I love my job, and when I talk to chefs and restaurateurs — people like Mary Nguyen, for example — I love my job even more. Nguyen, the chef/owner of Parallel Seventeen, the cosmopolitan French-Vietnamese restaurant at 1600 East Seventeenth Avenue, is opening Street Kitchen Asian Bistro in October, a…

It’s likely to be the Academy Awards of pickelers, salumieres, cheese-makers, chocolatiers, brewmasters, jam makers and coffee roasters at the Good Food Awards, a new national competition for those who rule — or think they rule — the world of hand-crafted foods and suds…

No joke, people. That watermelon you see in the above pic is actually on a menu. Draped with crème fraîche and garnished with fresh mint, it made our jaws hit the table and our eyes go buggy — just as it will yours. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…

In the event that you missed our best bites of the week, here’s a recap. Laura Shunk reports that Zona Moore, the 84-year-old matriarch of her namesake tamale hut, got busted, along with her son, for trafficking stolen goods — specifically cigarettes. Moore is out on bond, and smokes are…

Let’s start with the big question: How many dollar bills are you going to have to part with? “Nothing on our menu will be more than four bucks,” promises Ian Kleinman. Thank Jesus for that, otherwise those of you hyperventilating over the $20 lobster rolls being doled out from the…

It’s not the best cheese plate on the planet, but it is a new addition to a menu that hasn’t undergone a revamp in years. And while the mozzarella, which is made in-house, definitely needs some attention, the fact that the kitchen is making an attempt at crafting their own…

Dylan Moore, chef of Deluxe, Delite, Deluxe Burger and the proud owner of the Little Orange Rocket, the new Deluxe streetmobile, sat down with us last week to discuss his growing empire of restaurants, his fetish for fish sauce and tacos and how he managed to fuck up fish for…

Okay, so I was drunk and really hungry, which are the only two reasons why anyone could possibly be persuaded to order the Mexican egg rolls in the above pic, which arrived with hollow interiors harboring, well, next to nothing. The thin tarps of cheese on top? Trickery. Can you…

“We want people to understand the quality of produce that we use here at the restaurant,” says Max Mackissock, exec chef of the Squeaky Bean, the seasonally-driven, New American restaurant with an alter to the late Farrah Fawcett and a thimble-size kitchen that’s rolling out its summer farm stand today…

Dylan Moore Deluxe 30 South Broadway 303-722-1550 Delite 32 South Broadway 303-722-1278 Deluxe Burger 5325 East Colfax Avenue 303-333-5683 This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Dylan Moore, exec chef of Deluxe, Delite and Deluxe Burger. You can read part one here. Culinary inspirations: Fresh ingredients. I try…

After 22 years, 14th Street Bar and Grill, the Boulder restaurant that’s been slinging California cuisine from its address at 1400 Pearl Street since 1988, is calling it quits. One of Boulder’s first restaurants to instill a real wood-burning oven, which produced some killer pizzas and smoky burgers, the popular…

That monstrosity of a dessert, heaped with whipped cream and wreathed in fresh berries, gives the Dairy Queen sundae a run for its calories. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into…

Dylan Moore Deluxe 30 South Broadway 303-722-1550 Delite 32 South Broadway 303-722-1278 Deluxe Burger 5325 East Colfax Avenue 303-333-5683 This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with Dylan Moore, exec chef of Deluxe, Delite and Deluxe Burger, To read part two of that interview, check this space tomorrow. “This,”…

Apparently lagniappe wasn’t enough to sustain Saucy, the Southern-style barbecue joint that opened in late January at 2200 Market Street, a tough space that swallowed Otto’s Grill and Brix before spitting out Saucy earlier this week. Nearly everything in the restaurant is up for auction, including six flat-screen TVs, conference…

In 2003, Leigh Sullivan was questioning what a lot of us in Denver ponder when discussing the Denver dining climate. Why, she wondered, is everyone focusing on the restaurants and chefs in San Francisco, Chicago and New York, when, in fact, Denver has its own vibrant culinary landscape? A landscape,…

A month after closing Gelman’s at 2911 West 38th Avenue, owner Michelle Gelman just reopened the space as Boston Fish Shack, a New England-inspired grubbery that’s doling out classic seafood shack plates like fish and chips, cioppino, Maryland crab cakes, lobster rolls and New England seafood chowder. “With the progression…

As usual, I’m lovin’ the pig, and the pork on the above plate, served with watercress, pecans and something mustardy, which I won’t reveal, because, then, it would make this little guessing game far too easy, more than satisfied my enslavement to swine. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…

Michael Long had news, but he wasn’t going to share it with me over the phone. “Let’s meet for lunch,” he insisted, “and I’ll tell you all about it.” Over xiao long bao, seaweed salad and beef noodle soup at Lao Wang Noodle House, Long detailed the plans for a…

It was supposed to be a tapas joint, but the deal fell through, so instead, the Marmalade Bar & Cafe at 2796 South Broadway morphed into Bites, a sweet breakfast and lunch spot from Jim Smith, who also owns Blueberry’s Bakery and Cafe in Littleton and the Cheesecake Connection, with…

I love the molcajetes served at the restaurant where the above pic was snapped. The smoking mortar, stocked with shrimp, chorizo, beef and chicken, logs of Oaxacan queso, charred nopales and wilted green onions submerged in a swamp of tomatillos laced with green chile, was the ideal Sunday dinner. The…