Food & Drink

In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, Kevin Taylor, who now runs six restaurants in Colorado, including his namesake temple of gastronomy in the Hotel Teatro, reveals that his last meal on earth would be “foie gras, roast chicken and chocolate while looking out over the view of Paris.” I’m…

Denver could certainly use a few more good barbecue options, and we may get one more soon: One Republic’s Ryan Tedder has just become a franchisee of New York-based Southern Hospitality BBQ, which dishes up Memphis-style ‘cue. And Denver, where the singer is based, is on his list of cities…

For the past seventeen years, Westword has paid tribute to Denver’s celebrated dining scene with its annual Dish soiree, a culinary blowout of the city’s best bites, sips and sounds. This year, Dish will be bigger and better than ever — and at a new venue: Ninth Avenue Historic Park…

“It’s all about the rotisserie,” claims Bob Van Diest, a broker associate married to a Peruvian woman who, along with their sons, Ryan and Jason, will soon open La Polleria, a Peruvian-style chicken shop at 7422 South University, in Centennial…

Just over a year ago, when I interviewed Mike Delmonico about his new beer and doughnut house on Tennyson Street, I asked him if he was concerned about what he’d named the joint: He was calling it The Hole, which, frankly, struck me as the worst name ever for a…

Jesse Morreale’s plans to emphasize burgers and the Broncos at Rockbar, with longtime Borolo Grill chef Brian Laird in that huge hotel kitchen behind and below the dive bar, got a major grilling from readers. Wrote ByeByeBirdie: I met my wife at Rockbar. It was a blind date, so to…

Cebiche, the Peruvian restaurant that opened last Saturday at 7000 West 38th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, does not have the same ownership as the Peruvian restaurant also named Cebiche that reopened on West 32nd Avenue a few months ago. Sergio Iraola, the chef/owner of the West 38th Avenue Cebiche, once…

Late yesterday afternoon, the opening crew of Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, Robert Thompson’s new French restaurant at 1512 Curtis Street, assembled in the kitchen to get a taste of executive chef Sergio Romero’s menu, which Thompson calls “everyday French comfort food.” Le Grand, he says, “is not trying…

A lot of you Cafe Society readers have declared mad love for the joint where the above snap was shot. I can only assume that you never order the Tampiqueña, the flesh of which was strikingly close to the color of an elephant, which is say, it was very, very…

Kevin Taylor Restaurant Kevin Taylor at the Hotel Teatro 1106 14th Street 303-820-2600 www.ktrg.net This is part two of my interview with Kevin Taylor, executive chef of Restaurant Kevin Taylor, Prima Ristorante, Limelight, Kevin Taylor’s at the Opera House, Palettes at the Denver Art Museum, and Rouge, in the Teller…

Steve Horner, the anti-ladies’ night crusader who gave Denver bars fits a few years ago when he complained about their deals for women, has moved on to Las Vegas, where he’s filed complaints against six casinos, arguing that their free pool party offers for women are discriminatory. A new law…

Instead of making food to pair with a specific beer, why not make a beer that pairs with a specific food? That was a question Peter Reinhart posed when he was filming Boulder’s Pizzeria Basta for Pizza Quest, his pizza blog. Patrick Rue, master brewer at The Bruery, happened to…

Cafe Society had people talking, and squawking, yesterday, about everything from Rockbar’s new plans to Sean Kenyon’s mezcal-tasting trip to the Pinyon’s commitment to local ingredients to how to get the best service at wine shops. But one comment in particular stood out, for both for its erudition and its…

Boulder seems close to saturated with Italian restaurants, but someone in the market thinks there’s room for another entrant: a new eatery called Tossa is currently being built in the Arapahoe Village Shopping Center. The 56-seat space has just had its building permits approved and has applied for a hotel-restaurant…