Cafe Society served up four Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a plate of gnocchi from Seven 30 South, which has an extremely loyal base of regulars, including one couple who ate there 450 times in 2011, to an exquisite lamb dish at Burmese Superstar in San Francisco to…
Seventeen meals in four days, excluding bakery stops; 26 miles of walking (give or take), plus an additional 4.3 miles of exhibition halls clustered with more than 80,000 specialty foods and beverages from nearly forty countries. Artisan cheeses and charcuterie; beans that don’t make you fart; bacon beer that probably…
Bringing a food truck to the National Western Stock Show is no Wok in the Park. That’s because when Aramark, which handles food/beverage concessions at the Denver Coliseum, decided to add food trucks, including Biker Jim’s, to its side of the Stock Show, right under the I-70 viaduct, it changed…
Less than a year after opening, the Brauns on Blake sports bar has closed at 2401 Blake Street. The spot was Brauns’s second location. The first — and most well-known — Braun’s on Auraria Parkway closed last summer after the Pepsi Center, which owned the building where Brauns Bar and…
I’ll admit it: I’m stuck in the past, using a crockpot to cook meals. And I learned at chef Lynda Lacher’s One Pot Cooking Class at Cherry Creek Whole Foods last night that I am guilty of many crockpot sins, the worst of which is not using a pressure cooker…
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. Super Bowl Sunday…
I tend to go to this neighborhood restaurant three or four times a year, but when I stopped in for lunch yesterday, the owner, who once presided over one of the most (inexplicably) popular restaurants in Denver, revealed that one Denver couple — and their teenage daughter — ate here…
Shelby Grebenc wakes up at 6:15 each morning to give the chickens on her Broomfield farm food and water, and to collect and wash the hens’ eggs. Shelby isn’t a typical farmer whose work feeds and supports her family, though: She’s a twelve-year-old who simply loves farming and chickens. And…
Unless you’ve been trekking in the Himalayas this week, you’ve undoubtedly heard all about celebrity chef Paula Deen’s admission that she has Type 2 diabetes. Deen is known for her signature deep-South-deep-fried-deeply-buttered cuisine, and the criticism of her condition/food/pimping diabetes drugs is almost as painful as the day after eating…
Campagna has closed for “remodeling,” leaving a gap on an otherwise hot restaurant strip. But this spot at 1120 East Sixth Avenue has been dark before; it’s been revamped more times than Joan Rivers. It was the home of the legendary Dudley’s, then became Chives. But after Blair Taylor closed…
Work Options for Women, a local — and laudable — non-profit that enables impoverished women to work in the food service industry by giving them hands-on job training, is always cooking up new ways for chefs and foodniks in the community to become involved, and beginning in February, WOW will…
A few hours after lunch, students across America start to get cranky. Their blood sugar plunges, their eyes glaze over, and their stomachs start to rumble. They find a quick fix in the school’s vending machines by gorging themselves on greasy potato chips and sugary sodas. Energy levels skyrocket before…
JoeAnn and John Falco took on the stunning Brittany Hill property in Thornton over two years ago, planning to restore the space that was once a landmark restaurant and open an eatery/special events center there. They got to work on upgrades, but the spot never reopened — and at the…
The address on Sixth Avenue and Downing that’s home to Campagna is one of Denver’s cursed locations, losing a slew of restaurants over the course of the last few decades. Owner Alex Gurevich is determined to make it work, though — even if that means ditching his salumeria and pizzeria…
I just got back from the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, which pimped, among other indisputably un-fancy weird shit, clam chowder (from a can) pizza and bacon lube (more on those later this afternoon), but I also hit several restaurants (three in an hour, plus a bakery, which may…
David Bumgardner Williams & Graham 3160 Tejon Street 303-997-8886 www.williamsandgraham.com This is part two of my interview with David Bumgardner, exec chef of Williams & Graham. Part one of my chat with Bumgardner ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I don’t get around much, but when I lived in Cleveland,…
The NuVal system now in use at King Soopers is supposed to be “nutrition made easy,” rating foods on a scale of 1 to 100. “Basically, the way scores are calculated, we look at thirty different nutrients — both that are considered good and not so good — to get…
They better widen Highway 36. Trader Joe’s could possibly, maybe, potentially be coming, finally, to Colorado — but in Boulder, rather than Denver or its suburbs, according to a story this afternoon in the Daily Camera. Here’s a piece of it: “A source close to the situation said the California…
It’s been just over a month since Bryan Dayton and Steve Redzikowski reopened the doors of Oak at Fourteenth, revealing the space they had to rebuild after fire destroyed the original restaurant last spring. “Things have been going really well,” Dayton says. “I mean, really well. It seems like everything…
It’s always onward and upward for Josh Wolkon, the restaurateur who brought this city Vesta Dipping Grill, Steuben’s and the Steuben’s Food Truck (better known as “Pearl”) with the help of his wife, Jen, and other cohorts, including Matt Selby, Brandon and Emily Biederman, and Jeff Bustos. Now Wolkon has…
Our Backbeat blog just reported a trio of bar closings. Mo’s has gone dark at 1037 Broadway after two-plus years. “It’s been a long run and something new is always on the horizon,” reads the Mo’s Facebook page. “Change is good and we want to thank all those that have…
David Bumgardner Williams & Graham 3160 Tejon Street 303-997-8886 www.williamsandgraham.com This is part one of my interview with David Bumgardner, exec chef of Williams & Graham. Part two of my chat with Bumgradner will run in this space tomorrow. The executive chef of Williams & Graham is leaning over the…
