Subject: Jason Sheehan

• Best of the Blogs, September 17 edition

  September 17, 2008

• Curtains for Neighborhood Flix

  September 24, 2008

• Take one from column A, one from column B...

  September 24, 2008

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, September 24 edition

  September 24, 2008

• French tickler: What's up with French 250?

  October 15, 2008

• A bigger, better Les Delices de Paris

  November 5, 2008

• Landmark rates the New York Times

  November 10, 2008

• Critical picks on Thanksgiving Day

  In case you're looking for anything but turkey and stuffing on Thanksgiving, several of Jason Sheehan's favorite restaurants will be serving their normal menus on Turkey Day. The short list:

  November 25, 2008

• Cafe Bisque now simply Bisque

  When Cafe Bisque opened at 224 Union Boulevard in Lakewood in 2003, Westword food reviewer Jason Sheehan was initially unimpressed with the confused New American menu, but after a return trip in October, he came to appreciate some of chef Alex Gurevich's menu items, most notably the rich, creamy lobster bisque. Sheehan's latest trip was spurred by the announcement that the restaurant had recently added a Sunday brunch. And that's not the only change. In early November, not more than a month la

  December 2, 2008

• Don't swim in this Aquarium

  It's a thought that haunts the over-stimulated, over-movied imagination: a school of hungry piranhas eating you alive. And while our Café writer Jason Sheehan would have preferred that fate to the time he spent at the restaurant inside the Downtown Aquarium (see "Finding Nemo," his 2005 review), staff writer Joel Warner was merely concerned that someone could lose a finger in the uncovered piranha tank there. But when he tried to get to the bottom of this fishy situation, as he reports in our

  December 2, 2008

• Smashburger is a smash in Wichita

  Today, Wichita. Tomorrow, the world. Smashburger -- with its secret process that creates what Jason Sheehan called "meat candy" -- has been a smash since the Colorado-based concept opened its first restaurant at 1120 South Colorado Boulevard two years ago.Since then, the owners have opened six more spots along the Front Range, most recently in Quebec Square at 7305 East 35th Avenue, with another slated to get the grill going at 104th and Federal any day.

  December 16, 2008

• An alternate view on the upcoming robot apocalypse

  I must take a moment to respond to my esteemed colleague Dr. Jason Sheehan, Chief Intelligence Officer of HARDON, who has, in his usual semi-coherent way, attempted to offer some thoughts on the so-called upcoming robot apocalypse. In full disclosure, I find Dr. Sheehan informative and amusing in a rather simpleminded and aggressively propagandist sort of way -- similar to the corner lunatic who never fails to keep my morning ambles interesting.

  December 19, 2008

• Coors pulls Sparks off the market, drunk teens everywhere cry caffeinated tears

  Bowing to pressure from attorneys general and advocacy groups, MillerCoors announced it is removing the caffeinated magic from its alcho-energy drink Sparks. It's a sad, sad day for amateur drinkers looking for that perfect mix between booze, a double-espresso and Sweet Tarts. Luckily, I was able to spot a dusty can of the stuff (pictured) from the mountain of promotional crap known as Jason Sheehan's desk. Who knows how long the can of "premium malt beverage" has been there -- years, at leas

  December 19, 2008

• New digs in the new year for 3 Sons

  Just got off the phone with one of the managers at 3 Sons, which is all decorated for the holidays. And come the new year, the family who owns the Italian eatery finally has an (estimated) move-in date for their new location. May 1 is what the Scarafiottis are looking at, with a planned black-out of about a month, give or take, between the closure of the original 3 Sons at 2915 West 44th Avenue and the opening of the new one at 64th and Indiana out in Arvada. -- Jason Sheehan

  December 22, 2008

• The List: Six great spots along Sixth Avenue

  Last week, Jason Sheehan returned to Table 6 -- a restaurant that he found even closer to perfect than the last time he reviewed it, back in November 2004, when Esquire's Jay Mariani had just named it one of the 21 best new restaurants in the country. The ownership has changed since then, but Table 6's commitment to excellence has not. But another thing has changed: Even though Mel's Bistro finally closed its doors (Mojitos now occupies that spot), Sixth Avenue is one of the hottest restauran

  December 30, 2008

• A wake for Auld Dubliner

  This town has a real shortage of good Irish bars -- as Jason Sheehan lamented in his review of Celtic Tavern -- and we just lost another one.  Last night employees of the Auld Dubliner held a wake for the pub at 2796 South Broadway that we'd celebrated in a St. Patrick's Day list of Irish bars last year (that's bartendress Ally Frazier in the photo). We ran into a couple of the mourners at My Brother's Bar (which, our Scottish friend argued, could well have the town's most auth

