Billed as pommes frites on the menu, the above plate of fingerling potatoes smooched with truffled salt and sided with lemon aioli, could have been called anything — and it would still elevate the lowly tuber to culinary nirvana. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Terry Jones, the batshit crazy pastor of the obscure fifty-member Dove World Outreach Center (DWOC) in Gainesville, Florida, who threatened to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of September 11 because he’s opposed to the building of the “Ground Zero mosque” (he later called off the combustion),…
It was here, sitting among eighteen people, all of whom were typing away on their Macs, that I decided to go to the dark side and get a Mac of my own, which should arrive any day. Woo-hoo! In any case, most of those same people were noshing on sandwiches…
Last Friday afternoon, on Larimer Square, hundreds of hardbody firefighters from local and national fire and rescue units across the country battled it out in the 23rd annual chili cook-off, a spirited combat whose proceeds benefited the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The firefighters, some of whom went to great lengths to…
Well, shit. Among the hundreds of events taking place this week in honor of the Great American Beer Festival and Denver Beer Fest, the one I was looking forward to the most has been squashed. Sunk. Torpedoed. Axed…
“Everyone has a connection with crockpots, whether it’s sitting on top of your refrigerator collecting dust, or it’s something that your mom or grandmother used while you were growing up,” says Stephen Daniels. Daniels, who was living in New York when the idea of crock pot cooking seeped into his…
Love the lasagna, and the pizzas, too, but the service, at least on a recent Sunday night, was agonizingly slow, and worse, inept, making me hesitant to ever step foot in this joint again. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…
Self-described green chile warrior Jack Martinez, the owner/chef of two Jack-n-Grill restaurants (a third outlet, in Westminster, will open in October), and the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview, has a huge family that benefits from his cooking capabilities. One of their favorites dishes is Frito pie, a…
Now that the weather is showing signs of autumn, it’s the ideal time of year to chase away the chill with a warming bowl of pasta. Generously heaped with housemade pappardelle, pancetta and other meats, draped with a robust tomato sauce and sheeted with shavings of Grana Padano, the bolognese…
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. “We all know…
A few weeks go, I received an e-mail from a woman inviting me to a Patrón Secret Dining Society dinner in Denver, and since I’m a tequila tramp, I took the bait. The idea behind the dinners, which are organized by the people at Patrón and held throughout different American…
I know what you’re thinking — and you’re wrong. That dosa? It’s not from Masalaa. And unless you’ve recently been to the restaurant where the above snap was flashed, it’s likely that you’ll be stumped. Suffice it to say, I was shocked. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
From the moment Pupusas Sabor Hispano opened five years ago in a dilapidated roadside shack in north Boulder, the People’s Republic clamored, tripping over themselves in the 30-seat space to grub on griddled disks of masa stuffed with fiddlehead fens, chicharrón, beans, rajas and zucchini and molten cheese. Earlier this…
Jack Martinez Jack-n-Grill 2524 Federal Boulevard; 2630 West Belleview Avenue 303-964-9544; 303-474-4242 www.jackngrill.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Jack Martinez, owner/exec chef of Jack-n-Grill. To read part one of that Q&A, click here. Six words to describe your food: My food is love made edible. Ten…
Sean Andersen-Vie, the public relations specialist for the Denver Zoo, swears that no one has ever gotten so blasted at the Brew at the Zoo that they’ve tumbled into the lion’s den or dived into elephant dung, but there’s a first time for everything. And considering the 3,000 people expected…
Local, sustainable, organic, field-to-fork, garden-to-table, harvest-to-plate. These are all food-centric buzz words that encourage us to think about the bumper crop of agriculture that grows outside our front doors. And now you can learn a whole lot more about foraging for food on a local level at the Local Foods…
Expect an abbondanza of vino, food, culture and entertainment this weekend at Festival Italiano, a street fair and marketplace at Belmar. The two-day event, touting more than 25 Italian food, snack and dessert vendors, includes food and wine pairings from Frank Bonanno (Bones, Luca D’Italia, Mizuna and Osteria Marco) and…
While Cherry Creek just lost Tambien, one of the tony neighborhood’s best independent restaurants, the downstairs space at 2710 East Third Avenue, formerly Plush, is poised to become Sweet Ginger Asian Bistro & Sushi. Located directly next door to — and sharing a patio with — Argyll, Robert Thompson’s awesome…
Early next month, Porche Lovely, the master baker of Lovely Confections, the cupcake bakery at 1489 Steele Street, is taking her cupcakes to the street — specifically the 16th Street Mall, where she will unmask a street cart. Shocking…
Jack Martinez Jack-n-Grill 2524 Federal Boulevard; 2630 West Belleview Avenue 303-964-9544; 303-474-4242 www.jackngrill.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s Q&A with Jack Martinez, owner/exec chef of Jack-n-Grill. Check back here tomorrow to read part two of that interview. For eight years straight, Jack Martinez hauled his weathered pick-up truck…
It’s been far too long since I’ve stepped foot in the whimsical restaurant that made my belly fat and happy with a fantastic plate of risotto tangled with housemade mozzarella and fresh vegetables. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the…
Last night, after dinner service, Tambien, the irreverent Mexican cantina at 250 Steele Street, in Cherry Creek, has shuttered its doors. The lease on the subterranean taqueria, which opened in 2006 after owners Jesse Morreale and Sean Yontz closed Sketch at the same address and then later reopened the wine,…
