The number of submissions for our little bean pun contest, the winner of which scores two seats to the Highlands Chef Collaborative Farm Dinner at Aspen Moon, numbered more than 40. Several of your puns made us erupt into fits of giggles; others made scratch our heads and roll our…

The final Highlands Chef Collaborative Dinner of the year is exactly six days away, and take our word for it: You don’t want to miss it. Why, you ask? Well, consider this: The five participating chefs — Max Mackissock (Squeaky Bean); James Rugile (Venue); Brad Rowell (Colt & Gray); Tyler…

This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Second Home Kitchen + Bar chef Jeff Bolton. To read part one of that Q&A, click here Rules of conduct in your kitchen: Have fun, don’t screw around when it’s business time, and be proud of every plate that you serve…

There are days, I admit, that I’m utterly devoid of discipline — days where you can shove a plate of carne asada fries under my chin, all doped up with cheese, sour cream and guacamole, and I’ll inhale them as though they were my last meal before being sentenced to…

EatDenver’s Harvest Week, a seven-day jubilation that pays homage to Colorado’s bountiful crops, sprouted on Monday, with nearly forty of the city’s top independent restaurants strutting seasonal menus showcasing locally sourced ingredients, libations and products. Think it’s too late to snatch a seat at one of the restaurants celebrating Harvest…

If you ask Lawrence Yee whether he’s had it up to his crown with the construction mess at the Beauvallon, whose barrage of scaffolding nearly blocks the front door of his new restaurant, Japoix, he’ll accentuate the positive. “I have a lot of confidence that after the Beauvallon is finished…

Jeff Bolton Second Home Kitchen + Bar 150 Clayton Lane 303-253-3000 www.secondhomedenver.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with Jeff Bolton, executive chef of Second Home Kitchen + Bar. To read the second part of Midson’s Q&A with Bolton, check back here tomorrow. Jeff Bolton plops himself down…

EatDenver’s Harvest Week, a seven-day jubilation that pays homage to Colorado’s bountiful crops, sprouted yesterday, with nearly forty of the city’s top independent restaurants strutting seasonal menus showcasing locally sourced ingredients, libations and products. Think it’s too late to snatch a seat at one of the nearly 40 restaurants celebrating…

Last Thursday night, Wolfgang Puck, the Austrian-born culinary force whose restaurant empire spans the globe, touched down at the Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch in Beaver Creek for a blow-out wine dinner at Spago, the resort’s tony in-house restaurant that Puck inspired. The dinner, a benefit for First Descents, an organization that…

Years ago, when I was writing for Sunset magazine, I did a roundup of Colorado’s best barbecue joints, which included the spot whose sauces are spotlighted in the above pic. The pitmaster who oversees the joint takes as much pride in those sauces as he does the smoke in his…

EatDenver’s Harvest Week, a seven-day jubilation that pays homage to Colorado’s bountiful crops, sprouts today, with nearly forty of the city’s top independent restaurants strutting seasonal menus showcasing locally sourced ingredients, libations and products. Think it’s too late to snatch a seat at one of the nearly 40 restaurants celebrating…

Southwest suburbanites are all over the arrival of Virgilio’s Pizzeria and Wine Bar, which opened on Saturday in the former Johnny Carino’s plot at 10025 West San Juan Way, in Littleton. The behemoth 6,400-square-foot space is the second restaurant from owner and pizza master Virgilio Urbano, who opened his first…

“We just made our first dollar, and then we lost it in a game of rock-paper-scissors,” says Biker Jim, Denver’s sultan of fat sausages. The game went down at 9:30 this morning, when Biker Jim sold a Coke for a buck to his first customer on the grounds of the…

Behold the final winning entry in our Sunday summer supper contest. Just in case you missed all this, here’s the short version: We asked readers to suggest a name for the coalition of chefs — Alex Seidel (Fruition and Fruition Farms), Jeff Osaka (twelve), Justin Brunson (Masterpiece Deli and Lechon),…

Interstate Kitchen + Bar’s Andre Lobato, the featured kitchen wizard in this week’s Chef and Tell interview, turns out one of the best happy hour menus in Denver, in part because it includes popcorn pelted with bacon and spicy peanuts. And, really, what’s better than that? “The first bar I…

If you’ve been following this here blog, then you already know that chefs Jeff Osaka (twelve), Alex Seidel (Fruition and Fruition Farms), Scott and Deanna Parker (Table 6) and Justin Brunson (Masterpiece Deli) are hosting a seafood supper this Sunday at the Infinite Monkey Theorem — and that two lucky…

I absolutely loathe the Mexican slop that masquerades as food at this ridiculously overrated pit stop where the microwave is the kitchen’s best friend. And yet, I find myself eating here way too often, acquiescing every time some hack swears to me that it’s all a Mexican joint should be…

Late last month, Wade Kirwan, an eleven-year veteran of Vesta Dipping Grill, 1822 Blake Street, made the difficult decision to pull himself off the line. Kirwan, who had spent the last five years as the executive chef of the LoDo hot spot, alongside chef Matt Selby and cohorts Kenny Turk…