Cafe Society dished up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from an Argentinean pizza topped with egg and hearts of palm from Buenos Aires Pizzeria to a sizzling platter of tandoori chicken from India’s Castle to a bowl of crab dip with housemade potato chips from a restaurant that…

Sure, you can get a Hawaiian pizza here, and a pizza with the ever-present prosciutto, too, but most of the pizzas at this charmer zigzag in a different direction, most notably a pizza studded with ham, palm hearts and egg, its surface paved with a Latin American salsa rosada. Can…

Despite the fact that it wasn’t even open, zealous bread heads — 250 of them to be exact — rose to the occasion yesterday, forming long lines at master baker Michael Bortz’s City Bakery Cafe, the restaurant-retail offshoot of City Bakery, Bortz’s bread-baking emporium in north Denver, which supplies loaves…

Denver restaurants are rolling out new happy hour menus to coincide with the warmer weather, and late yesterday afternoon, while the sun was warming my neck, I enjoyed one of the new happy hour dishes — crab dip and housemade potato chips — at a joint whose two patios were…

Jimmy “Snarf” Seidel Snarf’s eatatsnarfs.com Snarfburger snarfburger.com This is part two of my interview with Jimmy Seidel, chef-owner of Snarf’s and Snarfburger; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Most memorable meal you’ve ever had: I’ve had some very memorable meals in my life, including the one where I asked…

A friend of mine — a bona fide burger baron — turned me on to this burger joint, which, he insisted, flipped a burger that was the closest meat-between-the-bun he’d ever eaten that mimicked a famed burger from In-N-Out. It wasn’t quite quite an In-N-Out burger, but I agree that…

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 a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s best ingredients home with them and cook up a feast, and when they’re not…

Jimmy “Snarf” Seidel Snarf’s eatatsnarfs.com Snarfburger snarfburger.com This is part one of my interview with Jimmy Seidel, chef-owner of Snarf’s and Snarfburger; part two of our conversation will run tomorrow. If you’ve ever wondered why Jimmy Seidel, owner of Snarf’s and Snarfburger, named his joints what he did, all you…

In 2012, Udi’s Foods, one of the most prominent food brands in Colorado — and across the country — was sold to Boulder Brands for $125 million in a sale that required a number of prerequisites, including the stipulation that the owners of Udi’s Foods would rebrand its company and…

Denver lays claim to a lot of different cuisines, but the foods of the Caribbean, namely Jamaican, are woefully few and far between. But last week, in Lincoln Park, just on the fringe of the Santa Fe Arts District, a small storefront called Jamaican Grill opened on Eighth Avenue in…

On Saturday, April 12, Tom Ryan and his crew of pizza cohorts will open another Live Basil Pizza, a homegrown, fast-casual concept that, according to Ryan, also the founder of Smashburger and Tom’s Urban, is based upon “hand-stretched doughs, organic San Marzano tomatoes, live hydroponic basil and other organic, natural,…

Whenever I hear the sizzle of tandoori chicken and sniff the scent of exotic Indian spices wafting from the kitchen, I get a little giddy. And when I have the opportunity to pair that chicken with a Lion’s Stout, one of my favorite beers, it’s like Christmas. Can you guess…

In July of last year, Gordon Ramsay, the caustic chef and FOX TV food personality whose standard vocabulary — at least on his shows — is predominantly a string of F-bombs, typically flung in the fearful faces of chefs who seemingly don’t know the difference between scalding and sauteing, touched…

I usually reserve my fried rice moments for when I have dinner with my kid, who’s obsessed with the stuff. But he was still burrowing under the covers, one of the luxuries of spring break, when I had lunch at this Asian-inspired restaurant that turns out a deeply flavorful version…

Cafe Society served up five Guess Where” contests last week, ranging from a white pizza slapped with bits of bacon from Grimaldi’s to a plate of brilliant wood-fired octopus from Gozo to a toasted sandwich — a re-imagined Big Mac — from a restaurant that sports a secret menu full…

The writing was on the wall long before Il Vicino, a New Mexico-based pizza joint, posted the verbiage above, alerting the Washington Park neighborhood that it had shuttered. The pizzeria, which still occupies a location in Littleton, relocated from its original address on Broadway, now Pizzeria Locale, to Old South…

“The whole point of this is to be the neighborhood tree-house — the go-to spot to hang out and have fun in a comfortable and entertaining environment,” says Iain Chisholm. “This” refers to DADA Art Bar, the art gallery-coffeehouse-bar that Chisholm, the owner-chef of Amerigo, will open next Friday directly…

Downtown was crazy-bustling last night, no doubt a precursor to today’s home opener at Coors Field. And at this restaurant, where I popped in for a margarita and a vessel of queso fundido with chorizo, the staff was projecting that they’d serve a lot more of that queso today, along…

Despite last night’s blast of arctic air and snow, the vibe inside this pizzeria was wonderfully cozy, and while the white pizza we ordered — with bacon, naturally — was excellent in every way, the real showstopper was an employee who suddenly appeared in the dining room and began tossing,…

Shoni Jones Root Down C Concourse, Denver International Airport 303-342-6959 rootdowndenver.com This is part two of my interview with Shoni Jones, exec chef of Root Down at DIA; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. What do you enjoy most about your craft? Making snacks for people to enjoy, connecting…

Steven Redzikowski was having lunch with his parents in Boulder when his phone beeped. “My mom and dad and I were having lunch at Brasserie Ten Ten in Boulder, and then I got the text,” says Redzikowski, executive chef of Acorn at the Source and Oak at Fourteenth in Boulder…