Last weekend, Elise Wiggins, executive chef at Panzano (909 17th Street), held a cooking class at Bear Mountain Ranch, home on the range to the Black Angus steer that ranch owners Debbie and John Medved are raising for Wiggins, who is using the beef at Panzano. The cooking class, which…

This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Frank Bonanno, executive chef-owner of Osteria Marco, Mizuna, Luca d’Italia and Bones. You can read the first part of Midson’s interview with Bonanno here. Culinary inspirations: My mother and my sister. When I was six, seven, maybe eight, my mother and…

 “I love the gastropub concept, I love the word ‘gastropub’ and I love Leigh Jones,” declares Brendon Doyle, the former exec chef of Campo de Fiori who’s now in command of the kitchen at Jonesy’s EatBar, the gastropub at 400 East 20th Avenue, as Jason Sheehan reports here. Doyle didn’t…

The sign on the door announces that Chedd’s Gourmet Grilled Cheese, 1906 Pearl Street, is “closed for remodeling until further notice,” but a call to the joint’s local headquarters resulted in a more concrete announcement — namely a disconnected phone line. And a peek through Chedd’s dirty windows shows a…

“Look, I see a lot of things in restaurants that I think are really unacceptable, and it pisses me off, because I think that Denver diners deserve a lot better than what a lot of places are doing, and if that view makes me seem too outspoken, that’s okay with…

Directly across the street from Swing Thai, less than a block away from Fontana Sushi, exactly one block from Thai Basil and a short three-block walk from Crazy Asian Cafe, sits the future home of Asian Diner. And once it opens at 295 South Pennsylvania Street, that will make five…

The Denver Five — Tyler Wiard, Keegan Gerhard (D Bar Desserts), Troy Guard (TAG), Matt Selby (Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben’s) and Jamey Fader (Lola and Big Red F Restaurant Group) will convene tonight at Elway’s Cherry Creek, 2500 East First Avenue, Wiard’s home turf, for the fourth in a…

Noodles & Company, the Colorado-based, quick-casual joint that serves oodles of noodles, salads and sandwiches from around the globe, is opening its 38th store tomorrow at 1737 East Evans Avenue in the location formerly occupied by a Blockbuster Video store. The store makes its debut at 10:30 a.m., when it…

At this relatively new Mexican restaurant, the menu is a mash-up of the usual suspects — carne asada, burritos, fajitas and huevos rancheros — and more interesting south-of-the-border foodstuffs like posole poblano, nopales and shrimp ceviche, the shout-out dish in the above photo. Splashed with fresh citrus juices and vivid…

Opus, Michael Long’s long-standing restaurant at 2575 West Main Street in Littleton, just introduced a new autumn dinner deal that runs Sunday through Thursday from now until Thanksgiving. The deal, which includes three courses, is $33 per person; wine pairings are available for an additional $12. Here’s a peek at…

Downtown’s Italian restaurant scene just grew by one with the opening of Mangiamo Pronto!, a sleek and modern cafe out of Santa Fe, in the former Common Grounds space at 1601 17th Street. “We had soft openings Friday and Saturday just to do some test runs and opened the floodgates…

There was no morning sun on Saturday, the day that Elise Wiggins (above), executive chef of Panzano, had picked for her lunch and cooking class at Bear Mountain Ranch, the 100-acre parcel of land in Genesee that’s grazing territory for the Black Angus steers that Wiggins is buying for her…

Denver’s apparently getting a fifth gastropub — and that could give Jason Sheehan a major case of indigestion, as you know if you’ve been following his gastropub rants right here on Cafe Society. As we reported last month, Denver’s three existing, self-proclaimed gastropubs — Jonesy’s, Argyll and Colt & Gray…

The menu description in the above snap obviously never went through a menu Spellcheck. The more I look at it, the more I laugh — I have this image of some 400-pound linebacker with bulging muscles sitting on the pot eating chips, and daydreaming about getting laid instead. Have your…

What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society while checking out Jason Sheehan’s top ten places on 17th Avenue to swell your belly. Lori Midson got a sneak peak of Sean Yontz’s new restaurant space during a sit-down with the Sketch, Mezcal and Tambien executive chef, who’s also…

Steve Abo — you know, the guy behind eighteen Abo’s Pizza stores throughout Colorado — is using some of the dough he’s pocketed from tossing millions of pies to open a new restaurant that won’t have anything at all to do with pizza. Abo plans to open Circle, a “Continental…

It’s Friday morning. Where are your pancakes? If you can pinpoint the exact location of the pancake in the above pic — which on further examination, looks like a distorted Halloween mask, what with those freaky butter eyes (not intentional, by the way) and rivers of syrup that somehow managed…

Illegal Pete’s, home of the fat fish burrito, has just opened its sixth location at 1744 East Evans Avenue, a textbook’s toss from the University of Denver campus. Like its other outposts, the fast-casual coastal Mexican, whose beer-battered fish filets (and counter staff that mixes up your burrito ingredients) have…

A new venture by Jon Edwards and Patrick Mangold-White, a take-out pizza joint called Kaos, was expected to open in May at 1439 South Pearl Street, but their little slice of pizza pie was derailed by issues with the one piece of equipment they really needed: a pizza oven. Up…