You can get exactly two things at this joint: French fries and craft beer. Guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll…

Eric Uffelmann Marlowe’s 501 16th Street 303-595-3700 www.marlowesdenver.com This is part two of my interview. Part one of my interview with Eric Uffelmann, exec chef of Marlowe’s, ran yesterday. How do you handle customer complaints — and what should customers do when they’re peeved about a dish? I immediately speak…

I’m a sucker for good bread, and if you, too, are a bread head, then you’ll appreciate a dough that rises above the rest at this upper-crust restaurant. Guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is…

Eric Uffelmann Marlowe’s 501 16th Street 303-595-3700 www.marlowesdenver.com It’s just past 4 p.m. on a Monday, and the bar at Marlowe’s, the oldest independently owned restaurant on the 16th Street Mall, which will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary next February, is already crushed with a sizable crowd. Equally sizable plates and…

What a month for restaurant openings. Coohills, a French-influenced restaurant from Tom and Diane Coohill, flung the doors open to the public last Wednesday; Ambria unlocks its doors tomorrow, with chef Jeremy Kittelson presiding over the kitchen; District Meats, New York restaurateur Charlie Palmer’s tribute to off-cuts, opens later this…

Even if I’m not celebrating a damn thing — and definitely when I am — I go straight for the bubbly. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool –…

Big Hoss Bar-B-Q, Hoss Orwat’s shrine to ‘que in Berkeley Park, is taking up residence where the Oven, Mark Tarbell’s pizza emporium at the Streets at SouthGlenn, shuttered in May. A call to Jennifer Jones, who manages the original house of smoke on Tennyson Street, produced little additional information –…

When restaurateur and chef Jimmy Lambatos exited Baur’s Ristorante in June, following the loss of his lease (the space, located at 1512 Curtis, is now Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar), he got in touch with Peter Kudla, the COO of Metropolitan Homes, owner of Russo’s Kitchen + Tavern –…

Back in September, Jeremy Kittelson, ex-chef of Restaurant Avondale at the Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa in Avon — which will soon be Cima, a Latin kitchen from chef Richard Sandoval — left his mountain gig for the bright lights of Denver, specifically the 16th Street Mall, where he’s now…

This definitely isn’t my first choice for a Mid-East feast, but it’s fine if you’re in a pinch — and you have no interest in falafel, because for some strange reason, the falafel bin has always been empty when I’ve stopped in. Guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…

No. 49: Telluride jalapeño poppers from Encore…

In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, Patrick Horvat, the head chef of Venue, weighs in on crappy Mexican joints, six guys who just love to make great food and culinary tips for the home cook. “Start with the basics and go from there,” Horvat advises. His recipe for beef…

I still love the dishes turned out from this Thai kitchen, but no longer do I believe that it’s the city’s top Thai restaurant. Guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool…

This Sunday night, at 7 p.m. on FOX, The Simpsons will dish up a food-centric episode, in which oh-my-god! star chefs Mario Batali, Anthony Bourdain and Gordon Ramsay all appear in animated cameos. It’s all part of a weird dream that Marge has about starting a food blog called “The…

There’s no shortage of Indian restaurants in this city, but with the exception of a few — Jai Ho and Masalaa — they’re mostly carbon copies of one another. Add now we can add another mimic to the lineup: India’s Best Restaurant & Bar, which opened recently in a Littleton…

You never hear a word about this suburban restaurant that just does what it does without any fanfare, but the food, which spans the globe (but leans toward the Mediterranean), holds its own — even if one night is devoted to (groan) prime rib. Guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…

Patrick Horvat Venue 3609 West 32nd Avenue 303-477-0477 www.venuebistro.com This is part two of my interview. Part one of my interview with Patrick Horvat ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Marotta’s, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. It was where I got my start in the business, and it…

Once a self-described risk taker, Chris Cina, a veteran Denver chef who’s slung sauté pans behind the line of numerous local restaurants — most recently, Hideaway Steakhouse, where he was pushed out — now admits that taking too many chances can often lead to unsavory consequences. “Every job I’ve taken…

Hot soup on a cool, autumn day equals one of my favorite lunches. Guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll receive…

Patrick Horvat Venue 3609 West 32nd Avenue 303-477-0477 www.venuebistro.com This is part one of my interview with Patrick Horvat, executive chef of Venue. Most chefs are quirky — or at least have quirks — and Patrick Horvat, the executive chef of Venue, is no exception. Horvat is obsessed with argyle…