You could be surprised by who’s at your service tonight at Celebrity Server Night at Maggiano’s Little Italy, 500 16th Street. If you purchase a table for ten, you can choose your celebrity server — but if you buy tickets for a smaller group or an individual dinner ticket, you’ll…
For obvious reasons, most of my meals are eaten out. Almost all of them involve me getting up off my indolent backside, putting on trousers, finding my sunglasses, grudgingly leaving the care of my mountain compound to the hundred monkey butlers I employ, finding my way to my autogyro and…
The Tilted Kilt, a sports-bar chain popular enough to publish its own calendar, will start a new page the first week of November in Denver, when its latest location — in the former ESPN Zone in the Tabor Center — is now slated to open…
I love an ice-cold Manhattan almost anywhere, but the drink’s particularly delightful at this fine dining establishment in Denver — where the chef is smokin’ hot, and the bartender is adorable. Can you guess where I’m drinking?…
Patsy’s has been promising pizza for almost a year now. When the venerable red-sauce joint at 3651 Navajo Street was sold last fall to Kim DeLancey and Ron Cito (second cousin of founder Chubby Aiello), one of the managers there told me that pizza — a return to something that…
The Taste of Greenwood Village kicks off at 5 p.m. tonight at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center, 7800 East Tufts Avenue, with 32 restaurants, more than 30 wineries and a silent auction to benefit the Beacon Center, a Denver child-advocacy nonprofit. Ticket prices range from $50, which includes food samples…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Sean Kelly, exec chef of LoHi SteakBar. You can read part one of Midson’s interview with Kelly here. Ten words to describe you: Husband, father, cook, dedicated, extreme, blessed, impossible, critical, introspective and obsessive. Best food city in America: I adore…
The sandwiches: Benny Mac and Persian Chicken Sandwich What’s on them: The Benny Mac is a breaded chicken cutlet, with mac-n-cheese, bacon and BBQ sauce; the Persian chicken is spiced chicken meatballs, mild roasted green chiles, lettuce and tomato, harissa and tahini. Where to get them: Sputnik (3 South Broadway,…
It’s been a while since I’ve found a formerly untrodden (at least by me) taqueria that showed promise, but that changed yesterday when I stumbled across this upbeat taco shack in Aurora. It was out of horchata, but had an ample supply of Mexican coke in the bottle, jarritos and…
At 6:06 p.m. last night, my phone rang. It was my kid — distraught, in real tears and as pissed off as your kid would be if Santa Claus showed up at your house dressed like Barney or, worse, a Teletubbie. “It’s closed!” he wailed, in between heaves and sniffles…
Sushi Hai, at 3600 West 32nd Avenue, celebrates its fifth anniversary tonight starting at 7 p.m., with half-off on sushi and drinks. The Scott Davis Project will be playing acoustic blues in the downstairs Hai Bar — a space guarded by an off-duty cop this past weekend. It was an…
Put your money where your mouth is tonight at the annual Simmer & Stir for the Cure, which runs from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Kimball Distributing, 1400 West Third Avenue. The $30 ticket gets you in the door for chef demonstrations, wine tastings and more; all proceeds will…
I was out eating when I heard that my father had died. Drinking, actually. But the place where I was — standing on a patio in a warm rain at ten o’clock at night, surrounded by new friends, a stiff whiskey in my hand — served food, too, and nothing…
Dave Query and I have not always seen eye to eye. Actually, for a long time, Query (boss of the Big Red F restaurant group, which owns Jax, Lola and the West End Tavern, among other properties) just flat hated my punk ass. And I was none too fond of…
I had a rough time of it when last I found myself under chef Chad Clevenger’s care at Mel’s Restaurant in Greenwood Village. But my experience was nothing compared to how Clevenger and his crew must’ve felt once my review of the restaurant came out. Still, I have to give…
Jonesy’s EatBar has some great fries. The mac-and-cheese fries in particular, served with a nice sprinkling of bacon on top. At the moment, they are probably my favorite fries in the city. The picture above? It shows my second favorite fries in the city — smothered with green chile, topped…
There are wine dinners…and there are wine dinners, like the one tonight at Restaurant 1515, Gene Tang’s experimental restaurant at 1515 Market Street that’s apparently the only restaurant in Denver approved by the health department to legally practice sous-vide cooking…
“Nothing that goes on my menus gets there by accident,” insists Sean Kelly, executive chef of LoHi SteakBar, the packed-to-the-rafters restaurant and watering hole that opened in June in Highland. “I have a tendency to make sure that everything is researched, and I try to be as true as possible…
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. This is the…
So far as I know, there’s exactly one restaurant in the state whose entire menu is devoted to food from Sri Lanka. It’s a cuisine that’s heavily influenced by Portuguese and Dutch colonies, and somewhat similar to Indian culinary traditions — except that where Indians cook with ghee and yogurt,…
Head over to Robert Thompson’s Argyll GastroPub, 2700 East Third Avenue, at 7 p.m. tonight for a five-course wine dinner featuring an array of truly decadent dishes paired with the perfect wines. Menu items include Goose Point oysters, a peach-and-goat-cheese tart, smoked trout, autumn salad, monkfish, lamb chops and a…
Of all the entrees, only one was even vaguely edible: a piece of swordfish, nicely cooked, napped with a chive crème fraiche – and mounted on a ratatouille that was like mush and bled oil like it’d been knifed on its way out of the kitchen. But still, somewhere in…
