Subject: Keegan Gerhard

• The Next Great Chef

  May 1, 2008

• Beard House Blues

  June 8, 2008

• All Keegan, All the Time

  July 29, 2008

• The List: Jason Sheehan's favorite meals in 2008

  Last week, I digested a year's worth of eating. To recap, here are my six best meals of 2008, in no particular order, and one in memorium addition: 1) Le Bernardin, Manhattan. Eight or nine or ten courses, with the menu personally chosen and assembled by Eric Ripert and wines paired by Aldo Sohm, the best sommelier in the world. 2) Beatrice & Woodsley. One beautiful night full of pork and pork and pork and chainsaws. 3) Osteria Marco. While I was in New York, home of some of the best Italian

  January 6, 2009

• A Colorado culinary connection

  Denver's food scene may not be as big as San Francisco's or New York's, but it isn't bad. In fact, it's the perfect match between intimacy and variety. And its size provides plenty of opportunities to get close not just to our restaurants, but to the specialty food shops around town.  Culinary Connections of Colorado is a new company set up to help you do just that. Started by Cristino Griego of Della Radice Gourmand Services (pictured here ©2009 Alan Hill)  and 'foodie' Becky Creighton, Cu

  January 9, 2009

• Luca D'Italia kicks off its sixth anniversary chef dinner series tonight with Wayne Conwell

  Luca D'Italia, 711 Grant Street, marks its six-year anniversary throughout the month with a march of visiting Denver chefs, including Wayne Conwell, exec at Sushi Sasa, 2401 15th Street, who will team up with Luca (and Mizuna, Osteria Marco and Bones) chef-owner Frank Bonanno tonight, June 3, for a five-course wine pairing dinner priced at $90 per person. A 6:30 p.m. reception kicks off the night, followed by dinner at 7 p.m. To secure your spot, call 303-832-6600.If you can't make tonight's din

  June 3, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, March 12 edition

  Keegan Gerhard and Lisa Bailey. What's cookin'? Today in Cafe Society: • Sweet talk from Keegan Gerhard and other tasty events. • Zaidy's Deli Downtown is still Zaidy's... but now with fusion. • The Wynkoop's canny new strategy. • Veggie Girl: Pasquini's Pizzeria. Today in Backbeat Online: • Mile Hi-Fidelity playlist -- 03.11.09. • Get your goth on with Pictureplane tonight. • 3Oh!3 taking the U.K. by storm. • The Fray still in top ten on Billboard 200. • Cricket on the Hill

  March 12, 2009

• Buzz Off

  January 15, 2009

• Digesting a year's worth of my best meals in the Mile High City

  January 1, 2009

• Pho 99 is pho-king great

  September 25, 2008

• One more night at Black Cat

  September 18, 2008

• An Affair to Remember

  September 11, 2008

• D for Denver

  Keegan Gerhard is a star -- and D Bar Desserts really shines.

  July 31, 2008

• D Bar Desserts

  Star Power

  July 31, 2008

• Sparrow Flies the Coop

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

  February 14, 2008

• D Bar Desserts celebrates its first anniversary with free cupcakes!

  Put a little sprinkle in your step this Saturday, May 23, when D Bar Desserts, the magnificent bakery, sugar shack and savory foods shop at 1475 East 17th Avenue, celebrates its first anniversary with free cupcakes -- just one of the attention-grabbers at the food-porn patisserie that chef (and Food Network Challenge host) Keegan Gerhard and his wife and pastry chef, Lisa Bailey, opened last year. (Westword restaurant critic Jason Sheehan raved about it here.) Here's the deal: Come in anytime be

  May 21, 2009

• In answer to your question, D Bar

  Earlier in the week, I put forth the question: When all the traditional choices have been burned through, where is the best place to bring your mom when she comes to town? I got a lot of great answers.  Potager, the Berkshire, Solera and Strings (no), Duo (I would've gone to Olivea first) and Tables and Table 6 (she's been) and Twelve (a bit too involved for her tastes, I think).  There were adventurous choices (Lao Wang Noodle House) and not-so-adventurous ones (Highlands Garden cafe)

