Trios Enoteca, the cavernous wine bar and live jazz venue that’s held a brick-fronted piece of real estate on Wynkoop for nearly fifteen years, has dried up, shuttering last week after a series of closing parties…
The day I interviewed Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, the executive chef of Frasca Food and Wine, for this week’s Chef and Tell powwow, the kitchen crew had just been graced with a bounty of fresh beets, plucked straight from farm earth. The beets, in all their glorious, kaleidoscopic hues, are the platform…
The steak was simply a sidekick, the vegetables a throwaway. It was the baked potato (it’s a phase) that called out to me. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a…
Frank’s Kitchen just celebrated its three-month birthday yesterday, but diners get the present today. The tiny cafe in the Whittier neighborhood — seating for ten, sixteen if it’s not too hot to sit outside — offered a fish fry last Friday that was so popular that Frank’s was out of…
Where do you take a toddler in Denver? Not to the Village at Edgewater, not anymore, not since the “soft play-cafe” closed this summer, after a noble attempt to provide a family-friendly environment. So where do you take a toddler in town? You stay home, suggests Dan5280:…
Cherry Creek knows how to throw a party, and the annual Food & Wine celebration in Cherry Creek North is always a big one. This year’s version includes two days of free culinary classes, a Grand Tasting and more, starting today and running through Saturday, August 20. For all the…
Time flies when you’re having fun, and what fun we’ve had this past year at both Stoney’s Bar and Grill, 1111 Lincoln Street (303-830-6839), and El Diablo, 101 Broadway (303-954-0324), which are launching one-year-anniversary parties tonight. El Diablo’s runs through Saturday, August 20, and will feature tequila toasts, music and…
The first time I ate at Jai Ho for this week’s cafe review, I spent several minutes staring at the menu. It was unlike any I’d ever seen: incredibly amusing yet borderline useless, with descriptions that made me laugh out loud and gave little help in determining what I’d be…
We’re equal opportunity in our love for Indian food, favoring specialties from both the north and the south, and marveling at the way chefs from all over the country blend spices into complexly layered stews. And here in Denver, we’re always on the hunt for spots that stand out from…
Jon Forget, the general manager of the British Bulldog, and Mark Berzins, owner of the Little Pub Company, which comprises nineteen joints in and around Denver, including the Bulldog, just opened Three Lions in the former Bank Bar & Grill at 2239 East Colfax Avenue. Three Lions is billing itself…
Just under four weeks ago, the old Graystone Castle overlooking I-25 reopened as a Doubletree Hotel by Hilton. And besides giving the place a makeover and a name change, the new owners also brought in a new restaurant: Radius Bar and Grill opened on the same day as the hotel…
“Nine years ago,” says Liz Thorpe, “when no one cared about cheese, we started selling cheese at Murray’s, a small cheese shop in New York, and thanks to some amazing people with a genuine love and passion for cheese, we’ve become one of the best cheese shops in the country.”…
Fatty and luxurious, ankimo — or monkfish liver — is the foie gras of the fish world, and if you’re curious to know what I’d like my last meal on earth to be, monkfish liver would be at the top of my list, right along with foie gras. Can you…
Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson Frasca Food and Wine 1738 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-442-6966 www.frascafoodandwine.com This is part two of my interview with Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, co-owner and executive chef of Frasca Food and Wine. Part one of my chat with Mackinnon-Patterson ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Mozza in Los…
For five years, SAME Cafe has been doing good. And now its good works have been rewarded, again: The Restaurant Facility Management Association has made it the recipient of the RFMA Gives Program for 2012. Founded by Brad and Libby Birky in October 2006, SAME was the first restaurant in…
Do we cover Boulder too often? Not often enough? Too gently? Not harshly enough? Ellen’s suggestion that Cafe Society needs to take a more contemporary approach to Boulder inspired this response from chuckroast: For Ellen’s sake, instead of calling Boulderites the “Granola Set,” just call them “Humorless Assholes.”…
Telluride is famous with mycologists around the world — and all because of the Shroomfest, which runs from today through Sunday, August 21. The annual event features workshops, panels, lectures, movies, cooking demonstrations, forays and much more. For complete details, visit www.shroomfest.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around…
If you look at a bottle of Maker’s Mark bourbon, you’ll note that the company spells the word “whisky” without the “e.” That’s a tribute to the history that the Samuels family, who founded Maker’s in the 1950s, has with distilling. Rob Samuels says his ancestors were making Scotch in…
No. 58: Gazpacho verde from Zolo Grill…
This week’s review took me to Jai Ho, a restaurant in Aurora that succeeded in its goal of filling a particular gap in Denver’s Indian food options. The spot offers many southern Indian specialties, all of which are fantastic — which is a good thing, since the menu doesn’t offer…
What?!? But it’s only August, right? Sure, it’s August now, but school starts this week, and before you know it, it will be Labor Day weekend, and Sniagrab will kick off at Sports Authority. Then football will be here, along with a chill in the air as our tomato plants…
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. Guess what arrived…
