So, the American Society of Magazine Editors is holding a little contest, and it’s the kind of contest that’ll make you hungry. Here’s the deal: See the half dozen food porn magazine covers above? It’s your job to vote for the porn that speaks to your stomach. The covers comprise…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Tyler Wiard, the executive chef at Elway’s Cherry Creek. You can read the first part of Midson’s interview with Wiard here. Proudest moment as a chef: When I won the National Pork Award in May of 2008. I had won the…
From 5 to 7 p.m. tonight, Black Pearl, the Platt Park hot spot at 1529 South Pearl Street, is hosting its first-Thursday-of-the-month summer sip series, an intimate wine and food gathering that will focus on Italian varietals chosen by general manager and sommelier Jeffrey Musat, paired with appetizers from exec…
“I got my ass kicked, but man, did I learn a lot,” recalls Tyler Wiard, talking about the early ’90s and his days as a line cook for Dave Query and John Platt at Q’s Restaurant in the Hotel Boulderado. He must have been up to the task, because Query…
Modmarket opens tomorrow at 1600 28th Street in the struggling 29th Street retail district in Boulder. But since Boulderites have a thing for green, and Modmarket’s “menu is created from ingredients like you find along the perimeter of your local grocer … you know, fresh produce, the highest quality of…
Our listage of new restaurants that opened in August is lengthy, and September is shaping up nicely, too, especially with the very new opening of SALT Bistro, which served its first lunch on Tuesday in the former Tom Tavern’s space, the iconic Boulder burger joint and bar that occupied the…
“I got my ass kicked, but man, did I learn a lot,” recalls Tyler Wiard, talking about the early ’90s and his days as a line cook for Dave Query and John Platt at Q’s Restaurant in the Hotel Boulderado. He must have been up to the task, because Query…
At 6 p.m. tonight, the original Cru Wine Bar, 1442 Larimer Street, is hosting an Australian wine tasting with grape guru Stephen Chambers, whose collection of fortified Australian wines will be paired with dishes from Cru exec chef, Erasmo Casiano. The four-course dinner, priced at $65 per person, excluding tax…
While it’s still a few weeks before we bid a formal farewell to summer, the wine geeks at Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria, 410 East Seventh Avenue, see no reason to wait, which, in part, explains why the restaurant and watering hole is hosting an end-of-summer pinot party tonight from…
“I seriously closed the restaurant because I was scared,” joked Dianna Williams, co-owner of Diego Zhang’s Burger Cafe, the mini-burger joint at 12073 East Arapahoe that yesterday unveiled a second outpost in Centennial, in the Streets of SouthGlenn at Arapahoe and University Boulevard. “We had more than 200 people come…
See that blasphemous sandwich above? It’s meant to be a French dip — a French dip stacked with sliced prime rib. But if you look closely, you’ll notice that there’s nothing sliced, shaved or otherwise sheared about it. Instead, some idiot in the kitchen who was obviously still on a…
After twenty years of slinging naan against the tandoori oven at 3333 South Tamarac Drive, Krishan Kapoor, the owner of India’s, spent the majority of his summer schlepping that oven and pretty much everything else from the restaurant’s former digs to his new space at 7400 East Hampden Avenue, in…
Tonight at 6:30 p.m., self-described chocoholic and local book author Julie Pech, who penned The Chocolate Therapist: A User’s Guide to the Extraordinary Health Benefits of Chocolate, is the featured guest at the International Chocolate & Wine Pairing seminar at Arapahoe Community College, 5900 South Santa Fe Drive in Littleton…
If you’ve been following the pizza war between Virgilio’s and Belmar, a turf battle over Belmar’s upcoming Festival Italiano and its refusal to allow Virgilio’s to participate, then you know there’s a heated debate in the comments section (seventy and counting, last time I looked). One of those comments is…
Just got word from Jack Martinez, the patriarch behind Jack-n-Grill, the New Mexican joint at 2524 Federal Boulevard, that he’s opening a second outpost of his chile shrine at 2630 West Belleview Avenue. That’s the vacated space bordering the banks of the Platte River that the Santa Fe Tequila Company…
The Colorado State Fair kicks off today in Pueblo with rodeos, carnival rides and parades, but the real reason to hit it up? The frosty lemonades, ice-cold beer, meatball sandwiches, tacos, nachos, menudo, green chile, pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers, roasted corn, pork chops-on-a-stick, Thai food, blooming onions, funnel cakes, ice…
First there was candied bacon, then there was corn chowder with salt pork, and now Pete Marczyk has gotten us all in a tizzy over his spaghetti alla carbonara with guanciale. “This pasta dish is considered Roman,” Pete says. “It’s said to have gained popularity in Italy after World War…
Because there’s no such thing as too much bacon, and because Pete Marcyzk’s Bacon Candy was snapped up and chewed down in record speed, we’ve also got a great corn chowder (corn takes the place of clams) and bacon recipe that’s perfect for the chilly nights ahead. “Let’s face it,”…
I think I may have just found my new obsession. It’s another Mexican joint, of course, but while the twelve-page menu lists tortas (and “super mega” tortas), huaraches, enchiladas de mole, ensadada de nopales and fried jalapenos soaked in soy sauce, salt and lime juice, the kitchen also turns out…
At 6:30 p.m. tonight, Encore, at 2550 East Colfax Avenue, is hosting a party-on-the-patio winemaker dinner showcasing all carbon-neutral, organic and sustainable wines from Parducci and Paul Dolan Vineyards. The eight-course menu, created by exec chef Paul Reilly, is a smorgasbord of Colorado-inspired plates, including Colorado bass crudo with lemon…
You’re the first person who’s asked for hot sauce since I opened,” says Troy Guard. The owner and executive chef of TAG, a three-month-old restaurant in Larimer Square, isn’t quite scolding me, but he’s made it perfectly clear that his steak tacos, a plate of which sits in front of…
Padded bubble chairs, mild-mannered bartenders, cool crowds and an Enomatic Wine Serving System that allows oenophiles to taste eighteen wines by the ounce simply by swiping a card and pressing a button: say hello to the Living Room, the latest bar and restaurant to pop on Broadway — 1055 Broadway,…