  January 15, 2009

• Fry me to the moon

  Reading Jason Sheehan's description of the Fainting Goat, the watering hole that's taken over 846 Broadway, made us hungry for another taste of their chicken wings. But when we dropped in yesterday afternoon, we found ourselves in fried-item heaven: the Goat was testing out some new appetizer possibilities, all courtesy of Nobel Sysco.Our favorites: the fried pickles, the mac-and-cheese wedges (whch I'd sampled before at the Red Room -- be still my arteries), the stick pretzel and the "fiesta" p

  January 16, 2009

• Catch the inauguration at Cora Faye's Cafe

  The coffee's already on at Cora Faye's, the soul-food restaurant that Jason Sheehan raved about back in July 2007. The TV's on, too, making this restaurant at 2861 Colorado Boulevard one of the best spots in the city for watching the inauguration of Barack Obama.Channel 31 host Shaul Turner is on hand to greet diners, and owner Priscilla Smith will keep the coffee flowing. For details, call 303-333-5551.

  January 20, 2009

• Denver's best burgers go big time

  The Cherry Cricket makes one of the town's great hamburgers (here's Jason Sheehan's List of the town's Best Burgers), which is why the Travel Channel will be stopping by Denver's Best Burger Bar at 2641 East Second Avenue today, to film a segment of Man v. Food with host Adam Richman. You can catch the Cricket action between 1:30 and 9:30 p.m. -- and grab a burger at the same time. (On Thursday, Richman will be at Jack-n-Grill.) CityGrille's burgers don't rate as high in Sheehan's book (he loves

  January 20, 2009

• A burrito bonanza!

  It's been a busy week in the world of burritos. Jason Sheehan reviewed the shaky Beaucoup Burrito, and spoke a little more about it here. In desperate need of an uplifting burrito story to erase the bad taste left by Sheehan's description of the Beaucoup seafood burrito, I went out and took some hot and steamy shots of burrito porn. Chipotletize me, Cap'n!What ethnic culinary item do we dissect next week? Haggis? Clam chowder? Improperly prepared pufferfish? Let us know what gustatory pool of kn

  January 29, 2009

• A picture's worth 1,000 calories

  Mark MangerJason Sheehan visited DJ's Berkeley Cafe for this week's restaurant review. This week's Westword, on newsstands and at westword.com later today, is especially friendly to foodies. Along with the usual lineup of reviews and columns, this week's cover story, by Sex, Death and Oysters author Robb Walsh, focuses on the world's vanishing oyster supply. To tide you over until this afternoon, visit westword.com/slideshow for photos of oysters from all over the world, along with a slidesho

  February 11, 2009

• Judging Tony's by its cover

  Jason SheehanSo I'm walking around over at Tony's, just trying to get a feel for the place and the lay of the land. And it's nice, sure. There's ten kinds of barbecue sauce, so many different kinds of mustard that the shelving unit looks like my fridge at home on a busy week (thirty kinds of mustard and nothing else). The displays of fresh flowers by the front door make the space welcoming and the (oddly small) fresh produce section is nicely arranged.But really? This is Denver. We might no

  May 29, 2009

• Up Close: Star Kitchen

  Mark Manger In this week's Westword, on newsstands and online a little later today, Jason Sheehan discovers the dim-sum deliciousness of Star Kitchen (2917 West Mississippi; 303-936-0089). See Mark Manger's photos at westword.com/slideshow.

  March 4, 2009

• Another taste of this week's Cafe Society

  Denver Restaurant Week is over, but there are still plenty of good meals and deals out there. Jason Sheehan offers a rundown on the top seven spots to grab a bite to eat on Broadway in The List. A week after his win on Top Chef, Tyler Nemkov finally caught up with Hosea Rosenberg.  Fast food can upset more than your stomach. For a sickening trip down memory lane, read Teague Bohlen's run-down of the ten worst fast-food ad campaigns. Anthony Bourdain didn't get published in an altweekly

  March 7, 2009

• For ladies only -- a Venue wine-tasting tonight

  Venue, the new restaurant at 3609 West 32nd Avenue that earned a recent rave from Jason Sheehan, is teaming with Marczyk Fine Foods to host a ladies-only (don't tell Steve Horner!) wine education tasting from 5:30-7 p.m. today, Tuesday, March 10. The line-up features Venue apps and the "best American wines you've never heard of." To reserve a spot, $40, call 303-477-0477 or e-mail Ashley@marczykfinefoods.com.

  March 10, 2009

• IACP Conference Report: Hunting the most dangerous game of all. Man.

