Some of the biggest and boldest national names in food criticism descended on Denver over the weekend to check our city’s culinary scene. Why, you ask? Let’s just say that they were doing research for the James Beard Foundation Awards. Several of those critics tweeted about their experiences at Fruition,…
Holy Super Bowl! Someone in the football universe obviously takes his deli platter damn seriously, as evidenced by this snap, a dazzling stadium display of cold cuts, crudites, chips and cheese squares. The origin of the platter, seemingly large enough to feed every tailgater in Indianapolis, is unknown, but whoever…
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. Seitan is a protein-rich compound made from wheat; it’s easily found in most grocery stores, but making your own is simple and…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a still unidentified bucket of beer at a biker bar to a plate of worthy flour tortillas and salsa at Margs Taco Bistro to a chili dog at a long-standing wiener joint. For correctly identifying that dog as…
Only one more day to submit your tip for surviving Denver Restaurant Week, which runs February 25 through March 9. Tomorrow we’ll pick the best tip left on our original DRW contest post by a diner, as well as the best tip offered by a restaurant employee, and award the…
No. 44: Chimayo-chile flank steak and posole at Village Cork…
When I heard about this bar, I couldn’t wait to see it — and I thought I would love it. But the truth is, I was hoping that the interior and cocktail menu would feel more in tune with its name. Alas, it seems like a mirror of yet another…
I’m not much of a fan of flour tortillas — I’ll order corn 99 percent of the time — but the flour tortillas here, at this joint that makes and presses their own, have given me pause for thought. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Two years ago, Anthony Bourdain dropped in on Denver, where he waxed rhapsodic about the blood sausage at Mizuna and wrapped his jaws around wieners at Biker Jim’s, the footage of which was nicely packaged in an episode of No Reservations. And if the sightings of Bourdain’s film production crew,…
Frank Bonanno is one of the most successful chefs and restaurateurs in Denver, presiding over a commonwealth of food temples (and one speakeasy) that, for the most part, generate positive reviews and comments from professional restaurant critics and amateur key strokers alike. But even the best restaurants make mistakes, and…
Aleece Raw, who’d been in internet marketing since the early 1990s, suddenly found her trajectory shifting a few years ago. “I woke up to food three years ago,” she explains. “My mother and sister are cancer survivors, and I decided to go to natural chef school. I told them, ‘I…
McDonald’s proved this week that the road to public relations hell is paved with good intentions — and hashtags. The company introduced a Twitter hashtag crusade, asking customers to share their happy fee-fees and heartwarmingly poignant stories about dining at McDoo’s, but as with most things that start out with…
In honor of the Chinese new year, we dropped by Alameda Square twice this week, for dim sum at both King’s Land Seafood Restaurant and Super Star Asian. Somehow, both restaurants managed to survive all the disruption created by the construction of a giant Lowe’s store two years ago. And…
Home cooks are rallying at the State Capitol today in support of a bill that would make it legal for bakers and cake-makers to sell their goods directly to consumers. The bill would require certain information to be printed on the products’ labels — and would exclude baked goods of…
If you’re looking to chase away the chill, it’s worth making the pilgrimage to this wiener joint that just introduced its first chili dog — and will soon celebrate its sixth anniversary. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s…
Jasmine Gardens didn’t last long at 1935 Federal Boulevard. That address now belongs to Masa Asian Kitchen, whose spartan space and spare decor gives no hint of the extensive menu…
In honor of the Chinese New Year, we’ve been eating our way through Alameda Square, where there’s always plenty of parking since the Lowe’s store that was supposed to resurrect the area closed in November, after less than two years in business. Amazingly, both Super Star Asian and King’s Land…
Hunter Pritchett Luca d’Italia 711 Grant Street 303-832-6600 www.lucadenver.com This is part two of my interview with Hunter Pritchett, exec chef of Luca d’Italia. Part one of my chat with Pritchett ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I just had an amazing meal at Red Medicine in…
TAG|RAW BAR, Troy Guard’s house of (mostly) raw foodstuffs that are good for your body and soul, is one of the city’s most petite restaurants, but by the start of Denver Restaurant Week(s), Guard and his gang will have doubled the size of the below street level space in the…
One woman’s favorite dumpling is a dish someone else dumps on. In 100 Favorite Dishes, Lori Midson recently raved about the xiao long bao at Lao Wang Noodle House. Those wrappers are too thick, sniffs one critic. Listen to him, pleads another reader:…
A friend once trained under a master sushi chef for a couple of years, and it was mesmerizing to watch her work a knife around a vegetable or piece of fish. She was slow and methodical, paring precisely to shape each element of a dish into a delicate, edible work…
It’s been nearly two years since restaurateur Ed Novak retired, selling the forty-year-old Broker, one of downtown’s last fine-dining bastions, and its only surviving sibling restaurant, the Cork House Wine Restaurant, to Jerry Fritzler, a long-time employee and partner…
