Think you make a kick-ass guacamole? Save it for Monday Night Football. At the nationwide Avocado Takedown, which stops in Denver on Sunday, November 6, no one gives a fat seed if you can make a worthy guacamole. What the judges — and that includes yours truly — do care…
In late August, while on a food journey in Glenwood Springs, I had dinner at the Pullman, the newest restaurant — a farm-to-table venture — from chef Mark Fischer, who owns Six89 and Phat Thai in Carbondale, and soon, a second Phat Thai in Cherry Creek, slated to open later…
Just when I thought I’d seen foie gras done every which way, it lands on an effing pizza! 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,…
Charlie Palmer wants to know how the weather is in Denver. “Is it raining? Snowing?” he asks. “No, it’s beautiful,” I tell him. “That’s one of the reasons why I like Denver so much,” says the New York-based chef and restaurateur, whose portfolio of restaurants, which spans the country, includes…
There’s never been a particularly compelling reason for Denverites to waste their mileage on traveling to restaurants in Lakewood, unless you were headed to Cafe Bisque, a vibrant cafe that managed to make a longstanding name for itself with its stellar brunch menu that eventually expanded into dinner. But early…
When Elena Zasytiene moved to Denver from Colorado Springs, she knocked on restaurant doors looking for a job, but no one would hire her, so she shrugged it off and followed her gut: She, along with her partner, Baiba Sisco, signed a lease on their own restaurant, La Merise, a…
I’m not a big proponent of tofu — except when I have it here, at a restaurant that’s definitely not vegetarian, but whose vegetarian dishes are among Denver’s best. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I…
Open just five days, Maria Empanada, a tiny storefront that’s dispensing food from South America, is one of those restaurants that makes me happier than an elephant freed from the circus to live in Denver. And Lorena Cantarovici, who owns Maria Empanada, which is named for her mother, couldn’t be…
Leave it to British winemaker Ben Parsons, founder of the Infinite Monkey Theorem, the gritty winery in the Golden Triangle, to release a tap wine fittingly called Monkey Shine. Parsons, who rolled out a sparkling wine in a can during a blowout bash at the Food & Wine Classic in…
The strip along South University and Exposition is stamped with merchants, bars, cafes and restaurants, including the (inexplicably) long-standing Saucy Noodle and the Bonnie Brae Tavern, but the space at 723 South University Boulevard, next door to the Saucy Noodle, is cursed with bad luck…
I’m a certified spud head with an unwavering affinity for potato skins, and at this bar, which also does a great job with burgers, the skins, surfaced with cheese, bacon and scallions, would be worth the price of admission…if there were one. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
Shawn Tram is rattling off the names of Denver chefs and restaurateurs who have recently stuffed themselves to the brink at Super Star Asian, the Chinese emporium, renowned for its dim sum, that Tram has managed for the past three years: “Matt Selby, Frank Bonanno, Gene Tang from Restaurant 1515…we…
The couple behind us were gushing — positively gushing, I tell you — over the green chile that spans the plates at this long-standing Mexican joint. But just like I don’t get the hoopla surrounding the frankfurters at Coney Island, I definitely don’t understand the obsession with the green chile…
Thanawat Bates Palace Arms at the Brown Palace 321 17th Street 303-297-3111 www.brownpalace.com/dining This is part two of my interview with Thanawat Bates, exec chef of the Palace Arms at the Brown Palace. Part one of my interview with Bates ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I have so many,…
Next week, EatDenver, a ring of local, independent restaurants, is hosting Harvest Week, a series of themed, multi-course pop-up dinners (and one brunch) that will take place between October 9 and 13 at the GrowHaus, an urban farm located at 4751 York Street. Last week, we announced a contest, in…
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. Ah, fall, the…
The staff at the joint where I sunk my jaws into a Philly cheesesteak — with everything, please — is nothing short of hilarious, and the cheesesteaks nothing short of stupid-good. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where…
Thanawat Bates Palace Arms at the Brown Palace 321 17th Street 303-297-3111 www.brownpalace.com/dining This is part one of my interview with Thanawat Bates, exec chef of the Palace Arms at the Brown Palace. Part two of my interview with Bates will run tomorrow. The definition of culture shock? Spending your…
No. 55: Samosas from the British Bulldog…
While the Justice League of Street Food, Denver’s original coalition of food trucks, held its last bash of the year (and possibly ever) last weekend, and Civic Center Eats, the city’s summer gathering of food trucks at Civic Center Park, has gone dormant until next year, another gang of food…
If you thought the lines during the mid-day lunch crush were bad at Biker Jim’s cart, you should see the lines at this joint. And, frankly, I just don’t get it. Waiting a good thirty minutes for an elk-jalapeno-cheddar dog smothered with pedestrian chili and nacho cheese seems like a…
Happy, Dave Query’s Asian noodle joint in Boulder, shuttered yesterday, leaving in its wake the Bitter Bar, a craft cocktail lounge — and the other half of Happy. And if that sounds confusing, Query, who spearheads Big Red F, the restaurant group that includes Happy/Bitter Bar, along with the West…
