Earlier this week, Mark Dym got the good news: His sensational Neapolitan pies, snatched from the blistering wood-burning ovens inside the open kitchen of Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria, 2129 Larimer Street, had just landed in a top ten pizza parlors in America list, sharing space with cult pizzerias like Pizzeria Bianco…
The pizzas get most of the accolades, but the pastas, in particular, the one in the above snap tarped with prosciutto and garnished with shards of fresh basil, deserve their own wall of fame. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Brad Birky, chef/owner of the SAME Cafe. To read part one of this interview, click here. Greatest accomplishment as a chef: Starting SAME Cafe with really no kitchen experience to speak of. True, I managed to get some culinary classes under…
Is regular yogurt the new frozen yogurt? Or perhaps ethnic regular yogurt is the new regular yogurt? With Boulder-based investment company Revelry Brands’ acquisition of a minority stake in Siggi’s Icelandic-style yogurt, Colorado companies now have a vested interest in the yogurt stylings of two different countries. Bellvue’s Morning Fresh…
Before the Communist takeover of China forced thousands of people to leave their homeland for an island off shore, the Taiwanese had an aversion to eating beef. The ox was a working animal on Taiwan, worthy of reverence for its essential place in daily life and considered sacred by Buddhists…
Asia Like It Danny Wang likes beer. A computer scientist by trade, he started crafting ales at home a couple of years ago, fascinated by the mathematical and chemical processes that characterize brewing. Turns out he was pretty good at it, too. The deeper he went into homebrewing — he…
About a month ago, TIME columnist Josh Ozersky scored some major d-bag points when he wrote a piece in which he threw conventional wedding catering under the bus to wax poetic on the chefs who provided food at his own special day — while conveniently forgetting to mention the fact…
SmartCo is swiftly making its mark on Colorado. Barely two months ago, SmartCo didn’t even have a website. Since then, the supersize, discount supermarket has been taking root — and attracting the interest of dozens of incompetent jobseekers (see comments) — on the Front Range…
I suppose I should take responsibility for stupidly ordering lettuce wraps at a restaurant that’s not a P.F. Chang’s. But the kitchen at this something-for-everyone hangout could certainly benefit from learning how to do them right. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…
Breakfast can be one of the most frustrating meals of the day for a vegetarian. Although many places offer all the sausage, bacon and ham you care to eat, I have yet to find a restaurant in Denver that serves Morningstar sausage patties instead of the carnivore’s version (if you…
Eleven years ago, Wade Kirwan wandered into Vesta Dipping Grill, at 1822 Blake Street, and snagged a gig as a line cook. Just five weeks later, he was elevated to the sous chef position, which was followed by an executive sous chef stint and then five years as executive chef…
Brad Birky SAME Cafe 2023 East Colfax Avenue 720-530-6853 This is part one of Lori Midson’s interview with Brad Birky, executive chef/owner of the SAME Cafe. You can read part two of this interview right back here tomorrow. It’s 3 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon, an hour after closing time,…
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. Throughout the rest…
Organixx will start serving beer and wine at its eco-friendly digs in LoDo, and as soon as that’s in place, the restaurant, located at 1520 Blake Street, will launch dinner service — with an expanded menu — and happy hour, too. “Originally, our plan was mid-July, but now we’re thinking…
Just heard from Robert Thompson, owner of Argyll, the Cherry Creek gastropub that snapped up our Best of Denver 2010 Best New Restaurant award, that he got a call from the brass at the Food Network, who’s sending a film crew to Denver in August or September to shoot the…
We interrupt today’s regularly scheduled programming to bring you … the deranged, acid-tripping kitties of Quizno’s. It seriously doesn’t get any more freakishly bizarre than this, folks…
2 Girls 1 Cup may be the most notorious internet porn video of this generation, portraying two girls doing hideously disgusting things with one cup and some unsavory bodily functions. Seriously NSFW (Wikipedia link). Google it in private if you must. So when a Glasgow woman found out that her…
You never know what you might find cruising down East Colfax, but along with hookers, drug dealers and their desperate, drugged out disciples, you can usually count on new restaurant signage. Pisco Sour, a new Peruvian restaurant, bar and club at 8501 East Colfax Avenue, opened in June to good…
Someone in the kitchen is obviously obsessed with squiggles of Mexican crema, but that same person is also dead set on delivering far better than average combo plates, like the one in the above snap, which includes, among other usual suspects, a chicken enchilada and a chimichanga zigzagged with a…
First, Sweet Action Ice Cream expanded its availability locally, and now the progressive ice creamery at 52 Broadway is gaining recognition outside of Colorado for its homemade, organic and seasonally-influenced scoops, including flavors like Colorado peach. The travel website, SmarterTravel.com gave the shop some national exposure over the weekend, in…
What’s with all the sandwiches? 2010 has seen some terrible twists on the lunchtime classic, and with new groundbreaking market bombs lowering the common denominator each week, there’s no end in sight. Craftcans.com recently poked a little fun at the Candwich, pairing the canned sandwiches with canned beers – we…
Before it even officially unveiled them, McDonald’s has already withdrawn this week’s planned giveaway of free smoothie samples. Perhaps you’ll consider a frappé instead?…
