As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com. No. 99 Alaskan reindeer sausage from Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs…
Yes, yesterday’s Guess Where I’m Eating? cakes were from City Bakery, Michael Bortz’s place up at 5454 Washington Street, an industrial-park setting that gives no hint of the wonderful things being created inside. Except for the smell, of course. Although Bortz breads and desserts are featured at many restaurants around…
This is part two of my interview with Lance Barto, exec chef of Strings. You can read part one of my interview with Barto here. Best food city in America: Northern California. Right, I know that it’s not a city, but the whole northern region of California seems to have…
John Hickenlooper will announce the Mayor’s Design Awards tonight, but we can tell you that two of the fifteen honorees are restaurants: Root Down and Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria. Both restaurants opened last year, in old spaces made remarkably new. In Root Down’s case, a vintage service station was turned into…
Nothing can take the place of an actual trip to Italy to explore the language, culture and cuisine — but this is probably the next-best thing. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl Street in Boulder, is hosting an Italian class tonight on the region of Sardegna. The syllabus includes a three-course…
On my first visit to Fogo de Chão, I was like Augustus Gloop in the chocolate factory — set loose in Wonka’s main room, eyes like saucers, jittery with excitement and trying desperately to shove everything into my mouth that would fit. And each time I half-cleaned a plate, some…
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to praise the cocktails of Randy Layman, the bartender at Avenue Grill. I already know that Randy is one of Denver’s up-and-coming superstar bartenders, but I had no idea that he’s such a romantic. But when he serves me a Dearly Beloved ($10),…
This week’s review of Fogo de Chão contains one important bit of wisdom: No man can live solely on giant hunks of skewered meat delivered by strapping young Brazilian men. Trust me, if it could be done, I’d already be doing it. As would my darling wife, in a heartbeat…
For some of us (like me), there just aren’t enough hours in the day to eat all the barbecue that we want. There are barbecue sandwiches for lunch, pulled pork for dinner, ribs and sides for a midnight snack, maybe a little cornbread and chicken picked off the bone at…
I just got the news twenty minutes ago. Ian Kleinman buzzed my cell shortly after. “So, you’re unemployed, brother,” I said. “Congratulations, I guess.” “Yeah, well, not completely unemployed,” Ian said, laughing. “But yeah.” Yesterday, Ian was let go from his gig as chef and chief liquid nitrogen wrangler at…
For this week’s review, Jason Sheehan has a near-meat-death experience at Fogo de Chao, 1513 Wynkoop Street. See more of Mark Manger’s photos on the slideshow page…
You can have your pecan pumpkin coffeecake and eat it, too, if you stop by this bakery. Maple walnut coffeecake, too. And pecan hazelnut tart. Guess where we’d be eating all day and night if we got the chance……
As I reported here yesterday, Arizona restaurateur Mark Tarbell is just a few weeks away from opening Home, a comfort food restaurant that will join The Oven, another Tarbell restaurant, at the Streets of SouthGlenn in late November. And while that’s good news for the foodniks who hang in those…
I’ve never met a charcuterie plate I didn’t love. Not that this will surprise anyone, but the spread of salty meats and cheeses (and housemade breadsticks) in the above pic did absolutely nothing to change my mind. Which restaurant is to blame for furthering my addiction?…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com. No. 100 Chicken-fried steak from Lola…
“It wasn’t supposed to happen this fast,” says Lance Barto, shaking his head. The 27-year-old chef, who was promoted back in February to the chief kitchen post at Strings following the departure of Aaron Whitcomb (who’s now at Yia-Yia’s Euro Bistro), still seems shocked by the news. “A lot of…
Know why we’re awesome? Because we have two tickets to attend the exclusive meet-and-greet with Anthony Bourdain, Mr. Kitchen Confidential himself, Anthony Bourdain, when he comes to town to talk food and travel on Wednesday, November 18 at the Buell Theatre. Know why we’re double awesome? Because we’re just giving…
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. Last month, Pete…
Every month, Colfax on the Hill hosts a “Happy on the Hill” social, a chance for the public to learn more about businesses on Colfax Avenue and those business owners to network a bit. This month’s featured business: Mulberries Cake Shop, which recently moved from South Pearl Street to 2027…
Fogo de Chao is not a place that any mortal man could visit with any regularity while remaining mortal, without ending up just flat dead from a meat overdose. Zeus, perhaps, could eat here three times in a week. James Beard or Escoffier could’ve probably managed four in their portly…
“We want to get this one right,” insists Mark Tarbell, the Arizona-based restaurateur whose Belmar restaurant, Mark & Isabella, was recently bludgeoned by Jason Sheehan. “I believe in this restaurant, and I don’t want to fuck it up.”I caught up with Tarbell earlier today while checking out the new restaurants…
Chefs for the Cause sounded like a philanthropic foodie’s delight — six of Denver’s top chefs creating delicious food to help raise money for the Denver affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. James Mazzio (of Cucina Colore and Via fame, now executive chef of Le Chateau), Justin Cucci…
