Last night at Roth Distributing, where state-of-the-art kitchens played house to some of Denver’s top chefs and mixologists, Leigh Sullivan-Guard, the founder of FIVE — a cartel of chefs who cook in Denver, at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic and the James Beard House every year — introduced the…
The former Red Trolley — that beloved coffee, gelato, cereal and hot dog shop at 2639 West 32nd Avenue in Highland — will soon become Spuntino, a quick and casual Italian restaurant. Simone Parisi, owner of Parisi and Firenze a Tavola, 4401 Tennyson Street, will operate Spuntino with Dorina Miller…
Jason Sheehan has been gone from Westword for a year, but he is far from forgotten, as evidenced by yesterday’s missive from Still Reading in response to the Julia & Julia characterization of Laura Shunk’s Sachi Sushi review: It’s hard to be Jason Sheehan. Probably not as hard as it…
No. 84: Pork osso buco from Osteria Marco Osteria Marco is Frank Bonanno’s homage to the hog, a ward of house-crafted charcuterie, pizzas tarped with prosciutto, puddings laced with pork fat, and Sunday-night pig roasts. The subterranean enterprise — a sound system of ruckus and racket pinging off the ceilings…
Boulder Draft House, the Boulder restaurant at 2027 13th Street (right off Pearl Street) that was home to the Colorado Brewing Company, has closed. On Friday, the proprietors sent out this tweet: “To all Draft House fans: yes, its official, we have closed. Thank you all for 2 great years…
At high noon tomorrow — Tuesday, January 11 — Visit Denver, the group that organizes Denver Restaurant Week, will announce which of the city’s eateries are among the 268-and-counting restaurants that have signed up for DRW, which will take place February 26 through March 11. For those not familiar with…
Tonight, at 6 p.m., Leigh Sullivan-Guard, the force behind FIVE, an über-talented crop of five Denver chefs who put on showstopping dinners throughout the year at their respective restaurants, represent the local fray at the ritzy Aspen Food & Wine Classic and commune at the James Beard House in September…
While I’m not a huge proponent of tofu, the scrambled tofu bowl, tussling with carrots, wakame, shitake mushrooms and soybeans, at this Japanese restaurant, which recently began serving ramen, is a wonderful drift of winter sustenance that elevates the often boring bean curd to food that’s actually good — very…
Last February, fourteen Denver chefs congregated inside the Stranahan’s Whiskey distillery as part of a 50top feast, an invite-only, underbelly dinner club that gives chefs the opportunity to cook whatever the hell they want for an appreciative cluster of foodniks who never know what they’re going to get. That night,…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, with items ranging from hot-and-sour soup at P. F. Chang’s (hey, it’s no crime to eat at a chain) to a still unidentified pork sandwich to this burrata, which is definitely still in style. For tracing the mozz to Oak…
Laura Shunk’s discovery of authentic ramen at Sachi Sushi in Niwot didn’t thrill everyone. Tired of Drivel posted this: My new year’s resolution is to give up reading the Westword every week in hopes that Ms. Shunk has either learned to write a review or left the paper. If we…
On a bitterly cold December night, I was huddled in a booth at Freshcraft. In front of me at bar seats and high tables, a lively crowd was sipping from pint glasses and conversing jovially with the bartenders. Behind me, a massive group of beer brewers filled most of the…
Unless you’ve been coffined in frosting, you’ve no doubt heard that Clyde and Clementine, the Denver Cupcake Trucks, have gone dormant — at least for the month of January, all because of a kerfuffle between owners and bakers Sean and Denon Moore and Denver’s Planning and Zoning Department, which, according…
It’s an age-old question in Denver: Where can I go to get a really, really good sandwich? You can go here, to this unassailable, perpetually busy sandwich shack that turns out inspiring combinations, coupled with every day favorites, like the French dip in the above snap. Can you guess where…
Wanna hold my Whopper? That line, or a close facsimile of it, is what a masturbating Longmont man allegedly told a hapless Burger King employee yesterday as he pulled up to the drive-thru window. Although it wasn’t very creative, it was certainly straightforward when it comes to fast-food penis puns…
“I know! Can you believe it? We finally got the book through the doors!” That was elated response from Jennifer Jasinski, the chef/owner of Rioja, Euclid Hall and Bistro Vendôme, when I spoke with her late yesterday afternoon, two days after 5,000 copies of her Rioja cookbook, The Perfect Bite,…
Roslyn Grill, the colorful dive at 504 East Colfax Avenue, wasn’t open to see the new year start; by then a sign had been posted on the door, claiming that the bar is closed for remodeling. There was never a Roslyn at the Roslyn Grill — and not much of…
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 the gluttony…
Michael Roberts has the scoop on Richard Troupe, the Longmont man charged with dropping trou at a Longmont Burger King and asking a staffer to hold his “whopper.” But Longmont Police spokesman Jeff Satur isn’t laughing, and neither is the young woman who turned down Troupe’s offer. “There’s been some…
Jorel Pierce, the saucy chef at Euclid Hall, told all — almost all — to Lori Midson for his recent Chef and Tell interview, and readers appreciated his candid comments (if not the sausages around his neck, an homage to a recent photo with Jen Jasinski). Here’s the view from…
Truffles are the rock stars of the edible universe. They smell like pungent earth, sweaty sex and crushed garlic. A mere shaving of truffle atop a bowl of hot buttered pasta is enough to evoke primal passion and raw emotion in the most stoic of human beings. So watching truffles…
Japoix, the sleek Japanese/French spot at 975 Lincoln Street, has applied for a cabaret license in order to host live music acts and DJs. A hearing on the application is slated for February 4. “We don’t want to change the restaurant or lounge feel, but if we want to have…
