Jenna Johansen

Red Star Deli and Studio F shutter in the Icehouse

A "rising star." That's how Westword restaurant critic Gretchen Kurtz described Red Star Deli, a smashing sandwich joint that opened in the Icehouse, along with Studio F, a spacious culinary stage -- and pop- up venue -- for local and visiting chefs to shine in front of captive audiences, in March o ... More >>

Amerigo Delicatus: Iain Chisholm woos wows with his new-world Italian cuisine

See also: Behind the Scenes at Amerigo Delicatus

Tonight: Scandanavian dinner series at Trillium with Jenna Johansen

Jenna Johansen joins the crew at Trillium, 2134 Larimer Street, tonight for the latest in the restaurant's Scandinavian dinner series. The paired menu will feature courses inspired by the cuisine of Denmark. See also: - Jenna Johansen talks frankly about her boot from Around the World in 80 Plates ... More >>

Parisi closes for renovations, Jax reopens after renovations, and other culinary events

Parisi Italian Market, 4401 Tennyson Street, closed over the weekend for renovations. The space is set to open in "plenty of time for Valentine's Day"; check the restaurant's website for updates. And here's a taste of what else is on the culinary calendar this week:

Trends without end: Dining insiders offer predictions for 2013

Denver and Boulder's best chefs are teaming up to support Hurricane Sandy victims at Mateo's Battle of the Pans benefit

This, insists Theo Adley, is "going to be fucking epic!" Adley, the former exec chef of the Pinyon in Boulder, along with a bold-name cartel of several other Denver and Boulder chefs -- Jennifer Jasinski (Euclid Hall, Rioja and Bistro Vendome); Max MacKissock (Squeaky Bean); Jenna Johansen; Hunter ... More >>

Guess where I'm eating a bacon cheeseburger?

I'm on my way to the Big Apple for a few days to cover the FIVE dinner at the James Beard House, where Denver chefs Samir Mohammad, Hosea Rosenberg, Jenna Johansen, Jessica Scott and Tyler Wiard will be cooking -- but the NYC culinary cognoscenti won't be getting cheeseburgers. And while New Yorkers ... More >>

Culinary calendar: Denver Food and Wine pours into the weekend

The eighth annual Denver Food and Wine Classic -- a three-day celebration of local food, wine and spirits -- is in full swing on the campus of Metropolitan State University of Denver. And the last two days are filled to the brim with events. Here's the schedule:

A culinary guide to the Taste of Colorado

Hungry? This weekend the 29th annual Taste of Colorado will fill Civic Center Park with over sixty vendors serving up eats, as well as daily chef demonstrations, food-eating contests and cooking competitions. It's one big taste of Denver's culinary scene. Here's a breakdown of the menu:

The winning Denver Burger Battle burger is now at a Larkburger near you

The crowning burger at Wednesday night's Denver Burger Battle, at least according to the restaurant industry judges -- Hosea Rosenberg, Jenna Johansen, Daniel Asher and Max MacKissock -- was the meat candy from Larkburger, Thomas Salamunovich's fast-casual empire of artisan burger joints that got it ... More >>

Denver Burger Battle heats up Sports Authority Field tonight

The third annual Denver Burger Battle goes down at Sports Authority Field at Mile High this evening. The popular event is nearly sold out, but there are still some general admission tickets available.

Contest: Win two free VIP tickets to the Denver Burger Battle

In less than three weeks, there's going to be a war in the Mile High City, but instead of weapons, this brawl is all about the beef, the bun, condiments, grease, blood and char. Twelve superpower burger houses and restaurants -- Larkburger, Citygrille, Crave Real Burgers, Mateo, TAG, Highland Tap & ... More >>

The Denver FIVE culinary stars will cook at the James Beard House on September 19

Last September, I spent a whopping 24 hours in New York City, mostly in the kitchen of the James Beard House, where the FIVE, a coterie of local chefs and cocktail kings, strutted their talents to a sold-old cognoscenti of foodniks -- one of whom claimed that it was the most fun she'd ever had at a ... More >>

Il Mondo Vecchio gets cheeky with guanciale, salumi

This is the second in a series of pieces profiling Colorado-grown products...and what some local restaurants do with them. Read the first installment, on Hazel Dell mushrooms, here. Sticky, fragrant, bright orange fat. Rendered from chunks of silky guanciale, it slathers the agliolini all' Amatrici ... More >>

