Food & Drink

Jordan Wallace Pizzeria Locale 550 Broadway 720-508-8828 pizzerialocale.com This is part one of my interview with Jordan Wallace, chef of Pizzeria Locale; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. There are two breeds of chef: those who know from day one that cooking is in the cards, and those…

When Jeanna Hoch posted photos showing her breastfeeding her baby, it created a controversy on Facebook — and what started as a discussion of web protocol soon spilled over into such issues as sexism and voyeurism — and even food. See also: Jeanna Hoch makes statement about sexism and more…

Everyone’s too busy to shop and too exhausted at the end of the day to cook and clean. While a solution to cooking and cleaning — a personal chef and a housekeeper — might require a few more dollars than most of us have, there’s a new service in town…

Highland Tavern fans and tater tot devotees may have noticed a recent sign in the popular LoHi joint letting patrons know that the watering hole and restaurant will soon expand, so come late summer the space will be a little roomier. See also: Highland Tavern is LoHi and mighty…

Denverites love their breakfast burritos, so it’s always a concern when supply-side issues threaten the morning ritual of a steaming torpedo of green chile and eggs wolfed down while fighting rush-hour traffic or toted by the dozen to the office to share with co-workers. That’s why construction at the Santiago’s…

This past weekend, the country’s biggest names in the world of food and drink swarmed the streets, sidewalks and sod of Aspen as part of the 32nd annual Food & Wine Classic, a four-day culinary immersion that included a party every minute; numerous wine tastings and cocktail seminars; pig, pig…

Two very different restaurants closed over the weekend: Corner House , which opened in Jefferson Park in January 2013 with major hoopla but also had some major problems, and the Cherry Creek location of Earls, a link in a national chain that blames “ongoing construction” in the area for the…

For more than a year, Mark Antonation ate his way up Federal Boulevard. With that journey done, he’ll now explore different cuisines from around the globe right here in metro Denver, one month at a time, in Ethniche. Sometimes life jars you out of your routine into a realization that…

VIP tickets to Sunday’s Wings & Whiskey battle at Ace, Josh and Jen Wolkon’s ping-pong emporium in Uptown, sold out weeks ago, but there are still general admission tickets available to the event, the proceeds of which benefit the Denver Housing Authority’s Youth Culinary Academy. And you can win two…

When a friend and I sat down to dinner at this restaurant, we had originally planned to graze, but as soon as we saw the astoundingly huge platter of carved, crimson-hued ribeye being delivered to another table, we promptly shut our menus and announced, “We’ll have what they’re having.” Best…

The construction projects that have tangled traffic in Cherry Creek might have been the final straw. On Friday, as World Cup fans were hunting for a place to watch the game, they found that Earl’s in Cherry Creek had closed its doors. See also: Kitchen flood temporarily closes Glazed and…

In early 2013, when Seattle Fish Co. president James Iacino, Matt Selby (now the exec chef of Central Bistro & Bar) and then-partner Scott Kinsey unveiled the Corner House in Jefferson Park, a neighborhood that’s slowly turning into a restaurant hamlet, Iacino, who, at the time, lived in a loft…

Throughout its various incarnations in Colorado since the mid-’70s, Marilyn Megenity’s Mercury Cafe has been a model for clean energy. Since the Mercury settled into a permanent home at 2199 California two decades ago, Megenity has installed 36 solar panels on the building and also worked to change the city…

Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, zigzagging from a bourbon mule from Jimmy’s, the unofficial party headquarters of the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, to an all-vegan Middle Eastern feast from Damascus to an excellent Reuben from a lovely little sandwich shop and cafe parked…

Documenting kitchen time may not seem like a top priority when you’re wrangling a three-year-old and a two-year-old and have a third child on the way, but at the home of Peter and Jenna Reynolds, it’s become just another part of the chaos of being new parents. The two started…

Is Denver’s barbecue scene “pretty lame”? That’s whatDenver Dave said last week, and since our news blog picked up his comment, close to 200 people have weighed in with their opinions of Denver’s barbecue — including what’s hot and what’s definitely not. See also: Denver’s BBQ scene is consistently “disappointing”?…