  For those of you not yet hipped to the big foodie news in Denver this week, the International Association of Culinary Professionals is in town -- a kind of traveling circus show of food writers, food editors, food pimps, chefs, authors, wine gurus and associated tradesmen. And, of course, Jason Sheehan is embedded right in the middle of all the action, causing trouble, sponging up free drinks and generally comporting himself in as disreputable a way as possible. His reports from inside the conve

  April 3, 2009

• Letters from the week of April 9

  April 9, 2009

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters from the week of 9/4/2008

  September 4, 2008

• Cafe Society: Week in Review

  Things you might have missed this week in Cafe Society:   If you feel passionately about whether Steuben's qualifies as a diner, don't miss your opportunity to let Jason Sheehan know where he should send Guy Fieri when he comes to town for his show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.   Sketch introduces Wino Wednesdays. Where else are you going to get your box wine and beef jerky with such fancy atmosphere?   Jason Sheehan dishes the insider backstory behind Tocabe and its link to

  April 17, 2009

• Up Close: Cracovia

  Mark Manger To further whet your appetite for Cracovia, the subject of Jason Sheehan's review this week, see more of Mark Manger's photos at westword.com/slideshow.

  May 6, 2009

• Cafe Society: Week in review

  What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society...Jason Sheehan got people talking about the best barbecue in Denver.  Have an opinion?We had a crush on cans for American Craft Beer Week.  Check out our profiles of local breweries perfecting the art of canning craft beer.It was also World Cocktail Week and, in case you need something to go with all that alcohol, National Hamburger Month.Tyler had a mangorgasm over Red Trolley sorbet at Venue.We unearthed video evidence of the secr

  May 15, 2009

• The Market Report, May 23

  Jason Sheehan's favorite festival is messin' up my market. On Cafe Society's Twitter account, Sheehan expressed his love for the Boulder Creek Festival: "With any luck, I should be posting pics of giant turkey legs and damp hippies from the Boulder Creek Festival this weekend. Stay tuned." Well, that made my weekly trip to the Boulder Farmers' Market like the journey to the center of the earth on May 23. Before I could reach the actual market, I had to journey through merry-go-rounds, giant tr

  May 26, 2009

• Eat your words, Bill Husted

  In today's Denver Post, Bill Husted writes about Jason Sheehan's upcoming book, Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, and quotes from a negative (and very entertaining) review published last week in the Los Angeles Times by that paper's food writer, Russ Parsons. "You probably won't read this in Sheehan's column," Husted avers. Maybe not. But that's because Sheehan already wrote about it right here on this blog the day the L.A.Times review came out.

  June 7, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, June 17 edition

  Jason Sheehan. Really. Masks off, everybody. Today in Cafe Society: • Cooking Dirty: Fourteen days and counting. • Del Maguey mezcal at Tambien tonight. • A fish story at Oceanaire's Celebrate Alaska dinner. • The name game continues at Hickory Prime. • Birthdays, barbecue and Black Pearl. • Our Weekly Bread: Lakeside Waffles. • Panzano introduces a full plate of don't miss meal steals and deals . • More news from the new Snooze. Today in Backbeat Online: • Get Monolith tick

  June 17, 2009

• Cafe Society: Week in review

  You didn't miss all this good stuff, did you?  No problem, we've rounded up the best of the Cafe Society week for you below.Hot dog eating champs battled it out in a Denver qualifier for the big 4th of July competition in Coney Island.  Jason Sheehan sought your opinion on where to take Dad for a good meal on Father's Day.Fear not, MillerCoors employees of Golden: you're still set to receive your 864 free beers this year.Jason Sheehan: unmasked!Our Weekly Bread went slumming at Lakesid

  June 19, 2009

• Bad weekend for barbecue at Big Hoss, Q Worldly Barbecue

  Big Hoss is on hold for nowBig Hoss Bar-B-Q , at 3961 Tennyson Street, has been hot since it first opened back in December 2006, and earned raves from Jason Sheehan a year later. But this is ridiculous: After a cook left the smoker open on Saturday, the Big Hoss kitchen caught fire -- and the restaurant had to shut down this weekend.There was no damage to the dining room, though, and owner Hoss Orwat promises to open back up by July 6. Q Worldly Barbecue at 2817 East Third Avenue, which recent

  June 29, 2009

• Tonight: Meet the very tall, dark and handsome Jason Sheehan

  Lori MidsonOhmigod. That's Jason Sheehan in CROCS! So...if you haven't already heard about Jason Sheehan's new memoir, Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, then your reading catalog clearly consists of titles that you should keep between yourself and your therapist. Oh, please. Shameless Sheehan has pimped his book here, here again, there and everywhere, so it's not like he's all shy about it. But here's the thing: He has been shy about showing his face since h

