Sean Kelly

Born in the Fog

Chain Gang

The links keep growing in Colorado's franchise restaurants.

Check, Please!

Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

Best Mediterranean restaurant

Aubergine Cafe

The Bite

Sean Kelly says goodbye--and takes Aubergine and the Biscuit with him.

Back in business: Sean Kelly

Rumors were rampant that the recently vacated North Star Brewery space at 3200 Tejon Street had already been snapped up by Joe Vostrejs, Jeff Hermanson and Rod Wagner -- the Larimer Square gang, in part, and the crew most recently behind the resurrection of Billy's Inn, at 4403 Lowell Boulevard. So ... More >>

The Bite

After a year on the outside, Sean Kelly is back in the kitchen.

The Bite

Toque Talk

Plans for North Star's replacement move ahead

While the abysmal economic climate has stalled many proposed restaurant plans, the new owners of 3200 Tejon Street are moving ahead with their project to put a steakhouse in the former home of North Star Brewery. Sean Kelly (pictured) has already signed on as the chef at the new venture, and on T ... More >>

Best Starters

Clair de Lune

Best Celebrity Chef

Sean Kelly
Clair de Lune

Backwash

Sean Kelly
Clair de Lune

Bite Me

So Foie, So Good

Best Short Wine List

Clair de Lune

Best Chef

Sean Kelly

Bite Me

Kelly's Lune Eclipse

Bite Me

Man About Town

The Beatdown

Jeep’s new vehicle is definitely off-road.

The Beatdown

Sean Kelly weighs in on the Samples' past, present and future.

Bite Me

Comforting Thoughts

Best Small Plates

Somethin' Else

Best Lobster

Somethin' Else

Second Helping

Somethin' Else

What's in a name? Steak and bar, but not steak hut

Lori Midson Until yesterday, I hadn't spoken to Sean Kelly in a long time -- not since he shuttered Somethin' Else (now Fruition) in 2006. Not since he hooked up with the Little Pub Company, whose fourteen pubs, bars, taverns, saloons and (sort-of) restaurants are strewn all over the city. And not ... More >>

Sean Kelly adjusts to (solo) life after the Samples

Lori Midson Until yesterday, I hadn't spoken to Sean Kelly in a long time -- not since he shuttered Somethin' Else (now Fruition) in 2006. Not since he hooked up with the Little Pub Company, whose fourteen pubs, bars, taverns, saloons and (sort-of) restaurants are strewn all over the city. And not ... More >>

Is a chicken wing without chicken even a wing?

Lori Midson Until yesterday, I hadn't spoken to Sean Kelly in a long time -- not since he shuttered Somethin' Else (now Fruition) in 2006. Not since he hooked up with the Little Pub Company, whose fourteen pubs, bars, taverns, saloons and (sort-of) restaurants are strewn all over the city. And not ... More >>

Little Pub Co. just got bigger, biting off the British Bulldog

Lori Midson Until yesterday, I hadn't spoken to Sean Kelly in a long time -- not since he shuttered Somethin' Else (now Fruition) in 2006. Not since he hooked up with the Little Pub Company, whose fourteen pubs, bars, taverns, saloons and (sort-of) restaurants are strewn all over the city. And not ... More >>

Sean Kelly

Lori Midson Until yesterday, I hadn't spoken to Sean Kelly in a long time -- not since he shuttered Somethin' Else (now Fruition) in 2006. Not since he hooked up with the Little Pub Company, whose fourteen pubs, bars, taverns, saloons and (sort-of) restaurants are strewn all over the city. And not ... More >>

On Call

Sean Kelly, phone home.

Change of Plans

Say so long to Rollie Wesen and Somethin' Else.

Road Warriors

The owners of Steuben's have region to believe.

Best Wine List -- Artisan

Clair de Lune

It's My Party

And I'll dine if I want to.

Life on the Line

Sean Kelly is back in the kitchen -- back where he belongs.

Size Matters

Aubergine ripens with age.

Waiting Room

Why so many restaurants have reservations about reservations.

Feedback

Why so many restaurants have reservations about reservations.

THE EGGPLANT AND I

Why so many restaurants have reservations about reservations.

