Gravity 1020 chef Sean Taylor and special guest Mark DeNittis of Il Mondo Vecchio and Cinque Soldi Salumeria will break down an entire hog, demonstrate how to make sausage with it, pair the meat with beer and serve a family-style dinner at a pig-out extravaganza that starts at 6 p.m…
By 8:30 p.m. Saturday night, the crew was on its sixth dinner in three nights, the wine was flowing, and everyone was getting giddy. But then, James Mazzio had reason to celebrate: He’d just taken over the space in the Icehouse that was formerly occupied by Mise en Place cooking…
Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contests last week, including a high-altitude Bloody Mary at The 10th in Vail, a forgettable blackened tuna sandwich from Ale House at Amato’s and an Ethiopian feast at Ras Kassa’s. But for correctly (and quickly) identifying the pizza above as coming from Pizza…
Earlier this year, Leigh Sullivan Enterprises — a hospitality-industry marketing, brand-management and public-relations consulting firm helmed by Leigh Sullivan — announced its fifth crop of chefs to fill out the ranks of the Denver FIVE, an organization that’s “a culinary group whose main goal is to celebrate and promote the…
After some service flubs at Charcoal, the subject of my most recent review, I lamented the fact that the quality of service in many of this town’s restaurants has not kept up with the ever-improving food turned out by the kitchens. There are exceptions, of course, and those are worth…
Ah, pig. There’s nothing more likely to put you in hog heaven — and heart-attack terroritory — than a dish of absolutely fresh chicharrones, delivered hot from the fryer. Can you guess where these came from? Here’s a hint:…
Chick-Fil-A, known for its iconic cow billboards and fried chicken patties iconically nestled between biscuits, is sweetening up its dessert menu by offering a new cookie, an updated brownie and several sundaes; it’s also bringing back its seasonally available Banana Pudding Milkshake starting today…
When Tyler Nemkov joined Cafe Society as a twenty-year-old intern from Johnson & Wales three years ago, he knew he wanted to pursue both a journalism and a culinary career. He opted to keep working in kitchens while he earned his degree at the University of Colorado — right before…
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was in Denver over the weekend, promoting her pin collection, “Read My Pins,” that’s currently installed at the Denver Art Museum, and revisiting the town where she spent her teenage years…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. With the chilly weather this past weekend we decided to skip salad, and instead grabbed some fresh fingerling potatoes and yellow baby…
Jack in the Box, home of good curly fries and notoriously bad tacos, is opening a new store today at 2020 South Federal Boulevard. Doors open at 9 a.m. with an inaugural fiesta including giveaways. This is the second in a series of new, improved Jacks to pop up in…
The first truck gathering of the season rolled into the parking lot by South High School on Saturday, with dozens of outfits serving everything from chile to tater tots…
Is restaurant service a lost art in Denver? That’s what Laura Shunk asked in a post recounting some of the service problems she’d encountered at Charcoal, the restaurant she recently reviewed. Dozens of readers provided their own answer to that question…
There’s a full schedule of food events this week, including a culinary extravaganza at Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, on Wednesday. Here’s what else is on the menu:…
I’m sure I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating: Brunch is my favorite meal of the week. There’s simply nothing better than pissing away a Sunday afternoon in the company of eggs and bloody Marys — or, in the case of the Village Cork, eggs and foie gras, which…
“We’ve been in Denver almost five years to the day,” says Amy Kempster of her and her husband, Adam Dunbar. And in that time, the pair has made a major impression in the Denver dining scene: Kempster has worked behind the bars at Jonesy’s EatBar, City O’ City and Colt…
The Boulder Farmers’ Market opened for business at 8 a.m. last Saturday, and from the moment the opening gong sounded, 13th Street between Arapahoe and Canyon was thronged. Organizers have no way of providing an exact number, but they estimate that around 8,000 people attended…
In this interview, Courtney Wilson, bar manager at Williams & Graham and president-elect of the board of the Colorado Bartenders Guild, weighs in on what she’d like to see next for the guild, the drink that makes her forget her aversion to vodka and what she drank when she partied…
Those of you who live in Platte Park or Washington Park can spend your weekend thanking the god of breadheads: Buffalo Doughboy Bakery, one of the most amazing bakeries in Denver, is shuttering it current location at 33 East Dakota Avenue after service on Sunday and relocating to the former…
Denver’s Del Norte Brewing debuted a new beer, El Guapo, last night at all 25 Old Chicago locations in Colorado. The 5.6 percent ABV beer is a hoppier answer to Bohemia, the Czech-style Mexican pilsner, says Del Norte co-owner Joe Fox. “We were looking through our portfolio and we didn’t…
Charcoal, I noted in my review this week, has a service problem. The front-of-house team is generally a good-natured bunch of people. They’re friendly, they’re eager, and they seem to want their guests to have a good time. But they missed the boat when they ignored the small details, which…
Happy Place: Paris on the Platte Café and Bar, 1553 Platte Street, 303-455-2451. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $3 draft beers and well drinks; $5 wines by the glass; $1 off all appetizers. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