  June 12, 2009

• Partake in tonight's Plates for the Peak at Vesta Dipping Grill

  One of the best food events of the year, Plates for the Peak, a small plates fundraiser and silent auction to benefit Urban Peak, a non-profit that saves kids from the jaws of homelessness, returns for a sixth year to Vesta Dipping Grill, 1822 Blake Street, tonight from 6 to 10 p.m. The star-studded cast includes some of Denver's best chefs, including Vesta exec Matt Selby, Jamey Fader (Lola); Tyler Wiard (Elway's); James Rugile (Venue); Keegan Gerhard (D Bar Desserts); Goose Sorensen (Sole

  June 15, 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 dark, polished wood, slapped a palm on top and pronounced, "I'll take everything."If only every meal could start that way. If only every meal could be constructed of nothing more than the best parts of

  June 30, 2009

• D Bar Desserts is too good to save for dessert

  July 2, 2009

• Food Fête

  July 16, 2009

• Taste of the Nation is hottest ticket in town

  Photo by Lori MidsonSean Yontz and Matt Selby One of Denver's best annual culinary celebrations comes down on Sunday, July 19, at Mile High Station (2027 West Lower Colfax Avenue), this site of this year's Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation, a fantastic food-centric event that raises funds to eradicate childhood hunger in Denver and across America. Denver's top cookers -- Matt Selby (Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben's), Mark Dym (Marco's Coal-Fired Pizzeria), Sean Yontz (Mezcal), Keegan

  July 17, 2009

• Sober and not-so-sober observations from the Taste of the Nation

  Lori MidsonStaff from Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben'sYesterday afternoon, Denver's best chefs rolled out the culinary red carpet and rubbed tongs with smitten admirers and other do-gooders who showed up in droves at Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation, a charity event that benefits anti-hunger organizations in Colorado and across the nation. The celebration was chef-chaired by Steuben's and Vesta Dipping Grill kitchen magician Matt Selby, who, with a lot of help from a lot of friends, pul

  July 20, 2009

• Crested Butte Land and Trust Food and Wine Festival uncorks today

  The first day of the four-day Crested Butte Land Trust Food and Wine Festival uncorks today. And unlike some local food and wine festivals where our homegrown chefs are snubbed, the Crested Butte powwow, which includes wine seminars, wine walks, chef dinners, grand tastings and gourmet picnics, parades four of Denver's top culinary chiefs: Keegan Gerhard (D Bar Desserts); Troy Guard (TAG); Tyler Wiard (Elway's Cherry Creek); and Frank Bonanno (Mizuna, Luca D'Italia, Osteria Marco and Bones). In

  July 23, 2009

• Tonight at Lola: The Denver Five roll out the first of five dinners

  Denver Five chefs​ Keegan Gerhard (D Bar Desserts), Troy Guard (TAG), Tyler Wiard (Elway's in Cherry Creek) and Matt Selby (Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben's) will join host chef Jamey Fader at Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, tonight at 6 p.m., when all five chefs will convene in Fader's home kitchen to prepare a five-course meal -- the first in a five-dinner series from the "Denver Five," a tight band of five local chefs that cooked together at the James Beard House in May. "This is a chanc

  July 27, 2009

• Still alive after the first Denver Five

  Nancy LevineJimmy Zanon's watermelon/chile margarita​ Last night I attended the first of a quintet of dinners coming from the Denver Five, the merry band of chefs who've represented Denver so ably by cooking at the renowned James Beard House in New York City the last two years. The group consists of Tyler Wiard (Elway's), Jamey Fader (Lola), Matt Selby (Vesta and Steuben's), Troy Guard (TAG) and Keegan Gerhard (D Bar Desserts), and I'm convinced that these chefs could take table scraps and mak