  July 1, 2009

• Live from Sheehan's book signing

  We're at Katie Mullen's for the official release of Jason Sheehan's book, Cooking Dirty, and get this: There are actual people here! And they have his book! And they want him to sign it! And someone just took a picture of him! Perhaps this shouldn't be surprising, but it's always strange when people fawn over someone you know to be so regular -- even if they are that booze-swilling, chain-smoking, otherwordly-talented Rochester kind of regular. Anyway, since Sheehan has heretofore been entirel

  July 1, 2009

• A Rat in the Kitchen

  July 23, 2009

• Video: Live ramblings from Jason Sheehan at the Denver Press Club

  If you somehow don't get enough Jason Sheehan from chewing on the novela's-worth of words he spews each week in the food section of Westword and on this very blog, or from digesting his new memoir Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, then you're in luck. Here's a video of Sheehan appearing at the Denver Press Club for a gathering of local journos known as the Scribulators Guild in which he discusses such heady topics as food writing, sandwiches, God, horrible kit

  August 3, 2009

• Up Close: Organixx

  Mark Manger​ This week at westword.com/restaurants, Jason Sheehan discovers Organixx -- despite his aversion to "green" restaurants. See photos of the restaurant, by Mark Manger, at westword.com/slideshow.

  August 13, 2009

• Cafe Society: Week in review

  What you might have missed while stealing the letters from Bastien's marquee...Jason Sheehan may hate green restaurants but that doesn't stop him from having a list of his favorites.Think you know your Denver restaurant scene?  Here's your chance to prove it playing Cook Street's foodie photo scavenger hunt.Bad news for Biker Jim's Southlands spot.Jason excavates his desk and unearths mysteries.Chef and tell: interview with John Broening of Duo and Olivéa.Highland Tavern adds a kitchen.

  August 14, 2009

• Up Close: Pho 95

  Mark Manger​ In this week's restaurant review, Jason Sheehan is bowled over by Pho 95. See photos by Mark Manger at westword.com/slideshow.

  August 27, 2009

• Up Close: Olivea

  Mark Manger​This week, Jason Sheehan checks in at John Broening's Olivea. See more of Mark Manger's photos on the slideshow page.

  October 7, 2009

• And that makes five...gastropubs

  ​ Denver's apparently getting a fifth gastropub -- and that could give Jason Sheehan a major case of indigestion, as you know if you've been following his gastropub rants right here on Cafe Society. As we reported last month, Denver's three existing, self-proclaimed gastropubs -- Jonesy's, Argyll and Colt & Gray -- will soon be joined by Downtown Gastropub, one of three new spots that Tryst owner Paul Piciocchi is putting into the former Alto on 15th Street. And now comes news of SKYB

  October 12, 2009

• Hospoda closes the books on the town's friendly beer house

  ​Hospoda, the restaurant that billed itself as "friendly beer house," has closed after a good effort in a bad location, at 3763 Wynkoop Street (right off Brighton Boulevard), the former home of the Wynkoop Grill. Jason Sheehan loved Hospoda it when I dragged him there -- the ambience was a crazy mix of West (cowhide bar stools) meets Eastern European fare, and you could order a side of green chile with your potato pancakes. The place is now locked up tight, although a sign in the window n

  October 13, 2009

• Cafe Society: Week in review

  ​What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were carefully crafting your kick-ass crush letter telling us all about your favorite Denver dive-bar: Lobby American Grille general manager Cory Sylvester got more than be bargained for on Tuesday night when a couple of thugs roaming the alley roughed him up bad enough to send him off to the hospital. (He's fine). Jason Sheehan freely admits, right here in print, that Jonathan Safran's Eating Animals nearly converted him

  October 16, 2009

• Based on his letter, I'm not sure this guy loved my review of Mark & Isabella

  ​ This letter, which was published in today's issue, could be the best letter Westword has ever received about a review: Having suffered through Jason Sheehan's unconscionably vindictive review of Mark & Isabella, I will make a point to try the place, simply to protest Sheehan's (as always) self-indulgent hatchet job. Really, what have your readers done to deserve the weekly dose of douchebaggery that is Sheehan's obsessively self-referential, faux-macho, desperately attention-seeking dr

  November 5, 2009

• Do you have a passion for food and restaurants?

  ​ Does reading this blog make you hunger to write? Westword is expanding its Cafe Society coverage, and we're looking for a great freelance writer with a passion for food and restaurants, as well as the ability to produce stylish and knowledgeable news and opinion pieces about the Denver dining scene. This is not a restaurant critic position. We have one of those already, and Jason Sheehan's not going anywhere. A background in reporting is highly desirable. So are interviewing skills. An

  November 12, 2009

• Up Close: Fogo de Chao

  Mark Manger​For this week's review, Jason Sheehan has a near-meat-death experience at Fogo de Chao, 1513 Wynkoop Street. See more of Mark Manger's photos on the slideshow page.

  November 11, 2009