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…
Although most crops have been harvested for the year, there are still truffles in the forests of Oregon. Celebrate this wintertime abundance at a $69, five-course dinner at Cru Wine Bar, 8433 Park Meadows Drive in Lone Tree, that will pair Barolo wines with Oregon white truffles and a speech…
Sometimes what we like is a little comfort food, even when the sun’s shining. This homey macaroni and cheese dish might seem small, but it packs a satisfying wallop of creamy goodness set off by a crunchy topping. The side salad is just a bonus. Can you guess where I’m…
It’s what you like that matters. And I like science fiction movies and books about sailing ships and celebrity memoirs and amateur pornography. I like music made in the years that music really mattered to me — those years I spent in high school and in kitchens and had very…
Twenty-eight hours and sixty-five entries later, we know one thing for sure: You people out there in Hotcakesland certainly do love your dick jokes. And your Colfax jokes. And your vegan jokes. And your vegan-on-Colfax dick jokes… Still, we had to go with just one caption for our last set…
Denver got a shout-out last week on the food blog www.seriouseats.com, which listed what they believe to be four unique food trends in our fair city. Our fast casual chains, microbreweries, green chile, and Beau Jo’s all get mentions. But while we appreciate that they resisted mentioning Rocky Mountain oysters,…
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. 96 Pho – any pho — from Pho 95…
Rotisserie ducks and chickens, traditional Asian noodles bowls, a fresh fish counter, pastries, ready-made sushi and rolls, sandwiches, prepared foods, bento boxes and fresh-blended juices come to Platt Park the day after Thanksgiving. That’s when Den Deli and Seafood Market is slated to open at 1501 South Pearl Street, directly…
The New York Times blog “You’re the Boss,” ruffled the apron strings of restaurant servers nationwide when it ran Bruce Buschel’s two-part list of things restaurant staffers should never do. As someone who worked the FOH for 14 years, I have two words for Buschel: Bitch, please. While Buschel made…
Jimmy Zanon grew up in Oregon, and in 1998 moved to Colorado for college. He fell in love with both his future wife and the restaurant business here and decided to stay in Denver, where you can currently find him behind the bar at Lola. Now serving: Jimmy Zanon…
There’s a contest for everything, including, as it turns out, muffins. And for Sharon Smith and Wendy Goldstein, owners of the Two Sisters Inn — a bed-and-breakfast in Manitou Springs — it was their muffins that took the cake on Monday, November 9 at the Bed & Breakfast Innkeepers of…
Working in the food industry has its hazards. Today at 11 a.m. at Denver Police Department headquarters, five Denver police officers will be honored with the Citizens Appreciate Police award. On June 9, these officers responded to Oliver’s Meat Market “on the unfortunate report of an employee who lost her…
Tomorrow night, Mayor John Hickenlooper will give Anthony Bourdain a fork to the city when he introduces the travelin’ man at “An Evening with Anthony Bourdain” at the Buell Theatre. Of course, Bourdain has already forked this city: After visiting Denver on a book tour in 2002, he said he…
Dazzle, 930 Lincoln Street, is stirring things up tonight with its French Soups and Stews event, which kicks off at 7 p.m. Chef Duncan Smith has paired five courses with Hob Nob Vineyards French wines; vocalist Julie Monley and pianist Fredric Desmoulins will provide the entertainment while you nosh. Admission…
After months and months and months of delays, Kaos, the take-out pizza shack from Patrick Mangold-White and Jon Edwards, will finally fire up its oven tomorrow at exactly 11:30 a.m. Mangold-White and Edwards, who also own Gaia Bistro, 1551 South Pearl Street, had hoped to open Kaos in the former…
We have been shamelessly shilling for Anthony Bourdain for the past few days, talking about his upcoming trip to Denver, giving away tickets to his lecture and Q&A on November 18, throwing up pictures of him whenever we can. Shameless? Absolutely. Not for nothing, the man is very popular –…
Last night Domaine de Canton and brand ambassador Bryan Dayton of Frasca hosted the semifinalist round of the Domaine de Canton bartender competition at TAG. Beyond bragging rights, the winner of the competition won a trip to St. Maartin to compete not only for top honors, but $10,000 in prize…
Yes, we’ve scored two more pairs of tickets to the Anthony Bourdain event that we’ve been so relentlessly hyping for the past several days — and earlier today, we asked all you slavering readers to come up with interesting ways in which we might give them away. And since my…
Our online Food & Drink listings feature dozens of culinary events around Colorado this week, including Anthony Bourdain’s local appearance, the Mile High United Way Emerging Leaders Wine Event, the Celebrity Chef Tour and Opus’s Cele-bracon. A taste of what’s ahead:…
Udi’s Bread Cafe, which already has locations in Stapleton (7357 East 29th Avenue); Louisville (185 South 104th Street); Aurora (12700 East 19th Street); and north Denver (101 East 70th Avenue), officially opens its fifth location today at 7600 Grandview in Olde Town Arvada, directly across the street from Archive Room,…
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. 97 Soft egg ravioli from Prima…
Our former Cafe Society intern just decided to chuck college in favor of a real education: as a sous chef. In Under Fire, he chronicles his daily trials and tribulations in the kitchen.I feel like a fucked-up version of Jane Goodall. When I decided to devote my time to working in the…
