Modmarket needs your help to step up its social media game

While Facebook pages and Twitter handles have become a staple on most restaurants’ business cards, Boulder-based Modmarket wants to stand out. Sure, it will continue to use Facebook and Twitter accounts, but they’d be seamlessly integrated into the official website. “The idea is that we’d like to get way beyond…

Reader: Theo Adley dishes up a great Thomas Keller comment

Theo Adley, the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview, is getting rave reviews both for his food at The Pinyon — and for his comments. Says AmyDenver: One of my all-time favorite Chef and Tell comments: “Shut up, all of you, especially you, Thomas Keller, you blabbermouth. Oh…and…

Loading Dock Friday at Il Mondo Vecchio

Il Mondo Vecchio, 1174 South Cherokee Street, presents Loading Dock Fridays every Friday, with tours and tastings from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. Call 303-744-6328 or visit www.mondovecchio.net. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Food & Drink listings — and if you have information for…

Denver’s five best plates of fried chicken

We’ll eat fried chicken any time of the year, but we really crave it during the summer, sided with coleslaw, cobbler, mac and cheese or watermelon. We credit that yearning to a subconscious association with picnic season. But instead of unpacking a bucket of KFC, we head instead to a…

Guess where I’m drinking?

We were checking out the current home of the National Western Stock Show, doing an inventory of the scenic bars (not to mention their very cheap 32-ounce draft beer deals) that Aurora will need to match if it successfully rustles that event, when we spotted this very strongly worded sign…

Guess where I’m eating?

I love unexpected surprises, and here, at this convivial cafe that’s certainly better known for its sandwiches and soups than its international dishes, I found — and promptly inhaled — an Indian chicken curry. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…

Belvedere Restaurant aims to open this weekend

When Kinga Klek, owner of Kinga’s Lounge, told us about her plans for Belvedere Restaurant, a Polish joint she’s putting in the old Cafe Berlin location on 14th Street, she said she hoped to have the doors open by July 1. Klek didn’t quite make that deadline. The spot was…

Reader: Farm to table? How about Monsanto to mouth?

While consumers continue to dish dirt about the lack of local farm produce at the area’s farmers markets, Kimberly put “farm to table” on the table as one of the “Thirty overused, irritating and just plain awful food words and phrases that make our mouth hurt.” As Kimberly states her…

Grand Teton Brewing in West End Tavern’s Satellite Tap Room

At the monthly Satellite Tap Room, West End Tavern is featuring drafts from a different brewery, with reps on hand to discuss the beers. Today, Grand Teton Brewing Co. out of Jackson Hole is the featured brewery. For more info, call 303-444-3535 or visit www.thewestendtavern.com. For information on dozens of…

Food porn: Row 14

In this week’s Westword, I review Row 14, a sleek spot in the Spire, a new downtown high rise. Arik Markus, the restaurant’s chef and co-owner — his cohort is front-of-the-house man David Schneider — has put together a menu that’s as polished as the environs, and I had one…

Cooking with Pete and Barb Marczyk: Lobster roll

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. Ge used to…

Pizza Fusion slices up another vegan-friendly pie

You can find pizza anywhere in the city — but finding vegan-friendly pizza is a slice more difficult. Pizza Fusion made the hunt much easier when it opened a few months ago; its vegan pie is topped with casein-free soy cheese (Follow Your Heart mozzarella — which, as you can…

Guess where I’m eating?

Breakfast is served all day, every day, until 5 p.m. at this neighborhood java joint with a palpable hippie vibe. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and…