Lucas Forgy Freshcraft 1530 Blake Street 303-758-9608 www.freshcraft.com Part one of my interview with Lucas Forgy, exec chef of Freshcraft, ran yesterday; this is part two of our chat. What do you enjoy most about your craft? Being able to engage with people in real time and make things happen…
Baking at altitude is no easy feat. Master the task and you could have your own blog — or at least be the bestseller at your kid’s next bake sale. So it’s little wonder that mile-high sandwich shops go to such lengths to find the right combination of flour, salt…
A crew from Food Paradise stopped in Denver earlier this year to film at My Brother’s Bar, whose JCB rated a segment on the “Hamburger Paradise 2” episode that aired last night on the Travel Channel. The Denver shots included interviews with longtime bartender Jimmy Hayde (who had a big…
The Great American Beer Festival flows through Denver today through Saturday, bringing with it 580 breweries, 2,700 beers and 49,000 thirsty beer lovers. Aside from the action at the Colorado Convention Center, there are hundreds of other craft beer-related events going on around town, including an Oskar Blues “It’s All…
“Poetry,” wrote Robert Frost, “is what gets lost in translation.” Cooking may not be poetry, but in the right hands — whether those of a culinary-school grad or a mother re-creating authentic family recipes — it can qualify as art. At La Guarida Cubana, a tiny Cuban restaurant that opened…
Update: We have a winner! Congrats to Alison Nishi, who was the first commenter to hit the right weight — 95 pounds — on the nose. The Great American Beer Festival barrels into town tomorrow, but the crew at Osteria Marco, Frank Bonnano’s popular pig-, pizza- and salumi-centric gathering spot…
Earlier this year, the crew of Food Paradise traveled the country in search of “the belly-busting best places to get your burger on — from a heart-stopping monster burger in Las Vegas, to cheese-stuffed burgers in Minnesota and wild game gut-bombs in Texas.” To the JCB at My Brother’s Bar…
Denver began welcoming beer fans from near and far yesterday as the city girded its liver for the annual Great American Beer Festival, which starts tomorrow. More people poured into town today as the Brewers Association opened registration for all of the breweries, vendors and media. Here is a brief…
If you’re a woman and you love wine, then you must be a complete idiot. That’s the only logical conclusion we were able to draw after stumbling upon a slew of borderline misogynistic marketing ploys to influence our (since we are most assuredly a “she”) wine-purchasing decisions. With some research…
There were about a dozen of us, all wrapped around a long narrow table, groaning. Sergio Romero, the exec chef of Le Grand Bistro and Oyster Bar, and the forthcoming Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink, which opens next month in Baker, had decided to host a menu tasting…
The Taste of the Philippines got a taste of politics yesterday when Secretary of State Scott Gessler stopped by the food truck on the 16th Street Mall during the lunch rush for some chicken adobo, manok sa gata and lumpia. Though Gessler says he doesn’t think he’d ever had Filipino…
Cicerones are the beer world’s version of sommeliers, and those who passed their certification tests become experts on beer storage and service, tasting and flavors, brewing ingredients and processes and pairing beer with food. There are three certification levels — Certified Beer Server, Certified Cicerone and Master Cicerone — but…
Endless meats on a stick might be too much to hope for. But still, Fogo de Chão’s new happy-hour menu offers a viable option for those who want to enjoy the traditional churrasco without overdosing on seared flesh. With $8 dishes and $6 cocktails, this menu, which is only available…
Lucas Forgy Freshcraft 1530 Blake Street 303-758-9608 www.freshcraft.com This is part one of my interview with Lucas Forgy, exec chef of Freshcaft; part two of our chat will run in this space tomorrow. It’s crazy. It’s always crazy,” says Lucas Forgy, describing the Great American Beer Festival, which hits Denver…
I thought the Freestyle Coke machines and touch-screen, meal-ordering systems that keep popping up in restaurants were going to be all the unmanned, automated, de-humanizing product-offering and/or dispensing machines out there for a while. Nope. After finding a “Freeosk” that dispensed Rice Krispies treats at the local Sam’s Club, I…
The Great American Beer Festival kicks off tomorrow, and fans of craft-beer are already pouring into the city. Tickets to the GABF sold out in under an hour, but Cafe Society managed to snag a few that we’ve been giving away in contests. The most recent asked people to spill…
The Kitchen [Next Door], 1035 Pearl Street in Boulder, is hosting a casual beer-and-food-pairing this evening at 7 p.m., celebrating five of the best Colorado craft breweries that have consistently been on tap at the restaurant: Oskar Blues, Dry Dock, Odell, Funkwerks and Upslope…
While the single guy fidgeting in the the nearby booth creeped me out with his lusty lip movements, the omelet, soft and stuffed with vegetables and bacon, and sided with Texas toast and butter-glossed hash browns, was a welcome distraction. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
No sooner had Josh Wolkon broken the news that executive chef Matt Selby was moving on after fifteen years at Vesta Dipping Grill (and then Steuben’s and Ace) that just where Selby is moving became clear: Selby will join James Iacino and Scott Kinsey as a full partner at the…
Yesterday, when the news broke that the Lancer Lounge would be closing at 2 p.m. today, owner Rebecca Comda, who’s had the classic dive since 1999, said that it was because the landlord had evicted her after she missed a month of rent. But judging from the sign that appeared…
“I’m ready to roll,” says Dylan Moore, clad in a black T-shirt and jeans in the kitchen that feeds diners at Deluxe, and now, Juanita’s, the Mexican restaurant he’ll open tonight at 4:30 in the space that formerly held Delite. See also: – Dylan Moore closing Delite and reopening as…
Great American Beer Festival week kicked off, as it has for the past fifteen years, at the Falling Rock Taphouse on Monday, when the clock hit 000 00 00 00.0 But things were a little different this year, says Chris Black, who owns and runs Denver’s most famous craft-beer bar…
