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Yasmin Lozada-Hissom

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    January 22, 2009

    The Duo crew plans to take over Aix

    Yesterday, I noted that Aix's website had gone dark -- as its dining room was last Saturday night. But because 17th Avenue is such a solid restaurant neighborhood, I don't think anyone out there thought the space would stay empty for long. I just got off the phone with Keith Arnold, owner (along wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2009

    Frank Bonanno up for James Beard Award as Outstanding Restaurateur

    The James Beard Foundation has just released the semifinalists list for its 2009 restaurant and chef awards. And Frank Bonanno -- of Mizuna, Luca D'Italia and Osteria Marco (and now Bones, which opened at the very end of December) fame -- is one of twenty people up for Outstanding Restaurateur.No Co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2009

    Aix marked the spot that will soon be Olivea

    One of the first big restaurant deals of the new year was the purchase of Aix -- by a new partnership comprised of of Keith Arnold and Stephanie Bonin (owners of Duo), and John Broening and Yasmin Lozada-Hissom (chef and pastry chef of Duo, respectively). When the quartet took on Aix, they had a con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2009

    Beard House Blues: One Colorado finalist

    It was a rough year for Colorado chefs (and writers) in this year's James Beard awards.  The finalists were announced this morning -- and our white jackets just got spanked. A handful of Coloradans had made the semi-finalists list. Frank Bonanno (above) got tapped for Best Restaurateur. Yasmin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    IACP Conference Report: What do several hundred wet food writers smell like?

    For those of you not yet hipped to the big foodie news in Denver this week, the International Association of Culinary Professionals is in town -- a kind of traveling circus show of food writers, food editors, food pimps, chefs, authors, wine gurus and associated tradesmen. And, of course, Jason Shee ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 14, 2008

    Sparrow Flies the Coop

    While Sparrow looks for a new home, Denver chefs head to New York City.

  • Dining

    November 30, 2006

    Outta Here

    One Emogene closes, while another restaffs.

  • Dining

    March 9, 2006

    Busy Work

    Duo gives Denver diners reason to smile.

  • Dining

    September 29, 2005

    Foreign Service

    Open-and-shut cases.

  • Dining

    March 31, 2005

    Bite Me

    The Rest of Denver

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    Olivea opens tonight, Otto's and Pho on 6th already up

    Olivea's website photos look good enough to eat.Olivea, the joint effort from Keith Arnold and Stephanie Bonin (owners of Duo), and John Broening and Yasmin Lozada-Hissom (chef and pastry chef of Duo, respectively), opens at 5 p.m. at 719 East 17th Avenue, in the former home of Aix. According to t ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 7, 2009

    Joe Vostrejs and his army are out to conquer Denver

    Olivea's website photos look good enough to eat.Olivea, the joint effort from Keith Arnold and Stephanie Bonin (owners of Duo), and John Broening and Yasmin Lozada-Hissom (chef and pastry chef of Duo, respectively), opens at 5 p.m. at 719 East 17th Avenue, in the former home of Aix. According to t ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 21, 2009

    Rhubarb Martini at Olivea

    Olivea's website photos look good enough to eat.Olivea, the joint effort from Keith Arnold and Stephanie Bonin (owners of Duo), and John Broening and Yasmin Lozada-Hissom (chef and pastry chef of Duo, respectively), opens at 5 p.m. at 719 East 17th Avenue, in the former home of Aix. According to t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Dining

    August 13, 2009

    A conversation with John Broening, of Duo and Olivea

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    John Broening may be quiet, but he's the consummate craftsman at Olivea

    Mark MangerJohn Broening may be quiet, but his food at Olivea speaks for itself.​"Jesus," I said to no one in particular, dopey smile aimed down 17th Avenue, waddling a little as I cleared the doors of Olivea. "He is just so fucking good..." John Broening keeps a relatively low profile, even ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2009

    Before Olivea, there was Duo -- created by the same talented foursome

    Keith Arnold, Stephanie Bonin, John Broening and Yasmin Lozada-Hissom.​Eating John Broening's food at Olivea made me think about his other kitchen -- the one at Duo. Duo is...how do I even describe it without it coming out all wrong? For a guy like me -- terminally overfed, always on the hu ... More >>

  • Dining

    October 8, 2009

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

    Keith Arnold, Stephanie Bonin, John Broening and Yasmin Lozada-Hissom.​Eating John Broening's food at Olivea made me think about his other kitchen -- the one at Duo. Duo is...how do I even describe it without it coming out all wrong? For a guy like me -- terminally overfed, always on the hu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Chef and Tell part two: Max Mackissock from Squeaky Bean

    Max Mackissock​This is part two of my interview with Max Mackissock, executive chef of Squeaky Bean. To read part one of this interview, click here. Proudest moment as a chef: One of the best parts about being a chef is watching people enjoy our hard work -- our food -- every day. That's alw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Sugar High: Olivea

    Liz KellermeyerChocolate and fleur de sel caramel tart with milk chocolate gelato and nougatine crunch. Oh, yes.​If your New Year's resolutions have you off the sugar, this post isn't for you. If, however, you've instead vowed to be more mindful of the quality of your indulgences and are keeping ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Local restaurants step up to help out Haiti

