“Everyone comes to Estes Park in the summer, but winter is a best-kept secret, and this is our way of celebrating all of the amazing things that people can do in this great town — in winter and summer,” says Elizabeth Fogarty, project manager of the Estes Park Winter Festival,…
Ocean Prime, a splashy new steak and seafood restaurant that will open on January 20 in Larimer Square, is hosting a preview tonight for Denver cognoscenti who put their money where their mouth is: Owner Cameron Mitchell and his crew are ushering in the New Year – and their new…
No. 83: Cazuela Colombiana from Cafe Brazil Every single time I go to Cafe Brazil, I feel compelled to study the menu — a menu that I’ve all but memorized — even though I nearly always order the same dish, a plate that’s been on the board for two decades,…
Last night, John Hickenlooper, Denver’s former mayor — and now governor — was surrounded by supporters hungry for change, which Hickenlooper vowed to deliver in a sixteen-minute speech earlier yesterday before the blow-out inauguration party at the Fillmore celebrating his rise to the top. But Hick’s proponents were hungry for…
Skew, which opened Monday night at 2070 South University Boulevard, is all about inexpensive but high-quality ingredients slipped on sticks in a hip environment that’s both fast-casual and full-service, says Ton Phairatphibon, who operates the University Park restaurant with his brothers. “We want to offer a different kind of value…
Robert Bogart Elway’s Downtown 1881 Curtis Street 303-312-3107 www.elways.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with Robert Bogart, executive chef of Elway’s Downtown. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. Robert Bogart, a former Marine who became the executive chef of Elway’s Downtown in…
“We didn’t want to open fast; we wanted to open right,” says Christina Smith, who, along with her partner, Josh Epps, had hoped to un-jar Jelly, a new breakfast joint in Capitol Hill, on the first day of 2011 — just in time for the drunks to wobble in at…
Colorado Senator Chris Romer, who’s making a run for mayor now that Hick is the new guv, seems to be making cupcakes — notably those from the Denver Cupcake Trucks — one of his top priorities. Last week, we reported that Romer had splashed his official website with a plea…
Last night at Roth Distributing, where state-of-the-art kitchens played house to some of Denver’s top chefs and mixologists, Leigh Sullivan-Guard, the founder of FIVE — a cartel of chefs who cook in Denver, at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic and the James Beard House every year — introduced the…
The entire list of restaurants participating in Denver Restaurant Week (or weeks, since the dates for Denver’s best deals on meals actually stretch from February 26 through March 11) goes live today at the stroke of noon, but even before those restaurants are revealed, we’ve got the scoop on the…
No. 84: Pork osso buco from Osteria Marco Osteria Marco is Frank Bonanno’s homage to the hog, a ward of house-crafted charcuterie, pizzas tarped with prosciutto, puddings laced with pork fat, and Sunday-night pig roasts. The subterranean enterprise — a sound system of ruckus and racket pinging off the ceilings…
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 House in September…
While I’m not a huge proponent of tofu, the scrambled tofu bowl, tussling with carrots, wakame, shitake mushrooms and soybeans, at this Japanese restaurant, which recently began serving ramen, is a wonderful drift of winter sustenance that elevates the often boring bean curd to food that’s actually good — very…
Last February, fourteen Denver chefs congregated inside the Stranahan’s Whiskey distillery as part of a 50top feast, an invite-only, underbelly dinner club that gives chefs the opportunity to cook whatever the hell they want for an appreciative cluster of foodniks who never know what they’re going to get. That night,…
Unless you’ve been coffined in frosting, you’ve no doubt heard that Clyde and Clementine, the Denver Cupcake Trucks, have gone dormant — at least for the month of January, all because of a kerfuffle between owners and bakers Sean and Denon Moore and Denver’s Planning and Zoning Department, which, according…
It’s an age-old question in Denver: Where can I go to get a really, really good sandwich? You can go here, to this unassailable, perpetually busy sandwich shack that turns out inspiring combinations, coupled with every day favorites, like the French dip in the above snap. Can you guess where…
“I know! Can you believe it? We finally got the book through the doors!” That was elated response from Jennifer Jasinski, the chef/owner of Rioja, Euclid Hall and Bistro Vendôme, when I spoke with her late yesterday afternoon, two days after 5,000 copies of her Rioja cookbook, The Perfect Bite,…
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. While the gluttony…
No. 85: Fried Brussels sprouts from Panzano The culinary landscape of America is currently experiencing a Brussels Sprouts revolution, which says a lot about the way the food tide is turning in this country, especially when you consider the fact that the sprout, once a submissive throwaway cabbage-y thing that…
While some chefs say that burrata has had its heyday — that it’s overstayed its welcome — I’m on the opposing side, still very much enamored with the thin-shelled mozzarella oozing with warm cream. At the restaurant where the above snap was shot, the kitchen pools the Italian cheese in…
Jorel Pierce Euclid Hall 1317 14th Street 303-595-4255 www.euclidhall.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Jorel Pierce, executive chef of Euclid Hall. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Blue Ribbon in Manhattan is just what it is — and…
Street Kitchen Asian Bistro, the first brick-and-mortar to open in the Vallagio at Inverness (Russo’s Kitchen + Tavern and a second Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria will open in the same development in February), is Mary Nguyen’s second restaurant (her first is Parallel Seventeen in Uptown), but just two days after opening…
