Jennifer Jasinski

The Squeaky Bean's Max MacKissock up for Food & Wine magazine "People's Best New Chef" award

He didn't win in 2011, but Max MacKissock, chef and co-owner of the Squeaky Bean, has another opportunity to emerge victorious in Food & Wine magazine's People's Best New Chef battle -- an award that MacKissock was also nominated for in 2011. See also: - An exclusive first look of the new Squeaky ... More >>

Cochon 555 -- the sultan showdown of swine -- returns to Colorado on Sunday

Here's where the pig puns start: Two years ago, at the Ritz-Carlton in Denver, five Colorado chefs -- Alex Seidel (Fruition and Fruition Farms); Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson (Frasca Food & Wine); Kelly Liken (Restaurant Kelly Liken); Frank Bonanno (Bonanno Concepts); and Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja, Euc ... More >>

Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods, featuring burritos, bugs and bulls' balls from local restaurants, will air Monday

Last fall, in early September, Andrew Zimmern, host of the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods, jetted to Denver, his film crew on his heels, to film footage of an upcoming episode of his wildly popular television show, in which Zimmern stuffs his gullet with foodstuffs that some people would find peculi ... More >>

Some celebrity chefs are stars...and others, like Daniel Cofrades, cook for them

The term "celebrity chef" is as ubiquitous as pork belly, but I bet that if I asked ten people for a definition, I'd get ten different answers. To some, it means a nationally known chef with a mug you'd recognize from appearances on TV. Denver has a few of these, such as Keegan Gerhard of D Bar Dess ... More >>

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 >>

Wine, beer, bison and benefits on this week's calendar

The 8th Annual Denver International Wine Festival will uncork at the Grand Hyatt Denver this Wednesday, and will pouring into Saturday, November 10. The event will overflow with educational seminars, culinary pairings and a selection of more than 400 wines; check the website for a full schedule of e ... More >>

Tonight: Euclid Hall hosts benefit for Rioja bartender

Nico Eymar -- or Nico the Frenchie, as his regulars know him -- has been a bartender/server at Rioja for over seven years. Last Friday, he was involved in a serious motorcycle accident that will require at least three months to recover from. So his colleagues and friends are hosting a benefit tonig ... More >>

Round two with Bentley Folse, exec chef of Finley's Pub

Bentley Folse Finley's Pub 375 South Pearl Street 303-282-4790 www.finleysdenver.com Part one of my interview with Bentley Folse, exec chef of Finley's Pub, ran yesterday; this is part two. Favorite restaurant in America: Both Clancy's and Commander's Palace in New Orleans. Clancy's is a quaint ... More >>

Hot Rocks Griller Challenge heats up Cherry Creek

The fourth annual Hot Rocks Griller Challenge at Elway's Cherry Creek last night, a benefit for the Denver Health Foundation, was hot in more ways than one: hot in temperature, with the the late spring sun beating down during the first hour or so; hot in hotties who stripped down because of that sun ... More >>

Photos: Denver's best female chefs strut their prowess at WomenCook!

Denver's top female chefs cooked up a storm last night at Temple Emanuel, the stamping grounds for WomenCook, an annual benefit for Work Options for Women, a local non-profit that provides hands-on cooking instruction to disadvantaged women who have hopes of working in the food industry. Hundreds ... More >>

Contest alert: Win dinner for two at Trillium on New Year's Eve

When Trillium, Ryan Leinonen's highly anticipated Scandinavian restaurant, opened a few weeks ago in the Ballpark neighborhood, the accolades began almost immediately, which was good news for Leinonen. "I want to have one of the top five restaurants in Denver," he told me during a pre-opening interv ... More >>

Nominate your favorite Colorado chef for the 2012 James Beard Awards

​It's that time of year again, when the James Beard Foundation beckons the public fooderati to cast their nominations for the 2012 James Beard Awards, the "country's most coveted honor for chefs; food and beverage professionals; broadcast media, journalists, and authors working on food; and r ... More >>

Restaurateur Leigh Sullivan on the making, evolution and success of the Denver chef clan known as The Five

