When Carolyn Aloisi Magro was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2005, her daughter, Barbara Magro, noticed that one of the first things she was forgetting was how to cook. Her mother had always been in charge of family meals, and now her recipes were in danger of being lost. So Magro…
“Here’s the thing,” confides veteran journalist Dick Kreck, “the family is not crazy about the new Gaetano’s.” One family’s opinion of this Italian institution might not matter, but we’re not talking just any family, here. We’re talking The Family, as in descendants of the Smaldones who founded the restaurant in…
Thanksgiving is a day that gives us food for thought and time to reflect on the things for which we’re thankful — our health, our friends, our kids, our jobs and dogs, wine, and the family master baster whose glossy golden turkey supplied leftovers for the next week. And this…
This week Gretchen Kurtz reviews Gaetano’s, a 65-year-old Italian joint in northwest Denver that just had a facelift of both its building and its menu. This is one of the last red-sauce joints left in that neighborhood, where both Pagliacci’s and Longo’s Subway Tavern shuttered over the past few months…
I can only imagine what Chauncey Smaldone, the youngest of the loan-sharking, book-making Smaldone brothers, would’ve said when Lou’s Food Bar hung out its shingle down the street. For decades, Smaldone ran Gaetano’s, a cherished Italian-American restaurant that his family founded in 1947, and he no doubt would’ve seen Lou’s…
Williams & Graham just celebrated its first birthday. And although the new take on an old-style speakeasy at 3160 Tejon Street hit some bumps on the road to opening — including a liquor-license snafu — the path has been clear since it opened last November. In fact, the place is…
Jerry Feld bought his bar at 404 Broadway before he was even old enough to have a liquor license; for the first year, it was in his uncle’s name. Feld went on to run Club 404 for sixty years, creating generations of fans. But once he hit eighty, he was…
It’s incredibly difficult to do justice to the thousands of remarkable cookbooks published in 2012, but after spending days — weeks — roaming through the recipes and lush food porn of hundreds of them, I’ve picked out my favorites. These are the cookbooks that stock my selves at home, and…
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. “In the days…
Check back tomorrow to see another round of our favorite Chef and Tell quotes. Thanksgiving is a day that gives us food for thought and time to reflect on the things for which we’re thankful – our health, our friends, our kids, our jobs and dogs, wine, and the family…
Why is it so hard to get your eggs “soft-scrambled” in this city, especially at a joint where breakfast is the main meal of the day? Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into…
There are many things that are better in threes — including pizza shops. And now Denver-born Sexy Pizza is looking to add a third store to its current two for a Sexy Pizza threesome. See also: -Sexy Pizza gives pot-positive police a slice of the action -Sexy Pizza’s sexy facelift…
The original location of Heidi’s Brooklyn Deli closes at 3 p.m. today, vacating the century-old building at 3130 Lowell Boulevard where it opened back in 1996. Owners Heidi and Steve Naples blame the closing on a dispute with the landlord; they say they’re looking for another spot in the neighborhood…
Middle Eastern restaurants are nothing new in Denver. A trek down Colorado Boulevard teases with a multitude of small, family-run Mid-East feast houses tucked into strip malls; the asphalt that’s Colfax pimps a few, too; and Aurora, where international restaurants dot the corners of every block, has its share of…
We have a ritual on Thanksgiving that includes a stop at the zoo, followed by an all-American breakfast before we head to my mom’s house later in the day for the real feast. Apparently, everyone else had the same idea that we did, because the zoo was packed and there…
After ten minutes in the kitchen, surrounded by mounds of meatballs, I finally broke the silence: “Who’s got meatball jokes?” I asked. Jensen Cummings stopped me. “No, we’re not going to do that. We’re not going to be the guys that tell the bad ball jokes,” he declared. Cummings (also…
The coffee alone makes Crema worth a stop — which is both good and bad news for this city’s vegans, because if you stop for the coffee, you won’t be able to get any Beet Box vegan baked goods. The coffeeshop recently stopped carrying Beet Box products and instead is…
News that the Burnsley Hotel would be closing next month hit some people hard. Although the European-boutique-style accommodations (all suites) were a hit with out-of-towners, locals appreciated the hideaway dining room and the lounge with its generous happy hour. But two weeks from now, that deal will dry up when…
Panzano, the restaurant at the Hotel Monaco, has always had a great bar and dining room complete with chef’s counter, but it never had many private dining options, beyond a small room in back where it could seat up to fourteen guests. So when the boutique next door to Panzano…
According to a receptionist at the premises, The Burnsley Hotel will be closing next month. This weekend 9News reported that the Burnsley Hotel will be closing December 13. The building has been purchased by RedPeak Management, which plans to convert the seventeen-story hotel into apartments or condos. See also: -…
A new restaurant is coming to Cherry Creek: La Piccola Venezia has a liquor-license hearing today for its space at 250 Steele Street, right above Ondo’s Spanish Tapas Bar and Big Easy. See also: -Reader: Look around Cherry Creek — new independent spots are opening -Big Easy Creole Kitchen is…
Cafe Society posted four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a glass of barracuda punch from the new, aptly named Punch Bowl Social, to lamb kabobs from the recently opened Cafe Byblos to a plate of enchiladas smothered with verde and squiggled with crema from an Aurora taqueria…