  July 28, 2009

• Tonight: The Denver Five dish it out at D Bar Desserts

  ​ The Denver Five, a platoon of five local chefs who cooked together earlier this year at the James Beard House in New York City, and then decided that they'd like to cook with one another -- yet again -- in each other's hometown restaurant kitchens, gathered at Lola two weeks ago for the first in a series of five dinners to cook, says Lola chef Jamey Fader, "for the cause of getting Denver's rich culinary prowess out there to people in Colorado and national onlookers alike." The second

  August 11, 2009

• Chef and Tell: Jamey Fader of Lola and Big Red F

  Jamey Fader​I've kept company at the bar with Jamey Fader more times than I can count, laughing as he tells me stories about the hippies camped out in their caravans just outside Lola during the DNC, simultaneously shaking and nodding my head while he divulges his latest - and usually crazy - chef shenanigans, listening intently as he explains his stance on celebrity chefs, namely that he couldn't care less. Fader once auditioned for Top Chef, the Bravo TV reality show that produced a Bou

  August 19, 2009

• Tonight: Denver Five dinner at TAG with local winemaker Ben Parsons

  The Denver Five: Keegan Gerhard, Troy Guard, Matt Selby, Jamey Fader and Tyler Wiard​ To celebrate the fact that the Taste of Colorado won't be back for another year, the Denver Five, a cartel of homegrown chefs that get together every so often in each other's restaurant kitchens, are cooking together tonight at TAG, Troy Guard's Asian fusion restaurant at 1441 Larimer Street. Okay, so the Taste of Crap Colorado part is a slight exaggeration, but not the dinner, which is a five-course c

  September 9, 2009

• Shut Up and Eat

  September 17, 2009

• Cafe Society: Week in review

  Lori MidsonLobby American Grille opened to big crowds on Friday, September 25.​ What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society while getting your free jolt of instant java at Starbucks: A second outpost of Toast, the kick-ass pancake palace, took up residence in the former Village Inn space in Cherry Creek. Fresko, an upscale Mexican restaurant in the Tech Center ,went dark barely two months after first seeing light, while Lobby American Grille opened at the end of September to s

  October 2, 2009

• Top ten places to eat on 17th Avenue

  ​ When Olivea opened in May at 719 East 17th Avenue, it immediately earned a spot among the top ten restaurants on 17th Avenue, which has become a real restaurant row. Below, nine more places to brake for food along 17th.

  October 9, 2009

• Tonight: The Denver Five converge at Elway's for a "partio"

  The Denver Five: Keegan Gerhard, Troy Guard, Matt Selby, Jamey Fader and Tyler Wiard​The Denver Five -- Tyler Wiard, Keegan Gerhard (D Bar Desserts), Troy Guard (TAG), Matt Selby (Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben's) and Jamey Fader (Lola and Big Red F Restaurant Group) will convene tonight at Elway's Cherry Creek, 2500 East First Avenue, Wiard's home turf, for the fourth in a series of five blowout dinners. The multi-course food fest, paired with Australian wines, will unfold on Elway's co

  October 14, 2009

• Bravo is getting its Just Desserts, but Keegan Gerhard won't be the icing on the cake

  Lori Midson​Life is about to get a whole lot sweeter for sugar fiends. That's because Bravo, the network that airs Top Chef and Top Chef Masters (which got the green light for a second season), has just added the icing on the cake: a new show titled Top Chef: Just Desserts, which will pit confectionists and pastry chefs against one another to see who spins the last sugar standing. Like the Top Chef contestants, all the boys and girls will live together in a fancy compound during filming as

  October 27, 2009

• Sugar High: Cake and shake at D Bar Desserts

  Liz Kellermeyer​ Even though Keegan Gerhard and his wife, Lisa Baily, opened D Bar Desserts, 1475 East 17th Avenue, just under two years ago, it took about two minutes for the sugar house to emerge as one of the city's premiere dessert spots. The restaurant serves lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday, but the full spread of plated desserts is only offered after 6 p.m. Everything else in the pastry case, however, is available throughout the day, along with a few specials. Whether it's the

  November 6, 2009