Ian Kleinman

Tin Star Cafe & Donuts

Behind the Scenes at O's Steak & Seafood

A Date at 8 Rivers

Duck's Blood? Pho Shizzle

A Date at 8 Rivers

Behind the Scenes at O's Steak & Seafood

Tin Star Cafe & Donuts

A Wild Time at Thursday's Do At The Zoo

The List: Best hotel restaurants

Every Tuesday through the end of March 2009 (when we unveil the Best of Denver 2009) we'll be posting a list of some of our favorite Denver dishes/restaurants on Cafe Society. Have a request? A comment? Post it below. Jason Sheehan just reviewed Elway's Downtown, which he says is no fun a ... More >>

Best Soups

Hilltop Cafe

Bite Me

Something to Chew On

Best Spring Rolls

Indigo

Bite Me

American Dreams

Bite Me

The Name Game

The Dead Pool

The Name Game

Veggie Girl: O's Steak and Seafood

Being a vegetarian sometimes means feeling like you're always a bridesmaid and never the bride. Sure, that gnocchi entree is delicious, but meat eaters who go to to Italian restaurants get to order both primi pasta dishes and secondi meat dishes for a full three- or four-course meal. I've always ... More >>

Bite Me

Family Affair

Prima Ristorante

Recommending a hotel restaurant with no reservations.

Updated: Other stirring events, now that "Soup for the Soul" is cancelled

Tonight's "Soup for the Soul" has just been cancelled. Twenty local food stalwarts -- Alto, Baur's, Bistro Vendome, Blue Point Bakery, Dazzle, Elway's (Cherry Creek), Fruition, Japon, Lola, Mel's, Oceanaire, the Palm, Panera Bread, Panzano, Pesce Fresco, Rioja, San Lorenzo, Steuben's, Table 6 and Ve ... More >>

Soup's back on for hospice benefit, and other class acts

From 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 31, Cook Street School of Fine Cooking will offer "Sous Vide 101," taught by mathematician Douglas Baldwin; from 6 to 9:30 p.m. on April 1, Ian Kleinman of O's Steak and Seafood will be at the school to teach "Molecular Gastronomy 101." Each class is $175; ... More >>

Pure Magic

You scream, I scream, we all scream for this ice cream.

Fun With Molecular Gastronomy

A visit to Mr. Wizard.

See? I'm not the only one who loves O's...

Ian Kleinman is cooking with gas -- liquid nitrogen -- at O's.Steven Shaw, founder of egullet and a serious food-world heavyweight, was in town this month for the International Association of Culinary Professionals conference, and he somehow found time to take a spin up to Westminster to check out I ... More >>

Ian Kleinman and O's get a rave from egullet

Ian Kleinman is cooking with gas -- liquid nitrogen -- at O's.Steven Shaw, founder of egullet and a serious food-world heavyweight, was in town this month for the International Association of Culinary Professionals conference, and he somehow found time to take a spin up to Westminster to check out I ... More >>

TV or Not TV

Another star turn for Ian Kleinman.

Molecular gastronomy is no fad, as Ian Kleinman proves at O's

It would be impossible to repeat all the nice things that egullet's Steven Shaw had to say about Ian Kleinman and his molecular gastronomy menu at O's Steak and Seafood at the Westin Westminster, which Shaw experienced when he was in town for the International Association of Culinary Professionals c ... More >>

Holiday Rush

Restaurants unwrap a few surprises.

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the week of 11/1/2007

Group of One

Employees bail out of Nine75 and Ocean.

Family Plan

Don't try this at home.

Bite Me

All I Need

Bait and Switch

With Go Fish Grille, Larry Herz may have a keeper.

Summit of the Ate

There's a mountain of fun -- and good food -- at the Hilltop Café.

The dangers of working with liquid nitrogen

Ian Kleinman, a trained professionalGermany is now short one chef and the science of molecular gastronomy has claimed another victim. This, from the Daily Telegraph: "The 24-year-old chef was experimenting with a recipe involving liquid nitrogen, which is used by chefs including Heston Blumenthal to ... More >>

Geek in the Galley: Jobs for experimental bakers

Looks just like real bread, doesn't it?​ While I am not generally one for hyping the cause of vegetarian-this or vegan-that, there has always been something about the art (yes, art) of vegan and gluten-free baking that has tickled my geek bone. It's the same instinct that makes me love the m ... More >>

And presenting Ian Kleinman as Willy Wonka...

