I have no recollection as to why I allowed anyone to talk me into ordering sushi — bad sushi — in the shape of a heart, but I can assure you that it’ll never, ever happen again. At which raw fish house did I lose perspective? Special bonus: Anyone who…
Back in October, Yan de Yang, the owner of Chopsticks & Sushi at 1630 Welton Street, shot and killed Lloyd Running Bear, allegedly in self defense. While that’s all being sorted out behind bars and closed doors, Yang’s former restaurant is showing new signs of life with bright signage announcing…
Rachel Ray, the painfully annoying non-chef that everyone loves to loathe, just announced her top pick for pizza dominance — and she didn’t choose Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria, Mark Dym’s pie palace at 2129 Larimer Street. Instead, she awarded the title of Best Pizza in America to Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix,…
Billy’s Gourmet Hot Dogs, the brainchild of owner Bill Feid, a wiener-loving Chicagoan who says he couldn’t find a noble Chicago-style dog when he first moved to Denver, opened last week at 2445 Larimer Street. The menu, a catchall of eight different Vienna beef, Polser and salmon hot dogs and…
Late last Valentine’s night, I stopped by one of Denver’s better bars to meet a friend for a drink and, as it turned out, nachos, which well and truly sucked. I love pretty much everything about this joint — the staff, the tunes, the stiff pours, the crowd — but…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Sometimes, a cocktail requires the presence of pigs, in this case a male and female who were apparently as enamored as I with this Valentine’s Day flame. Who poured on the love? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
On Monday, February 22, Matt Selby, executive chef of Steuben’s and Vesta Dipping Grill, will join 15 of the nation’s top chefs and mixologists in Washington DC, as part of the Share Our Strength contingent at the Democratic Governor’s Association conference. Selby, who is the chef chair for Denver’s own…
Denver’s Independent Network of Restaurants (DINR), the group responsible for Harvest Week and A Saucy Affair, is asking its member restaurants to spread the love…through their liquid assets as part of DINR’s Valentine’s Day Cocktail Contest. The competition, which has already kicked off, continues through Wednesday, February 10, at which…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
This is part two of James Mazzio’s Chef and Tell interview. To read part one, click here. What you’d like to see more of in Denver from a culinary standpoint: More chefs going out on their own and expressing their individual culinary talent rather than working for chain restaurants and…
Thirteen of Denver’s most popular restaurants will take part in the Great Chefs of the West tonight, an annual fundraiser for the National Kidney Foundation. But this year’s style will be a little different. “ is our signature event, and we wanted a fresh, new image, so we moved away…
You’re a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, don’t you mess around with me! If your Valentine’s Day is shaping up to match Pat Benatar’s painfully cynical lyrics, take heart: Elway’s Downtown, 1881 Curtis Street, in the Ritz-Carlton, is celebrating the virtues of singlehood with an Ice-breaker – Not Heart-breaker happy…
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. “I know it…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
You’ll either know exactly where this dish — buttered Malaysian flatbread with a boldly spiced and brothy curry sauce — comes from, or you won’t. But knowing this crowd, my bets are on sooner, rather than later. Ready, set, guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
James Mazzio sneaks a look at his ticker. He’s doing a dinner for a hundred people in less than three hours and his cooks need him on the line. It’s the final hurrah in his three-month stint at Le Chateau, the French restaurant where he’s been cooking since last October…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
There’s nothing that beats the gravy fries at Steuben’s or the cheese fries at Jonsey’s EatBar, but these French fries, pelted with bacon and ribbons of scallions, drizzled with mild cheese sauce and served with a side of housemade ranch dressing, certainly do justice to the lowly tuber. At which…
If you’re the kind of person who hears the words “breakfast” and “free” and leaps from your bed without so much as a potty stop on your way out the door, have we got a deal for you. See that photo up there? That’s your early morning wake-up call, your…
Denver’s Independent Network of Restaurants (DINR), the group responsible for Harvest Week and A Saucy Affair, is asking its member restaurants to spread the love…through their liquid assets as part of DINR’s Valentine’s Day Cocktail Contest. The competition, which has already kicked off, continues through Wednesday, February 10, at which…
