Ever wonder what happened to two of the Denver area’s most heralded chefs? Head to the hills, where the dining scene heats up even as the temperature cools down. That’s where you’ll find Bryan Moscatello, the chef at the groundbreaking Adega, which was the hottest restaurant in town when it…
Hundreds of restaurants have opened in metro Denver in 2013, with more hurrying to open their doors before the end of the year. Some are reincarnations of earlier restaurants, others are completely new to the scene. Many are far too new to have been reviewed — but already look like…
This weekend you can sip while you shop at assorted classes, craft fairs, tastings and markets — all guaranteed to get you in the holiday spirit. Or is that spirits? At 6 p.m. tonight, A Bottled Affair will host an open-house wine-tasting, where you can taste old- and new-world wines,…
If you’ve ever tried to cook Thai food at home and were disappointed, I’ll bet I know why: You were using the wrong sauce. When the recipe called for soy sauce, you probably grabbed the bottle of Kikkoman sitting in your fridge. “You’d never use Kikkoman in Thai food, but…
In a coffee-crazed city like Denver, we’ve grown accustomed to new roasters cropping up and local companies introducing every brewing method imaginable. And now you can not only enjoy good coffee, but support a good cause at the same time: Out Living It is a coffee blend that resulted from…
“Every brewery gets negative feedback, so I don’t worry about it too much, but I think we drifted off into middle-of-the-road beers,” says Cary Floyd, who opened Arvada Beer Company in October 2011 with his wife, Kelly. “We were tending more toward the masses rather than toward the craft beer…
More than 200 restaurants have opened in metro Denver this year, with more hurrying to open their doors before the end of 2013. Some are updated versions of earlier restaurants, others are completely new. And while some are far too young to have been reviewed, they already look like they…
Whiskey, beer, gin, vodka, wine and beer: It all flowed freely at a holiday party last night (thanks to all the awesome bartenders!), which made it all too easy to get wobbly from a whiskey cocktail, the name of which has “drunken” in its name for good reason. Can you…
Darren Pusateri Gallo Di Nero 1135 Bannock Street 303-825-1995 gallodinero.com This is part two of my interview with Darren Pusateri, exec chef of Gallo Di Nero; part one of our chat ran yesterday. What specific requests would you ask of Denver diners? I’d ask Denver diners to eat out, eat…
Doughnuts are on a roll in metro Denver. Another Dunkin’ Donuts location opened at 4:30 a.m. this morning at 8775 Washington Street in Thornton, reviving some of the fever that hit town when two DD stores debuted on the same day in August. But the temperature — as well as…
Is everyone already full of holiday cheer? After Jenn Wohletz unwrapped her five worst X-mas foods — including everything from date nut balls to popcorn tins — defenders of Royal Dansk rose up in defense of the Danish cookies. And even eggnog got a pass from some readers. See also:Five…
Hungry for the holidays? Businesses and restaurants around town are cooing up great deals. For example, Trillium will be featuring Aquavit, that Scandinavian spirit, throughout the week in honor of the Christmas season. The “water of life” js traditionally made from distilled grain or potatoes and flavored with spices such…
You want it Thai hot?” the server asked when I ordered my kana moo krob. Incredulous, he repeated the question, practically begging me to reconsider. But I didn’t want to reconsider. I wanted my crispy pork with Chinese broccoli amped up to its maximum sweat-inducing capacity. At Thai Monkey Club,…
I celebrated a birthday yesterday, not at a fancy restaurant with Champagne and shavings of foie (or nibbling on scones and crumpets at the Brown Palace), but at a Mexican restaurant, a deliberate choice just to keep the “Midson is obsessed with Mexican food” sentiment going strong. The joint was…
This fall, when I chatted with Amerigo chef-owner Iain Chisholm for my weekly Chef and Tell interview, he described Amerigo, a craft-Italian restaurant on Upper Larimer, as “my stepping stone to set up the prototype for other concepts in the same vein — small, neighborhood restaurants that I can build…
In a baseball stadium named after a brewery, you can understand why conversations about other beer brands might seem a little, well, out of left field. Coors (and its parent company) is a fiercely competitive conglomerate that has paid millions and millions of dollars since 1995 for the rights to…
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…
Months ago, I had the pleasure of spending the day butchering a pig with Kate Kavanaugh and her fiance, Josh Curtiss, the two of whom have spent the last few years conceptualizing, cultivating and building Western Daughters Butcher Shoppe, a new-school, artisanal chop shop of saws, hatchets and butcher blocks,…
Things don’t always go as planned, as would-be restaurant and brewery owners find out on a daily basis in Colorado. Case in point: only five of the breweries listed in our August blog post, “Ten breweries that will open in metro Denver before the Great American Beer Festival,” have actually…
Darren Pusateri Gallo Di Nero 1135 Bannock Street 303-825-1995 gallodinero.com This is part one of my interview with Darren Pusateri, exec chef of Gallo Di Nero; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Darren Pusateri, clad in a heavy coat with an ebony scarf swaddled around his neck, shakes…
Westminster Brewing, located along a rural stretch of road between a subdivision and Highway 36, celebrated its grand opening last weekend, December 7-8, introducing a lineup of English-style cask ales and other beers to its neighbors. Westword’s Kenneth Hamblin III was there. You can see all of his photos in…
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…
