That’s not just any beer: That’s a sour ale — a rare sour ale that I got the last of earlier this week at a bar whose beer roster gets better by the day. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, Kevin Taylor, who now runs six restaurants in Colorado, including his namesake temple of gastronomy in the Hotel Teatro, reveals that his last meal on earth would be “foie gras, roast chicken and chocolate while looking out over the view of Paris.” I’m…
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…
“It’s all about the rotisserie,” claims Bob Van Diest, a broker associate married to a Peruvian woman who, along with their sons, Ryan and Jason, will soon open La Polleria, a Peruvian-style chicken shop at 7422 South University, in Centennial…
Just over a year ago, when I interviewed Mike Delmonico about his new beer and doughnut house on Tennyson Street, I asked him if he was concerned about what he’d named the joint: He was calling it The Hole, which, frankly, struck me as the worst name ever for a…
Late yesterday afternoon, the opening crew of Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, Robert Thompson’s new French restaurant at 1512 Curtis Street, assembled in the kitchen to get a taste of executive chef Sergio Romero’s menu, which Thompson calls “everyday French comfort food.” Le Grand, he says, “is not trying…
A lot of you Cafe Society readers have declared mad love for the joint where the above snap was shot. I can only assume that you never order the Tampiqueña, the flesh of which was strikingly close to the color of an elephant, which is say, it was very, very…
Kevin Taylor Restaurant Kevin Taylor at the Hotel Teatro 1106 14th Street 303-820-2600 www.ktrg.net This is part two of my interview with Kevin Taylor, executive chef of Restaurant Kevin Taylor, Prima Ristorante, Limelight, Kevin Taylor’s at the Opera House, Palettes at the Denver Art Museum, and Rouge, in the Teller…
Leave it to the creative crew at Euclid Hall to come up with yet another way to stop traffic. The fanciful tavern, bastion of beer and food hall at 1317 Fourteenth Street has just erected a new sign, but lest you think it’s of the banal square, rectangular, octagonal or…
Kevin Taylor Restaurant Kevin Taylor at the Hotel Teatro 1106 14th Street 303-820-2600 www.ktrg.net This is part one of my interview with Kevin Taylor, executive chef of Restaurant Kevin Taylor, Prima Ristorante, Limelight, Kevin Taylor’s at the Opera House, Palettes at the Denver Art Museum, and Rouge, in the Teller…
By Monday, September 12, when the Denver Broncos host the loathsome Oakland Raiders at the former Invesco Field at Mile High, Rockbar, the deliberately divey dance club and watering hole (and Susan Sarandon’s favorite hangout during the 2008 Democratic National Convention) at 3015 East Colfax Avenue, will have completed a…
While perusing the hospitality help-wanted adverts on Craigslist.com — a daily habit of mine — I came across the above listing announcing that a new French restaurant is opening in Cherry Creek. And while the ad doesn’t specify where that restaurant is planning to take up residence, wagging tongues who…
There are exactly ten seats in the tiny quarters of this Italian cafe that turns out pastries, breads, paninis and excellent caffeine-jolted cappuccino, the foam finished with fancy swirls. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I…
Steuben’s does it; Jensen Cummings, the executive chef at Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar has plans to do it; and Keegan Gerhard, the chef/pastry king at D Bar Desserts has been quietly doing it for months. What, exactly, is it that we’re talking about?…
No. 57: Hama Hama herbed oyster from Jax Fish House-Denver…
For 25 years, Jorge Alonso was a partner in Grupo Anderson’s, the Mexican restaurant conglomerate that owns Señor Frog’s, which, if you didn’t know already, is where tourists who trot off to the resort towns in Mexico go to get drunk, hook up and pass out — usually in that…
If it walks like a chicken, and clucks like a chicken, it probably is a chicken — even if it doesn’t taste like chicken. Our server enthusiastically described the Chinese chicken dish in the above photo as “zesty.” At least, she said, that’s how customers have described it. They’re wrong:…
In late June, while cruising down Sheridan Boulevard, we eyed a liquor-license sign announcing that a restaurant named Nobu was taking over the former Walk-in Burgers space at 2255 Sheridan Boulevard. And we nearly cracked our head on the sidewalk, since Nobu, of course, is one of the most vaulted…
The day I interviewed Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, the executive chef of Frasca Food and Wine, for this week’s Chef and Tell powwow, the kitchen crew had just been graced with a bounty of fresh beets, plucked straight from farm earth. The beets, in all their glorious, kaleidoscopic hues, are the platform…
The steak was simply a sidekick, the vegetables a throwaway. It was the baked potato (it’s a phase) that called out to me. 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…
“Nine years ago,” says Liz Thorpe, “when no one cared about cheese, we started selling cheese at Murray’s, a small cheese shop in New York, and thanks to some amazing people with a genuine love and passion for cheese, we’ve become one of the best cheese shops in the country.”…
Fatty and luxurious, ankimo — or monkfish liver — is the foie gras of the fish world, and if you’re curious to know what I’d like my last meal on earth to be, monkfish liver would be at the top of my list, right along with foie gras. Can you…
