‘Twas the day before Christmas, and all through the room, the tables were stirring with sandwiches to consume. Stacked high and mighty with pig on pig, it was too much for one, even a belly that’s big. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
Jorel Pierce Euclid Hall 1317 14th Street 303-595-4255 www.euclidhall.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with Jorel Pierce, executive chef of Euclid Hall. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. “You can’t write that! I’m not a pussy!” Jorel Pierce, the stove sultan who…
Less than a week after Veggie Girl Amber Taufen waxed rhapsodic about a recent meal at Masalaa, the vegetarian Indian joint at 3140 South Parker Road, the quarters are dark, the only sign of life a typed sign taped to the window citing a “temporary closure” due to “maintenance” issues…
Larkburger, the gourmet burger barn that started in the high country — specifically, Edwards — and spawned siblings in Greenwood Village, Boulder and Fort Collins, is bringing its Black Angus beef to West Washington Park, taking over part of the behemoth square footage that belonged to Blockbuster Video at 340…
I’m a sucker for good salsas, and the caddy of four (plus the house salsa) that graces your table at this bustling taqueria is filled with plastic squats of freshly made, intense concoctions that dance across your tongue like ballerinas on a stage. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…
Boulder, insists Phil Armstrong, the founder of HUSH, and, for a nanosecond, the general manager of Radex Bistro, which closed last October, needs more breakfast joints. Alec Schuler, owner/executive chef of Arugula, a farm-to-table restaurant in Boulder, shares the same sentiment, and when two restaurant minds think alike, things happen…
Bittersweet, Olav Peterson’s new garden-to-table restaurant at 500 East Alameda Avenue opened on New Year’s Eve, after a series of unexpected construction delays that turned the dining room into an igloo, thanks to gale-force winds whipping through a light socket…
No. 86: Beef cheek enchiladas from El Diablo Sean Yontz is, arguably, the face of Mexican food in Denver, and when El Diablo, the restaurant that he co-owns with Jesse Morreale, opened last August, it did so with an ambitious menu that stretched far and above the conventional Mexican fray…
Every year, on January 1, a bunch of us usher in the New Year at a popular Chinese restaurant that graciously puts up with our lingering hangovers and hungered stomachs. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am…
The first mobile food vendor on wheels was launched nearly 150 years ago, in 1872, when a Rhode Island native called Walter Scott trotted his horse-drawn freight wagon, stocked with sandwiches, hard-boiled eggs, coffee and pies around the town of Providence, satiating the bellies of late-night factory workers. A century…
Happy New Year! We’ll see you back here bright and early on Monday morning…
“Yeah, it’s been stressful, and there was a point where I felt like I was going to throw up,” confesses Frank Bonanno, who’s clinging to a glass of red wine while sitting at the bar of Lou’s Food Bar, his newest restaurant that opened last night at 1851 West 38th…
Tonight, one lucky Cafe Society reader will get to celebrate New Year’s Eve at Olivéa, the sensational Mediterranean restaurant in Uptown whose kitchen is overseen by the dynamic husband-and-wife duo of exec chef John Broening and pastry goddess Yasmin Lozada-Hissom. Earlier this week, we asked you to tell us, in…
I love the service here, and the wine list is both sensibly priced and well-crafted, but after a recent dinner that included a wad of paper in my chile rellenos and a woefully underseasoned seafood dish that arrived lukewarm, it’s on my shit list. Can you guess where I’m eating?…
Yesterday, several local chefs — Michael Long (Aria and Opus); Eric Skokan (Black Cat); Brandon Biederman (Steuben’s); Brad Rowell (Colt & Gray); and Troy Guard (TAG and TAG Raw Bar) — dished on the culinary trends that would shape 2011, sounding off on what they’d like to see more (and…
Yes, you read that headline correctly: Olivéa, the sensational Mediterranean restaurant in Uptown whose kitchen is overseen by the dynamic husband-and-wife duo of exec chef John Broening and pastry goddess Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, is offering a free three-course dinner for two on New Year’s Eve. The gift is for the early…
No. 87: Roasted cauliflower salad from Euclid Hall Nobody loves cauliflower. It’s pathetically ugly, resembling, even on its best days, a human brain, and when it’s cooked — specifically overcooked — the florets pollute the air with the stink of sulfur. It’s a favored Shylock of institutions and the pokey,…
What does 2011 hold for the culinary world? We asked several local chefs to consult their crystal orbs, talk to the (whole) beast, bend their ears to the farmland and unearth a few trends that will shape the way we eat next year. Here are the predictions of some of…
Christmas Day at my house is completely uneventful, unlike Christmas Eve, which is a day-long marathon of gluttony and wine- and champagne-filled debauchery. We wake up late on Christmas morning and pad around in our sloppy pajamas, eventually surrendering to our hangovers late in the afternoon when our gurgling bellies…
No. 88: Döner kabob from Shondiz Years ago, when I was a college student in London, I’d spend the majority of my mornings, noons and nights at a local pub knocking back cloudy pints of Scrumpy before staggering off in search of the nearest curry house or 24-hour kabob shop…
While teetering on my stool at this pub, whose food is is no slouch, the jovial tender suggested mixing a cider from the Wynkoop with New Belgium’s La Folie Sour Brown Ale, the result of which was one of the best drink marriages I’ve had all year. There’s nothing better…
Mike Adams Racines 650 Sherman Street 303-595-0418 www.racinesrestaurant.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s chat session with Mike Adams, executive chef of Racines. Part one of that Chef and Tell interview ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: The Trout House, on the Deschutes River in Bend, Oregon. It specializes…
