Subject: Tyler Wiard

• Casa, Sweet Casa

  November 27, 2008

• Elway's Interception

  January 29, 2007

• Going Downtown

  January 26, 2007

• Quite a Ride

  May 2, 2008

• Makin' Bacon

  May 9, 2008

• Elway's Downtown is seriously lacking in fun

  Elway's -- the original Elway's -- spawned this second location, which opened in January. The Ritz management, its F&B people and chef de cuisine Ben Davison all spent time poking around the kitchen and dining room of the Cherry Creek restaurant. In one of those quirks of synchronicity that I have come to see as completely de rigueur in Colorado's scene, Davison and Tyler Wiard (who became chef at the original Elway's two-and-a half years ago, after the departure of Charles Schwerd and who cont

  December 9, 2008

• The Bite

  February 1, 2001

• The Bite

  September 27, 2001

• A chicken-fried burrito at Elway's? Be still, my arteries

  When Elway's opened in Cherry Creek, it immediately set itself apart from other steakhouses by adding an unusual element: fun. Not cut-your-tie off steakhouse fun, but fun in the way food was presented, putting Elway's a cut above the other upscale meat-and-potatoes joints around town. (New sibling Elway's Downtown is sadly lacking in the fun factor, Jason Sheehan determined in his recent review.)And with chef Tyler Wiard in command of the kitchen at the original Elway's. the fun just keeps comi

  January 31, 2009

• The Bite

  June 27, 2002

• Bite Me

  July 17, 2003

• Bite Me

  December 11, 2003

• Today's bite of Cafe Bites

  If you get Cafe Bites, our weekly newsletter, you know the routine: Ignore the following, because you learned all this yesterday morning. For everyone else:At 6:30 p.m. today, Lola, at 1575 Boulder Street, hosts the next in its "Pull Up a Seat" dinner series; special guest chef Tyler Wiard of Elway's will join Jamey Fader to cook tastes of the northern Pacific coast of Mexico. For reservations, $65, call 720-570-8686 or go to www.loladenver.com. (And come back here later to read about an earlie

  February 19, 2009

• Bite Me

  February 19, 2004

• Bite Me

  June 10, 2004

• Drink of the Week

  January 13, 2005

• Best Dinner Destination for Impressing Potential In-Laws

  March 24, 2005

• 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 Pearl and Encore, Dylan Moore of Deluxe and Delite, Ben Davison of Elway's Downtown, Sheila Lucero of Jax Fish House in Denver; Jeff Mahoney of McCormick's in the Denver Tech Center, Dan Grunewald of NoR

  March 15, 2009

• Country Fun

  Have a bucking good time at this charity event.

  January 15, 2009

• Elway's Downtown is seriously lacking in fun

  December 11, 2008

• Bite Me

  Another Story

  June 3, 2004

• Wonder Women

  April 24, 2008

• Moguls Gone Wild!

  Watch Denver's finest take on a mechanical bull.

  January 24, 2008

• Food for Thought

  August 9, 2007

• Elway's

  Once a classic, always a classic.

  December 7, 2006

• Fuse This

  Making the most of the mash-up craze.

  December 7, 2006

• Mel’s Restaurant and Bar

  Another vintage year.

  August 24, 2006

• The Name Game

  Modern Mexican standoff

  April 20, 2006

• Mouthing Off

  November 13, 1997

• Mouthing Off

  June 13, 1996

• Mouthing Off

  February 22, 1996

• FAD CHANCE

  December 27, 1995

• GRAPE EXPECTATIONS

  October 18, 1995

• Dos Casas at Lola tonight

  Tonight's Dos Casas, a benefit for Brent's Place, will bring seven of the town's best chefs - Jamey Fader of Big Red F, Sheila Lucero of Jax Fish House Denver, Matt Selby of Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben's, Tyler Wiard of Elway's in Cherry Creek, Goose Sorenson of Solera, Sean Yontz of Mezcal and Tambien, and Troy Guard of TAG -- to Fader's home base of Lola, 1575 Boulder Street. The open-house event starts at 7 p.m. with a silent auction, cocktails and regional Mexican plates; tickets are $75

