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May 9, 2012
Denver chef Jenna Johansen dishes on her debut on Bravo's Around the World in 80 Plates
The premiere of Around the World in 80 Plates, a fast-paced reality show hosted by Cat Cora and Chris Stone that debuts tonight on Bravo at 8 p.m., pits two teams of six chefs against one another in a highly competitive sprint across continents that will end with one chef strutting away with $150,00 ... More >>
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April 5, 2012
Benefit dinner at Zolo Southwestern Grill
Zolo Southwestern Grill, 2525 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, will host a dinner tonight that benefits the Autism Society of Boulder County. Guest chefs include Dave Query and Mark Monette from the Flagstaff House, John Platt from Q's, Riff's, Top Chef winner Hosea Rosenberg and Jen Bush of Bitter Bar. ... More >>
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February 24, 2012
Reader: Where's the creativity on Top Chef?
The Top Chef crew came to Denver this week, auditioning chefs for the tenth season of the Bravo show. "We've had auditions before in Denver, but never a proper casting call, and it was time to see what the city's chefs really had to offer," Hunter Braun, Top Chef's senior casting producer, told Lori ... More >>
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February 22, 2012
Top toques from across Colorado audition for Top Chef
Lori MidsonClint Wangsnes (Zengo); Hunter Pritchett (Luca d'Italia); Stephen McCary (Mizuna); Marty Steinke (Linger) and Theo Adley (The Pinyon) showed up at Linger today to audition for Top Chef.Some were still scribbling answers to the questions on the 25-page application, which asked, amon ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Reader: Top Chef's main dish should be shark -- because they're jumping it every episode
Top Chef casting agents are coming to Denver -- as well as several other major metropolitan cities -- to test potential talent for the tenth season of the Bravo show. Notes the website: "Every season the bar gets higher, every season it means more to be the one on top -- do you have what it takes to ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
Five Denver/Boulder kitchen magicians who should audition for Top Chef Season 10
"Every season the bar gets higher, every season it means more to be the one on top -- do you have what it takes to be the next TOP CHEF?" So begins the wording on the Bravo website, taunting cookers from around the country to audition for the tenth season of Top Chef, which, if you believe the rumor ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
Have a Ball!
"Every season the bar gets higher, every season it means more to be the one on top -- do you have what it takes to be the next TOP CHEF?" So begins the wording on the Bravo website, taunting cookers from around the country to audition for the tenth season of Top Chef, which, if you believe the rumor ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Foodography: Stephanie Izard, Alex Seidel and Lon Symensma hosted one of the best dinners of the year last night at ChoLon
Last night, while tottering drunkards, some strapped with clinking beer can necklaces, stumbled by the floor-to-ceiling windows of ChoLon, Top Chef winner Stephanie Izard, who resides in Chicago, Fruition exec chef-owner Alex Seidel and Lon Symensma, the owner-chef of ChoLon, were in Symensma's kit ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
Announcement! We have a winner of our ChoLon craft beer dinner with Top Chef Stephanie Izard and Alex Seidel
Lori MidsonOn Thursday, September 29, Top Chef champion Stephanie Izard, who's just about ready to embark on a book tour, along with Alex Seidel, chef/owner of Fruition, will share the kitchen with Lon Symensma at ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro, when all three kitchen magicians commune to host a ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
Win two seats to ChoLon's craft beer dinner with Top Chef Stephanie Izard and Alex Seidel
Girl and the GoatSeason 4 Top Chef Stephanie Izard It's been a good year for Lon Symensma, the chef/owner of ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro, the leading-edge Asian restaurant that he opened downtown last October.
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September 13, 2011
Tom Colicchio's Simpsons cameo reminds us of these great food scenes
Recent reports provide illustrated proof that Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio will make an appearance on the premiere episode of the 23rd season of The Simpsons. Apparently, Marge wants to be a Top Chef contestant. (Oh, Marge, so adorable!) Which got us thinking about all the memorable scenes ... More >>
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May 5, 2011
Bravo's Top Chef will take its tour to Larimer Square on Saturday
Top Chef contestant -- and Vail restaurant owner -- Kelly Liken will be part of Bravo's Top Chef tour on Saturday in Larimer SquareBecause, you know, we don't already have enough eatertainment in Denver this weekend to satiate our hunger pains, what with The Great Food Truck Race motoring in ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Top Chef All-Stars: Stolen ideas, no focus on food -- is it time to question the core premise of the show?