The Larimer Square guys and Sean Kelly get a pizza the action

Lori MidsonThe future home a New York-style pizza joint from the Larimer Square gang and Sean Kelly​Sometime in December, Jeff Hermanson, Joe Vostrejs and Rod Wagner will add a new pizza bar to their portfolio of successful restaurants that already includes Billy's Inn, LoHi Steakbar and prett ... More >>

Sean Kelly finds a home at the LoHi SteakBar

Lori MidsonThe future home a New York-style pizza joint from the Larimer Square gang and Sean Kelly​Sometime in December, Jeff Hermanson, Joe Vostrejs and Rod Wagner will add a new pizza bar to their portfolio of successful restaurants that already includes Billy's Inn, LoHi Steakbar and prett ... More >>

Chef and Tell with Sean Kelly of LoHi SteakBar

Lori MidsonLoHi SteakBar executive chef Sean Kelly​"Nothing that goes on my menus gets there by accident," insists Sean Kelly, executive chef of LoHi SteakBar, the packed-to-the-rafters restaurant and watering hole that opened in June in Highland. "I have a tendency to make sure that everythin ... More >>

Part two: Chef and Tell with Sean Kelly from LoHi SteakBar

Lori MidsonLoHi SteakBar exec chef Sean Kelly​This is part two of Lori Midson's interview with Sean Kelly, exec chef of LoHi SteakBar. You can read part one of Midson's interview with Kelly here. Ten words to describe you: Husband, father, cook, dedicated, extreme, blessed, impossible, critic ... More >>

Staffing Up: My dream team for Ondo's

​Yesterday I kicked off "Staffing Up," with some free advice for how Mark & Isabella can get its act together. But the idea doesn't have to be confined to restaurants that need a swift, motivating kick in the ass; reading through these blog posts for the last few days, I realize that we can a ... More >>

LoHi SteakBar is a great neighborhood joint

​Yesterday I kicked off "Staffing Up," with some free advice for how Mark & Isabella can get its act together. But the idea doesn't have to be confined to restaurants that need a swift, motivating kick in the ass; reading through these blog posts for the last few days, I realize that we can a ... More >>

Save the crust: Ernie's Bar & Pizza stretches expectations

​Yesterday I kicked off "Staffing Up," with some free advice for how Mark & Isabella can get its act together. But the idea doesn't have to be confined to restaurants that need a swift, motivating kick in the ass; reading through these blog posts for the last few days, I realize that we can a ... More >>

Pizza Republica's Eric Chiappetta on why he believes the cook at Griff's Hamburgers is a culinary god, and that whole molecular yada, yada, yada thing

Lori Midson​Eric Chiappetta Pizza Republica 5375 Landmark Place, Greenwood Village 720-489-2030 www.pizzarepublica.com Eric Chiappetta's first job in the kitchen had nothing whatsoever to do with a palpitating passion to actually cook. "I was sixteen, horny and I wanted to make enough money ... More >>

Sean Kelly is now in the Green Russell kitchen

Who's behid the door of Wednesday's Pie? Sean Kelly.​When Laura Shunk recently visited Green Russell, our Best Contemporary Cocktail Bar in the Best of Denver 2011, she discovered that the subterreanean speakeasy not only has a new menu, but someone new in the kitchen, too: legendary local che ... More >>

Today in Stoke: Local skateboard crews throw down May mayhem

​What to do as snowboard season finally starts winding down? Today's time-wasting video clips come courtesy of Boulder's Meta Skateboards shop, Denver's Never Summer Skateboards and Broomfield's Crisis Skateboards shop. Enjoy:

Second Helping: LoHi Steakbar

​My meals at Westerkamps Steakhouse and Meat Market, which I review in this week's Westword, unleashed a strange but insatiable craving for steak -- cheap steak, like a griddled flatiron or hanger, preferably sided by a couple of eggs and a pile of potatoes. Which is how I found myself at LoHi ... More >>

J. Michael Melton, exec chef of Zydeco's, on destroying candy bars and shi*tin' and spittin' up

Lori Midson​ J. Michael Melton Zydeco's 1730 Wynkoop Street 303-293-2887 www.zydecosdenver.com This is part one of my chat with J. Michael Melton, exec chef of Zydeco's. Part two of our interview will run in this space tomorrow. I got the gift of the Southern double name," drawls J. Michae ... More >>