Subject: Spanish Food and Cooking

• What the Mexican ate while he was in Denver

  September 26, 2008

• Mouthing Off

  December 25, 1997

• Fare to Remember

  January 1, 1998

• Mouthing Off

  April 23, 1998

• Med Alert

  April 23, 1998

• Last Night: Women-only wine tasting at Rioja

  October 15, 2008

• Check, Please!

  Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

  July 13, 2000

• The Spain Course

  James Mazzio shows why he's the tapas.

  December 14, 2000

• Another chance to indulge: Indulge Wine Bar

  October 27, 2008

• Paella as you go: where's the rice nice in Denver?

  November 4, 2008

• Best Friday-night special

  June 29, 2000

• Best New Restaurant

  March 29, 2001

• Best Tapas

  April 4, 2002

• Best Vietnamese Restaurant

  April 4, 2002

• Best Small Plates

  March 24, 2005

• Best Lobster

  March 24, 2005

• Our Weekly Bread: Vert Kitchen

  The sandwich: Tortilla Española Where to get it: Vert Kitchen (704 South Pearl Street, 303-997-5941, www.vertkitchen.com) What's on it: potato omelet, aioli, manchego cheese, lettuce and tomato How much: $8 It takes a lot to open a new eatery and even more to offer menu items far from the norm. But Vert Kitchen seems to have pulled it off -- and in an absolutely tiny space. The owners, Noah Stephens and Emily Welch, met in culinary school in France, and that shows on the menu, in the decor (a

  March 11, 2009

• Drink of the Week

  April 21, 2005

• Second Helping

  July 7, 2005

• La Torta is the king of tortas

  February 26, 2009

• Bit by Bit

  Triana needs to try harder.

  October 17, 2002

• Tapas the Rockies

  Creative combinations and intense flavors make Triana the area's best new restaurant.

  April 5, 2001

• Running on Empty

  Cuba Libre conjures up a new Cuban cuisine.

  March 16, 2006

• Life and Death

  The re-animator resurrects traditional tapas at The 9th Door.

  July 7, 2005

• Do You Believe in Magic?

  The Cream Puffery is on the rise.

  November 6, 2003

• Best Happy-Hour Deal

  Triana

  March 27, 2003

• Med Alert

  Nicois is full of truly wonderful food -- and not enough diners.

  February 14, 2002

• Things Are Looking Up

  Tamayo takes diners on a first-class mouth-of-the-border tour.

  August 30, 2001

• Sounds Like Fun!

  Garden of Eve Fashion Show

  September 21, 2000

• Tapas the Rockies

  Ilios saves tapas from the fad graveyard.

  September 30, 1999

• Mouthing Off

  July 15, 1999

• Mouthing Off

  January 8, 1998

• Keep a Lid on It

  January 8, 1998

• The Quest of Denver

  September 11, 1997

• Mouthing Off

  September 4, 1997

• Mouthing Off

  July 24, 1997

• MEX AND MATCH

  May 31, 1995

• SEPARATION ANXIETY

  September 21, 1994

• BLAND ON THE RUN

  July 13, 1994

• ALL OVER THE MAP

  July 6, 1994

• Top Denver chefs play with fire for charity tonight at Elway's Cherry Creek

  Real food. Sharp utensils. Big fire. A good cause. And Denver's top chefs. That's what's on tap tonight, from 6 to 9 p.m., at Elway's Cherry Creek, 2500 East First Avenue, when eleven of the town's top cookers - Tyler Wiard (Elway's, Cherry Creek); Sean Yontz (Mezcal, Tambien and Sketch); Justin Cucci (Root Down); Jamey Fader (Lola); Troy Guard (TAG); Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja and Bistro Vendome); Brian Liard (Barolo Grill); Elise Wiggins (Panzano); Goose Sorensen (Solera); and Matt Selby and

  June 10, 2009

• More on Ondo's, coming this fall

  This is me jumping up and down in excitement.  This is me rubbing my hands with glee. Yeah, sure, 250 Steele Street has a serious curse on it. Like a Curse of the Mummy-style curse. Abandon hope all ye who open a restaurant here. This space has swallowed more restaurants than I have chicken wings (well, almost...), but that doesn't stop Denver's brave restaurateurs from trying and trying again. Ondo's is just going to be the newest incarnation.  But the reason I'm so excited?  It'

  July 2, 2009

• Alto and ESPN Zone leave empty spaces downtown

  July 9, 2009

• This week: Seven days of Yelp Eats! on the cheap

  Yelp.com Yelp, a well-known website where opinionated voices discuss and review restaurants, bars and other local businesses, is kicking off Yelp Eats!, a seven-day dining celebration, which begins today and continues through Sunday, July 26 with fifteen metro area restaurants offering multi-course dinner menus for $25 per person, exclusive of tax and tip. Reservations aren't required, but if you want to cash in on the deal, you'll need to ask for a "Yelp Eats" menu. Participating restaurants a

  July 20, 2009

• Tonight: A half dozen South African wines at Solera

  Solera Restaurant & Wine Bar, 5410 East Colfax Avenue, is hosting a wine tasting happy hour tonight from 5 to 7 p.m. in the bar, which is as good a place as any to sip from a half dozen (or more) different South African wines, for $15 per person. (And the pours are generous.) While you're there, and you know, getting all loopy, you may as well take advantage of Sorensen's happy hour food specials, because the board is a notable one: white truffle macaroni and cheese with peas and asparagus ($

  July 22, 2009

• At Olivea, John Broening shows that he has all the right tools -- and knows how to use them

  October 8, 2009

• TV or not TV? Sheehan helps cook up a tequila dinner at Mezcal

  ​ Last week, I told you about my impending attempt at doing TV and speculated about the potential disasters inherent in anyone allowing me to set foot in their kitchen again after years spent behind a desk. What's more, I mentioned that anyone who was interested was welcome to come down to Mezcal on the night of the filming (October 23) to watch me crash and burn with their own eyes -- because that's just the kind of inclusive and self-deprecating motherfucker I am. And contrary to what a

  October 19, 2009

• Counting down to tapas at Ondo's

  ​ There are some restaurants I talk about a lot. There are others that I talk about hardly at all. And one of the very few places that I talk about continuously (some would say obsessively) isn't even open yet. It's Ondo's. Ah, Ondo's....I've been dreaming about having a new tapas restaurant in Denver for a long time. Any kind of Spanish restaurant, really, but particularly a tapas place. And I'm not talking about some kind of fake tapas joint, either. Not some spot that serves "small

  October 29, 2009

• 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 also use it as a kind of fantasy football league for cooks -- building a perfect crew from the ground up for restaurants that haven't yet begun to serve. For example, Den Deli is throwing an old-fashi

  October 30, 2009

• Ondo's on schedule for a mid-November opening

  Lori Midson​While Jason Sheehan is busy building a dream team staff for Ondo's, the tapas restaurant taking over the subterranean space at 250 Steele Street, owner Curt Steinbecker, who trained with his wife, Deicy, at the Escuela de Cocina Luis Irizar, is just trying to get his restaurant open. With any luck, that will happen two weeks from now. "Things are going according to schedule, and it looks like November 15 will be our first day," says Curt.

  November 2, 2009