At high noon today, EDGE Restaurant & Bar, the swanky food temple overseen by British exec chef Simon Purvis, opened at the Four Seasons, the ritzy, high-style slumbering pad at 1111 Fourteenth Street that’s been months in the making. The restaurant, accented with dark woods, marble, stacked ebony stone and…

The two guys pounding drinks at the bar all but demanded we order the dish in the above pic, Brussels sprouts paired with a fan of seared duck breast straddling a sunchoke puree. They didn’t steer us wrong. In fact, one wasn’t enough to satisfy our cravings, so we did…

Just in case you were wondering, we haven’t seen the last of Denver’s burger trend. Juicy Burgers & Dogs, a modern and minimalist, tiled, stark white space wedged into the corner of a small mall, opened last week at 6830 South Yosemite Street in Centennial, a few storefronts down from…

When Ricky and Anna Choi first announced plans to take over the former Maxwell’s space at 7340 South Clinton Street, they intended to call it Zi Cuisine, which, as we all know, is precariously close in spelling to Z Cuisine, Patrick DuPays’s remarkable French restaurant at 2239 West 30th Avenue…

Five months ago, ten months after Fresko, a short-lived Mexican joint at 5062 South Syracuse, shuttered, Ghugi Singh, the owner of India House in LoDo and Delhi Darbar in Louisville, signed a lease on the space, which he christened India Tavern. And he was ready then to open the doors,…

Smother love: It’s easy being green in Denver in September and October, when the smell of roasting chiles overrides the odor of exhaust along Federal Boulevard, and the green chile at your favorite Mexican joint carries the heat of the new harvest. For the next several weeks, Cafe Society will…

Our favorite table scraps of the week from the Cafe Society blog:…

Earlier this year, Phil Armstrong, a veteran restaurant industry guy who has more ambition than the entire graduating class of Harvard, unleashed Hush, an underground supper club that hosts intimate dinners at various venues around Denver and Boulder, many of them in unusual places — fields, warehouses and atop parking…

Smother love: It’s easy being green in Denver in September, when the smell of roasting chiles overrides the odor of exhaust along Federal Boulevard, and the green chile at your favorite Mexican joint carries the heat of the new harvest. For the next several weeks, Cafe Society will feature some…

We now have a copy of the Zagat 2011 America’s Top Restaurants Survey in our grubby little hands. The guide, better known as the “burgundy bible,” ranked 1,552 restaurants in 45 major markets across the country, including Colorado, based on votes from more than 153,000 diners. The Survey also tracks…

Last week, we unleashed the news that Civic Center EATS, a congregation of street-food trucks and carts that commingled each Tuesday during the summer at Civic Center Park, was extending its stay throughout the year. From 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday (weather permitting) until December 31, up…

Next Tuesday, on October 19, at the stroke of noon, the glitzy Four Seasons Hotel will open at 1111 Fourteenth Street. EDGE Restaurant and Bar, the hotel’s on-site food temple, billed as a “progressive American steakhouse,” will also start turning out prime-grade bricks of beef, chops, seafood, soups, salads and…

As far as I know, there’s only one Asian joint in Denver that serves guò qiáo mĭxiàn, a soup from the Yunnan province otherwise known as “across the bridge rice noodles,” the name of which was allegedly inspired by a dutiful woman who trotted the dish of steaming broth, to…

Aaron Youngblood Executive Chef Dixons Downtown Grill 1610 16th Street 303-573-6100 www.dixonsrestaurant.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Aaron Youngblood, executive chef of Dixons Downtown Grill. Read part one of Midson’s interview with Youngblood. Rules of conduct in your kitchen: Be on time; work clean; respect your…

Aaron Youngblood Executive Chef Dixons Downtown Grill 1610 16th Street 303-573-6100 www.dixonsrestaurant.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s Q&A with Aaron Youngblood, exec chef of Dixons Downtown Grill. Part two of the interview will run tomorrow. Aaron Youngblood needed a job. Any job would do, as long as it…

Early in 2009, Alex Seidel, chef/owner of Fruition, 1313 East Sixth Avenue, bought a ten-acre parcel of earth that sits off a dirt road, just outside Larkspur, and named it Fruition Farms. From the beginning, Seidel, along with Verde Farms founder Josh Halder, cultivated herbs, greens and vegetables, the bounty…

James Rugile, executive chef at Venue, which opened in 2008 at 3609 West 32nd Avenue, is vacating that kitchen at the end of the month to join Frank Bonanno’s kingdom of restaurants — specifically, the kitchens of Luca D’Italia and Mizuna, the two Bonanno restaurants, along with Bones, that share…

Fruition executive chef/owner Alex Seidel is making ricotta cheese from his farm just outside of Larkspur, and several Denver restaurants are pimping dishes, including the one in the above snap, that feature the magnificent cheese, which frankly, deserves a plate of its own. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…

Check out those Syrian sausages in the above pic — a mix of beef, lamb and Mid-East spices rolled into long, lanky ropes and tucked into a housemade pita pocket studded with lettuce and tomatoes and slicked with tahini sauce. That was lunch on Saturday at a Middle Eastern joint…

Beginning today, and continuing through the end of the year — weather permitting — up to four local street-food trucks and carts will hustle their grub at Civic Center Park, the site of Civic Center EATS, this summer’s hit food parade that elevated Denver’s meals on wheels movement to superstar…

Back in June, Michelle and Steve Gelman shuttered their eponymous restaurant at 2911 West 38th Avenue and reopened the space a month later as Boston Fish Shack, a New England-influenced joint that turns out everything from seafood chowder to lobster rolls. And now that restaurant is up for sublease while…