's Hugo Matheson thinks small...with a big list of starters

Talk about coincidence: Long before this week's review of The Kitchen Denver came out, I began mulling over the reasons for the restaurant's starter-heavy menu. Economics? (People order more of them, driving up the bill.) Grandstanding? (A place to strut local, organic and seasonal ingredients.) Mis ... More >>

Dining meets designing in Denver's restaurant concepts

Cure Organic Farm veggies are manna from foodie heaven

This is the fourth in a series of pieces profiling Colorado-grown products...and what some local restaurants do with them. "I want to have a relationship with someone who's cooking my food," declares Paul Cure, co-founder of Boulder's Cure Organic Farm. One handshake at a time, Paul and his wife, A ... More >>

Reader: Comments about contrary vegans are not funny

Hugo Matheson, the co-owner of the original Kitchen in Boulder, along with the new Kitchen Denver, is obsessed with the business. "I live and breathe every detail of the restaurants," he says in this week's Chef and Tell interview. "I can't imagine doing anything else." No matter how stupid restau ... More >>

Round two with Hugo Matheson, exec chef of The Kitchen

Hugo Matheson The Kitchen Boulder & [Upstairs]; The Kitchen Denver 1039 Pearl Street, Boulder; 303-544-5973 1530 16th Street, Denver; 303-623-3127 www.thekitchencommunity.com This is the second installment of my chat with Hugo Matheson, exec chef of The Kitchen. Read part one of Matheson's intervi ... More >>

The Kitchen's Hugo Matheson on escapism, a contrary vegan and fair wages

Hugo Matheson The Kitchen Boulder & [Upstairs]; The Kitchen Denver 1039 Pearl Street, Boulder; 303-544-5973 1530 16th Street, Denver; 303-623-3127 www.thekitchencommunity.com This is part one of my interview with Hugo Matheson, exec chef of The Kitchen Boulder and The Kitchen Denver. Part two of o ... More >>

Build your brain with TEDxMileHigh and the first-ever TEDxYouth@MileHigh

Prepare to be amazed. Prepare to be inspired. Prepare, perhaps, to reflect less favorably on your own accomplishments. It's time for TEDxMileHigh, two days of performances and events that start with the first-ever TEDxYouth@MileHigh today from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. The main event runs from 1 to 6 p.m ... More >>

The Kitchen's Hugo Matheson weighs in on creating a Denver menu

Tomorrow morning, Hugo Matheson, Kimbal Musk and Jen Lewin will open the doors to the The Kitchen Denver, the Mile High City outpost of their expanding empire which started in Boulder eight years ago. The new restaurant -- which features a massive bar, three patios and several nooks and crannies for ... More >>

Exclusive first look at The Kitchen Denver

It took some time for partners Kimbal Musk, Hugo Matheson and Jen Lewin to cement a deal to bring to bring The Kitchen to Denver, after building the original Kitchen in Boulder eight years ago. But now, following nine months of planning and construction, they're just a week from opening their new pl ... More >>

The Kitchen Denver will include a raw bar -- and a big bar

In just a week and a half, the Denver outpost of The Kitchen will make its debut on 16th Street, extending the community-based restaurant empire Kimbal Musk and Hugo Matheson began in Boulder eight years ago to the Mile High City. And while Musk has promised that the Denver space won't stray far fro ... More >>

The Kitchen Denver sets an opening date of March 20

It's been nearly nine months since Hugo Matheson and Kimbal Musk put together the deal to take over the old Gumbo's space, where they planned to open a Denver outpost of The Kitchen, the Boulder restaurant they put on the West End of Pearl Street in 2004. "We want to become a community restaurant ... More >>

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

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 doing? Make sure you keep an eye on it." And for the next two hours, Leinonen, the chef-owner of the month-old Trillium, watches from afar at ... More >>

The Kitchen owners are lauded for farm-to-table leadership in Entrepreneur magazine

The Kitchen​When Kimbal Musk and Hugo Matheson opened their newest restaurant, Boulder's Kitchen [Next Door], earlier this year, Musk was clear that the new space is about expanding the farm-to-table concept, which the flagship Kitchen pioneered, into something everyone can take part in: "We t ... More >>

Up From The Ashes

The Kitchen plans to plant a restaurant in Denver

The KitchenThe Kitchen will open in Denver in 2012.​Kimbal Musk and Hugo Matheson -- the Boulder restaurateurs who own The Kitchen, The Kitchen [Upstairs] and The Kitchen [Next Door] -- have been toying with making the move to Denver for a couple of years, but they've been waiting for the righ ... More >>

The Kitchen [Next Door] will take sustainability seriously

The Kitchen [Next Door] will have a local focus.​Last Friday we got a first look at the The Kitchen [Next Door], the third in the growing family of restaurants that started six years ago when The Kitchen sprang to life on the west end of Pearl Street in Boulder. Partners Kimbal Musk and Hugo M ... More >>

The Kitchen [Next Door] sets opening date of June 9

​This under-construction facade fronts the newest member of the growing family of restaurants that began when The Kitchen opened on the West End of Pearl Street in Boulder. And though the crew is still hard at work installing beetle-kill floors and a bar made from reclaimed Douglas fir, the op ... More >>

Tahona Tequila Bistro and Sushi Tora owners to open a more intimate restaurant

Mark Manger​The office building at 1035 Pearl Street in Boulder is rife with restaurant plans. Kimbal Musk and Hugo Matheson, owners of the Kitchen, are moving ahead with their project to open a pub, called the Kitchen Cafe, in the long, narrow space recently vacated by Abo's. Now Mara and Pet ... More >>

Abo's, formerly Circle Bar, closes on Pearl Street to make way for the Kitchen Cafe

​Last month the Kitchen's Hugo Matheson and Kimbal Musk picked up the lease on along, narrow spot at 1035 Pearl Street in Boulder, where, come spring, they'll open the Kitchen Cafe, a pub steeped in the food values of the Kitchen. In doing so, they'll try to rid the spot of its curse: Steve A ... More >>

The Kitchen's Kimbal Musk and Hugo Matheson to open The Kitchen Café on Pearl Street in Boulder

The Kitchen Cafe will soon open on Pearl Street​Over the past six years, The Kitchen, 1039 Pearl Street in Boulder, has amassed a following of diners who come to the chic, airy space for dishes that pay homage to the farms the ingredients come from, with a menu of simple American offerings. A ... More >>

Pizzeria Basta rolling out entrees and sous vide

Kelly WhitakerKelly Whitaker, left, and Bruno Goussault​Pizzeria Basta is not the kind of place you stumble upon. You'd never find it if you weren't looking, unless you happened to be perusing property in one of Boulder's still half-empty upscale eco-housing complexes. The small restaurant ... More >>

A Slow Foods dinner feeds the body, mind and soul

The Kitchen gives Boulder a true sense of community

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Looks aren't everything.

Gael Force

Let the St. Paddy's revelry begin -- early!

Boulder Blahs

The Kitchen puts the flat in the Flatirons.

Bite Me

To Serve and Protect

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