The last time I was at this Middle Eastern restaurant, I left shrugging my shoulders, and while a return visit didn’t convince me that I’d struck gold, the food was far better than the first time around, and the server — just one guy overseeing the whole house — was…
Need an appetizer to impress some guests — or just to tickle your own tastebuds? This vegan Thai-style coconut soup (adapted from a recipe in Forks Over Knives: The Cookbook) is smooth, complex and satisfying. You can buy mung bean sprouts at the store, or sprout them yourself — but…
Twenty-five years ago, Noel Cunningham, along with Pat Miller, the “Gabby Gourmet”, launched Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation, a nonprofit childhood hunger relief organization that Cunningham, the former owner/chef of Strings, worked tirelessly to grow and advocate. It soon blossomed into an annual event, where dozens of the…
A poet could compose endless lines about the pleasures of eating, and infinitely more about being in love, but a sonnet could never quite capture what it’s like to experience both in an instant. It’s hard to describe how it feels to look someone in the eye during a meal…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a still-unidentified sub-par sub sandwich to a divine dessert platter at Bocadllo to a plate of carne adovada from a long-standing suburban Mexican joint…
Today was the original deadline for Jesse Morreale to make required repairs to the First Avenue Hotel in order to keep it open — a deadline set by the Board of Appeals on July 30, twenty days after the city had slapped the building with a notice to vacate, resulting…
The Denver dining scene saw plenty of action in September — much of it in the 900 block of Lincoln Street, where Japoix finally gave up the ghost in that haunted spot in the Beauvallon that had previously swallowed up Nine75. But other outfits haven’t been discouraged from the area,…
A hipster neighborhood may have hip restaurants, but hip restaurants do not a hipster neighborhood make. And when Forbes recently included Lower Highland in its list of “America’s Hippest Hipster Neighborhoods,” the party as already over, one reader suggests:…
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Taste of the Nation, a national nonprofit that has its own Colorado chapter, which was started 25 years ago by humanitarian Noel Cunningham, the former owner/chef of Strings, who passed away late last year. The annual event, which features a bounty of foodstuffs…
Public school students are being awfully whiny about their school lunches right now. The reason is because the United States Department of Agriculture just restructured standards for school lunches for the first time in over a decade, and now students have to eat more fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and…
I keep trying to find a great sub sandwich in this city, and aside from Carbone’s, I keep coming up short — and this sub only added to my discouragement. Can you guess where I’m eating? And while you’re at it, tell me where I should go to satisfy my…
“New York City is the culinary mecca of our country, if not the world,” declares Hosea Rosenberg. “It’s a place like no other, where ingredients and techniques of every conceivable style congregate. It’s where the best chefs on the planet come to shine.” See also: – The Denver FIVE culinary…
Since it opened six years ago, Rockbar has been a hipster hangout — the go-to place for Hollywood celebs during the Democratic National Convention, but also a regular stop for people out and about on the weekend, or who’re just looking for a place to park (the All-Inn that holds…
Barman Sean Kenyon, who occasionally pens a booze-centric column for Westword but spends the majority of his time designing — and pouring — innovative cocktails at the Squeaky Bean and Williams & Graham, received a major kiss-up shout-out in Food & Wine magazine, which just released its list of the…
The Downtown Aquarium’s Nautilus ballroom was filled with all sorts of foodie-fun — perfect, medium-rare steak; disgustingly good chocolate mousse layer cakes with edible pearl accents; mermaids and a guy in a giant shrimp suit — last night for a Landry’s showcase of the dining and entertainment venues it owns…
People ask me what my favorite restaurant is on a daily basis, and it’s a question that’s impossible to answer. But I will say that the restaurant where the above snap was taken is very, very high on my list, and while desserts aren’t its focus, the pastry chef is…
JP Krause Aloft Broomfield 8300 Arista Place, Broomfield 303-635-2000 www.aloftbroomfielddenver.com Part one of my interview with JP Krause, exec chef of Aloft Broomfield, ran yesterday. This is part two of our interview. Favorite restaurant in America: Denver’s own Bennett’s BBQ, but not because of the food. It’s all about the…
Liquor-license renewals are generally routine affairs in Denver — but for Jesse Morreale, nothing has been routine this year. He’s in a fight over his First Avenue Hotel, and has an October 1 deadline to satisfy the city’s demands — or face having the building closed. Again. And late yesterday,…
For days the discussion has focused on Cherry Creek North, once this town’s hottest restaurant neighborhood, which may — or may not — be making a comeback. But this morning we’re returning to Highland, the area that Forbes just declared one of “America’s Hippest Hipster Neighborhoods,” citing many of the…
If you’re of a certain age — I’ll leave the exact number of years up to you — you’ll remember when restaurant menus were as long as novellas, with enough adjectives to give Emily Brontë a run for her money. Intricate details of cooking technique and provenance were listed for…
Mark DeNittis, the co-founder of Il Mondo Vecchio, a local artisan sausage factory, has his hands in a lot of different projects, and up until today, one of them was Cinque Soldi Salumeria, a tiny Italian market and deli exclusively selling Il Mondo Vecchio products that DeNittis co-owned with Tony…
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. “The delicious smell…
