Patxi Azpiroz Patxi’s Pizza 3455 South University Boulevard, Englewood; 303-783-2000 185 Steele Street; 303-331-1000 www.patxispizza.com This is part two of my interview with Patxi Azpiroz, exec chef/owner of Patxi’s Pizza; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Favorite Denver restaurant(s) other than your own: I’m still exploring and trying all…
New restaurant and food concepts are conceived in all sorts of ways. Most owners and chefs spend months, years, even decades, slaving over the perfect idea, scribbling their dreams on napkins, their own bathroom walls, on coasters at the bar. But in the case of Chris Newell and his girlfriend…
When Patzi Azpiroz decided he wanted to introduce authentic deep-dish, Chicago-style pizza in California, he spent two years experimenting with recipes in his San Francisco kitchen. Today there are a half-dozen Patxi’s Pizza outlets in California, and this fall Azpiroz and his partner, Bill Freeman, opened the first Colorado Patxi’s…
For the first time in the thirty-year history of Westword’s Best of Denver, we’ve split the Best of Denver Readers’ Poll into two rounds, giving you the chance to look at the vote-getters and then voting again for your favorite bars, restaurants and foods in Denver and Boulder. And the…
Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York Street, is stirring things up for Denver Restaurant Week, offering two cooking seminars for members, complete with snacking. Today’s class features a variety of small plates for social occasions. See also: – Denver Restaurant Week and plenty of beer on the culinary calendar – Best…
Roast-chicken fanatics tout experiencing the bird with bread salad at San Francisco’s Zuni Cafe the way others talk about climbing the Eiffel Tower or bagging a peak. Some buy the restaurant’s cookbook and start on the recipe two days in advance, drying, salting and stuffing herbs under the skin in…
Steve Progar posted this note on Facebook earlier today: “After a successful 12 years in partnership at Abrusci’s, I’ve taken on a new challenge at the Hideaway Steakhouse. Great place, great food, great people! Hope to see you all come in! Thanks for all the memories at Abrusci’s!” But if…
Last week, we revealed Cafe Society’s choices for Denver’s Ten Best New Restaurants to open in 2012: Amerigo, Squeaky Bean, The Populist, Central Bistro & Bar, True Food Kitchen, Taita Peruvian Cuisine & Bar, The Universal, Pho Lee, Uncle and The Kitchen Denver. At the time, one of the restaurants,…
In most cases, anything with the name “prego” in its title conjures up weird food aversions and compulsions of fourteen years ago, when I was, in fact, “prego” with a fat fetus who’s now a skinny teenager that insists on wearing shorts, even when there’s a foot of the snow…
As the birthplace of Colorado’s craft beer revolution, Boulder has had a love affair with bubbly brews since the late 1970s that continues today: The city is home to the Brewers Association, a national trade group; the American Homebrewers Association; the second-oldest brewery to have formed after World War II;…
Some people need a phone booth to become super heroes. Others need a mask and a utility belt or just a lot of stress and anger-management issues. But in Denver, it takes a little something different to turn a man into a myth: their local brewery. On Thursday, the heroes…
Patxi Azpiroz Patxi’s Pizza 3455 South University Boulevard, Englewood; 303-783-2000 185 Steele Street; 303-331-1000 www.patxispizza.com This is part one of my interview with Patxi Azpiroz, exec chef/owner of Patxi’s Pizza; part two of our conversation will run tomorrow. Denver lays claim to an infinite number of pizza joints, but deep-dish…
“Fucking awesome!” That’s the emotional sentiment of Sean Kenyon, whose Denver speakeasy, Williams & Graham, just waltzed away the 2013 title of Cocktail Bar of the Year, a prestigious award bestowed on the cocktail cocoon by Nightclub & Bar Media Group, a bar, nightclub and lounge enterprise overseen by president…
Scott Witsoe and Brian O’Connell have brewed up a whopper of a beer — and, yes, it’s made with malted milk, in homage to the candy that inspired the name. Witsoe, who owns Wit’s End Brewing, and O’Connell, who owns Renegade Brewing, made a ten-gallon batch of the beer –…
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…
For this week’s review (which will be published later today), Gretchen Kurtz ventured south to La Polleria, the Peruvian polleria that opened in a strip mall in 2011, bringing authentic ethnic flavor to a suburban space. And it was a welcome addition, says one reader: See also: – It takes…
The term “flavor profile” isn’t usually heard in reference to brown rice — unless “tastes an awful lot like water-logged wood chips” is considered a valid flavor descriptor. But Qdoba, the runner-up of Colorado’s homegrown, fast-casual Mexican chains, is introducing seasoned brown rice as an option in its restaurants. And…
The University of Denver is hosting a free screening of American Meat — a documentation of the meat industry in America — tonight on the campus. And Westword editor Patricia Calhoun will moderate a panel discussion afterwards. See also: – Denver Restaurant Week and plenty of beer on the culinary…
When Governor John Hickenlooper was at the National Governors Association Taste of America Gala in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, he saw a familiar face: Tyler Wiard, culinary director of Elway’s Restaurant Group, who was there to champion Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign. And no one who stopped by…
It’s always loud inside the brewhouse at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, but it got a little louder on Tuesday when eight beer geeks from seven different breweries around Colorado convened to drink beer together brew what is probably the first all-female craft beer collaboration in the state, a Belgian pale…
March is just around the corner, which means that winter is in full swing here in Colorado. Ryan Layman, the bar manager at Steuben’s Food Service, has recognized this by creating a new cocktail menu to beat the winter blues. See also: – Denver’s ten best plates of chicken and…
Jeff Bauman and his brother, Marc, have closed Pig & Block Charcuterie, their small but mighty cured meat and butcher shop, directly next door to Old Major, that opened in October of 2011 in Highland. Jeff, who also pimped wine, dried pastas, a collection of salts, salumi and fresh meat,…
