“It was just time for a change,” insists Eric Rivera, the executive chef of Cafébar, a new modern American restaurant, owned by Dane Huguley, that unlocked its doors last week in Washington Park at 295 South Pennsylvania Street. Rivera, who was the opening chef of Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria,…
While everyone else used the hoods of their trucks as makeshift tables to inhale the tacos from this parking lot-anchored street cart that does a bang-up business — even on a Sunday night — we ate ours on the stoop of the dentist’s office next door. Can you guess where…
Last weekend, Jennifer Jasinski and Max MacKissock, two of Denver’s best — and most beloved — chefs got hitched in California. Jasinski, who owns Euclid Hall, Bistro Vendome and Rioja, where she’s the executive chef, and MacKissock, the exec chef of the Squeaky Bean, met several years ago, and the…
Last night, while tottering drunkards, some strapped with clinking beer can necklaces, stumbled by the floor-to-ceiling windows of ChoLon, Top Chef winner Stephanie Izard, who resides in Chicago, Fruition exec chef-owner Alex Seidel and Lon Symensma, the owner-chef of ChoLon, were in Symensma’s kitchen, safely secure from the ensuing debauchery…
Tickets are going fast for EatDenver’s Harvest Week, the local, independent restaurant organization’s annual celebration of Colorado produce, livestock and products, including wine, beer and spirits. This year’s tribute to the state’s bumper crop of foodstuffs will feature a series of multi-course pop-up meals, paired with liquid assets, created by…
If there were a Santiago’s outpost closer to my house, I’d probably find myself succumbing to their breakfast burritos more often, but instead, I get my fix here, at this house of breakfast burritos, every day burritos, tacos, and Indian fry bread. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
Knives, meat grinders, tweezers. Every chef has a favorite kitchen gadget, and as part of my Dish interviews with many of the Denver chefs who make culinary magic in this city, I asked them about their favorite kitchen tools. Not surprisingly, knives are sacred (although for several different reasons), and…
Beginning at 7 a.m. this morning, early-rising college kids from the University of Colorado stumbled into Snooze, the fifth outpost from brothers Adam and John Schlegel, who opened the original Snooze, a breakfast and lunch joint commanding mind-blowing waits, in the Ballpark ‘hood in 2006. Since then, the duo has…
Not a pretty fish on the plate and not a pretty fish in the water. Still, at this Mexican restaurant that hooks its patrons with a seafood-centric menu, there are plenty of other dishes that are photogenic — just not this one. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
Knives, meat grinders, tweezers. Every chef has a favorite kitchen gadget, and as part of my Dish interviews with many of the Denver chefs who make culinary magic in this city, I asked them about their favorite kitchen tools. Not surprisingly, knives are sacred (although for several different reasons), and…
Depending upon which region of Mexico you happen to be stuffing tacos down your throat, the pot-steamed, greasy and golden corn tortillas folded with different meats posing in the above snap are called tacos al vapor, tacos cazuela, and, in Mexico City, tacos de canasta, which you can buy for…
I never went to the joint on East Colfax simply called “Mexican Grill,” but when Ramon Campos, who runs the original Empanada Express Grill in Golden, as well as a second outpost in the Berkeley Park neighborhood, opens his third Venezuelan restaurant — another Empanada Grill — in early October…
Allen Milham and I are sitting on the floor of the United Airlines terminal at LaGuardia airport discussing dessert, our brains still high on sugar from the James Beard House dinner, created by a fleet of Denver chefs, that brought us to New York in the first place. Denver, concludes…
Despite the really unpleasant stench that greeted me at the front door of this otherwise pleasant restaurant residing in an old house on a busy stretch of pavement, I stayed, curious because this was once an elegant haunt (with a different cuisine) that I frequented in high school on very…
“It came to me in a dream one night,” says Larry Bigay. “I have a pad of paper by my bedside, and I woke up early one morning, and started to draw what I’d seen in my dream.” What he saw were visions of hot dogs dancing in his head…
After hosting a charity dinner on Saturday night, Charcoal, a new 5,200-square-foot restaurant from Patrik Landberg, the former chef of Satchel’s in Park Hill (now Pary’s on 28th), opened to the public on Sunday, turning out contemporary European cuisine in an artfully choreographed setting…
For anyone who believes that Sushi Den and Sushi Sasa are the only two players when it comes to slicing and dicing the raw stuff, you’re wrong: Here, at this unheralded shrine to the ocean, ambitions run as high as the waves in a wrathful sea, and the sushi and…
When six Denver chefs, one bartender and, for good measure, a muscled and tatted sausage emperor all trotted out of the kitchen, following a sensational multi-course, Colorado-inspired dinner prepared in a Manhattan brownstone, a woman seated at the table just adjacent to the burners stood up, applauded and declared that…
It was just before 5 p.m. on Wednesday when the car dropped me off at the James Beard House, the unassuming West Village brownstone that’s the former home of the legendary late American chef and cookbook author, deemed the “dean of American cookery” by the New York Times, whose quarters…
Late last year, Pete Kallas, the owner of Steakhouse 10, the Athenian, Undici Ristorante and Greeks Gone Wild, a fast-casual joint in the DU ‘hood, snapped up the digs of a former Fuhgidabowdit Pizzeria outpost — directly next door to the Greek den — which has sat dark for the…
The person I was having a late breakfast with wasn’t crazy about the “salad” on his eggs Benedict, but the hash browns are always a hit, as is the lemon-misted hollandaise sauce. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s…
Simon Purvis EDGE at the Four Seasons 1111 14th Street 303-389-3000 www.fourseasons.com/denver/dining Favorite restaurant in America: I had an exceptional meal in L.A. at José Andrés’s restaurant, Bazaar. It was packed, so the ambience was electric, I bumped into a former colleague, the food was good, the decor was stylish,…