  April 29, 2009

• Partake in tonight's Plates for the Peak at Vesta Dipping Grill

  One of the best food events of the year, Plates for the Peak, a small plates fundraiser and silent auction to benefit Urban Peak, a non-profit that saves kids from the jaws of homelessness, returns for a sixth year to Vesta Dipping Grill, 1822 Blake Street, tonight from 6 to 10 p.m. The star-studded cast includes some of Denver's best chefs, including Vesta exec Matt Selby, Jamey Fader (Lola); Tyler Wiard (Elway's); James Rugile (Venue); Keegan Gerhard (D Bar Desserts); Goose Sorensen (Sole

  June 15, 2009

• Crested Butte Land and Trust Food and Wine Festival uncorks today

  The first day of the four-day Crested Butte Land Trust Food and Wine Festival uncorks today. And unlike some local food and wine festivals where our homegrown chefs are snubbed, the Crested Butte powwow, which includes wine seminars, wine walks, chef dinners, grand tastings and gourmet picnics, parades four of Denver's top culinary chiefs: Keegan Gerhard (D Bar Desserts); Troy Guard (TAG); Tyler Wiard (Elway's Cherry Creek); and Frank Bonanno (Mizuna, Luca D'Italia, Osteria Marco and Bones). In

  July 23, 2009

• Tonight at Lola: The Denver Five roll out the first of five dinners

  Denver Five chefs​ Keegan Gerhard (D Bar Desserts), Troy Guard (TAG), Tyler Wiard (Elway's in Cherry Creek) and Matt Selby (Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben's) will join host chef Jamey Fader at Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, tonight at 6 p.m., when all five chefs will convene in Fader's home kitchen to prepare a five-course meal -- the first in a five-dinner series from the "Denver Five," a tight band of five local chefs that cooked together at the James Beard House in May. "This is a chanc

  July 27, 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 bottles of vino. Headlining Colorado's culinary elite is Top Chef: New York victor and Jax-Boulder exec chef Hosea Rosenberg; Tyler Wiard, chef at Elway's in Cherry Creek; and Solera Restaurant & Wine Ba

  July 30, 2009

• Tonight's shochu dinner at Elway's Cherry Creek could be the blowout food orgy of the year

  ​By the time 5 p.m. rolls around on a work day in Japan, patrons have made their way into the nearest izakaya to knock back shochu (pronounced 'show-chew'), a clear distilled spirit, similar to vodka (sans the hangover), that can be made from rice, sugarcane, sweet potatoes, barley or buckwheat. It's incredibly popular in Japan (and in Korea, where it's called 'soju'), but that's a really long ass way to go to get drunk. And, as it turns out, those of you who've already bought tickets to

  August 6, 2009

• Elway's/Matsuhisa shochu dinner so good

  Nancy LevinePhilip Tanaka's yellowtail with jalapeno, cilantro and yuzu​ I hated the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. For a year the PR hype machine had told me how great it was going to be, and then everyone I know who saw it told me how great it was and how much I'd love it. So by the time I finally saw the movie, it could never match the hype surrounding it (I couldn't wait for him to die). I feared the same thing would happen when I walked into Elway's in Cherry Creek last night for

  August 7, 2009

• Tonight: The Denver Five dish it out at D Bar Desserts

  ​ The Denver Five, a platoon of five local chefs who cooked together earlier this year at the James Beard House in New York City, and then decided that they'd like to cook with one another -- yet again -- in each other's hometown restaurant kitchens, gathered at Lola two weeks ago for the first in a series of five dinners to cook, says Lola chef Jamey Fader, "for the cause of getting Denver's rich culinary prowess out there to people in Colorado and national onlookers alike." The second

  August 11, 2009

• Cherry Creek North Food and Wine Festival takes over Fillmore Plaza

  ​The eating event of the weekend is the inaugural Cherry Creek North Food and Wine festival, a three-day eating and drinking blowout on Fillmore Plaza that celebrates the culinary arts. The festival includes chef demonstrations by Tyler Wiard (Elway's), Michel Walthere (MiniBAR) and Jeff Bolton (Second Home Kitchen & Bar); wine and spirits sessions; grand tasting events; small bites from a dozen Cherry Creek restaurants, including Tambien, Argyll,, Hapa Sushi and NoRTH; and a guest chef