Lori Midson​It was just before 5 p.m. on Wednesday when the car dropped me off at the James Beard House, the unassuming West Village brownstone that's the former home of the legendary late American chef and cookbook author, deemed the "dean of American cookery" in the New York Times, whose qu ... More >>

Win two tickets to Euclid Hall's first anniversary party

Lori Midson​It's going to be "a liquor-infused, gastro-visio musical blowout." That's how Jorel Pierce, the chef of Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen, Jennifer Jasinski's nearly unassailable shrine to pig parts, poutine, offal and everything else we love in the food world, describes Euclid's Hall upco ... More >>

Round two with Madison Street's Rob Michaels

Lori Midson​ Rob Michaels Madison Street 1222 Madison Street 303-736-2260 www.madisonstreetdenver.com This is part two of my interview with Rob Michaels, chef de cuisine at Madison Street. In part one of this interview, Michaels dishes on dumbing down menus, the pitfalls of parsley, and pork ... More >>

Jimmy "the butcher" Cross vs. Chris Fuller in the Cochon 555 butchery battle

Cochon 555​When Cochon 555, the nationwide, heritage breed pig-off, trots into town on Sunday, April 3, it won't be just five Colorado chefs battling it out for the "Prince or Princess of Porc" title. In addition to Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja, Euclid Hall and Bisto Vendome); Kelly Liken (Restaur ... More >>

Frasca's Bobby Stuckey at the center of Denver Cochon 555 pig fight

You be the judge. ​Cochon 555, the porkeriffic national competition that trots into Denver on Sunday, April 3, recently announced the five Colorado chefs combating for the Prince of Porc title: Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja, Euclid Hall and Bisto Vendome); Kelly Liken (Restaurant Kelly Liken); Alex ... More >>

Round two with Will Cisa, exec chef of the Corner Office

Lori Midson​Will Cisa The Corner Office 1401 Curtis Street 303-825-6500 www.thecornerofficedenver.com/food/dinner This is part two of my interview with Will Cisa, executive chef of the Corner Office Restaurant Martini Bar. In part one of that interview, Cisa dished on monumental cooking dis ... More >>

Duo and Olivéa pastry chef Yasmin Lozada-Hissom tapped to bake at the James Beard Foundation awards gala

​The James Beard Foundation awards gala, a glitzy, high-falutin' soiree that honors the best chefs, pastry kings and queens, restaurateurs, restaurants and wine directors in the country, takes place on May 9, 2011, at the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in New York. And the culinary blowout ... More >>

Cochon 555 names the five Colorado chefs battling for swine supremacy in Denver in April

Lori MidsonWhich little piggy will take home the top prize at Cochon 555?​ In exactly 37 days, the third US Tour of Cochon 555, a nationwide traveling pork orgy that spotlights five local chefs, five heritage breed piggies and five winemakers, will hoof it to Denver, taking over a yet-to-be-de ... More >>

Tonight: Jennifer Jasinski unleashes a seven-course feast from her new cookbook, The Perfect Bite

Lori Midson​ Last month Jennifer Jasinski, chef/owner of Rioja, Bistro Vendome and Euclid Hall, released her first cookbook, A Perfect Bite, a 186-page compendium of recipes from Rioja's' kitchen, accompanied by stunning photography and tips for the home cook. And tonight, at the Larimer Squ ... More >>

New Year's resolutions from Max MacKissock, Matt Selby, Mark DeNittis, Michael Long and twenty-one more Denver/Boulder chefs

Lori MidsonBrad Rowell, chef at Colt & Gray, resolves to eat twenty percent less pork fat per day and replace that with twenty percent more Schlitz​ Haven't made your New Year's resolutions yet? That makes two of us. But instead of focusing on ourselves, we prodded more than two dozen Denver/ ... More >>

Euclid Hall's Jorel Pierce on the egg man, life without salt and f*cking up the art of cuisine

