Subject: Mark Tarbell

• Second Act for Mark Tarbell

  May 30, 2008

• The Oven's Mark Tarbell needs another name

  October 17, 2008

• It's a boy -- and a girl! Mark Tarbell picks a name for his new restaurant.

  Mark Tarbell has finally chosen a name for the new restaurant he's putting into the old Chama space near The Oven, his great pizza restaurant in Belmar. This second spot will be called Mark & Isabella. "The name, like a good rock lyric, has no real story," he tells me (although Mark Falcone is a partner, and Tarbell also has a good friend named Isabella.) Mark & Isabella will run with an American-Italian menu, dinner only, seven nights a week, and could open by the end of the month. -- Jason

  December 9, 2008

• Mark your datebooks: Mark & Isabella will open in 2009

  Last month, Mark Tarbell told Jason Sheehan that he hoped to open Mark & Isabella, his new restaurant at 425 South Tellar in Belmar, by the end of this year. But we just got word that it won't officially debut until 2009. Still, given the success of The Oven, this new year's baby should be worth the wait. For an update, call the restaurant at 303-934-7800.

  December 31, 2008

• The List: A pizza for every day of the week

  Lala's Wine Bar Pizzeria is a bright light in a former black hole. It also happens to serve the only almost-cracker-crust pies that interest me in Denver. Still, there are other good pizzas to be found, including at the Oven, which has won the Best Pizza prize in the Best of Denver for several years now. But that's no guarantee it will win again in March 2009, because this town has plenty of other good pies. (You can vote for your own favorite in our online Best of Denver 2009 poll right

  January 23, 2009

• Best Masterpizza

  March 24, 2005

• Bite Me

  June 30, 2005

• How Steve Ells wrapped up the fast-casual niche

  January 29, 2009

• Hotel restaurants are at your service

  December 11, 2008

• Taste of Denver

  You have to crack a few eggs to make a Denver omelet.

  October 4, 2007

• Bite Me

  Beard House Rules

  May 19, 2005

• Less Is More

  Mark Tarbell keeps things simple at The Oven.

  May 19, 2005

• Bite Me

  Luna Landing

  December 9, 2004

• An early peak at the Streets of SouthGlenn restaurants, including a new place from Mark Tarbell

  Spent this past week chasing down the restaurants and watering holes that will join Whole Foods Market at the new Streets of SouthGlenn (Arapahoe Road and University Boulevard), which will hold its grand opening Thursday, August 27 through Sunday, August 30. The majority of restaurants are familiar chains, some homegrown, some national, but the one surprise in the mix was Home, a restaurant from Phoenix restaurateur/chef Mark Tarbell that was an on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again propositi

  June 12, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, June 12 edition

  "We're not models! We're real people!" Dig in.... Today in Cafe Society: • Simms Steakhouse update. • Giggling Grizzly clan plan to turn Public House into Lizard's Bar & Grill. • A full weekend of food fun. • In answer to your question, D Bar. • An early peak at the Streets of SouthGlenn restaurants, including a new place from Mark Tarbell. • Rest in peace, Stella Cordova. Today in Backbeat Online: • MP3 Freeloader, Showcase Edition: Satan's Eighties Lovechild. • MP3 Freeloade

  June 12, 2009

• Saj Mediterranean Grill to open first at the Streets of SouthGlenn

  Lori MidsonAs reported here in June, the Streets of SouthGlenn, the new retail, restaurant and residential living project sprouting in Centennial, will have a whole lot of eating places. And it looks like Saj Mediterranean Grill will be the first spot to fling open its doors -- although judging from the website, there are still a lot of jobs to fill there, including a GM position. If you're interested in applying, dress up in your summer finery and head there between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturda

  July 15, 2009

• Let the dough fly: There's a pizza battle brewing at Belmar

  ​ There's a pizza battle brewing at Belmar and Virgilio Urbano, the owner of Virgilio's Pizzeria, which is across the street from Belmar at 7986 West Alameda Avenue in Lakewood, is right in the thick of it. Seems that Virgilio's has been denied acceptance into Belmar's Festival Italiano, the shopping district's outdoor Italian food and wine event that takes place September 19-20. And Urbano, whose restaurant has participated in the festival for the past three years, is pissed that he was

  August 25, 2009

• In mourning over a meal at Mark & Isabella

  October 22, 2009

• Cafe Society: Week in review

  Lori Midson​ What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were commiserating with Jason Sheehan over his abysmal dinners at Mark and Isabella, the Italian restaurant run by Arizona-based hot shot restaurateur, Mark Tarbell. A man was shot dead in an altercation inside Chopsticks & Sushi, the downtown restaurant at 16th and Welton that has absolutely nothing in common with Chopsticks China Bistro, the Chinese restaurant that recently relocated from Federal Boulevard t

  October 23, 2009

• From the week of October 29, 2009

  October 29, 2009

• Staffing Up: A new concept for Mark & Isabella

  ​ Last week, my buddy Dave Herrera over at Backbeat debuted a new bloggity thingamajig called Recast, in which he and his guys redo the soundtracks of existing movies. First one? Blade Runner -- one of the greatest movies of all time, and one with a soundtrack that already kicks some serious, artsy, Vangelis-y ass. Despite the fact that he had Dolly Parton, the Kinks and the Electric Prunes on his new version, I still thought it was a great idea. So good, in fact, that I've decided to

  October 29, 2009

• Cafe Society: Week in review

  Sausage king​What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were counting the minutes to Zolo Southwestern Grill's 105 days of tequila. While we locals aren't pleased that the Rockies blew another season of baseball, we understand that not everyone is a fan of the purple and black (or any other Denver sports team color scheme, for that matter), which is why our listage of Denver's best bars at which to root for your favorite sports team should make all you Denver sports

  October 30, 2009

• Will Home be a hit for Mark Tarbell?

  Lori MidsonRestaurateur and chef Mark Tarbell inside his new restaurant, Home​ "We want to get this one right," insists Mark Tarbell, the Arizona-based restaurateur whose Belmar restaurant, Mark & Isabella, was recently maligned by Jason Sheehan. "I believe in this restaurant, and I don't want to fuck it up."I caught up with Tarbell earlier today while checking out the new restaurants at the Streets of SouthGlenn, where Tarbell is opening Home sometime around the end of November, and where

  November 10, 2009

• Could there be pho on the horizon at the Streets of SouthGlenn?

  ​As I reported here yesterday, Arizona restaurateur Mark Tarbell is just a few weeks away from opening Home, a comfort food restaurant that will join The Oven, another Tarbell restaurant, at the Streets of SouthGlenn in late November. And while that's good news for the foodniks who hang in those parts, I'm wetting my pants over the very real possibility that a certain Vietnamese joint on Federal, whose pho bowls me over every time, and whose affable host and owner is one of the greatest guys i

  November 11, 2009

• Mark & Isabella bites the dust

  Gone baby gone...​ The phone kicks callers over to a cheery-voiced hostess talking about the hours of operation and the happy-hour specials, but take a cruise by the website and the news is very plain, typed out in black against a plain background. "mark & isabella has closed its doors" That's all there is. No links. No explanations. No nothing. Just that simple message.

  November 23, 2009