  August 21, 2009

• Green Chile Smackdown, Round 2: Elway's vs. My Big Fat Greek Cafe

  ​Even though green chile is not a traditional Mexican dish, it's a traditional dish at Mexican restaurants north of the border. It changes as it travels, thickening and becoming more hearty as it travels up towards the Canadian border. The Colorado version is thick and gooey, stuffed with pork chunks. And it is so popular, it's even becoming a traditional side in some unusual places. We already put two local versions head to head last week. This week, we're going again, with green chil

  August 31, 2009

• Chef and Tell: Tyler Wiard of Elway's

  Lori Midson​"I got my ass kicked, but man, did I learn a lot," recalls Tyler Wiard, talking about the early '90s and his days as a line cook for Dave Query and John Platt at Q's Restaurant in the Hotel Boulderado. He must have been up to the task, because Query pulled him off that line and into the fray of Jax Fish House in Boulder before Wiard was eventually lured to Denver by Cliff Young, a former Mile High City restaurateur who opened Napa Cafe and stationed Wiard at the helm. But whi

  September 2, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, September 2 edition

  Busdriver deals with negativity.​Better late than never. Today in Backbeat Online: • Q&A with Regan "Busdriver" Farquhar. • Flier of the Week: Dressy Bessy at the Gothic, September 5. • Win stuff in our random midweek contest! • Dulcinea's to re-open as Pete's Monkey Bar. • Single File rock (girls jeans) at the Gap. Today in Cafe Society: • Jewelry for the modern chef. • Modmarket is Boulder's newest green restaurant. • Boulder's SALT is now the earth of chef Bradford Hea

  September 2, 2009

• Part two: Chef and Tell with Tyler Wiard of Elway's

  Tyler Wiard​This is part two of Lori Midson's interview with Tyler Wiard, the executive chef at Elway's Cherry Creek. You can read the first part of Midson's interview with Wiard here. Proudest moment as a chef: When I won the National Pork Award in May of 2008. I had won the state pork competition in December 2007 and went on to San Diego to compete against twenty other regional or state winners, and I won the contest and $5,000. I made cumin-roasted pork loin, braised pork shoulder and

  September 3, 2009

• Tonight: Denver Five dinner at TAG with local winemaker Ben Parsons

  The Denver Five: Keegan Gerhard, Troy Guard, Matt Selby, Jamey Fader and Tyler Wiard​ To celebrate the fact that the Taste of Colorado won't be back for another year, the Denver Five, a cartel of homegrown chefs that get together every so often in each other's restaurant kitchens, are cooking together tonight at TAG, Troy Guard's Asian fusion restaurant at 1441 Larimer Street. Okay, so the Taste of Crap Colorado part is a slight exaggeration, but not the dinner, which is a five-course c

  September 9, 2009

• Snaps from the Denver Food & Wine Classic

  Lori MidsonTyler Wiard, Jamey Fader, Troy Guard and Matt Selby​The three-day Denver Food & Wine Classic wrapped up on Saturday, September 12 with a Grand Tasting on the wet and sloppy grounds (thanks, rain) of Metro State College. To see a slideshow of all the fun, including some action snaps of Denver Five chefs Jamey Fader, Matt Selby, Troy Guard and Tyler Wiard, click here.

  September 14, 2009

• Tonight: The Denver Five converge at Elway's for a "partio"

  The Denver Five: Keegan Gerhard, Troy Guard, Matt Selby, Jamey Fader and Tyler Wiard​The Denver Five -- Tyler Wiard, Keegan Gerhard (D Bar Desserts), Troy Guard (TAG), Matt Selby (Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben's) and Jamey Fader (Lola and Big Red F Restaurant Group) will convene tonight at Elway's Cherry Creek, 2500 East First Avenue, Wiard's home turf, for the fourth in a series of five blowout dinners. The multi-course food fest, paired with Australian wines, will unfold on Elway's co

  October 14, 2009

• Tonight: March of Dimes Signature Chefs Auction

  ​Tonight, the Colorado Chapter of the March of Dimes will host its annual Signature Chefs Auction at 6 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Denver, 650 15th Street. Tickets to the event are $150 per person and include small plates from many of Denver's top chefs, as well as live music and an auction that includes some terrific food-related items: a wine dinner at Barolo Grill with seven friends; an afternoon of cooking classes at Root Down; a chef's table for six at Lola; a chef's table for eight a

  November 4, 2009