“Hideaway Steakhouse brings on new Executive Chef, Todd Adkins, who has cooked for President Clinton and J Lo and has studied in Paris!” exclaimed the press release that landed in my inbox last week from Hideaway Steakhouse, the Westminster shrine to steer that opened in late March with Chris Cina,…
With the arrival of fall comes the call for comfort food, and there’s nothing more comforting on a chilly autumn day than a big bowl of macaroni and cheese. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I…
Jensen Cummings Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar 891 14th Street 303-825-0100 www.row14denver.com This is part one of my interview with Jensen Cummings, exec chef of Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar. A broom and a dustpan — these are the tools of my trade,” declares Jensen Cummings, who’s shuffling…
There are numerous reasons why restaurants close to remodel, but it’s not often that it’s because a car comes careening through your kitchen, but that’s exactly what happened on June 21 at T-WA Inn, the stalwart Vietnamese restaurant on Denver’s Silk Road…
Dave Query, the founder of Big Red F, the Boulder-based restaurant group that encompasses the West End Tavern, Zolo Southwestern Grill, Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace, a trio of Jax Fish Houses, the Bitter Bar and Lola, is one of the most successful restaurateurs in Colorado. A successful restaurateur…
Finding this off-the-eaten path joint that does a brisk breakfast business isn’t easy, its facade far removed from the street, but here’s a hint: The name includes two initials. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I…
No. 53: Pork shop from Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar…
Mark Monette, executive chef/co-owner of the Flagstaff House, stands in his kitchen, beaming like a kid who just got his first video game. “These are all guys I know — guys who I respect, guys who have helped me along the way and guys who have stood beside me,” says…
I’ll be the first to admit that I was loathe to try the tacos from this (somewhat) dignified taco shop that I’ve walked by numerous times on my way to somewhere else. Turns out, these are damn good tacos, even if the kitchen finds it necessary to use wisps of…
“Today is a special day,” says Sergio Negrin, his voice booming. The former corporate America businessman, who just opened Frijoles Colorado Cuban Cafe in a Lakewood strip mall, repeats the same sentiment to just about everyone who walks through the door of his new Cuban restaurant — a labor of…
There are few restaurants in Denver that stack up to Root Down and Linger, at least in terms of style and design, and we imagine that the staff of both restaurants have scads of pretty cool stuff lying around their abodes, too, some of which they’re selling for a good…
There are all sorts of reasons to love autumn: Halloween, rustling leaves, Indian summer and fall festivals, one of which takes place tomorrow — namely the Diggity Urban Harvest Festival, a street-food, music and brew blowout hosted by Diggity, a nonprofit that fosters community camaraderie through neighborhood gatherings…
If you’re hungry and in a hurry, this fluorescent-lit Mexican joint will get you in — and out — in no time flat. 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…
No. 54: Carnitas with mole verde from Tarasco’s…
“My family owned a casket company in New Jersey, which has nothing to do with anything, except that even people who own casket companies have to eat,” quips Stephen Lo Iacano, a Jersey native who in 1987 moved to Vail — a town, he says, that doesn’t know its meatballs…
The photo doesn’t do this dish justice, but if you’re searching for a good — really good — shepherd’s pie, along with some of the best craft beers in the city, then this is your place. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
Eric Rivera Cafe|Bar 295 South Pennsylvania Street 303-362-0227 www.cafebarcolorado.com This is part two of my interview with Eric Rivera exec chef of Cafe|Bar. Part one of my chat with Rivera ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Bouchon, in Napa Valley. The food and service were just spot-on perfect. We were…
Before the Food Network decided to go the way of Bobby Flay, there was Alton Brown, the zany food nerd, cookbook author, Iron Chef America commentator and Twitter curmudgeon whose entertaining, intelligent and flawlessly researched cooking show, Good Eats, made the Food Network worth watching. But after six years of…
One of the most coveted restaurant spaces in LoDo — the former Dixons Downtown Grill, which closed on Labor Day — has been snatched up by Brendan McManus, who owns Lucky Pie Pizza and Tap House in Louisville…
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 often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. Even though it’s…
Eric Rivera Cafe|Bar 295 South Pennsylvania Street 303-362-0227 www.cafebarcolorado.com It’s been just three weeks since Cafe|Bar opened its doors, but executive chef Eric Rivera already feels very much at home. The 26-year-old, who was born in Ohio and raised in Colorado, had spent the past three years leading the line…
Denver’s burger emporiums keep multiplying like calculators, and here, where this burger was snapped, the staff is obsessed with a certain number that is greater than one and less than 100. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where…