    Left to right: Max Mackissock, Jennifer Jasinski, Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, John Broening, Alex Seidel, Blake Edmunds and Travis Vaughn​Two very different restaurant fundraisers this week bought a literal boatload of help for Haiti. First up: The $125-a-head, six-course meal at Rioja on Monday n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    Frank Bonanno, Alex Seidel, Jennifer Jasinski, Steve Ells and James Rugile among James Beard semifinalists

    Lori Midson Venue chef James Rugile ​Restaurant and chef semifinalists for the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards were released this morning, which gives all the nominees exactly 32 days to chew on their success before the five finalists in each category are announced on Monday, March 22. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    Tonight: Olivea spills over with good food at a benefit for the Gulf

    ​Olivea is one of the seventeen 17th Avenue businesses joining together for the Seventeen on 17th benefit tonight, when they'll all donate 10 percent of their sales to the National Wildlife Federation Gulf Oil Spill Restoration Fund. That alone is a good reason to visit Olivea. But here's ano ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    100 Favorite Dishes: Lemon-ricotta doughnuts from Olivéa

    Lori Midson​ No. 89: Lemon-ricotta doughnuts from Olivéa They were an afterthought, those doughnuts. After desecrating the headcheese, swelling my jowls with pork cheeks, emptying a plate of tortellini bobbing in a pancetta-scented broth and reducing the guilt with a crock of cauliflower, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2010

    Win a complimentary dinner for two at Olivéa on New Year's Eve

    ​Yes, you read that headline correctly: Olivéa, the sensational Mediterranean restaurant in Uptown whose kitchen is overseen by the dynamic husband-and-wife duo of exec chef John Broening and pastry goddess Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, is offering a free three-course dinner for two on New Year's Eve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2010

    Olivéa New Year's Eve dinner winner update (and a bonus brunch)

    ​ Tonight, one lucky Cafe Society reader will get to celebrate New Year's Eve at Olivéa, the sensational Mediterranean restaurant in Uptown whose kitchen is overseen by the dynamic husband-and-wife duo of exec chef John Broening and pastry goddess Yasmin Lozada-Hissom. Earlier this week, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    Reader: Olivea starts the new year off right

    Olivea, site of good food and good deeds.​ Denver's restaurateurs are an incredibly generous group, with chefs and owners alike stepping up to contribute to endless good causes throughout the year. Olivea -- the eighteen-month-old restaurant owned by Keith Arnold and Stephanie Bonin (who're ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    FIVE will announce its new crop of chefs tonight

    ​ Tonight, at 6 p.m., Leigh Sullivan-Guard, the force behind FIVE, an über-talented crop of five Denver chefs who put on showstopping dinners throughout the year at their respective restaurants, represent the local fray at the ritzy Aspen Food & Wine Classic and commune at the James Beard H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    New Year's resolutions from Max MacKissock, Matt Selby, Mark DeNittis, Michael Long and twenty-one more Denver/Boulder chefs

    Lori MidsonBrad Rowell, chef at Colt & Gray, resolves to eat twenty percent less pork fat per day and replace that with twenty percent more Schlitz​ Haven't made your New Year's resolutions yet? That makes two of us. But instead of focusing on ourselves, we prodded more than two dozen Denver/ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    James Beard Foundation announces 2011 semi-finalists: Frank Bonanno, Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, Frasca and ChoLon among them

    James Beard Foundation​Last November, the James Beard Foundation summoned the public to nominate its favorite chefs, restaurants and industry professionals for the 2011 awards. And after all the self-pimping and ballot-stuffing, the poll is closed. This morning, the foundation announced its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Duo and Olivéa pastry chef Yasmin Lozada-Hissom tapped to bake at the James Beard Foundation awards gala

    ​The James Beard Foundation awards gala, a glitzy, high-falutin' soiree that honors the best chefs, pastry kings and queens, restaurateurs, restaurants and wine directors in the country, takes place on May 9, 2011, at the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in New York. And the culinary blowout ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    James Beard Foundation announces 2011 chef and restaurant finalists -- and two are from Colorado

    Frasca Good & Wine master sommelier Bobby Stuckey is a James Beard finalist​Earlier today, in Portland, the James Beard Foundation released the listage of superstar chefs, restaurants and restaurateurs who are finalists (semifinalists, of which there were several from Colorado, were announced ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Denver restaurateur Leigh Sullivan-Guard takes Denver Post food editor Tucker Shaw to task for his "blind items" restaurant gossip column

    ​Denver Post food editor Tucker Shaw's column on Wednesday, full of no-name restaurant gossip, wouldn't have seemed so startling if the paper's food section regularly ran restaurant news calling out offending culprits -- but it doesn't. So we couldn't figure out the point of his mishmash of bl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Round two with Udi's executive chef Robin Baron

    Lori Midson​ Robin Baron Udi's Pizza Cafe Bar Udi's Bread Cafes (four locations) www.udisfood.com This is part two of my interview with Robin Baron, executive chef of Udi's Pizza Bar, Udi's Bread Cafe and the soon-to-be-open Pickled Lemon in Boulder. Part one of my interview with Baron ran ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Denver Restaurant Week: Should it really be one week? Two weeks? Or two one-week events?

    ​The first thing you need to know about Denver Restaurant Week is that it's the largest event of its type in the country, with the most restaurants participating and the most meals served. The second thing you need to know is that it's not an actual week. When the economy took a nosedive, the ... More >>

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