Having a nice day, all you triskaidekaphobics?
Today in Backbeat Online:
• Aviano Coffee debuts anything-goes open mike tomorrow.
• Fort Collins set to debut all-local music fest in April.
• Spoke-In-Wordz debuts new single on iTunes, Amazon.
Today in Cafe Society:
• 231 Milwaukee back on the market.
• Quiznos gets to the meat of the matter.
• Candy Girls: Shaman Chocolates.
• Common Grounds loses ground.
• Frank Bonanno up for James Beard award as Outstanding Restauranteur.
It was a rough year for Colorado chefs (and writers) in this year's James Beard awards. The finalists were announced this morning -- and our white jackets just got spanked.
A handful of Coloradans had made the semi-finalists list. Frank Bonanno (above) got tapped for Best Restaurateur. Yasmin Lozada-Hissom from Duo got a bump for Best Pastry. Alex Seidel from Fruition was named a semi-finalist in Best Chefs --Southwest, alongside Mark Fischer from Six89 in Carbondale, Ryan Hardy from
This year's James Beard awards were finalized on Monday, and while most of it is bad for us here in the Flyover States, there are plenty of parties going on elsewhere.
Colorado got completely skunked in the journalism awards, with most of the medals going to the usual suspects: Alan Richman, Ruth Reichl, Gourmet, Alan Richman, the Big City dailies, Alan Richman, New York Magazine and Alan Richman. One bright spot: my comrade-in-arms Kristen Hinman from Westword's sister paper, the Riverfront Ti
Lori MidsonTop Chef winner Hosea Rosenberg with fellow contestant Fabio VivianiOkay, so Jax-Boulder superchef Hosea Rosenberg wins Top Chef: New York and, along with the top title, gets $100,000 to blow on opening a new restaurant.
Except he hasn't opened a new restaurant. In fact, as I reported in this space last month, Rosenberg is taking a sabbatical from Jax, 928 Pearl Street in Boulder, so that he can "travel all over the United States and to South America," where he'll be "attendi
Fogo de Chao is not a place that any mortal man could visit with any regularity while remaining mortal, without ending up just flat dead from a meat overdose. Zeus, perhaps, could eat here three times in a week. James Beard or Escoffier could've probably managed four in their portly heydays. Me? I'd be a headline, baby. All caps: NOT TERRIBLY FAMOUS FOOD WRITER FOUND DEAD ON WYNKOOP STREET. Details would include the blood and flan on my chin, the lamb chops found stuffed in my pockets, the odo
Denver has lots of great Mexican restaurants, a few good Latin American restaurants, and not many South American restaurants. But Fogo de Chao, which opened this summer, would be a great restaurant on any continent. Here are Denver's ten top way-south-of-the-border restaurants.
Aji Latin American Restaurant 1601 Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-442-3464. Aji bills itself as a Latin American restaurant, and its menu is a postmodern fusion of Peruvian, Mexican, Argentine, Cuban, Brazilian, Salva
