I just got the news twenty minutes ago. Ian Kleinman buzzed my cell shortly after. “So, you’re unemployed, brother,” I said. “Congratulations, I guess.” “Yeah, well, not completely unemployed,” Ian said, laughing. “But yeah.” Yesterday, Ian was let go from his gig as chef and chief liquid nitrogen wrangler at…
For this week’s review, Jason Sheehan has a near-meat-death experience at Fogo de Chao, 1513 Wynkoop Street. See more of Mark Manger’s photos on the slideshow page…
You can have your pecan pumpkin coffeecake and eat it, too, if you stop by this bakery. Maple walnut coffeecake, too. And pecan hazelnut tart. Guess where we’d be eating all day and night if we got the chance……
As I reported here yesterday, Arizona restaurateur Mark Tarbell is just a few weeks away from opening Home, a comfort food restaurant that will join The Oven, another Tarbell restaurant, at the Streets of SouthGlenn in late November. And while that’s good news for the foodniks who hang in those…
I’ve never met a charcuterie plate I didn’t love. Not that this will surprise anyone, but the spread of salty meats and cheeses (and housemade breadsticks) in the above pic did absolutely nothing to change my mind. Which restaurant is to blame for furthering my addiction?…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com. No. 100 Chicken-fried steak from Lola…
“It wasn’t supposed to happen this fast,” says Lance Barto, shaking his head. The 27-year-old chef, who was promoted back in February to the chief kitchen post at Strings following the departure of Aaron Whitcomb (who’s now at Yia-Yia’s Euro Bistro), still seems shocked by the news. “A lot of…
Know why we’re awesome? Because we have two tickets to attend the exclusive meet-and-greet with Anthony Bourdain, Mr. Kitchen Confidential himself, Anthony Bourdain, when he comes to town to talk food and travel on Wednesday, November 18 at the Buell Theatre. Know why we’re double awesome? Because we’re just giving…
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. Last month, Pete…
Every month, Colfax on the Hill hosts a “Happy on the Hill” social, a chance for the public to learn more about businesses on Colfax Avenue and those business owners to network a bit. This month’s featured business: Mulberries Cake Shop, which recently moved from South Pearl Street to 2027…
Fogo de Chao is not a place that any mortal man could visit with any regularity while remaining mortal, without ending up just flat dead from a meat overdose. Zeus, perhaps, could eat here three times in a week. James Beard or Escoffier could’ve probably managed four in their portly…
“We want to get this one right,” insists Mark Tarbell, the Arizona-based restaurateur whose Belmar restaurant, Mark & Isabella, was recently bludgeoned by Jason Sheehan. “I believe in this restaurant, and I don’t want to fuck it up.”I caught up with Tarbell earlier today while checking out the new restaurants…
Chefs for the Cause sounded like a philanthropic foodie’s delight — six of Denver’s top chefs creating delicious food to help raise money for the Denver affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. James Mazzio (of Cucina Colore and Via fame, now executive chef of Le Chateau), Justin Cucci…
Black truffles, shaved and whole, and bone marrow peppered with Hawaiian red sea salt on a stark white plate at a restaurant whose chef doesn’t try to steal the spotlight — even though he could. The dish in the above pic was one of many in a succession of fantastic…
The band playing in this space wasn’t enough to distract me from a much needed cocktail Friday night. Nor was the art show hanging on the walls, although I ordered the No Ka Oi pomegranate punch, named after one of the pieces in the exhibit. Can you guess where I’m…
The Tilted Kilt, which opens tomorrow at 1201 16th Street in the former ESPN Zone space, has a menu. I know this because I ordered from it last night during a preview dinner. But when you’re surrounded by hot guys that inch up their kilts on command and girls dressed…
Randy Layman began working at Avenue Grill seven years ago and convinced his twin, Ryan, to join him there four years ago. The identical (except for Ryan’s longer beard) bartenders poured kick-ass cocktails together, doubling your fun, until November 1 — when Ryan moved across the street to work with…
“I made a decision, I’m doing it and it’s happening this weekend.” That’s Mark Dym, owner/chef of Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria, 2129 Larimer Street, talking about his new brunch, which starts this Saturday, November 14. “We’re keeping it simple, with just a few breakfast pizzas, bottomless mimosas for eight bucks or…
A few years back, I spent Thanksgiving with the large family of a friend whose house was tucked into the side of a mountain somewhere near Durango. Like most families at Thanksgiving dinners, we had segregated ourselves into two groups: those who were slamming wine and watching football, and those…
It’s been a long, rough ride for many of the shops at Denver Pavilions, with some high-profile restaurant disasters, including the Wolfgang Puck Grand Cafe space on the still-empty bridge, which replaced the disastrous Cafe Odyssey, where diners got to eat at Machu Pichu (yum). But through it all, one…
Once upon a time, a man named Noah Alper created a little bagel company called Noah’s New York Bagels; it grew up to become Einstein’s Bagels. The man behind Einstein’s is also an author who wrote Business Mensch, and Alper will be speaking at 7:30 a.m. today at a breakfast…
These Guess Where I’m Eating posts usually go the same way: One of us puts up a picture, offers a few words, then asks you to guess where the dish is from. You good folks guess Chubby’s (if it’s a burrito, which it usually is), or West End Tavern or…
