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 a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s best ingredients home with them and cook up a feast, and when they’re not…
Teenagers are so damn picky, at least the second one of the two that I had to cart around last night on a where-to-have-dinner romp. Mexican? No. Thai? He’d never had it — and didn’t want to. Chinese? No, thanks. Cheesesteaks? Bingo, but only if the cheesesteak joint had chicken…
When 300 Suns Brewing opens in Longmont this Saturday, it will become the first new brewery to open in town since Oskar Blues — now Colorado’s second largest beer maker — moved there from Lyons in 2009 and only the fourth brewery overall. So, there’s a little bit of pressure…
Earlier today, in a live stream from Orlando, Florida, the James Beard Foundation rolled out its culinary red carpet of semi-finalists in several categories, including Outstanding Bar Program, Outstanding Pastry Chef, Outstanding Restaurateur, Outstanding Wine Program, Rising Star Chef of the Year and Best Chef, Southwest — all of which…
Andrew Selvaggio Live Basil Pizza, Tom’s Urban and Smashburger smashburger.com, livebasilpizza.com, tomsurban24.com This is part one of my interview with Andrew Selvaggio, chef of Smashburger, Live Basil and Tom’s Urban; part two of my chat with Selvaggio will run tomorrow. “Food was a huge part of my life, of my…
In A Federal Case, I’ll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard — south to north — within Denver city limits. I’ll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I’ll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here’s the…
Vitamin Cottage opened its first store fifty years ago in Lakewood. Today the natural-foods enterprise has morphed into Natural Grocers, with locations in a dozen states — including a brand-new store that opened this week in Capitol Hill, at 1433 Washington Street. But while the store was definitely welcomed by…
Tonight civic-health club Warm Cookies of the Revolution will host “Soup and Dreams,” a benefit for grassroots groups in Colorado’s food-justice scene. The event will kick off with soup from SAME Cafe; while guests are eating, they’ll hear from three speakers who represent well-established organizations and will talk about food…
“Nooooooooo!” That’s the communal groan of despair on the Facebook page of Glaze: the Baum Cake shop, a whimsical Congress Park bakery that specializes in stunning Japanese baumkuchen, glazed multilayered cakes with “tree rings” baked in a hand-crafted, cherry-red, 2,220-pound rotisserie oven, which owner Heather Alcott had christened “Red Dragon.”…
Some friends are always asking when they can join me for a review dinner. I try to explain the not-so-glamorous reality: They don’t get to order what they want (not everyone likes octopus and oysters) and they have to carry the weight of the conversation, since I’m too busy eating…
Yerba mate (pronounced mah-teh) seems to be a fast-growing trend around the country. As a healthier alternative to coffee, the South American herbal infusion has made it to grocery stores shelves and coffee shops across Denver; you can find it in loose leaf, teabag or brewed form everywhere from Buenos…
Is Denver over-saturated with craft breweries? Not yet, but that doesn’t mean a group of breweries on the city’s west side aren’t thinking about the future. The breweries have watched as River North, on the other side of downtown, has evolved into one of Denver’s primary craft-beer neighborhoods over the…
Back in late November, when Matt Selby, the opening exec chef and a partner in the Corner House (he’s now the exec chef of Central) departed ways with majority owners and partners Scott Kinsey and James Iacino, president of Seattle Fish, the Jefferson Park restaurant closed for a few days…
Clear your calendar and unbuckle your belt: The tenth annual Denver Restaurant Week is only days away. And unlike past years, when it sprawled well into March, this time DRW is really a week long: From February 22 through February 28. (For the first time this year, there will also…
Chicken tikka masala is quite possibly the most ubiquitous Indian dish in America, and while every restaurant has its own version, I’m partial to this particular one, which is served in a copper vessel, punctuated with assertive spices and plentiful with tender bites of chicken. Can you guess where I’m…
Vitamin Cottage got its start in the mid-’50s, when Margaret and Philip Isely started a door-to-door business that emphasized natural foods. They opened their first storefront in Lakewood in 1963 and called it Vitamin Cottage because of both its healthy mission and the shop’s country-cottage appearance. Although subsequent stores didn’t…
All-V’s, a hole-in-the-wall sandwich shop that was loved for its old-school feel and its meaty subs, has closed after more than four decades on East Eighth Avenue. A sign in the window reads: “We put everything we had into All-V’s, but unfortunately it just wasn’t enough.” Another sign, this one…
“Start sessioning!” That was the cry when Session Kitchen opened last fall, and although the menu — and the portion control based on “sessions” — has been tweaked, in her recent review of Session Kitchen Gretchen Kurtz says she could still do without having to even mention “sessioning” to her…
Ace is introducing an updated menu today, with a new section of daily specials that highlight particular crowd-pleasers. “We really wanted to create that list of regular daily specials, so our guests would know what days to come in for their favorites,” says chef Brandon Biederman. See also: Best New…
Denver-based sausage-maker Continental Sausage won a 2014 Good Food Award for its bison pastrami. Added to the award that Serendipity Confections of Wheat Ridge took for its chocolate-covered butter caramels with fleur de sel, that means Colorado companies have racked up sixteen awards since Good Foods began handing them out…
Five Colorado chefs — Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja, Euclid Hall, Bistro Vendome and the forthcoming Stoic & Genuine); Justin Brunson (Old Major and Masterpiece Deli); Paul Reilly (Beast + Bottle); Steve Redzikowski (Acorn and Oak at Fourteenth); and Bill Greenwood (Beano’s Cabin) — have been tapped to compete in Cochon555, the…
Wit’s End Brewery celebrated Valentine’s Day this by pairing the holiday’s most iconic food, chocolate, with one of Denver’s big loves: craft beer. Our photographer Danielle Lirette was at the Chocolate and Beer pairing to capture this sweet, sweet event. See also: Beer dinners, beer festivals and a visit from…
