Jorel Pierce

Jen Jasinski's James Beard win felt like a lifetime achievement -- although her career is cooking

Prince Harry might have stopped by The Market on Monday, but the real royalty was right down the street, at Rioja. Just a week before, Jennifer Jasinski, the chef who opened that Larimer Square restaurant with business partner Beth Gruitch almost a decade ago, was named Best Chef Southwest at the Ja ... More >>

Denver FIVE loses Kevin Morrison but gains Brian Laird

Kevin Morrison, chef-owner of Pinche Taqueria, was absent from last night's Denver FIVE dinner at Studio F, the first in a series of upcoming dinners and events from Leigh Sullivan's newest crew of Denver chefs, who cook at various local restaurants, represent the Mile High City at the Aspen Food & ... More >>

Photos: Denver FIVE kicks off its sixth dinner series at Studio F

The sixth edition of Leigh Sullivan's Denver FIVE held its first dinner last night at Studio F, a sold-out smash featuring chefs Matt Selby (Corner House), Sean Yontz (El Diablo), Jorel Pierce (Euclid Hall), Ian Kleinman (The Inventing Room) and new addition/repeat Brian Laird (who's opening Sarto's ... More >>

Five @ Five, Earth Day and more on the calendar this week

It's the sixth anniversary of the Denver Five -- a collaborative dining project from some of Denver's most reputable chefs. And the crew is celebrating tonight with a Five @ Five dinner featuring five paired courses from Matt Selby, Sean Yontz, Ian Kleinman, Kevin Morrison and Jorel Pierce. The loca ... More >>

The new crew of FIVE chefs hosts their first dinner at El Diablo on Monday

Matt Selby (Corner House), Kevin Morrison (Pinche Taqueria), Jorel Pierce (Euclid Hall) and Ian Kleinman (The Inventing Room) will congregate in the kitchen of Sean Yontz, exec chef of El Diablo, on Monday, April 22, for the first FIVE dinner showcasing the new crop of chefs that comprise Leigh Sull ... More >>

Best Chef: A nostalgic look back at our Best of Denver chef winners

In just a few short hours from now, the Best of Denver 2013 will start hitting the street -- and the web. This year's edition is packed with more than 400 winners (we're still counting). One of the most anticipated categories in our Food & Drink section is also one of the the most coveted: Best Chef ... More >>

Jennifer Jasinski a James Beard finalist for Best Chef Southwest

The James Beard Foundation just released the finalists for this year's food and restaurant awards, and the list of locals has been whittled considerably since the semifinalists were announced back in February. Then five Denver chefs made the list; now only chef Jennifer Jasinski, co-owner of Rioja, ... More >>

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 >>

Round two with Patxi Azpiroz, exec chef of Patxi's Pizza

Patxi Azpiroz Patxi's Pizza 3455 South University Boulevard, Englewood; 303-783-2000 185 Steele Street; 303-331-1000 www.patxispizza.com This is part two of my interview with Patxi Azpiroz, exec chef/owner of Patxi's Pizza; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Favorite Denver restaurant(s) ... More >>

Reader: Entertainment or excellence -- an easy choice at Euclid Hall

On Monday night, Euclid Hall was featured on Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods. But the food there isn't all that bizarre: Yesterday, Euclid Hall learned that executive chef Jorel Pierce has been named a semi-finalist for James Beard Rising Star Chef. And while Pierce didn't last past the first episod ... More >>

Jorel Pierce a semi-finalist for James Beard Rising Star; four more Denver chefs make the cut

The James Beard Foundation has just released its list -- its long list -- of semi-finalists, and several Denver area restaurants and chefs have made the cut. Jorel Pierce may have gotten bumped from Top Chef early, but the exec chef at Euclid Hall made the cut for Rising Star Chef of the Year. And ... More >>

Euclid Hall: The bull's balls in their court

Euclid Hall is on a roll. Today the restaurant learned that Jorel Pierce, the executive chef, has been named a James Beard semifinalist in the Rising Star Chef category. And last night, the restaurant's Rocky Mountain oysters got a rave review from Andrew Zimmern on Bizarre Foods. One segment of th ... 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 >>

Exclusive: Leigh Sullivan announces the new troop of Denver FIVE chefs: Selby, Yontz, Pierce, Kleinman and Morrison

It's a roster that includes some of the biggest and boldest names in Denver's culinary landscape: Matt Selby, Sean Yontz, Ian Kleinman, Kevin Morrison and Jorel Pierce. Those are the five chefs that Leigh Sullivan, president of Leigh Sullivan Enterprises, has chosen to round out this year's FIVE, a ... More >>

Culinary calendar: beer month at Euclid Hall, wine month at Rioja

Euclid Hall, 1317 14th Street, is already well known for its craft beer selection, but the beer hall is beefing up its efforts this month with a weekly "Backwall Tap Takeover," featuring rare beers from around the country. See also: - Euclid Hall: Best Place to Pair Beer and Food 2012 - Chef and Te ... More >>

