The Thunderdome, Occupy Denver’s onetime kitchen and an erstwhile mobile vegan experience, is known for a lot of things — dick jokes and anarchist sentiments included — but gentility is not one of them. This explains why, in the group’s new series of cooking videos, the time lapse between pressing…
Rumors have been flying across Denver chef circles that Jensen Cummings, the executive chef of Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar, was ditching his gig behind the line to open a new restaurant — a rumor that’s only half true. See also: – Contest: Guess the location of the Slotted…
Forget Top Chef. Safeway’s Next Chef Competition is looking for local talent, and there’s not a moment to waste, since the deadline is March 7. So fire up your skillet (yes, that’s an intrinsic part of the project) as you read the contest announcement:…
Applebee’s just hired hot Boulder-based Crispin Porter + Bogusky — the same creative outfit that Arby’s recently signed — to give the ubiquitous American meat-starch-veg spot an image boost of some kind. But here’s the rub: Unlike Arby’s, Applebee’s doesn’t really need a facelift…
On Friday, Lori Midson broke the news that Jeremy Kittelson, the exec chef at Ambria (and a partner in the four-month-old restaurant) had been fired in the middle of Denver Restaurant Week. “I was relieved of my position — told, simply, that it wasn’t working out — and I’m really…
Root Down, 1600 West 33rd Avenue, will host its monthly raw-food dinner this evening, when diners can enjoy a special three-course raw vegan dinner prepared by Raw Food-Certified chef Daniel Asher. And because it’s Denver Restaurant Week, the meal will only cost $26.40! Reservations are required, though; call 303-993-4200. And…
What’s your favorite shrimp dish?” my friend asked our waiter. He’d been standing beside our cramped booth, shoulders slumped, holding a small notepad in one hand and studiously avoiding our eyes while we studied the huge menu and sucked down the sugary, freshly made lemonades he’d slid across the table…
Last week, I broke the news that Jeremy Kittelson, the opening chef of Ambria, had been fired during the height of Denver Restaurant week — one of the busiest weeks of the year and an incredibly risky (some would say incredibly stupid) time to boot your executive chef off the…
Denver Restaurant Week ends this Friday, March 9, so be sure to take advantage of the $52.80 per couple deals available at the 340 participating restaurants while you still can. And don’t forget to share your dining experiences here for a chance to win a DRW gift certificate for $52.80…
Sherry, a fortified Spanish wine that ranges from light and dry to round and sweet, has fallen by the wayside as a fashionable beverage. In fact, we’re willing to bet that today more people associate sherry with old ladies or cooking wine than with something they’d pair with dinner. Brett…
Over the last few months, I went from the worst shape of my life to the best while continuing to eat like a food critic. Don’t punch me in the face; instead, read how I did it in this series: It’s been almost a year since that full-length mirror-initiated wake-up…
A McAlister’s Deli opens today at 13950 East Mississippi Avenue in Aurora — in a space formerly occupied by a Bennigan’s and one of the doomed BenchWarmers. There’s already a McAlister’s Deli at 3471 Salida Street, also in Aurora…
The New York Times showed Denver’s craft beer scene a little love on Saturday with a story that featured one of the newest — and smallest — breweries in town, Wit’s End, along with Strange Brewing, Denver Beer Co and author Ed Sealover. But it was the photo of Wit’s…
Bill Yalch may be a Pittsburgh native, but it took just a few trips to the southwest for him to become utterly obsessed with New Mexican food — namely, green chile. “If you live in Pittsburgh, you have no idea what good huevos rancheros are,” he admits, adding that he…
Last March, Food & Wine magazine introduced a “People’s Best New Chef” competition to go along with its own yearly listage of the top ten best new chefs in the country, all of whom are introduced at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic in June. Max MacKissock, chef of the…
Fried chicken, pan-fried pork chops, collard greens, macaroni and cheese and sweet tea equals a soulful Saturday lunch — and a crane to carry your weighted gut and butt out the door. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. Split peas are a kind of superfood, an excellent source of protein for vegetarians and vegans. Homemade split-pea soup is much, much…
Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a caddy of salsas from Machete to a beer poured in the deserted bar at the Stanley hotel to a fruity caipirinha from Fogo de Chao that went down easy to a plate of stunningly fresh clams from…
On Friday we posted our Restaurant roll call for February, a compendium of that month’s openings and closings. The big surprise was the closing of The Crushery; on February 28, owner John Davidson signed a deal to sell the spot to Kayvan Khalatbari, who’ll turn the space at 1579 South…
The Kitchen Table Cooking School is doing double duty on meatless Monday. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today, it will offer a cooking class on “The Incredible Edible Egg”; from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight, the course is “Meatless Monday: Contemporary Mexico.” Each class is $80, and includes food;…
Michael Pollan — journalist, advocate and patron saint of sustainability in our food system — was in Denver this week to speak to a crowd at the Paramount about the importance of understanding where our food comes from. After his talk, he headed to Fuel Cafe, where he had a…
In this interview, Root Down bar manager Mike Henderson weighs in on the formation of the Colorado Bartenders Guild, counting to four and the rise of the beverage professional…
