Gabrielle Hamilton has been on top of the culinary world for the past couple of years. In 2011, she landed a James Beard Award for Best Chef in New York City for her simple fare at Prune, besting April Bloomfield, Wylie Dufresne, Michael Anthony and Michael White and quipping, charmingly,…
Best of Denver award-winner Denver Seitan Company has been mysteriously absent as of late: no presence at this past Sunday’s Neat Market, no Denver Seitan pizza at the Marquis — and we just found out why: The health department embargoed and confiscated all DSC wheat meat due to permitting issues…
Serena Romeo Comida Cantina 721 Confidence Drive, Longmont 720-204-6455 www.eatcomida.com This is part two of my interview with Serena Romeo, exec chef of Comida Cantina. Read part one of my interview with Romeo. What’s your best piece of advice to culinary-school grads? Be open to learning things beyond what you…
I am a huge fan of noodle-sucking. I will suck noodles in such a disgusting, socially-reprehensible way that I even get filthy looks from small children. Slurp. Slurp-slurp. And Noodles & Company knows how to feed my fix. I’ve always liked the Denver-based chain for its fast-cazh convenience and prices,…
The talk continues about T|ACO, the updated taqueria with the awkward name that opened yesterday in Boulder. It’s not the first hip taqueria in the area, of course. Pinche Taqueria gave the Pinche Tacos concept a permanent home last year. And in February Comida Cantina opened a brick-and-mortar version of…
Colorado Corks & Cuisine pours out the fun from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight at Four Mile Historic Park, 715 South Forest Street. Enjoy food, wine, local beer and spirits, all while learning about Colorado’s storied past. Go to the park’s website to learn more. For information on dozens of…
This week’s review took me to Tarasco’s New Latin Cuisine, a strip-mall spot where the walls are covered with English and Spanish words of wisdom and the menu is a mile long. It took me some time to uncover what was really special about this place, but once I discovered…
The Downtown Denver Partnership has revved up its vendor program on the 16th Street Mall, with more mobile food carts and expanded hours. But the new rules are threatening to drive some of the old carts away. “The working hours are supposed to be from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m…
Size does matter. We learned that as we sampled thirty different bottles of rose at the annual Pink Patio party at Elway’s Cherry Creek last night, and decided that we still loved last year’s winner, Chateau Peyrassol…which Aaron Foster was pouring from a very big bottle…
“I’ll have the chardonnay, thanks.” After overhearing this from a nearby diner during a recent restaurant meal, followed immediately by the withering response, “Seriously? A chardonnay?” from said diner’s snarky companion, we realized that chardonnay still has a bullshit reputation…
It’s beer festival season and the fiestas — from the high country to the plains — are going to come fast. The first two kick off this Memorial Day weekend, but they’ll be followed by new ones almost every weekend this summer. Enjoy — and keep some Advil around…
If you like your cocktails the hue of neon turquoise blue, and your belly has the capacity to endure the waves that come along with it, then this, people, is your poison. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s…
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. “Most of us…
Serena Romeo Comida Cantina 721 Confidence Drive, Longmont 720-204-6455 www.eatcomida.com This is part one of my interview with Serena Romeo, exec chef of Comida Cantina. Part two of our interview will run in this space tomorrow. Before her two-year stint on a food truck, Serena Romeo had never worked in…
DiFranco’s, 955 Lincoln Street, will open today in the Beauvallon building, a space that has swallowed up many earlier restaurants — but owner Ryan DiFranco is sure he can break the curse with his concept. “The emphasis is on local, fresh Italian food,” DiFranco says. “Denver needs a good local…
T|ACO opens today in Boulder. It’s a new concept from the folks behind H Burger Co. (an outpost of that joint just opened in Boulder, too), and readers agree that the place looks good — the urban taqueria is a 62-seat homage to tacos and spaghetti Westerns — and the…
Olivea, 719 East 17th Avenue, will end this year’s spring regional dinner series by highlighting cuisine from the Basque region of France. The four-course meal costs $40 or $65 with wine pairings, and begins at 5:45 p.m. View the menu here and call 303-861-5050 to reserve a spot. For information…
This city is overflowing with Mexican restaurants, everything from green chile joints to taco trucks to gringified burrito-mongers. And from the outside, Tarasco’s New Latin Cuisine, stuck in a South Federal Boulevard strip mall, doesn’t exactly stand out…
Twin Peaks, the Texas-based chain that first appeared in Colorado last year at Colorado Mills, has opened a new location at 299 East Flatiron Crossing Drive in Broomfield. The restaurant boasts numerous high-definition TVs, a made-from-scratch menu, 29 degree draft beer, a hunting lodge motif and, of course, what Twin…
Here, at this tap house, which overlooks an expanse of green, you can get a generic bloody Mary with vodka, or a bloody Mary liquid-fueled with vodka and a craft beer. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess…
Skoops Ice Cream & More didn’t make our list of the best ice cream parlors in Denver, mostly because we gave precedence to spots that make their own ice cream…
A year and a half ago, award-winning bartender James Lee gave up his post as bar manager of the Bitter Bar and beverage director of the Big Red F restaurants to embark on a journey that took him first to Salida and then Denver, where he’s worked with Troy Guard,…