Paula Deen joined the lineup of judges last night."Antonia," crooned Paula Deen after last night's Quickfire Challenge on Top Chef (which, naturally, required deep frying), "you won." Antonia wept. Somehow in all the fuss and hurry, she'd neglected to make the requisite two plates for the ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
Michelle Obama eats well on Top Chef's Kelly Liken's ribs; you can, too, with this recipe
Kelly LikenIt's been a big week for Kelly Liken of Vail's Restaurant Kelly Liken, who was named a James Beard semi-finalist for Best Chef: Southwest (for the third time) -- and then fed Michelle Obama and three friends over the weekend. Liken recently competed on Top Chef, and Michelle Obama ... More >>
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December 7, 2010
Kelly Liken cooks up her winning Top Chef pork carnitas for a cause
Kelly Liken will serve up some winning recipes in Vail.One of the most frustrating things for Top Chef fanatics is that we never get to taste -- or appraise -- the winning dishes. But now Vail's Kelly Liken, one of the past season's finalists, is making her winning braised pork carnitas for ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Top Chef All-Stars, round one: Back for more
Fabio Viviani is back -- bringing his sex appeal with him.Top Chef All-Stars back contestants from past seasons -- most of them finalists -- and promises to be quite a bit meatier than the regular Top Chef. For one thing, we don't have to spend the first few episodes figuring out who's who. ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
Top Chef Just Desserts, round five: Dress for excess
The very wealthy have played around with their food for centuries. Think of those crazy medieval dishes: real birds baked into pies, swans stuffed with edibles and brought to the table dressed in their original plumage and looking alive, a cock dressed as a knight -- tiny spurs and all -- and ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
Top Chef Just Desserts: That's the way the cookie crumbles
Heather Chittum is out.I'm enjoying Just Desserts more than I enjoyed the regular Top Chef, though in many ways I'm more interested in savory food than dessert. Although the Dessert contestants are pretty high octane, they're also more emotionally honest, and there's a lighter, more playful f ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
Kelly Liken's pork carnitas tacos are designed for kids -- but wowed adult judges
Kelly Liken's New York strip steakKelly Liken, chef/owner of Restaurant Kelly Liken and one of the top-four contenders in this year's Top Chef DC, likes shallots. "I put them in almost everything," she says in this week's Chef and Tell (read the complete Kelly Liken interview here). They de ... More >>
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September 29, 2010
Kelly Liken didn't win Top Chef DC, but she's at the top of her game
This is part one of Juliet Wittman's interview with Kelly Liken of Restaurant Kelly Liken. Part two will run tomorrow. Kelly Liken Restaurant Kelly Liken 12 Vail Road, Vail 970-479-0175 One of Kelly Liken's finest moments on Top Chef D.C. came when the contestants were challenged to make ... More >>
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September 23, 2010
Top Chef Just Desserts: Nice guys don't finish first
Tim Nugent was sweet, but got the boot.Dessert's a funny thing in fancy restaurants these days. No more slices of cherry tart, chocolate cake or apple strudel unless they're miniatures, deconstructed, flavored with something incongruous like curry, set on curlicues of sauce you have to sample ... More >>
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September 16, 2010
Top Chef DC, round 14: Kevin wins!
Kevin Sbraga (center) won the seventh round of Top Chef ."Kevin, you are Top Chef," Padma announced, and a stunned Kevin responded, "I am?" I was happy with the outcome of this seventh season of Top Chef -- but I would have been equally pleased had Angelo won. He irritates a lot of viewe ... More >>
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September 15, 2010
Whoops, Bravo: network accidentally reveals Top Chef season 7 winner
Who beat Kelly and the rest of the competitors? Bravo! releases an early lookWE won't spoil it for you but... Have you spent this seventh season of Top Chef glued to your television on Wednesday nights? Were you wracked with grief when hometown-favorite Kelly Liken was eliminated last week? ... More >>
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August 30, 2010
Top Chef takes the cake at Emmy awards
A lot of my irritation with Top Chef DC is the rage of a spurned lover. I've been watching, mesmerized, since the beginning of the show, but this season the gimmicks seem cheesier, the judges smugger, the contestants less interesting -- and the food just a secondary player. In context, thou ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
Chef Eliza Gavin takes top chef honors at the World Wine Tasting & Telluride Top Chef Competition Fundraiser
Eliza Gavin does her thang.Top Chef does Telluride? Well, sort of. It was more like Iron Chef than Top Chef during last week's culinary competition pitting a clutch of Telluride chefs against one another during the "World Wine Tasting & Telluride Top Chef Competition Fundraiser."
