For the past seventeen years, Westword has paid tribute to Denver’s celebrated dining scene with its annual Dish soiree, a culinary blowout of the city’s best bites, sips and sounds. This year, Dish will be bigger and better than ever, and at a new venue: Ninth Avenue Historic Park at…

I’ve been scouring Denver’s Mexican joints for the best molcajete in the city, and a local chef turned me on to this one, which was good, but definitely not good enough to make me stop searching for one that’s better. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…

Sean McGaughey Opus 2575 West Main Street, Littleton 303-703-6787 This is part one of my interview with Sean McGaughey, exec chef of Opus. Part two of that interview will be posted here tomorrow. Sean McGaughey grew up in Wray, a town of 2,000 on the plains where Colorado, Nebraska and…

Cafe Society invited some of our favorite eateries to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Avenue Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: Patrick Armatas Sam’s No. 3 http://samsno3.com/ What dish are you serving at Dish? We’re serving our kickin’ pork green chile, as well as our veggie…

“I want to bring the upscale downtown bistro feel to the suburbs,” says Jane Knauf, a former executive at the Magnolia Hotel, who, along with Brett Shaheen, fresh off the heels as exec chef of Osteria Marco, will open the Wooden Table next week at 2500 East Orchard Road, in…

The menu at this tidy, convivial restaurant, whose exterior completely belies its interior, is a mash-up of different cuisines, including Mexican and Greek, the latter of which has garnered the joint a fiercely loyal following. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer…

Cafe Society invited some of our favorite eateries to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Avenue Historic Park. Here’s what they’ll be serving: Scott Bermingham Snooze www.snoozeeatery.com What are you serving at Dish? A Taleggio deviled egg mousse-stuffed prosciutto pillow with butter aioli, balsamic reduction and micro-arugula on…

Cafe Society invited some of our favorite eateries to share samples at Dish, September 9 at Ninth Avenue Historic Park. Here’s what one spot will be serving: Andre Lobato Interstate Kitchen + Bar www.interstaterestaurant.com/ What are you serving at Dish? “Tomato soup with griddled cheese and a sweet potato hot…

Last week, we embarked on a mission to expose secret dishes that Denver restaurants don’t divulge on their menus — dishes that you have to specifically ask for if you want to be privy to the secret stash…

It’s been way, way too hot to slurp pho, but the warm weather is perfectly suitable to Vietnamese soft shell crabs and fresh vegetables. 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…

Tickets for Harvest Week, an annual culinary bonanza that’s the innovation of EatDenver, a collection of locally owned, independent restaurants, go on sale today, but instead of Denver restaurants hosting the dinners, GrowHaus, an urban farm and marketplace at 4751 York Street (the farm recently won Maxwell House’s Drops of…

A long time ago, there was a Denver chicken joint called Okoboji Inn that was justifiably saluted for its broasted chicken, a method that combines high pressure cooking with deep frying. Okoboji is long gone, but broasted chicken is still alive and clucking, although you’ll have to head to the…

Pete List Beatrice & Woodsley 38 South Broadway 303-777-3505 www.beatriceandwoodsley.com This is part two of my interview with Pete List, exec chef of Beatrice & Woodsley. Part one of that chat ran yesterday. How do you go about conceptualizing and developing new menus? When I write a menu, I focus…

When the fish meets the land, you have Wild Catch, Justin Brunson’s urbanized house party celebrating sustainable sea creatures that opened this week in the former Tastes Wine Bar space at 1033 East 17th Avenue. Brunson’s food — pure, clean, confident and ingredient-driven — already has major buzz (on Sunday…

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. While Pete and…

I headed to the hills last weekend for an eating odyssey that meandered through Glenwood Springs, Basalt and Carbondale, all of which have burgeoning dining climates, but the best dish I had may very well have been the macaroni and cheese with spring onions, jalapeños and ropes of pulled pork…

Pete List Beatrice & Woodsley 38 South Broadway 303-777-3505 www.beatriceandwoodsley.com “If I could get away with putting shit on a shingle, I would.” Pete List, the executive chef of Beatrice & Woodsley, is reminiscing about growing up in a family of formidable home cooks, who had no qualms about serving…

Season two of The Great Food Truck Race, which rolled into Denver in May, is currently airing on the Food Network, and on Sunday night, the Denver episode took center stage, spotlighting a slew of local food trucks, recognizable landmarks and markets and familiar faces, including the Steuben’s truck, Marczyk…

Just a few months after chef Jared Brant opened Satchel’s on 6th, he had a parting of ways with owner Andrew Casalini, who replaced Brant with Kurt Boucher, a veteran chef (and former Iron Chef America contestant) who had spent fifteen years behind the line at the Pine Creek Cookhouse,…

One taquito, two taquitos, three taquitos, four…. 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 deck, worth…