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Jesse Morreale

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    100 Favorite Dishes: Pasta puttanesca from Sketch

    No. 45: Pasta puttanesca from Sketch

  • Dining

    August 4, 2011

    Like its namesake, Mezcal has mellowed with age

    No. 45: Pasta puttanesca from Sketch

  • Dining

    August 4, 2011
  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Food porn: El Diablo

    Mark MangerEl Diablo's addictive queso fundido.​This week I review El Diablo, the devilish restaurant that Jesse Morreale and Sean Yontz opened on the first floor of an old hotel last year. While I loved some dishes more than others, my love for the sexy space knows no bounds, and El Diablo ke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    El Diablo is a devilish revival of an old Broadway hotel

    Mark Manger​In the three years since Jesse Morreale bought the old First Avenue Hotel on Broadway, the two restaurants he's opened on the bottom floor of the property -- Sketch and El Diablo -- with chef and partner Sean Yontz have completely transformed the corner.

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    Hush will put a nightclub in the former Tambien space in Cherry Creek

    Lori Midson​Michael Olsen, who ran the original Hush on Larimer Street, wants to put a new Hush in the subterranean space at 250 Steele Street that Tambien surrendered in September. But Olsen isn't going in alone: He has the support of the Little Pub Company, which owns nineteen joints in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    100 Favorite Dishes: Beef cheek enchiladas from El Diablo

    Lori Midson​ No. 86: Beef cheek enchiladas from El Diablo Sean Yontz is, arguably, the face of Mexican food in Denver, and when El Diablo, the restaurant that he co-owns with Jesse Morreale, opened last August, it did so with an ambitious menu that stretched far and above the conventional M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    Tonight: 101 Broadway gets spectacular, brings on the reindeer

    Light 'em up! And get me some reindeer.​It's been a long, ongoing, dirty process of restoring the First Avenue Hotel at 101 Broadway -- for the last year and a half or so, owner Jesse Morreale (of Rockbar, La Rumba and Mezcal, among others) has been slowly but surely pecking away at restoring ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Today: El Diablo celebrates Day of the Dead

    Lori Midson​ El Diablo is already full of incredible art, but the cantina at 101 Broadway got all decked out for Halloween, with giant spider webs reminiscent of what Jesse Morreale found when he took over the old First Avenue Hotel, spooky lights and hanging skulls. The partying went on all w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2010

    Marathon man Jesse Morreale offers happy hour all day Sunday at El Diablo

    ​Denver's first Rock 'n' Roll Marathon takes to the streets on Sunday, October 17. The race web site offers tips on where spectators can watch the sold-out event -- but we have a better idea than going to a park "oasis": Head directly to the old First Avenue Hotel, now home to Sketch and El ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Tonight: Sketch lives up to its name with an art show opening

    ​Sketch Wine Bar, 11 West First Avenue, lives up to its name when it hosts an art-show opening from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. tonight. The artist? Sam Morreale, father of Sketch owner Jesse Morreale, who took up painting again after a ten-year break -- and a diagnosis of Myelofibrosis, a bone marrow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    After-action report: Broadway Book Mall and beyond

    ​So how many people braved the weather last night and came out for my last book signing? Eleven. Which some people might see as sad, but not me. First, because that doesn't even take the record for my least-attended signing (which would be eight people showing up on a night without apocalyp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2009

    Special dinner at Mezcal featuring food, booze, cameras -- and me in the kitchen

    ​ It has been a long time since I stood a shift in any kitchen. By my own (admittedly poor) accounting, it has been 2,650 days since I last picked up a knife, pulled on my whites or stood before a stove in any sort of professional capacity. I've missed it, sure. I loved the time I spent cook ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    Deke Dickerson at Tambien/Rockbar Third Anniversary

    ​It's not often that you get to see a bunch of motorcycles and tattoos in Cherry Creek, but there's a better than average chance you'll see 'em at Tambien (250 Steele Street) during Rockabilly and Ribs on Sundays. The place has been packing the folks in for with some fine local talent and national ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    Charlie Master is moving on

    Charle Master will soon be out of Sketch.​Charlie Master -- well-known floorman-about-town and scion of the former Mel's restaurant empire -- is packing it in at Sketch, leaving his gig with Jesse Morreale and Sean Yontz to become the new FOH guy for Goose Sorensen at Solera. "I'm excited abou ... More >>

  • Dining

    July 2, 2009

    Sketch has a simple premise that leaves no room for mistakes

    Charle Master will soon be out of Sketch.​Charlie Master -- well-known floorman-about-town and scion of the former Mel's restaurant empire -- is packing it in at Sketch, leaving his gig with Jesse Morreale and Sean Yontz to become the new FOH guy for Goose Sorensen at Solera. "I'm excited abou ... More >>

  • Dining

    July 2, 2009

    Jason Sheehan is ready to face his critics

    Charle Master will soon be out of Sketch.​Charlie Master -- well-known floorman-about-town and scion of the former Mel's restaurant empire -- is packing it in at Sketch, leaving his gig with Jesse Morreale and Sean Yontz to become the new FOH guy for Goose Sorensen at Solera. "I'm excited abou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    Simple things at Sketch Food and Wine

    Sean Yontz will be pleased to meat you at SketchI was several whiskeys to the good on a recent school night when I found myself propped up against Sketch's salumi bar, canting sharply like a ship taking on water.  I asked for the menu, gave it a cursory glance, then pushed it back across the da ... More >>

