Denver has not one, but two contestants on Bravo’s tenth season of Top Chef, which was filmed in Seattle and will start airing in November. The lineupincludes Jorel Pierce, the exec chef of Euclid Hall, and Tyler Wiard of Elway’s. And yes, there’s a third Colorado chef, Eliza Gavin of…
Amuse-bouches, those tiny morsels of goodness offered by a chef to kick-start a meal, can be made of nearly anything — salmon tartare, cucumber gazpacho, asparagus mousse, etc. What they have in common is size (small) and design (creative). But what about an overstuffed sausage-and-cheese burrito or a messy smoked…
Forbes just published a list of America’s 10 Best Hot Dogs — with some help from startle.com — and Biker Jim’s makes the list. Not only makes the list, but kicks it off — although the top ten are unranked. Here’s the rave: See also: -Biker Jim on where he’d…
Smart Balance has been busy since it purchased Udi’s Gluten-Free Foods, a spinoff of Udi’s Healthy Foods, a Colorado company that got its start baking bread, for $125 million this summer. Today it will launch five new Udi’s items at the Natural Products Expo East in Baltimore, the country’s premier…
The glass is empty at both Colorado Wine Loft locations: 1527 Wazee Street and 7600 Landmark Way. The Louisiana-based chain first uncorked in LoDo in 2008, with another outpost following soon afterwards in the Landmark project. See also: -The Wine Loft uncorks on Wazee, Cru in Park Meadows -The Wine…
You’ve heard them pitching their products on the radio and you’ve seen them on VT: former Denver Broncos and their branded sauces and condiments. Now the company that runs the concession stands at Sports Authority Field at Mile High has brought them all together at Legends Grill, a brilliant new…
The residents of Boulder have spoken: They want their cheese and wine. And a year after Cured opened in that town, it’s now expanded its schedule to seven days a week. “We hit that one-year mark which was pretty excited, and we realized we got the store where we don’t…
Duncan Smith Dazzle 930 Lincoln Street 303-839-5100 www.dazzlejazz.com Part one of my interview with Duncan Smith, exec chef of Dazzle, ran yesterday; this is part two of our conversation. Rules of conduct in your kitchen: They’re really quite simple. First, show up clean and ready to work before your shift…
This is the sixth in a series of pieces profiling Colorado-grown products…and what some local restaurants do with them. Is there an ingredient that makes Colorado chefs salivate quite so much as Munson Farms corn? They simmer it into chowders. They bake it into biscuits. They sprinkle kernels, raw, over…
When Stella Cordova passed away three years ago, did she take her green chile recipe with her? That’s what one reader thinks, and another suggest thats no matter which member of the Cordova family is making the green chile, no matter where he or she might be making it, the…
James Mazzio isn’t a new kid on the block. A Food & Wine Best New Chef recipient, he’s been earning his keep in the restaurant business since long before some chefs in town were born. After climbing his way up the proverbial pot rack, he landed at Boulder’s now-defunct 15…
Jesse Morreale has spent much of the summer in meetings with the city, which on July 10 slapped a “notice to vacate” on his First Avenue Hotel – which holds Sketch and El Diablo, as well as Morreale’s offices. And those meetings aren’t over yet. But his next meeting with…
Hooked on Colfax — the popular and eclectic coffee shop at 3213 East Colfax Avenue — has been jonesing for more room, and with the recent expansion into the space next door, the cups (and cocktails) are flowing freely. Here’s a look at the makeover: See also: -A big expansion…
I’m on my way to the Big Apple for a few days to cover the FIVE dinner at the James Beard House, where Denver chefs Samir Mohammad, Hosea Rosenberg, Jenna Johansen, Jessica Scott and Tyler Wiard will be cooking — but the NYC culinary cognoscenti won’t be getting cheeseburgers. And…
Denver has not one, but two contestants on Bravo’s tenth season of Top Chef. The lineup, just announced this morning, includes Jorel Pierce, the exec chef of Euclid Hall, and Tyler Wiard of Elway’s. See also: –Euclid Hall’s Jorel Pierce on the egg man, life without salt and f*cking up…
Duncan Smith Dazzle 930 Lincoln Street 303-839-5100 www.dazzlejazz.com This is part on of my interview with Duncan Smith, exec chef of Dazzle. Part two of our conversation will run in this space tomorrow. Here’s what you’ll find in Duncan Smith’s refrigerator at home: a six-pack of beer, several types of…
Yesterday Lori Midson served up a picture of some abysmal fried calamari, which a reader quickly pegged as coming from Odyssey Italian Bistro. But it could have come from so many other places that treat calamari just as abysmally…
The Vargas family is officially opening their second Zocalo Restaurant and Bar today — three miles south of the original Zocalo . Although this new location is currently semi-blocked by the South Broadway construction project, that’s scheduled for completion at the end of October — and in the meantime, the…
Remember how your mother told you to keep your damn mouth shut if you didn’t have anything nice to say? It’s been a while since I put those words of advice into play, but I’m doing so here. Oh, screw it: This is some of the worst fried calamari I’ve…
Here’s a little tidbit about Dylan Moore, the exec chef-owner of Deluxe and Delite that you likely didn’t know: Throughout high school, Moore cooked — and served — at the long-defunct Juanita’s in Uptown, as well as Juanita’s in Boulder, which stood for nearly thirty years on the Pearl Street…
Wurstküche, a company that runs exotic sausage restaurants in downtown Los Angeles and in Venice Beach, has taken over the building at 2036 Broadway that most recently housed Rockaway Tavern (and was the Triangle for decades before that). But don’t fire up the grill just yet. See also: – Besides…
Beware: Even the medium-heat pad Thai at US Thai Cafe is hot enough to leave a substantial tingle on your lips. But between the tofu ladna and many other menu items that can be made vegetarian and vegan, there are also options for those who don’t like it hot –…
