Sean Huggard

Encore, Encore!

Encore, Encore!

Chefs go up front today for Operation Frontline

Chefs Up Front, a benefit for Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline, brings twenty top chefs to the Colorado Convention Center at 5:30 p.m. today, March 15. The participating restaurant/chef combos include Andrew Lubatty of Avenue Grill, Pete List of Beatrice & Woodsley, Sean Huggard of Black Pea ... More >>

Warp Speed

Is the critic cracked?

Encore Restaurant

Recycling is good for the planet – and it can taste good, too.

It's Time

The little things will get you every time.

Pearl Bucks

A little competition never hurt anyone.

Another Kind of Comfort

It takes time to make a Pearl.

Black Pearl celebrates four years on South Pearl Street with free wine, cocktails and food

Tonight, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Black Pearl, 1529 South Pearl Street, the restaurant owned by Sean Huggard and Steve Whited, who also run Encore at 2550 East Colfax, celebrates four years of survival in the restaurant-soaked Platt Park 'hood with a big time party featuring complimentary passed appet ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Chef Sean Huggard splits from Encore and Black Pearl, eyes SugarCube building

  Former Black Pearl and Encore exec chef Sean HuggardSean Huggard, the former executive chef at Black Pearl (1529 South Pearl Street) and Encore (2550 East Colfax Avenue), hung up his whites on July 9, got hitched and is currently on his honeymoon. But he'll return in plenty of time to o ... More >>

Sean Huggard's SugarCube deal dissolves

Sean Huggard​"I'm sitting in front of my computer trying to put together a business and marketing plan," says Sean Huggard, the former executive chef at Black Pearl and Encore. The business plan is for a new restaurant, but it won't be for Newport's, which was the LoDo restaurant Huggard had hoped ... More >>

H-Burger Lounge looks toward an early 2010 debut in the SugarCube Building

​Just got word that H-Burger Lounge is planning to open in the SugarCube Building, at 16th and Blake streets, in early 2010. The restaurant, a local concept from Peter Pflum, the former operations manager for Dave Query's Big Red F Restaurant Group and most recently the VP of operations for Quizno ... More >>

Mysteries of Sheehan's Desk: Day 12

That's what a real restaurant crew looks like. Suck it, Bobby Flay.​ Yesterday, I posted a picture of the alien head that had maintained a position of honor on top of my monitor for a couple of years before our office remodel relegated him to a cardboard box. In that picture, said alien he ... More >>

Chef and Tell: Paul Reilly of Encore

Lori MidsonEncore executive chef Paul Reilly​ "Ever since I saw Grover waiting tables on Sesame Street, I knew I wanted to work in restaurants," says Paul Reilly. And he didn't waste much time following in Grover's footsteps, considering that he got his first taste of restaurant life while was ... More >>

Why does Denver love green chile? Don't ask Encore's Paul Reilly.

Lori MidsonEncore executive chef Paul Reilly​ "Ever since I saw Grover waiting tables on Sesame Street, I knew I wanted to work in restaurants," says Paul Reilly. And he didn't waste much time following in Grover's footsteps, considering that he got his first taste of restaurant life while was ... More >>

The chefs have changed, but Encore remains worthy of applause

Lori MidsonEncore executive chef Paul Reilly​ "Ever since I saw Grover waiting tables on Sesame Street, I knew I wanted to work in restaurants," says Paul Reilly. And he didn't waste much time following in Grover's footsteps, considering that he got his first taste of restaurant life while was ... More >>