​I heard this week from Ian Kleinman -- our own personal Mr. Wizard, the man who brought molecular gastronomy to Westminster and blew the heads clean off almost everyone who was lucky enough to walk through the doors of O's Steak and Seafood when he was running his molecular gastronomy tastin ... More >>

H Burger opening set for February 10

​It's official: H BurgerC0, the new spot at 1555 Blake Street, will officially open at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, February 10, after a week of friends and family parties and events that start today -- and after a slight name change from the original H Burger Lounge. But that's just the start of th ... More >>

Ian Kleinman is cooking with gas at hushDenver

Mark MangerIan Kleinman's chilling display with liquid nitrogen. ​"Eat it quick, right after it comes out," instructs chef Ian Kleinman, "and then you can get some real smoke to come out of your nose." He spoons an amorphous white puff that he calls Kettle Corn Space Foam from the liquid nitro ... More >>

Ian Kleinman puts on a chilling performance at hushDenver

Mark MangerIan Kleinman's chilling display with liquid nitrogen. ​"Eat it quick, right after it comes out," instructs chef Ian Kleinman, "and then you can get some real smoke to come out of your nose." He spoons an amorphous white puff that he calls Kettle Corn Space Foam from the liquid nitro ... More >>

Chef and Tell with molecular gastronomist Ian Kleinman

Lori Midson Molecular magician Ian Kleinman at Steele Elementary School ​"Anything I can possibly dream up is now doable, because I'm able to really play around with food," says Ian Kleinman, Denver's answer to Alton Brown, the wacky culinary scientist (and only food personality worth watching ... More >>

Molecular magician Ian Kleinman is launching the Inventing Room street food cart

Lori Midson ​Let's start with the big question: How many dollar bills are you going to have to part with? "Nothing on our menu will be more than four bucks," promises Ian Kleinman. Thank Jesus for that, otherwise those of you hyperventilating over the $20 lobster rolls being doled out from ... More >>

Photos: Chef Ian Kleinman shows how to make liquid nitrogen peanut butter sorbet

Just add liquid nitrogen!​You already know that chef Ian Kleinman is launching a new dessert cart in August, but this week he stopped by the Westword offices to give us a preview of how he makes peanut butter sorbet using liquid nitrogen, which puts a -320F freeze on the stuff. Liquid nitrogen ha ... More >>

H Burger attracts daytime crowds with fast service, good burgers

Mark Manger​When Pete and Ann Pflum envisioned H Burger Co, the burger joint they put into a new spot at 1555 Blake Street, they designed a space and menu that they hoped would lure downtown dinner crowds to a block that, historically, has emptied out after 5 p.m.

Small but mighty, the Inventing Room's food cart is a mainstay in the street-food scene

Mark Manger​When Pete and Ann Pflum envisioned H Burger Co, the burger joint they put into a new spot at 1555 Blake Street, they designed a space and menu that they hoped would lure downtown dinner crowds to a block that, historically, has emptied out after 5 p.m.

H Burger answers the prayers of those searching for a satisfying workday lunch

Mark Manger​When Pete and Ann Pflum envisioned H Burger Co, the burger joint they put into a new spot at 1555 Blake Street, they designed a space and menu that they hoped would lure downtown dinner crowds to a block that, historically, has emptied out after 5 p.m.

Denver street food: The best meals-on-wheels of 2010

Lori MidsonPanang curry from Liang's Thai Food​The first mobile food vendor on wheels was launched nearly 150 years ago, in 1872, when a Rhode Island native called Walter Scott trotted his horse-drawn freight wagon, stocked with sandwiches, hard-boiled eggs, coffee and pies around the town of ... More >>

Molecular magician Ian Kleinman will host four NOMAD pop-up dinners later this month

Lori Midson​Last month, Phil Armstrong, the founder of HUSH Concepts, let loose NOMAD -- one-off dinners that "pop-up" at various venues throughout the city, their addresses kept off the radar until just hours before the dinners begin. James Mazzio was tapped to be the chef for the March dinne ... More >>

Tonight: Dueling Cuisine -- Science vs. Art at Aria

​Aria will host Dueling Cuisine: Science vs. Art, as chefs Michael Long and Ian Kleinman face off and prepare a four-course feast. Each course will feature on ingredient with two preparations by each chef. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. and costs $89; for more info, call 303-377-4012. For info ... More >>

Eat St. pulls into Denver for a week of filming, starting today with the Inventing Room

Lori Midson​A film production crew from Eat St., a television show on the Cooking Channel hosted by James Cunningham, a guy who worships -- and chases -- the nationwide street-food movement, is in town this week to shoot several Denver pavement cuisine pushers, beginning today at 11 a.m. with ... More >>

Sparkopolis at Anythink Wright Farms: On beyond books, with bells and whistles

Anythink Wright Farms, a library like no other.​Ever since the Rangeview Library District changed its name to "Anythink," something peculiar's been going on: The locals began to embrace their libraries like never before, and once you step inside Anythink Wright Farms, way up north on 120th Ave ... More >>