When Biker Jim first hauled out his wiener wagon nearly six years ago on the 16th Street Mall, he wanted frankfurter fans to know that he wasn’t pushing dirty dogs jacked up with unidentifiable bits, pieces, or by-products, so he created a slogan — “Our meat is no mystery” –…

In 2009, when Jason Sheehan, Westword’s former restaurant critic, reviewed Organixx, whose menu verbiage touted “the best of organic, natural, local, wild caught and traditional products available to us,” he wanted to hate the joint. ” I’m not coming to your restaurant to join your cult or be converted. Just…

If you’ve ever had a huarache, the sandal-shaped Mexican canvas of fried corn dough smeared with refritos and layered with marinated meats, onions, shredded lettuce and crumbles of cheese, then you know how good they can be. Los Carboncitos makes a killer huarache — the huarache in the above pic…

In case you haven’t heard, our esteemed governor, John Hickenlooper, proclaimed August 10, 2011, “Denver Burger Battle Day” in the state of Colorado. No, seriously. It’s true, and for Jeremy and Kelly Kossler, the brains behind the Denver Burger Battle, a beefy combat among twelve Denver restaurants, all of which…

Not that Charlie Palmer needs much of an introduction: The world-renowned, James Beard award-winning master chef, whose progressive American cooking, stylized with classic French techniques, has generated accolades all over the country, presides over an extraordinary number of restaurants, from New York to Dallas, Washington DC to Sonoma, Las Vegas…

It wasn’t nearly as bad as the walkout that Troy Guard, the owner/chef of TAG, experienced two weeks ago when a vocal majority of his staff hoofed it out the door after news that Guard and his soon-to-be-ex-wife had a parting of ways, but Andrew Casalini, the owner of Satchel’s…

Andy Martinez Citron New World Bistro 3535 South Yosemite Street 303-771-5800 www.citronbistro.com This is part two of my interview with Andy Martinez, exec chef of Citron New World Bistro. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I don’t travel as much I’d like…

No. 59: Lamb vindaloo from Cuisine of the Himalayas…

When Justin Brunson, the captain behind the magnificent Masterpiece Deli, opens Wild Catch, a sustainable seafood restaurant in Uptown, he’ll steer his kitchen along with a tag team of several other high-profile chefs — none of whom, by the way, are from TAG, Troy Guard’s Asian restaurant in Larimer Square…

We shunned the lamb kabobs, the lamb shank and the chicken shawarma (all of which I love here) to better our bodies with a platter of vegetarian dishes, which included — dare I say it — the best falafel I’ve had at a Lebanese/Middle Eastern restaurant in Denver. Can you…

Andy Martinez Citron New World Bistro 3535 South Yosemite Street 303-771-5800 www.citronbistro.com This is part one of my interview with Andy Martinez, executive chef of Citron New World Bistro. Part two of my chat with Martinez will run in this space tomorrow. When Denver native Andy Martinez, the executive chef…

I’ve never been a fan of brunch buffets — or any buffet for that matter. That said, when there’s seafood on the dock, I’m more inclined to turn off the snob factor and forgive myself for partaking in the gluttony. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…

Late last week, we broke the very good news that Jensen Cummings, the ex-chef de cuisine at TAG, who resigned from Troy Guard’s Larimer Square restaurant after some high-voltage drama, had snapped up the exec chef position at Row 14, following the departure of Arik Markus, Row 14’s opening chef…

Close to a year ago, chef and restaurateur Frank Bonanno, whose colony of collections already included Mizuna, Osteria Marco, Luca D’Italia and Bones, inked a lease on a mammoth, 6,000-square-foot down-reaching space in Larimer Square that soon became the dwelling pads to Wednesday’s Pie, a one-day-a-week pie parlor, and Green…

The server made a mess of the French press coffee, serving it less than lukewarm and managing to spray coffee grinds all over the table with an unnecessarily severe push, but the kitchen, at least, has a deft hand, turning out a summery plate of prosciutto-wrapped honeydew forested with greens…

You’ve heard it all before: the local, sustainable, organic, farm-to-table, eco-conscious culinary buzzword chant that chefs, foodniks and food writers dispense to ballyhoo the food movement of the moment. Some chefs are professionally rehearsed in the hyperbole, despite the fact that a peek in their walk-ins raises skeptical eyebrows –…

Earlier this week, we rolled out a contest to Cafe Society readers, in which two people would win the privilege to eat and drink for free at the Food Truck Renegades: The Sequel party, which kicks off tomorrow at 4 p.m. in a mammoth parking lot at 23rd and Walnut…

I definitely missed the memo — the one that stipulated that stilettos; perfectly coiffed hair; jaw-dropping, butt-hugging and breast-spilling black dresses; and fresh-from-the-salon manicures were prerequisites for last night’s VIP launch party of Chloe Mezze Lounge, a new nightclub/discotheque, lounge-restaurant and social garden (complete with its own bar and a…

Two weeks ago, when we broke the news that more than a dozen staffers from TAG, Troy Guard’s restaurant in Larimer Square, had walked out the door or submitted their two-week notice as a result of personal issues between Troy and his wife (soon to be ex-wife) Leigh Sullivan, people…

I promised myself I’d eat just one, but one led to two and two led to three, and now I’m in a sausage stupor, thanks to Brad Arguello, the co-owner of Über Sausage, a weeny-size sausage parlor that opened two weeks ago at 2730 East Colfax Avenue in the former…

When it comes to food, I’ll try anything once — I’ve happily eaten tarantulas, ant eggs and ant dust, grasshoppers, crickets, duck tongues, rubber, crayons and toenails — but this Sicilian dish, the texture and flavors of which were pure funk and stink, is not something that I’d rush to…