The chef of the mountain restaurant where the above snap was flashed is obsessed with lamb — and I was equally obsessed with shoving it down my throat. 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…
Last week, Joe Vostrejs, the COO of Larimer Associates, was heading home from Madison Street, the Congress Park neighborhood restaurant he opened in October of last year, when he started to think about dots — specifically, connecting those dots to Troy Guard, the chef/owner of TAG and TAG RAW BAR,…
A reader shot us an e-mail earlier today, posing a food-related question to “Ask a Mexican” columnist Gustavo Arellano: I absolutely love flour tortillas made with lard, but I have not been able to find a place that sells them in Denver. Everyone seems to think that vegetable shortening will…
Last night, Denver’s who’s who of chefs congregated at the Colorado Convention Center for Chefs Up Front Denver, a fundraiser that benefited Cooking Matters, a nonprofit that fights childhood hunger and malnutrition and teaches healthy food courses to underserved families on a budget. The multiple-course dinners, prepared tableside by Denver’s…
On Friday night, I made dinner reservations in the bar of a restaurant that’s run by a chef who’s very familiar with my unapologetic disdain for filet mignon, and, as you can see from the above snap, my place setting that evening drove the point home. I do, however, have…
In case you haven’t heard, Denver is a city that’s obsessed — like, really obsessed — with its green chile. We smother it — unlike everywhere else in the country — on absolutely everything. We’ve even heard stories of people who put it in milkshakes, on top of chocolate cake…
It had just gone 6 p.m., when light driblets of rain began to drop from the clouds, but the dozens of people with their noses to the window, peering in to catch a glimpse of the famous French chef, didn’t seem to notice. Some, determined to be one of the…
The shot above was taken at a restaurant, whose kitchen crew really knows how to flex its muscles…at least when it comes to mussels. 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 is entered into…
Every so often, when the mood hits, I get a fetish for fajitas. But while these were passable, they were nowhere near perfect. 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 is entered into a…
The ground may be dusted with white powder, but a little snow isn’t enough to put the breaks on the ten street food trucks and carts that will feed mouths on the Auraria Campus beginning at 10 a.m. as part of Innovation Day, an event hosted by Metro State’s Center…
This is part two of my interview with Luke Mewbourn, executive chef of Table Mountain Inn Grill & Cantina. In part one of that interview, Mewbourn harps on foie gras and Lady Gaga and hails the righteousness of Jim’s Burger Haven. Luke Mewbourn Table Mountain Inn Grill & Cantina 1310…
If you drink — even a drop — of all 400 wines being poured at this year’s DAM Uncorked, the largest fundraiser for the Denver Art Museum, you’ll be far too sloshed to remember what you imbibed come the next morning, which is why we suggest pacing yourself during the…
A who’s who of Denver kitchen magicians will converge at the Colorado Convention Center tonight for Chefs Up Front, a gastronomic blowout to benefit the nonprofit Cooking Matters Colorado. The event highlights the culinary ingenuity of two dozen top toques, including Max MacKissock (Squeaky Bean), Daniel Asher (Root Down), Wayne…
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. Easter, as you…
Early last month, the Sundance Channel unleashed news that it would begin airing a new series this summer with Burgundy-born Ludo Lefebvre, the classically trained French chef who resides (when he’s not living out of a suitcase) in Los Angeles and travels across the sweeping American landscape with his wife…
After having my cholesterol checked — and getting a surprising thumbs up from the doc — I celebrated as anyone who has low cholesterol would: with a steak and butter-soaked baked potato. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s…
Luke Mewbourn Table Mountain Inn Grill & Cantina 1310 Washington Avenue, Golden 303-216-8040 www.tablemountaininn.com This is part one of my interview with Luke Mewbourn, executive chef of Table Mountain Inn Grill & Cantina. Part two of this interview will run tomorrow. Denver native Luke Mewbourn has defied the odds, racking…
Last month, Phil Armstrong, the founder of HUSH Concepts, let loose NOMAD — one-off dinners that “pop-up” at various venues throughout the city, their addresses kept off the radar until just hours before the dinners begin. James Mazzio was tapped to be the chef for the March dinners, but a…
A long, long, long time ago, before Denver became inundated with Philly cheesesteak joints, this was my favorite place to get my fix. 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 is entered into a…
I have never been to a Jack in the Box, but as I was making the descent into Denver this weekend after a jaunt to Vail, I saw one just off Sixth Avenue and Colfax — and I got a sudden urge to go there. But then I got permanently…
There are plenty of $10 meal-deals in Denver, as evidenced by our recent roster detailing five of the city’s best dinners for a tenner or less, but a lot of those joints are cheap to begin with, and unless you eat like us — pigs — you’d be hard-pressed to…
Never mind that the mountaintop picnic at this year’s Taste of Vail was nearly blown into oblivion by 50 mph wind gusts that knocked over tents, and, in some cases, a few snow bunnies who were tipsy to start with, thanks to the high volume of alcohol that was being…