Reader: Celebrity chef shows are more about drama than true talent

Jenna Johansen got the boot from Bravo's Around the World in 80 Plates this week, after making it through seven countries -- and countless challenges. "When I came on to this competition, I thought this would be an adventure, and I thought that there would be a lot more cooking," she told Lori Midso ... More >>

Jenna Johansen talks frankly about her boot from Around the World in 80 Plates

It's been several months since Bravo's Around the World in 80 Plates was filmed in cities spanning the globe, but the memories for hometown chef and contestant Jenna Johansen, who made it through seven countries -- and countless challenges -- before she was given the boot in last night's Thailand ep ... More >>

Photos: Famous faces, food and debauchery from the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen

We've got all sorts of takeaways from the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, which just celebrated its thirtieth year in Glitter Gulch over the weekend, and we'll be posting stories throughout the week about the new Chefs Club in the St. Regis, along with surprising observations and confessions from Gran ... More >>

Three-day barbecue thrown down in Frisco starts today

The nineteenth annual Colorado BBQ Challenge kicks off today in downtown Frisco. The three-day event features more than sixty barbecue teams competing for top honors as the best in Rockies. There will also be a tour of the Breckenridge Distillery tomorrow and a live demo with Jenna Johansen from Bra ... More >>

Cocktail culture, BBQ in Frisco and a 1940s ball on this week's calendar

The Denver FIVE dinner at the Village Cork, 1300 South Pearl Street, sold out over the weekend and there's no waiting list, but there are many other events on the culinary calendar this week, including a visit from a legendary barman tonight. Here's a taste of what's on the menu. (If you know of an ... More >>

Contest: Win seats to the FIVE dinner with Samir Mohammad at the Village Cork

Ever since Samir Mohammad was tapped as the executive chef of the Village Cork, a lovely Washington Park wine bar, oenophiles and foodophiles alike have been clamoring for a taste, and while Mohammad's open kitchen, which squats squarely in a sea of bodies, isn't equipped with a hood or a multi-burn ... More >>

Photos: Chef Jenna Johansen's sprout up dinner at Studio F

It's been a whirlwind week for Jenna Johansen. The former executive chef of Dish, in Edwards, which she still co-owns, made her smashing debut on Around the World in 80 Plates, a new chef-driven reality show on Bravo that premiered on Wednesday night (Johansen, by the way, made it through to the nex ... More >>

Amerigo, a ten-table Italian-American restaurant and market, will open in Ballpark in July

"He looks like Clark Kent, only cuter," whispered a diner at last night's pop-up dinner at Studio F, which paraded the culinary chutzpah of Jenna Johansen, along with her 27-year-old protegee, Iain Chisholm. A Johnson & Wales graduate who's worked in the same kitchens as Johansen for more than a dec ... More >>

Studio F pop-up dinner series with Jenna Johansen begins tonight

Jenna Johansen will celebrate the debut of Bravo's new reality show Around the World in 80 Plates at Studio F, 1801 Wynkoop Street, with a series of globally-inspired pop-up dinners starting tonight. Johansen is one of twelve chefs competing on the show for $150,000 in prize money. "I'm thrilled to ... More >>

Denver chef Jenna Johansen dishes on her debut on Bravo's Around the World in 80 Plates

The premiere of Around the World in 80 Plates, a fast-paced reality show hosted by Cat Cora and Chris Stone that debuts tonight on Bravo at 8 p.m., pits two teams of six chefs against one another in a highly competitive sprint across continents that will end with one chef strutting away with $150,00 ... More >>

Win a golden ticket to molecular magician Ian Kleinman's pop-up dinners at Studio F

Ian Kleinman lives in a Willy Wonka world. He's the mad scientist, the crazy culinary genius who long ago ditched traditional cooking methods to concentrate on molecular gastronomy, for which he's now known nationwide. And starting this Friday, you can win a golden ticket to a pop-up dinner that wi ... More >>

FIVE kicks off its fifth season tonight -- and tickets are still available

Earlier this year, Leigh Sullivan Enterprises -- a hospitality-industry marketing, brand-management and public-relations consulting firm helmed by Leigh Sullivan -- announced its fifth crop of chefs to fill out the ranks of the Denver FIVE, an organization that's "a culinary group whose main goal is ... More >>

