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 usually bring a selection of some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast…
I made a mad dash for the hills this past weekend, partially to decompress and partly to do what I do best: Eat and drink. And while I did both equally well, I spent the majority of my time imbibing in the sitting area of a magnificent dining room rusticated…
Qdoba’s is handing out free samples of its newest item, Classic Street Tacos, until 1:30 p.m. today on the 16th Street Mall — at Larimer, Lawrence, Arapahoe and Glenarm. Get ’em while they’re hot. These are the same tacos feature at the newest Qdoba, which opened in Centennial earlier this…
How’s this for a coincidence? Beginning Thursday, October 1, Hosea Rosenberg — Bravo’s Top Chef: New York conquistador and Jax-Boulder exec chef — is launching www.whereishosea.com, to more or less announce his five-month sabbatical from the house of aquatics that made him famous. The new site, explains Bryce Clark, marketing…
Today, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. and 4 to 8 p.m., the Lone Tree Pasquini’s Pizza at 7431 Park Meadows Drive, is doling out free slices of pizza to anyone who wanders through the doors. And lest you think that your free slice is just cheese, please, think again…
GB Fish & Chips, the lively British chippie at 1311 South Broadway whose “In cod we trust” motto has generated a loyal following of ex-pats, will soon be battering that fish in its second location at 2175 Sheridan Boulevard, directly across the street from Sloan’s Lake. But while the sign…
Esquire magazine has unleashed its annual roster of the Best Bars in America, a compilation of the top 100 degenerate dives, sultry saloons, blue collar pubs and highbrow haunts across America, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, that are apparently worth their weight in fine (and not so fine)…
Everything I ate at dinner last night was astonishingly perfect, but the high-rise of pork belly and watermelon threatening to tumble into a pool of fragrant, sambal-spiked broth stole the show. I hadn’t even finished the first bite before I propped the plate on my lap, shuffled my chair off…
What do you get when you cross a framed Farrah Fawcett photo with Jesus candles and bottles of Jack, Knob Creek and Colorado’s own Stranahan’s? If you’re anything like those of us sitting at the bar where the above pic was snapped, there’s only one answer to that question: Drunk…
Harvest Week ends today. But should you feel inspired to try to recreate some of the dishes that Denver’s independent restaurants have been creating out of local ingredients, Strings, Noel Cunningham’s New American restaurant at 1700 Humboldt Street, has offered up chef Lance Barto’s recipe for Red Beet-Potato Gratin Ingredients:…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Paul Reilly, executive chef of Encore. You can read the first part of Midson’s interview with Reilly here. Culinary inspirations: My mom and my Aunt Sharon, both of whom were amazing cooks and really sparked my interest in cooking. As for…
While close to forty members of the Denver Independent Network of restaurants are rolling out menus offering locally sourced products through Friday, September 18 — the last day of Harvest Week — a few restaurants are also celebrating the state’s allegiance to the locavore movement with special dinners. At 6:30…
Ever since I saw Grover waiting tables on Sesame Street, I knew I wanted to work in restaurants,” says Paul Reilly. And he didn’t waste much time following in Grover’s footsteps, considering that he got his first taste of restaurant life while washing dishes in a German joint at the…
For nearly a dozen years, the space at 1531 Stout Street was home to Juan’s on Stout, a Mexican joint that was allegedly renowned for its green chile. Juan’s is gone, but the space has now been resurrected as Cilantro Fusion, and the green chile, a thick, gelatinous blob that…
There are few things that piss me off more than restaurants that serve frigid tomatoes. I’m only going to say this once: Your walk-in, refrigerator — whatever — is a tomato’s mortal enemy, its murderer of flavor, its slayer of scent. Ever wonder why the flesh of a tomato is…
“Ever since I saw Grover waiting tables on Sesame Street, I knew I wanted to work in restaurants,” says Paul Reilly. And he didn’t waste much time following in Grover’s footsteps, considering that he got his first taste of restaurant life while washing dishes in a German joint at the…
Jax Boulder exec chef and Top Chef New York winner Hosea Rosenberg isn’t hanging out a whole lot in the People’s Republic of Boulder these days. His Facebook page says he’s “heading into San Fran to find the city’s best Bloody Mary,” but presumably he’ll accomplish that goal before 6:30…
You no longer have to lug your own butt cushion to the Empanada Express Grill, which up until three weeks ago was a simple freestanding trailer peddling Venezuelan street snacks — empanadas, arepas and cachapas — from an asphalt landing strip in Golden. Its new location at 2600 East Street…
Colorado lamb: It’s what’s for dinner, at least this week — Harvest Week — when nearly forty metro restaurants are offering special menus focusing on ingredients local to Colorado. Like lamb paired with french fries (my favorite in the city), jus and drunken horseradish made with Stranahans Colorado whiskey. This…
Interstate Kitchen & Bar made its debut on Thursday, September 10, at 901 West Tenth Avenue (the former Santa Fe Tequila Company space). It’s a kitschy urban roadhouse bedecked with utilitarian shelving — a la Home Depot — and a psychedelic robin’s egg blue paint palette. In the back, by…
The three-day Denver Food & Wine Classic wrapped up on Saturday, September 12 with a Grand Tasting on the wet and sloppy grounds (thanks, rain) of Metro State College. To see a slideshow of all the fun, including some action snaps of Denver Five chefs Jamey Fader, Matt Selby, Troy…
Lucy at the Landmark, the mezzanine-level restaurant inside Comedy Works South, at 5345 Landmark Place in Greenwood Village, had closed in early July and just reopened on Thursday, September 10 after what sales manager Heidi McMillen calls a “menu redo.” It’s now a “great family-oriented, economically-friendly restaurant with American food…
