Late last night, after hitting up a party where the only beverage being poured was vodka (a poison I avoid at all costs), I stopped for a glass of wine at one of my favorite neighborhood bars, a spot with a fantastic late-night happy hour and more than one rose…
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 usually bring a selection of some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast…
The sandwich: Panama Red What’s on it: Grilled chicken breast, home-grown marinara sauce, parmesan and provolone on white, wheat or garlic “herb” bread. Where to get it: Cheba Hut (1531 Champa Street, 720-974-1880) How much: $6.50 A lot of people like Cheba Hut. They’ve been telling me it’s good, strongly…
It’s 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday night, the crowds at Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizza have finally thinned, and owner-chef Mark Dym is exhausted. “I was up at 4 a.m. yesterday morning so I could make 800 fucking pounds of chicken wings,” he says, before quickly adding that he’s “not complaining.” He pauses,…
To celebrate the fact that the Taste of Colorado won’t be back for another year, the Denver Five, a cartel of homegrown chefs that get together every so often in each other’s restaurant kitchens, are cooking together tonight at TAG, Troy Guard’s Asian fusion restaurant at 1441 Larimer Street. Okay,…
Get an inside look today at 3014, the new identity for the space at 3014 East Colfax Avenue that was Senger’s on the ‘Fax, until that bar abruptly closed in July. Colfax on the Hill, Colfax BID, Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods and MyColfax.org are holding their September Happy on the…
“We weren’t really looking to do a second restaurant, but everything just kind of fell into place,” explains Bill Blake. Along with business partner Jason Parfenoff, he’s just signed a lease on the long-vacated Village Inn space at 222 Columbine Street where they plan to open a second outpost of…
Just got a call from Jack Martinez, the patriarch at Jack-n-Grill, 2525 Federal Boulevard (and soon, at 2630 West Belleview Avenue in Littleton). Martinez’s seven-pound burrito nearly gutted Adam Richman, host of the Travel Channel show Man v. Food, when the TV host stopped by earlier this year to to…
“Eat the dried chiles,” advised our server, “but leave the fresh red and green ones alone because they’re really hot.” Problem is, I tend to roll my eyes and shrug when it comes to heat advisories, which is exactly what I did in this case. And that turned out to…
To celebrate the opening of Qdoba Mexican Grill’s 500th restaurant, the fast-casual, homegrown Mexican chain is giving away free entrees today to the first 500 people who elbow their way through the doors of the newest location at 6703 South University Boulevard in Centennial. The 500th restaurant marks a milestone…
Anika Zappe is on a tear. Yes, she still has her band, Hemi Cuda, although its last show is coming sometime this year. “Had to make more time for cocktology,” she says. Zappe has been Root Down’s bar manager since the restaurant opened in December 2008, and the bar is…
Cap’n Crunch’s Race Car Crunch Quaker Rating: Three-and-a-half spoons out of four Cereal description: This time around, the classic slab o’ Crunch — yellow in color, corn and oats in content, and shaped kinda like a piece of shredded wheat (but delicious, not bleeech!) — is supplemented by Crunch Berry-like…
“We recognize that times are tough for people in this current economic situation,” says Frank Schultz of the Tavern Hospitality Group. “A little has to go a long way. We felt compelled to offer guests a greater value for their dollar.” And so today THG will roll out the Tavern…
Our former Cafe Society intern just decided to chuck college in favor of a real education: as a sous chef. In Under Fire, he chronicles his daily trials and tribulations in the kitchen. Saturday was the day of reckoning — but fortunately, no lives were lost. It was a long…
For a workplace that’s notoriously hectic, it’s funny how little you feel you sometimes get done. In three hours I made tapenade and picked beet greens. We have a whole menu, and that’s all I manage to do? Well, it takes a while to pit approximately 73,000 Pincholine olives. Pitting…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview with Tyler Wiard, the executive chef at Elway’s Cherry Creek, Wiard talks about his proudest moment as a chef — the day he won the National Pork award, and a cool $5,000 in cash, while competing against nearly two dozen other chefs in…
What you might have missed while hurling a No-Bake Love Cake in Sandra Lee’s face…Jason Sheehan asked readers what foods our fair city is missing.We gained a few, we lost a few: check out the restaurant roll call for August.We learned Sean Kenyon, bartender at Steuben’s, has had some very,…
¿Ya punchas? No vato. No hoy. Yeah, it’s different not actually clocking into work. Not counting hours is both a little nerve racking and suspiciously liberating. You kinda just focus on tasks, and time just disappears; it’s over when the last mop is wrung out. But how I do or…
So, yeah, see those tacos in the above pic? You’ll NEVER guess where they came from. I was shocked speechless when I saw tacos — street tacos, mind you — on a bar menu that really has no business pimping tacos. No, this is a watering hole that by all…
A month away from the fifteenth anniversary of the family business, Firehouse Subs CEO Robin Sorensen and his team were in their Thornton store this week after a tour of future Front Range locations, from Fort Collins to Highlands Ranch. I met them at 10060 Grant Street in Thornton, at…
Andrew Novick is probably best known as a dude with a lot of stuff. The local electrical engineer and punk-rock trend-setter (he was a member of the legendary Denver band the Warlock Pinchers and co-owner with his wife, Janene, of the Asian pop culture boutique Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast) earned…
Love her or hate her, everyone will admit that Sandra Lee, the queen of Food Network’s Semi-Homemade domain, has made some seriously shitty food. We dug up her ten best dessert failures to share with you, along with some reader comments from the Food Network’s recipe site. If you have…