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August 26, 2010
Top Chef D.C., round eleven: dumb challenges, sausagey fingers and "affluencers"
It's time to put Top Chef out of its misery. At this point the show has deteriorated so wretchedly that half the time I forget to watch and have to play catch-up later. I didn't find myself rooting for any of the remaining six chefs this week, or hoping anyone would get sent home, couldn't br ... More >>
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July 29, 2010
Top Chef D.C., round seven: peas and thank you
Salmon in the disputed pea puree.The challenges on Top Chef this week had a little more to do with food, and less with gimmickry. For the Quickfire, the chefs were to create a scrumptious morsel on a toothpick because, as guest judge Aaron Schock, a very young Republican Congressman from Illi ... More >>
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July 15, 2010
Top Chef D.C., round five: Kenny curries favor in Elimination Challenge
Kenny Gilbert's curried eggplant.Last night, Kenny Gilbert finally won the big one -- the Elimination Challenge -- and the look of relief on his face was palpable. He's been an obvious contender from the beginning on this season of Top Chef, but various glitches kept him from what he obviousl ... More >>
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July 9, 2010
Presenting the Hosea Rosenberg photo album and your chance to vote on your favorite mug
Sometime between February of last year and now, Hosea Rosenberg, the Boulder cooker who won Top Chef: New York, got himself a Girl Friday personal assistant, name of Rachel Bachman, who doesn't approve of our photo choices -- specifically the photo below, which I snapped during a viewing party at th ... More >>
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June 17, 2010
Top Chef contestant and Coloradan Kenny Gilbert could go all the way
Kenny Gilbert has gone from Telluride to D.C. The first episode of Top Chef D.C. aired last night, and like every other food obsessive I know, I was glued to the set. Now in its seventh season, at this point the show is pretty much pure formula -- Quickfire Challenge, chefs' race through Whol ... More >>
Dining
June 3, 2010
Get ready for meals on wheels
Kenny Gilbert has gone from Telluride to D.C. The first episode of Top Chef D.C. aired last night, and like every other food obsessive I know, I was glued to the set. Now in its seventh season, at this point the show is pretty much pure formula -- Quickfire Challenge, chefs' race through Whol ... More >>
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October 27, 2009
Bravo is getting its Just Desserts, but Keegan Gerhard won't be the icing on the cake
Lori MidsonLife 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 conf ... More >>
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October 15, 2009
Let's get real: Who are Denver's top ten reality TV stars?
