It’s that time of year again, when the James Beard Foundation beckons the public fooderati to cast their nominations for the 2012 James Beard Awards, the “country’s most coveted honor for chefs; food and beverage professionals; broadcast media, journalists, and authors working on food; and restaurant architects and designers.”…
The text from Biker Jim simply read: “Tired. Taking a nap.” The sultan of sausages and high-priest of hot dogs had just returned from a food truck show in Las Vegas, where he pimped frankfurters from the kitchen of the very first Biker Jim’s food truck — which, if Jim…
While our waitress had absolutely no idea what “fra diavolo” was, the chef did. But he must have been worried that I couldn’t stomach the sauce — which translates to “Brother Devil” in Italian — because it arrived on its own, in a bowl, on the side. Apparently the majority…
No. 50: Noodle jelly salad from Thai Street Food…
The first thing you’re likely to notice upon breezing through the door at Coohills, a new French restaurant that opens in LoDo on Wednesday, is the show-stopping chandelier, a six-foot-tall contortion of twirls and spirals, twists and tangles, twigs and roots lustered with white lights. They’re wine vines…
The pies are one size fits all at this local pizzeria, but that’s the only thing about the joint that’s generic. 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…
No. 51: Pork tenderloin with bread pudding and green split peas from the Wooden Table…
If what Food & Wine magazine writes is true, then I guess it’s high-time to haul my ass to Jus Cookin’s, an unabashedly American-as-apple-pie farmhouse-cum-restaurant that’s hustled homemade soups, double-decker hamburgers, chicken pot pie, chicken salad sandwiches, chicken-fried steak, chicken Parmesan and fried chicken since 1988, when it opened in…
If someone were to ask me the age-old question: “If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?” I’d simply point them to the snap above and call it a day. Guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
No. 52: Santa Fe skillet from Hits the Spot Diner…
It’s all Greek to me … but can you 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 a 2011 EatDenver dining…
Brandon Foster Vesta Dipping Grill 1822 Blake Street 303-296-1970 www.vestagrill.com This is part two of my interview with Brandon Foster, executive chef of Vesta Dipping Grill. Read part one of my Brandon Foster interview. Favorite restaurant in America: Chez Panisse. I’ve been there twice, once for lunch and once for…
Hosea Rosenberg is a ham. The former exec chef of Jax-Boulder — and victor of Top Chef season five — has hijacked my computer, typing “Hosea is soooooooooo handsome” on the screen. But even Rosenberg admits that he’s nowhere near as handsome as his eight Berkshire piglets, all of which…
Hops & Pie, the pizza and craft beer palace on Tennyson Street, in Berkeley Park, is taking a huge slice out of the space next door, the square footage of which will more than double the size of Drew and Leah Watson’s neighborhood hangout…
Yesterday’s late-afternoon lunch: a little duck pâté, a dab of mustard, a few cornichons, good bread and boozy cherries. Can you 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…
Brandon Foster Vesta Dipping Grill 1822 Blake Street 303-296-1970 www.vestagrill.com This is part one of my interview with Brandon Foster, executive chef of Vesta Dipping Grill. Read part two of my Brandon Foster interview. “Sweat Hog.” Those are the words inscribed on Brandon Foster’s deep-blue mechanic’s shirt. “Oh, no, are…
He’s talked about it for months — and finally, after an endless hunting spree for the perfect space, salumi czar Mark DeNittis, who owns Il Mondo Vecchio, is opening Il Mondo Vecchio Mercato-Salumeria at 1284 South Pearl Street, in Washington Park…
If you like doughnuts — you know who you are — then you’ve undoubtedly popped dozens of these ridiculously addictive doughnut holes in your mouth. Can you 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…
It was a trip to the bank, followed by a jaunt to a burger shack in San Diego, that convinced Terry Sandrin to open his own meat emporium. “I was at our local bank in Littleton last fall, and there was a couple who was grilling burgers outside in the…
It may be Halloween, but today also marks the opening (finally!) of Pinche Taqueria, Kevin Morrison’s taco-hustling brick-and-mortar — the follow-up to his taco wagon, which was one of the first mobile street food slingers to hit the streets of Denver…
On the same menu stamped with housemade pupusas, empanadas and Salvadorian enchiladas, you’ll find conch soup, creamed spaghetti and meatballs and chop suey, which our server swore was one of the kitchen’s best dishes. Maybe next time. In the meantime, can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
Sorry, that headline is cruel. In-N-Out Burger, which now has locations in California, Nevada, Dallas-Fort Worth and Utah, is not opening a store in Denver, but if you don’t want to drive the 350-plus miles to get your double-double burger fix, you can have it delivered straight to your door…