Reader: Tom Colicchio probably hasn't so much as microwaved a burrito in years

Three Colorado chefs started out on the season premiere ofTop Chef Seattle last week, and two moved on. But Euclid Hall's Jorel Pierce was out, booted by Tom Colicchio. And how did that feel? "While the pressure was intense and intimidating," Pierce says, "I know now that I learned a lot about mys ... More >>

Art Meets Beast this weekend at MCA Denver

MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany Street, is hosting its second Art Meets Beast festival, honoring the history of the bison. The two-day celebration begins tonight at 6:30 p.m. with a workshop led by Pete Marczyk of Marczyk Fine Foods, who will carve an entire bison; the vegetarian option is a film with food ... More >>

Euclid Hall's Jorel Pierce on being booted from Top Chef Seattle

I keep threatening to break up with Top Chef, the Bravo reality show that pits "cheftestants" (Bravo's word, not mine) against one another in a string of often ridiculous challenges and theatrically contrived snippets that force the chefs to look into a camera and say really stupid shit -- things li ... More >>

Buffalo Exchange

Tyler Wiard meets Tom Colicchio, his "celebrity chef who needs to shut up," on Top Chef tonight

The tenth season of Bravo's Top Chef starts tonight, with three Colorado chefs among the competitors: Eliza Gavin of Telluride's 221 South Oak; Jorel Pierce, the executive chef of Euclid Hall; and Tyler Wiard, exec chef at Elway's Cherry Creek and culinary director of the Elway's group (which curren ... 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 >>

Sneak peek: The first ten minutes of Top Chef Seattle showcase Jorel Pierce

On Wednesday night, three Colorado chefs -- Jorel Pierce (Euclid Hall), Tyler Wiard (Elway's Cherry Creek) and Eliza Gavin (221 South Oak, in Telluride) -- will compete on Top Chef Seattle, Bravo's award-winning chef showdown, now in its tenth season. See also: - Tyler Wiard, Jorel Pierce will co ... More >>

Arts Meets Beast returns to Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

The inaugural Art Meets Beast at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver was a surprise hit in 2010, featuring local chefs and arts enthusiasts in a mashup of mammoth proportions. And now the beast is coming back, with a two-day exploration of art that will culminate in a bison feast prepared by six ... More >>

Thursday at the Great American Beer Fest: five sneaky-cool things to check out

The Great American Beer Festival, which starts tonight and runs through Saturday, is a river of beer -- and a river of people -- but there are some things that don't always meet the eye: secret fishing holes, swirling eddies, rapids. Here are a couple of things to do that may not be on your radar, b ... More >>

Updated: The Great American Beer Festival 2012 calendar of awesome events

Updated with new events: Tourists may go to Rome to see the Coliseum, but it's the side streets, the adventures and the hidden cafes that typically fill their cameras and their post-trip stories. The same is true of the week surrounding the Great American Beer Festival. The event is the centerpiece, ... More >>

Updated: The Great American Beer Festival 2012 calendar of awesome events

Updated with new events: Tourists may go to Rome to see the Coliseum, but it's the side streets, the adventures and the hidden cafes that typically fill their cameras and their post-trip stories. The same is true of the week surrounding the Great American Beer Festival. The event is the centerpiece, ... More >>

Reader: Will John Elway make an appearance on Top Chef?

Denver has not one, but two contestants on Bravo's tenth season of Top Chef, which was filmed in Seattle and will start airing in November. The lineupincludes Jorel Pierce, the exec chef of Euclid Hall, and Tyler Wiard of Elway's. And yes, there's a third Colorado chef, Eliza Gavin of 221 South Oak ... More >>

The Great American Beer Festival is sold out, but these hot events around it aren't...yet

The Great American Beer Festival sold out in minutes -- possibly seconds -- this year, stealing the breath away from many beer fans and crashing plans. But the festival-related events that surround the annual beerstravaganza, October 11-13, have risen to a level in the past two years that now equals ... More >>

Five meaty ways to satisfy carnivorous cravings in Denver

Mardi Gras is just around the corner, and while the holiday is now mostly associated with drunken sorority girls showing their, um, assets for a strand of shiny beads in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the festival used to provide a reason to stuff yourself before forty days of fasting, giving up ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Pad Thai pig's ears from Euclid Hall

Lori Midson​ No. 39: Pad Thai pig's ears from Euclid Hall

Five Denver/Boulder kitchen magicians who should audition for Top Chef Season 10

"Every season the bar gets higher, every season it means more to be the one on top -- do you have what it takes to be the next TOP CHEF?" So begins the wording on the Bravo website, taunting cookers from around the country to audition for the tenth season of Top Chef, which, if you believe the rumor ... 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 >>

