Next week, on February 11, the owner of David’s Kebab House, a tiny Mid-East feast joint tucked into an east Denver small-mall surrounded by international markets, is set to show up at the Wellington Webb Building on 1:30 p.m to attend a hearing that’ll determine whether the four-month-old kebab den,…
Just got off the horn with Mark Anthony, the owner of Brickyard BBQ, who shuttered his northwest Denver bastion of Kansas City-style Q on January 1, sending residents in the Berkeley ‘hood scurrying to his Littleton outpost at 311 County Line Road to satiate their obsession for burnt ends –…
There’s not much happening on that plate in the above snap — nothing more, in fact, than fanned slices of hanger steak and a mound of under-seasoned butternut squash. But the hanger steak, a perfect ruddy mid-rare rimmed with a slight char, satisfied my primal craving. Can you guess where…
Biker Jim, Denver’s favorite wiener wrangler, was one of 64 hot dog vendors across the United States whose dogs are on a roll to win America’s Best Hot contest, a March Madness-style bracketed battle co-conspired by Every Day With Rachael Ray and a few frankfurter freaks from Seriouseats.com, who claim…
No. 75: Tom yum goong from Thai Flavor When it comes to Thai cuisine in Denver, US Thai gets all the accolades, and while they’re well-deserved, the beloved Thai temple in Edgewater has formidable — and fierce — competition, namely from Thai Flavor, a florescent-lit, brightly hued storefront anchored in…
Yes, those are fast-food fries. And, no, they’re not from McDonald’s. These are of the hand-cut, shoestring variety, and when they’re pulled fresh from the fryer and dusted with salt, they’re some of the best fries in town. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the…
More than a dozen Colorado chefs, including Elise Wiggins (Panzano), Michael Long (Aria), Austin Cueto (Restaurant Kevin Taylor), Frankie Semsem (Strings) and Paul Nagan (Zink Kitchen & Bar), are trotting off to the Renaissance Denver Hotel this afternoon to prep for tonight’s piggy extravaganza, part of the Colorado Pork Producers…
Maurice Couturier, the French-born chef/owner of Le Mistral, which opened December 28 in the former Mel’s space at 5970 South Holly Street in Greenwood Village, struts an impressive curriculum vitae: The chef, who owns Grappa Mediterranean Bistro and Cafe, which he opened three years ago in Golden, was also the…
Things just keep getting better for Biker Jim, aka Jim “the wiener wonder dog” Pittenger, who’s already spoiled us with the city’s best hot dogs, originally fleshed out from a stainless steel cart on the 16th Street Mall. Over the past several years, however, Jim has introduced exotic sausage seekers…
There’s nothing quite like the sizzle of butter — like bacon, it makes everything taste better — and here, where the sputtering puddle is the platform for pudgy shrimp specked with parsley, butter is a key ingredient in the kitchen overseen by a veteran chef who also has a knack…
No. 76: Maple and speck ice cream from Pizzeria Basta If the bowls of ice cream at Pizzeria Basta were bigger, we’d all be popping out of our pants, drunk on butterfat, and the tips of our nostrils would have frostbite from the nosedive, none of which would bother us…
Once a week, we head out for shake night, a ritual that my kid insists upon, and while — gasp! — I’m not a big ice cream groupie, I’ll be the first to admit that the blended shakes and malts at this neighborhood hang are pretty damn good; the fact…
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. The Super Bowl…
Eli Odell Highland Tap and Burger 2219 West 32nd Avenue 720-287-4493 www.highlandtapdenver.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Eli Odell, executive chef of Highland Tap and Burger. In part one of that interview, Odell dishes on what he learned from Matt Selby, and what might happen if…
The Mile High City is already home to the Great American Beer Festival, but while that brew blowout attracts hundreds of brewers and tens of thousands of fans from here, there and everywhere, the Winter Brew Fest, which comes to a head tonight at 7 p.m. at Mile High Station,…
No. 77: Pig-snout tacos from Guadalajara Authentic Mexican Buffet First and foremost, Guadalajara Authentic Mexican Buffet, while being a buffet, is anything but monotonous. It is, in fact, a spectacular pageant of chafing dishes swelled with just about every Mexican dish under the blazing sun: barbacoa; menudo; posole, one with…
Burger business is big, and Burger King, shrine to the Whopper, is getting bigger…in length. The fast-food meat mecca, with grease-splattered locations all over the globe, is aiming to outsize its foot-long hot dog competition by conquering the world with inch after inch after inch of flame-broiled beef patties –…
Eli Odell Highland Tap and Burger 2219 West 32nd Avenue 720-287-4493 www.highlandtapdenver.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with Eli Odell, executive chef of Highland Tap and Burger. Read part two of that interview, in which Odell dishes on hammering eighty pounds of wings and the Deadliest Chef…
That, people, is a platter of all the foods that stop me from slamming the snooze button each morning: prosciutto; cheese; figs; mustards; olives; cipollini onions; sweet balsamic and bread. The meats and cheeses are pedestrian, but paired with a few glasses of wine, which are poured with abandonment, it’s…
No. 78: Truffo panino from Shangri-La Cafe For several years, Massimo Ruffinazzi, who was born and raised in Casteggio, Lombardia Italy, was chef/partner at Il Fornaio, an Italian restaurant that once occupied prime real estate in LoDo, before it shuttered (the Tech Center location still stands) and was resurrected last…
“Dear fans, I would like to apologize for not been able to serve you on Market Street as planned,” begins the letter from Michel Wahaltere, the driver — and driving force — behind Chicago Louie’s, the sausage-slinging paddy wagon that joined Denver’s street-food movement on New Year’s Eve. “I have…
No. 79: Pork shank from Argyll Pig is not hard to find in Denver. In fact, save for restaurants whose menus are dedicated to herbivores, you’d be hard-pressed to find a board that doesn’t pimp porcine. And Argyll, the Cherry Creek gastropub whose kitchen is overseen by executive chef Sergio…