James Mazzio hosts an inaugural pop-up dinner series at Studio F

By 8:30 p.m. Saturday night, the crew was on its sixth dinner in three nights, the wine was flowing, and everyone was getting giddy. But then, James Mazzio had reason to celebrate: He'd just taken over the space in the Icehouse that was formerly occupied by Mise en Place cooking school a little over ... More >>

Foodography: A food porn voyage of Chefs Up Front

Colorado chefs cook their asses off -- not just in their respective restaurants but at culinary events all over the city, and last night was no exception, as thirty chefs from Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs convened at the Colorado Convention Center to cook at Colorado Chefs Up Front, a benefi ... More >>

Hosea Rosenberg will kick off the fifth season of FIVE with a soiree at Balistreri Vineyards

Five years ago, Leigh Sullivan was hellbent on showcasing Denver's dining landscape -- and the chefs who define it -- to a national audience. Her determination paid off in spades when she handpicked a ring of five local chefs who would eventually become the first incarnation of FIVE, a quintet of to ... More >>

Jenna Johansen, former exec chef of Dish, in Edwards, goes Around the World in 80 Plates on Bravo TV's new chef reality show

Jenna Johansen, the former exec chef -- and still part-owner -- of Dish restaurant, in Edwards (she's now in Denver, engaged to Il Mondo Vecchio sausage king Mark DeNittis, who's involved with a new project, Salumeria Cansano in Wash Park), is strutting her culinary prowess on a new Bravo TV show, A ... More >>

Red Star Deli, pop-up dinners and a chef series all part of chef James Mazzio's vision for Mise en Place Cooking School

It's been an interesting past few years for James Mazzio, whose culinary career took a giant leap forward in 1999, when the then-Boulder chef of the long-gone 15 Degrees, snagged a Food & Wine magazine Best New Chef crown. Since then, Mazzio has cooked in numerous kitchens throughout the state, incl ... More >>

Reader: Is FIVE too much of a good thing?

Leigh Sullivan founded FIVE, a group of Denver chefs who cook across the country, back in 2008; the lineup, like Sullivan herself, has gone through some changes over the years. Sullivan recently relaunched her own marketing/public relations company, Leigh Sullivan Enterprises, and just announced the ... More >>

The 2012 crop of FIVE chefs and bar stars includes a powerhouse of big names

If you've been wondering how Leigh Sullivan, the ex-wife of Troy Guard, who owns TAG and TAG|RAW BAR, is doing since the couple split last year, the answer is "better than ever."

Part two: Denver chefs reveal what they'd like to see more of in 2012

For last week's "Year in Review," we recapped what the subjects of the 2011 Chef and Tell interviews would like to see less of in Denver. This time, we're serving up their wish lists of what they'd hope to find on Denver's plate in the new year - everything from year-round farmers' markets to whole ... More >>

Part two: Denver chefs dish on what they wish would disappear in 2012

As we've discovered in our weekly Chef and Tell interviews, Denver's kitchen commanders are, if nothing else, unapologetically opinionated. We pepper them with dozens of questions, and sometimes their answers are salty -- especially their responses to what they'd like to see less of in Denver from a ... More >>

Il Mondo Vecchio owner Mark DeNittis will soon open ll Mondo Vecchio Mercato-Salumeria -- where all can eat

The new home of ll Mondo Vecchio Mercato - Salumeria.​He's talked about it for months -- and finally, after an endless hunting spree for the perfect space, salumi czar Mark DeNittis, who owns Il Mondo Vecchio, is opening Il Mondo Vecchio Mercato-Salumeria at 1284 South Pearl Street, in Washing ... More >>

Round two with dish's Jenna Johansen

​ Jenna Johansen dish 56 Edwards Village Boulevard, Edwards 970-926-3433 www.eatdrinkdish.com This is part two of my interview with Jenna Johansen. Part one of this interview ran yesterday. Greatest accomplishment as a chef: Opening my restaurant. I've done a lot of work to get to where I a ... More >>

dish's Jenna Johansen thanks the universe for supplying the world with pig

​ Jenna Johansen dish 56 Edwards Village Boulevard, Edwards 970-926-3433 www.eatdrinkdish.com This is part one of my interview with Jenna Johansen, co-owner/chef of dish restaurant in Edwards. Part two of this interview will run in this space tomorrow. "I can talk about an apple for an ho ... More >>

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