  • Music

    June 25, 2009

    Follow the bikes to the British Bulldog

    Sean Yontz will be pleased to meat you at SketchI was several whiskeys to the good on a recent school night when I found myself propped up against Sketch's salumi bar, canting sharply like a ship taking on water.  I asked for the menu, gave it a cursory glance, then pushed it back across the da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    The List: Big Operators

    Rough week for Big Red F. I wasn't all tht happy with Happy Noodle House; wasn't cuckoo for the Cocoa Puffs at Centro. But that doesn't mean I don't like some of Dave Query's other restaurants. Matter of fact, he runs two other joints that are among my favorites in the city.Which leads me to this we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2009

    Get a job! Jesse Morreale's job fair

    You drink at Mezcal -- why not work there? Jesse Morreale and his crew have close to a hundred positions to fill in their group of restaurants/bars --  Mezcal, Tambien, Rockbar, La Rumba, Sketch and a "new location," which we're guessing is that big front room at the First Avenue Hotel, right i ... More >>

  • Dining

    April 23, 2009

    White Sangria at Sketch

    You drink at Mezcal -- why not work there? Jesse Morreale and his crew have close to a hundred positions to fill in their group of restaurants/bars --  Mezcal, Tambien, Rockbar, La Rumba, Sketch and a "new location," which we're guessing is that big front room at the First Avenue Hotel, right i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 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 Shee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    IACP Conference Report: What do several hundred wet food writers smell like?

    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 Shee ... More >>

  • Music

    April 2, 2009

    Sketch: a wine bar without the 'tude

    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 Shee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    Wicked Garden launches Night of Bad Decisions tomorrow night

    When Wicked Garden opened last Halloween on Larimer, some folks were hoping it might be Denver's answer to Hollywood's Viper Room. But it takes a little more than throwing up a few '80s album covers, pictures of Jimi Hendrix and Angus Young and painting quotes from Aerosmith songs on the wall to pul ... More >>

  • Music

    December 4, 2008

    The Basement is way tight — really

    When Wicked Garden opened last Halloween on Larimer, some folks were hoping it might be Denver's answer to Hollywood's Viper Room. But it takes a little more than throwing up a few '80s album covers, pictures of Jimi Hendrix and Angus Young and painting quotes from Aerosmith songs on the wall to pul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2008

    Night & Day update: Get lit for the holidays at Tambien

    It's a far stretch from Rockefeller Center, but restaurateur Jesse Morreale goes all out for the holidays at his pair of hipster cantinas, Mezcal and Tambien, by decorating both rooms in true Mexicano holiday splendor that adds - we swear it - an additional sparkle to those already glowing signatu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008

    Swimming in gluttony at Jax Fish House

    It's a far stretch from Rockefeller Center, but restaurateur Jesse Morreale goes all out for the holidays at his pair of hipster cantinas, Mezcal and Tambien, by decorating both rooms in true Mexicano holiday splendor that adds - we swear it - an additional sparkle to those already glowing signatu ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 4, 2008

    Local eateries sum up the DNC action -- or lack thereof

    It's a far stretch from Rockefeller Center, but restaurateur Jesse Morreale goes all out for the holidays at his pair of hipster cantinas, Mezcal and Tambien, by decorating both rooms in true Mexicano holiday splendor that adds - we swear it - an additional sparkle to those already glowing signatu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2008

    Indulge, William Wahl's French bistro, leaves no diner behind

    It's a far stretch from Rockefeller Center, but restaurateur Jesse Morreale goes all out for the holidays at his pair of hipster cantinas, Mezcal and Tambien, by decorating both rooms in true Mexicano holiday splendor that adds - we swear it - an additional sparkle to those already glowing signatu ... More >>

  • Dining

    June 19, 2008

    Wine Time

    Blend your own in Boulder

  • News

    May 8, 2008

    The Colfax Marathon Goes Off-Course

    Why is this race skipping the best stretch of this street?

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2008

    Westword Music Showcase, Year One

    Why is this race skipping the best stretch of this street?

  • Dining

    December 20, 2007

    Mezcal

    Morning, noon or night, Mezcal still does things right.

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2007

    Hot Dog Overflow

    Morning, noon or night, Mezcal still does things right.

  • Music

    August 23, 2007

    This Just In…

    The latest nightlife news.

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2007

    Asian Flavors vs. Happy Meals

    The latest nightlife news.

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2007

    Asian Flavors vs. Happy Meals

    The latest nightlife news.

  • Dining

    March 30, 2006

    Dirty Love

    With Chama, Sean Yontz comes out on top.

  • Dining

    October 20, 2005

    Dog Days

    You never sausage a thing.

  • Dining

    June 16, 2005

    Bite Me

    Tavern Talk

  • Dining

    September 2, 2004

    Bite Me

    Sean and Heard

  • News

    April 8, 2004

    Clear Sailing

    A jury may finally get to hear a juicy suit against Clear Channel.

  • Music

    February 5, 2004

    The Beatdown

    Nobody in particular knows the trouble these guys have seen.

  • News

    October 11, 2001

    Follow That Story

    The Clear Channel Empire Strikes Back

  • Music

    August 30, 2001

    Backwash

    Clear Channel moves in on Red Rocks, while Tenacious D takes a crowd to the moon.

  • Music

    April 15, 1999

    Feedback

    Clear Channel moves in on Red Rocks, while Tenacious D takes a crowd to the moon.

  • Music

    June 11, 1998

    Feedback

    Clear Channel moves in on Red Rocks, while Tenacious D takes a crowd to the moon.

  • Music

    January 22, 1998

    Feedback

    Clear Channel moves in on Red Rocks, while Tenacious D takes a crowd to the moon.

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