Post-Thanksgiving food fodder: Jorel Pierce's turducken on steroids

Lori Midson​I had a perfectly lovely Thanksgiving with my dysfunctional family, but it was nothing like the pre-Thanksgiving feast that Jorel Pierce, the executive chef of Euclid Hall, along with his sous, Josh Prater, prepared last Wednesday for a 9News segment. Pierce, along with 9News met ... More >>

Oh, what a night: Euclid Hall's first anniversary party in pictures

Lori MidsonEuclid Hall executive chef Jorel Pierce paid plenty of attention to his mustache -- but he couldn't swallow a goldfish.​ Last night, at Euclid Hall's first anniversary party, executive chef Jorel Pierce wagged a fierce mustache, strutted around in a black tuxedo T-shirt, deftly br ... More >>

Announcement! We have a winner of our Euclid Hall anniversary party contest

Lori MidsonNo word on whether Euclid Hall exec chef Jorel Pierce will siwsh around in a tutu at Euclid's first anniversary party, but anything could happen​ Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen is celebrating its first anniversary tomorrow night with a pig-centric party, which exec chef Jorel Pierce pro ... 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 >>

The Euclid Hall pig heist: The final smackdown in photos

​There was no brawl, no last-minute demands, no squealing and no bloodshed. Instead, at 5 p.m. on Sunday at Euclid Hall, two monkey-masked men jumped out of a van, raced up the stairs and delivered a pig -- a pig for ransom that had been stolen in broad daylight just over a week ago at Union ... More >>

More trash talk -- and demands -- from the Sowbionese Liberation Army, who trotted off with Euclid Hall's pig

AnonymousPiggy Longstocking!​Yesterday, in an impassioned retort to the Sowbionese Liberation Army, the bandits who ran away with Euclid Hall's iron pig mascot last weekend, Euclid's executive chef, Jorel Pierce, came out swinging, issuing his own set of demands -- and retaliating against the ... More >>

Euclid Hall retaliates against the Sowbionese Liberation Army by stealing the prime suspect's pig -- and issuing its own set of demands for its safe return

​Things are heating up between Euclid Hall and the Sowbionese Liberation Army, the hooligans who made off with Euclid Hall's iron pig this past Sunday at The Big Eat at Union Station, and are holding it hostage. The staff at Euclid Hall have pinpointed several prime suspects in the heist, t ... More >>

The Sowbionese Liberation Army issues more ransom demands for the return of Euclid Hall's pig mascot

AnonymousWhat, no pink ballet flats?​ The demands from the pig pluckers, who ran off with Euclid Hall's pig mascot last Sunday during EatDenver's The Big Eat, have risen -- and they keep getting more and more hilarious. Initially, the ransom note called for five servings of bone marrow and f ... More >>

Euclid Hall's mascot pig is being held for ransom (no, we're not kidding)

AnonymousGive me my bone marrow, whiskey and sponge baths - or else!​Right...so just a few minutes ago, I received a phone call from someone who shall remain nameless, along with an e-mail, the sender of which will also stay anonymous (for now) telling a tale about how he (or she), along with ... More >>

Food lust from last night's Chefs Up Front Denver dinner

Lori MidsonLobster, enoki mushroom and tenderloin carpaccio hand roll from Jonesy's Eat Bar​Last night, Denver's who's who of chefs congregated at the Colorado Convention Center for Chef's Up Front Denver, a fundraiser that benefited Cooking Matters, a nonprofit that fights childhood hunger a ... More >>

Kitchen Help

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 >>

Reader: Hope this smart chef stays in Denver!

Lori MidsonWe never sausage thing!l​Jorel Pierce, the saucy chef at Euclid Hall, told all -- almost all -- to Lori Midson for his recent Chef and Tell interview, and readers appreciated his candid comments (if not the sausages around his neck, an homage to a recent photo with Jen Jasinski). H ... More >>

Chef and Tell, part two: Euclid Hall's Jorel Pierce on body parts and being a trigger-puller

Lori Midson​ Jorel Pierce Euclid Hall 1317 14th Street 303-595-4255 www.euclidhall.com This is part two of Lori Midson's interview with Jorel Pierce, executive chef of Euclid Hall. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Blue Ribbon in Manhat ... 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 >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Roasted cauliflower salad from Euclid Hall

Lori Midson​ No. 87: Roasted cauliflower salad from Euclid Hall Nobody loves cauliflower. It's pathetically ugly, resembling, even on its best days, a human brain, and when it's cooked -- specifically overcooked -- the florets pollute the air with the stink of sulfur. It's a favored Shylock ... 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 >>

A delicious food porn preview of Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen

Lori Midson ​When Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen, Jennifer Jasinski's new late-night tavern, opens on Wednesday, August 4, Denver grubniks are going to drop to their knees in gratitude, especially if the food is anywhere near as fantastic as it was during a recent menu preview, at which Jasinksi, ( ... More >>