Lori Midson​Jorel Pierce Euclid Hall 1317 14th Street 303-595-4255 www.euclidhall.com This is part one of Lori Midson's interview with Jorel Pierce, executive chef of Euclid Hall. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. "You can't write that! I'm not a pussy!" Jorel Pier ... More >>

Bistro Vendôme's Matt Anderson dishes on WHIRL, EVOO, brains and Bourdain

Lori Midson​ Matt Anderson Bistro Vendôme 1420 Larimer Street 303-825-3232 www.bistrovendome.com Matt Anderson wanted to become an Olympic downhill skier from the time he was three and wobbled on skis for the first time. But eighteen years later, he threw his skis in the trash. Anderson, on ... More >>

Aaron Youngblood, exec chef of Dixons Downtown Grill, on bourbon, sea-turtle options and the woman who went on a tirade

Lori Midson​ Aaron Youngblood Executive Chef Dixons Downtown Grill 1610 16th Street 303-573-6100 www.dixonsrestaurant.com This is part one of Lori Midson's Q&A with Aaron Youngblood, exec chef of Dixons Downtown Grill. Part two of the interview will run tomorrow. Aaron Youngblood needed a j ... More >>

So foie, so good: Euclid Hall adds a few menu items

Euclid Hall's duck foie gras mini poutine.​The first six weeks at Euclid Hall were one wild ride, culminating in chef/owner Jennifer Jasinski being named Denver Magazine's Chef of the Year -- and then the restaurant doing 600 covers last Saturday, as Great American Beer Festers left the conven ... More >>

Euclid Hall taps its own house beer from Steamworks Brewing today

​When the crew from Steamworks Brewing makes the trip north today for the Great American Beer Festival, they're have something extra on board for Denver. The Durango brewery is making a limited-edition proprietary beer just for Euclid Hall, the happening new beer-centric gastropub owned by La ... More >>

Euclid Hall gives a great building a second chance

Tonight: Strike it while it's Hot Rocks Griller Challenge at Elway's Cherry Creek

Lori Midson Vesta Dipping Grill executive chef Brandon Biederman and Lola and Big Red F executive chef Jamey Fader at the 2009 Hot Rocks Griller Challenge at Elway's Cherry Creek​ A swell of Denver's top kitchen masters are playing with fire tonight at Elway's Cherry Creek, 2500 East First Av ... More >>

A Flavor for Vail

Mountains of food and wine at the Taste of Vail

Taste of Vail​You know that spring has sprung when the crest of Vail Mountain morphs from a skier's powdered paradise into an al fresco grazing ground for foodniks and oenophiles, a transformation that takes place every year during the Taste of Vail, a three-day gastronomic romp that begins to ... More >>

Panzano reveals its delicious new digs

Top Denver chefs play with fire for charity tonight at Elway's Cherry Creek

Real food. Sharp utensils. Big fire. A good cause. And Denver's top chefs. That's what's on tap tonight, from 6 to 9 p.m., at Elway's Cherry Creek, 2500 East First Avenue, when eleven of the town's top cookers - Tyler Wiard (Elway's, Cherry Creek); Sean Yontz (Mezcal, Tambien and Sketch); Justin ... More >>

TAG has a target opening date

Troy Guard was cooking again last night, and it felt good. The former Nine75/Zengo chef had joined Jamey Fader as a guest chef for a special dinner at Lola featuring dishes inspired by the flavors of Cabo and the Yucatan. It wasn't much of a stretch for Guard, who was raised in Hawaii, and it made ... More >>

Last Night: Women-only wine tasting at Rioja

Market Watch

A few points about Bluepoint.

Sparrow Flies the Coop

While Sparrow looks for a new home, Denver chefs head to New York City.

Bistro Vendome

French toast is in order.

Drinking, Smoking and Screwing

I have reservations about hotel restaurants, including Panzano.

Bite Me

Beard House Rules

Cinéma de Aliment

Food on Film is so much more than popcorn.

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What's Up?

Twelve-Stepping

Here's my prescription for starting the year in fine style.

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The Name Game

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Ham on Wry

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

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A Square Deal

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

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So Foie, So Good

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Majority Rules