UPDATE: The winners are announced here. Some food trucks might be falling off the curb — the Little Orange Rocket, Walnut A-Go-Go, Crazy Good and Fiddle My Griddle have all slammed on the brakes — but by our last count, there were more than eighty Denver-area food trucks still on…
Word on the street was that the burger in the above snap was one of the best in town. I wouldn’t go quite that far, but as far as burgers go, it satisfied my craving — and the specks of fresh jalapeños, coupled with the chipotle aioli, gave it an…
Mike Sullivan Devil’s Food Bakery and Cookery 1020 South Gaylord Street 303-733-7448 www.devilsfoodbakery.com This is part two of my interview with Mike Sullivan, executive chef of Devil’s Food Bakery and Cookery. Part one of my chat with Sullivan ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: May’s Restaurant in…
I had an extraordinarily good dinner the other night at a restaurant that rarely, if ever, fails to inspire me, and with a new (but not new to Denver) executive chef at the helm, the kitchen is better than ever. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. It’s been a…
Mike Sullivan Devil’s Food Bakery and Cookery 1020 South Gaylord Street 303-733-7448 www.devilsfoodbakery.com This is part one of my interview with Mike Sullivan, executive chef of Devil’s Food Bakery & Cookery. Part two of my chat with Sullivan will run in this space tomorrow. While hanging out on the back…
“Get ready for the fight of your lives.” That was the advice barked at Jeff Smokevitch and Giles Flanigan, the owners of Brown Dog Pizza, a Telluride-based pizzeria that had inked a lease on a vacant, build-out space on South Gaylord Street where they wanted to open a second Brown…
Breakfast, as most of us know, is ballyhooed as the most important meal of the day, but for Abby Aronsohn, an alum of Cook Street School of Culinary Arts, lunch matters most — and Lunch Matters just happens to be the name of her new fast-casual soup-and-sandwich cafe that recently…
If you’re down and out and in search of a dirt-cheap breakfast of eggs, bacon and hash browns, you can pig out at this low-key bar that also pimps pool tables and tunes spanning every genre of music. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the…
It’s not all doom and gloom in Cherry Creek North if you’re a restaurant. Despite the fact that Argyll and Toast have both called it quits — Argyll closed on Sunday and will reopen next year in the Baker neighborhood and Toast shuttered three weeks ago — it’s clear that…
Robert Thompson’s Argyll isn’t the only restaurant that’s bolted from Cherry Creek North, a tony neighborhood dotted with blinged-out boutiques and swank art galleries, but has a losing streak when it comes to dining dens, several of which have shuttered over the past few years (and still remain vacant). While…
There’s no phone number listed anywhere for this ramshackle temple to steer that also doubles as a meat market, green chile utopia and shrine to Biblical verses. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts…
Argyll, a restaurant that we have loved, stalked and ballyhooed since it opened in Cherry Creek in 2009 — it was our Best New Restaurant pick in the 2010 Best of Denver — has, for quite a while, been one of the only reasons to actually make the trek to…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, Noah Stephens, exec chef/owner of Vert Kitchen, talks about the motivation behind his sandwiches, all of which are inspired by his travels around the world. I especially love Vert’s BLT, sandwiched with bacon, oven-roasted tomatoes, lashes of lemon mayonnaise and bibb lettuce. “There’s…
These are not your average tamales. To the contrary, these tamales, the tender masa fragrant with sweet corn, and rolled with cheese, chiles, chicken or pork, are flat-out delicious, and they’re offered solo, by the half-dozen or dozen. You can get them smothered, too, with what has got to be…
When we broke the news yesterday that Dylan Moore was putting the brakes on the Little Orange Rocket, his mobile meals on wheels, several Cafe Society readers wondered if this was the beginning of the end to Denver’s street food movement. Just like restaurants, food trucks come and go, but…
Williams & Graham, a new speakeasy that’s the vision of Todd Colehour, a former head honcho at Kona Grill, was slated to open in June with cocktail-tender Sean Kenyon. Until recently, Kenyon had been the star-tender at the now-closed Squeaky Bean, spearheading the beverage program. He was set to oversee…
Yesterday, in my Guess where I’m eating? post, I called out one of the worst offenders of green chile that I’ve ever seen. Disgusting doesn’t even begin to describe what was on that plate. Interestingly, I had high expectations for the Butcher Block’s green chile, mainly because more than one…
Noah Stephens Vert Kitchen 704 South Pearl Street 303-997-5941 www.vertkitchen.com This is part two of my interview with Noah Stephens, exec chef/owner of Vert Kitchen. Part one of my chat with Stephens ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I love French restaurants, and my favorite is Le…
Just over a year ago, Dylan Moore, the owner/chef of Deluxe and Delite and co-owner of Deluxe Burger, launched the Little Orange Rocket, a tangerine-hued food truck that hustled what Moore called “refined street food from around the world.” And while it was a good ride, says Moore, the truck…
Star-tender Sean Kenyon had all of his cocktail recipes ready to go for the late July opening of the Occidental, a cocktail bar that would have taken over the Squeaky Bean, which closed last month when owner Johnny Ballen and his landlord — ARV Holdings, the entity run by the…
If we issued an award for Denver’s worst green chile, this version, thick with cornstarch (including clumps of it), would be at the top of the shit list. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating…
