A long time ago, there was a Denver chicken joint called Okoboji Inn that was justifiably saluted for its broasted chicken, a method that combines high pressure cooking with deep frying. Okoboji is long gone, but broasted chicken is still alive and clucking, although you’ll have to head to the…
Pete List Beatrice & Woodsley 38 South Broadway 303-777-3505 www.beatriceandwoodsley.com This is part two of my interview with Pete List, exec chef of Beatrice & Woodsley. Part one of that chat ran yesterday. How do you go about conceptualizing and developing new menus? When I write a menu, I focus…
The restaurant industry is softening, according to the National Restaurant Association. But you wouldn’t know that from all the activity on the Denver dining scene, including two important openings –Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar and Wild Catch — at the very end of August, as well as the closing…
After two years in the works, Celebrity Lanes, the 50,000 square-foot family entertainment venue that’s something of an homage to the legendary Celebrity Sports Center, opened last weekend in Centennial. The facility sports 32 bowling lanes as well as two, four-lane VIP Suites with Avalanche and Denver Nuggets themes, the…
The news that the Spicy Pickle outpost near the University of Denver has closed came as no big surprise to readers. Fact is, many sandwich lovers think the spice went out of the Spicy Pickle long ago. EPL, for example: Bring back the Boars Head meats and maybe your shops…
When the fish meets the land, you have Wild Catch, Justin Brunson’s urbanized house party celebrating sustainable sea creatures that opened this week in the former Tastes Wine Bar space at 1033 East 17th Avenue. Brunson’s food — pure, clean, confident and ingredient-driven — already has major buzz (on Sunday…
That signless, faceless University Boulevard restaurant space was, until recently, occupied by an outpost of the Spicy Pickle, a Denver-based chain of sandwich shops that first opened in 1999 and has since expanded across the state and the country. But this University of Denver location has shuttered, and it’s not…
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. While Pete and…
I headed to the hills last weekend for an eating odyssey that meandered through Glenwood Springs, Basalt and Carbondale, all of which have burgeoning dining climates, but the best dish I had may very well have been the macaroni and cheese with spring onions, jalapeños and ropes of pulled pork…
Pete List Beatrice & Woodsley 38 South Broadway 303-777-3505 www.beatriceandwoodsley.com “If I could get away with putting shit on a shingle, I would.” Pete List, the executive chef of Beatrice & Woodsley, is reminiscing about growing up in a family of formidable home cooks, who had no qualms about serving…
Denver Restaurant Week won’t have a week in August in 2012. That’s the word from Visit Denver, the convention and visitors’ bureau that sponsors the event and held a meeting on July 14 to discuss the future form of the eating orgy that offers $52.80 (for two) meal deals during…
Funkwerks, a funky brewery in Fort Collins, almost created an international incident when it named a beer Maori King, prompting complaints from the Maori natives in New Zealand — complaints reported around the world. That inspired this from Jon S: So I’m more interested in how the Maori found out…
In the nearly two decades since it first debuted on East Evans Avenue in Denver, Chipotle has run dozens of successful and creative advertising campaigns, reinventing radio spots, billboards and the very idea of word-of-mouth marketing. Now the company has made a movie — a very short movie — in…
We’re fairly short on New York-style delis in the Mile High City, and if your inclination was to head downtown to Mendelson’s Deli every time you were craving a bite of the Big Apple, you’re going to have to find an alternative…
Labor Day weekend is approaching, and we’ll bet a few of you are planning to head for the hills to enjoy an extra day of sunshine. And if you’ve lived in Colorado for any amount of time, then you already know about Beau Jo’s. Between the original location in Idaho…
Season two of The Great Food Truck Race, which rolled into Denver in May, is currently airing on the Food Network, and on Sunday night, the Denver episode took center stage, spotlighting a slew of local food trucks, recognizable landmarks and markets and familiar faces, including the Steuben’s truck, Marczyk…
Just a few months after chef Jared Brant opened Satchel’s on 6th, he had a parting of ways with owner Andrew Casalini, who replaced Brant with Kurt Boucher, a veteran chef (and former Iron Chef America contestant) who had spent fifteen years behind the line at the Pine Creek Cookhouse,…
One taquito, two taquitos, three taquitos, four…. 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 pool — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll receive a 2011 EatDenver dining deck, worth…
Doesn’t look like Jason Sheehan taught Seattle much during his brief time in the Pacific Northwest. Because while the Seattle Times did score with a few suggestions on where football fans could eat in this new Pac-12 town — the Kitchen, Flagstaff House, West End Tavern — it also fumbled…
Wait, Laura, which one is it?” There were two tamale joints at the intersection of Mississippi and Sheridan. Making a hopeful guess, Rob pulled into the full parking lot of the one on the right, a trim building with a clean facade. A smiling family was wandering up to the…
During my many trips to Tamales Moreno, I couldn’t help but wonder about all the crowds packing into Tamale Kitchen right across the street. What was I missing? One day last week, I decided to find out. It was lunchtime, and the boxy building was, as usual, packed with people:…
For the past seventeen years, Westword has paid tribute to Denver’s celebrated dining scene with its annual Dish soiree, a culinary celebration of the city’s best bites, sips and sounds. This year’s Dish, slated for Friday, September 9, at Ninth Avenue Historic Park, promises to be bigger and better than…
