“This scallop recipe is a simple, seasonal dish that can be easily executed by a home cook — and it’s a definite crowd-pleaser,” says Ambria executive chef Jeremy Kittelson, who’s featured in this week’s Chef and Tell interview. The agrodolce, which means “sweet and sour” in Italian, can be made…
We’ve all heard how you can’t turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse, but Arby’s would have to do something close to really compete with fast-food rivals like McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Subway. To help pull off this miracle, Arby’s recently added new CMO Russ Klein (he jumped ship…
The Top Chef crew came to Denver this week, auditioning chefs for the tenth season of the Bravo show. “We’ve had auditions before in Denver, but never a proper casting call, and it was time to see what the city’s chefs really had to offer,” Hunter Braun, Top Chef’s senior…
Need a quick getaway? The Brown Palace Hotel, 321 17th Street, is the site of Delightful Dishes & Dreamy Getaways, an event organized by the Colorado Hotel & Lodging Association that benefits Food Bank of the Rockies and the Readiness Fund. The fun starts at 6 p.m., and includes 120…
We’re on a Denver Restaurant Week money streak, having just given away $52.80 to two big tippers, both of whom entered our first Denver Restaurant Week contest, in which we asked industry folks and diners alike for their best advice on how to get the most out of the two-week…
The Daily Camera pulled out of its 119-year-old digs on Boulder’s Pearl Street in early 2011, but Los Angeles-based Karlin Real Estate, the group that purchased the building in 2010, had already begun planning a project that would raze the current structure and rebuild a mix of office and retail…
Given the recent history of the space at 3555 West 38th Avenue, it’s not surprising that Argentinean restaurant Caminito Tango has closed its doors. It opened last May, following Viejo Domingo, which lasted just under a year. Playa de Oro preceded both restaurants, and as paper signs on the restaurant’s…
No. 36: Pop-tarts from Devil’s Food Bakery and Cookery…
In the almost-six months since Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben’s restaurateur Josh Wolkon and his cohorts — including wife Jen, Matt Selby, Brandon and Emily Biederman and Jeff Bustos — took over the old Storz Garage space next to Steuben’s, they’ve been busily drawing up plans to convert the address…
There have probably been a bazillion sandwich combinations invented since the first prescient human stuck filling between a couple of slices of bread, but only a handful of those have become icons of culture and cuisine. There’s the pastrami on rye, of course, which embodies the spirit of a New…
Lisa Bailey and Keegan Gerhard have looked at several locations around town where they could put a second location of D Bar Desserts, the spot they opened on East 17th Avenue back in 2008. And now they’ve decided where to put it: not in Denver but in San Diego, where…
Who says that waffle cones have to be filled with ice cream? Here, you have two choices: the conventional way, or you can order a savory cone stuffed with everything from macaroni and cheese to root vegetables. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
Jeremy Kittelson Ambria 1201 16th Street 303-623-8646 www.ambriadenver.com This is part two of my chef and tell interview with Jeremy Kittleson, exec chef of Ambria. Part one of our chat ran yesterday. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: I really like going to Euclid Hall. Anywhere I can go…
Denver Off the Wagon, a booze-centered blog boasting a couple dozen suds-sodden writers, will celebrate its first anniversary this week with a three-day party centered around a beer that the Wagoners brewed in January at the Wynkoop Brewing Company. Wagon Ryed, as the beer is called, is based off of…
LoHi remains the city’s hottest restaurant neighborhood in town, with would-be restaurateurs still looking for open spaces in the area. The most recent project announced is Central Bistro and Bar, going in right on the edge of Highland, where Lance Barto will be serving new American food. But what about…
Good food for a good cause: Soup’s on at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, 1550 Court Place, where many of Denver’s top chefs will be ladling up bowls of their gourmet creations at Soup for the Soul. A benefit for Porter Hospice and St. Anthony Hospice, Soup for the Soul…
Some were still scribbling answers to the questions on the 25-page application, which asked, among other things, to interpret a dish based on the line “eight maids a-milking” from the Twelve Days of Christmas carol; others stored energy by helping themselves to the dried fruit and cheese spread on the…
On owner Sergio Negrin’s insistence, my meal at Frijoles Colorado Cuban Cafe, the Lakewood restaurant I review this week, kicked off with a strong, sweet shot of Cuban coffee, an excellent way to start a meal. The Negrins are delightful hosts, and though their menu is modest, it offers a…
As Patricia Calhoun wrote this morning, the Denver omelet isn’t all it’s cracked up to be…
A bevy of beer bloggers will appear on American Craft Beer Radio with Gary Valliere this Saturday when Colorado’s newest craft beer radio show takes the air for its third show at noon on 102.3 FM, the local ESPN affiliate. The show will focus on the experiences of bloggers and…
AC Golden Brewing will unveil a new beer today at Colorado Old Chicago restaurants as part of the beer-centered restaurant chain’s latest Mini Tour. The brew is an India Pale Lager, or IPL, made from four kinds of hops (Chinook, Centennial, Cascade and Simcoe) typically found in IPAs, but with…
Yesterday may have been a day of indulgence for those of you who used Mardi Gras as an excuse to stuff yourself with pancakes and get sloshed on Hurricanes. But if you’re still going strong, you’ll want to know that today is probably the best arbitrary hedonistic holiday of the…