Lori MidsonLife 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 conf ... More >>
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August 12, 2009
Chef and Tell: John Broening
John Broening"We'll have head cheese at Olivéa on Friday -- I expect to see you there," summoned the e-mail. The note - short and to the point -- was from John Broening, the executive chef at Duo and Olivéa: the former a restaurant in Highland with a field-to-plate, seasonal approach to foo ... More >>
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July 30, 2009
Steamboat's wine festival kicks off today with appearances by Tyler Wiard, Goose Sorensen and Hosea Rosenberg
Today marks the first day of the Wine Festival at Steamboat, a four-day food-and-wine event that includes cooking demonstrations, food and wine seminars, grand tastings, fly-fishing and mountain biking, food and wine day trips, and the uncorking of more than 800 domestic and international bot ... More >>
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July 15, 2009
Tonight: Frasca chef competes on Top Chef: Masters
Lachlan Mackinnon Patterson If you've been following Top Chef: Masters, the Top Chef spinoff that airs every Wednesday night on Bravo, then you know that Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson, exec chef at Boulder's Frasca Food & Wine (1738 Pearl Street), is a contestant on the show, wielding knives alongsid ... More >>
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July 15, 2009
The Westword.com blog shortcut, July 15 edition
Danielle Ate the Sandwich -- and then punched it, hard. Put up your dukes. Today in Backbeat Online: • Danielle Ate the Sandwich: Better than a bag of poop on fire! • Last Night: Paul Sprawl at the Laughing Goat in Boulder. • Hearsay bits: City Hall, Speakeasy Tiger, Torch the Wagon, Patrick ... More >>
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June 26, 2009
Days later, still chewing on Aspen Food and Wine
Lori MidsonThe pea soup heard 'round the world. A few days after my return from Aspen Food and Wine, I'm still digesting the experience. The worst part of the event was listening to everyone's opinion about everything there. Opinions on food (if I heard one more person opine about pork belly I was ... More >>
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June 26, 2009
Boulder boy and Top Chef Hosea Rosenberg cooks tomorrow at Whole Foods SouthGlenn
Lori MidsonJust in case you missed Hosea Rosenberg, the exec chef at Jax Fish House, Boulder (928 Pearl Street), drop his jaw in disbelief when he was crowned top cooker on the season 5 finale of Top Chef, or at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen last weekend, when he edged out Top Chef: Season 4 ... More >>
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June 25, 2009
What's Cooking?
These chefs aren’t kidding around when they go to bat for kids.
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June 22, 2009
Highlights and lowlights from the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen
Lori MidsonTop Chef winner Hosea Rosenberg and knifed cheftestant Fabio Viviani By the time the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen ended yesterday afternoon, I'd already seen a whole posse of amateurs puke; another man suffer a seizure just after chef Michael Symor ended a fantastic cooking demo devoted ... More >>
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April 16, 2009
Win a dinner cooked by a Top Chef contender
Melissa Harrison, a contender on last season's Top Chef, didn't win the big prize -- that went to Hosea Rosenberg, a fellow Big Red F chef -- but now you can win an eight-course dinner that Harrison will cook at your house.A Harrison-cooked meal is one of the auction items being offered at the April ... More >>
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March 17, 2009
Centro dinner pairs Chilean wine
The Big Red F restaurant group has been making some big noise in the past few weeks, what with Hosea Rosenberg of Jax winning Top Chef and the opening of Happy Noodle House. Now Centro Latin Kitchen, whose sous, Melissa Harrison, was also a Top Chef contestant, is hosting a Chilean wine dinner on Th ... More >>
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March 7, 2009
Another taste of this week's Cafe Society
Denver Restaurant Week is over, but there are still plenty of good meals and deals out there. Jason Sheehan offers a rundown on the top seven spots to grab a bite to eat on Broadway in The List. A week after his win on Top Chef, Tyler Nemkov finally caught up with Hosea Rosenberg. Fast fo ... More >>
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February 26, 2009
Top Chef: Hosea Rosenberg
Well, at least someone in the restaurant industry has some money now... You've all heard that Colorado's own Hosea Rosenberg (chef at Dave Query's Jax Fish House in Boulder, at least for now...) won this year's Top Chef prize. He walked away with a slot at this year's Food Wine Festival in A ... More >>
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February 26, 2009
Ladies First
CU-Boulder salutes women’s work.
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February 25, 2009
In anticipation of the Top Chef finale
I swore a few weeks ago that I wasn't going to write another word about Bravo's Top Chef until it stopped sucking. Until they stopped breaking the action every thirty seconds with completely inappropriate product placements (Diet Dr. Pepper cookoff!), until Fabio and Stefan stopped giving the ... More >>
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February 25, 2009
Colicchio goes a-whorin' for Diet Coke?
On Oscar night, the entire food world was abuzz. Not because of anything that happened during the Academy Awards ceremony, but because of one of the (million and one) commercials that showed during the proceedings: namely, the Tom Colicchio Diet Coke spot that appeared to show the Top Chef judge an ... More >>
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December 23, 2008
Note to Top Chef: Stop sucking
It's been three weeks since I wrote a word about this season's Top Chef on Bravo. Know why? Because it has been so boring and so contrived and so stupid that the episodes themselves were painful to watch -- making me less than excited about the notion of then rehashing them here. There w ... More >>
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