I’ve apparently been duped…for decades! During dinner last night at a red-sauce Italian joint, I ordered “homemade” spaghetti and meatballs, only to learn from our server that the noodles aren’t homemade at all. It’s a carryover, he told me, from the old days, when spaghetti — the fat strands made…
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. Pete and Barb…
Northglenn will get its first craft brewery on June 1 when Vance Sabbe — a former homebrew shop owner — and Rich Aggen open Beer By Design. The 5,000-square-foot brewery and taproom features a twenty-barrel brewing system and four forty-barrel fermenters, along with about 100 seats. See also: – Photos:…
Jimmy Bernat Jimmy’s Urban Bar & Grill 1530 Blake Street 303-298-5000 lodojimmys.com This is part one of my interview with Jimmy Bernat, exec chef of Jimmy’s Urban Bar & Grill; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Jimmy Bernat began working — and cooking — in a professional kitchen…
In A Federal Case, I’ll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard — south to north — within Denver city limits. I’ll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I’ll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here’s the…
Loren Cordain, a professor at Colorado State University since 1990, wrote the original version of The Paleo Diet a decade ago, but the eat-like-a-caveman regimen has taken off in recent years, given a real workout by CrossFit fans. By accident or design, chefs around town are offering dishes that fit…
Pizza Fusion, 571 East Colfax Avenue, is celebrating its second anniversary by offering a buy-one-get-one free pizza deal on June 1 — and there’s no charge at all to look at a new mural painted by local artist Ratha Sok. The pizza joint will also feature a $2 daily deal…
New York City — one of the most captivating cocktail capitals of the country — gets no love from Esquire magazine in its recently published list of the top seventeen bars in America. But, guess what? Two Denver bars — Ship Tavern and Williams & Graham — grace the roster,…
Nine years ago, my husband and I put together a short list of cities where we’d want to raise our kids. New York, where we lived at the time, wasn’t on it. Denver was. Months later, to see if both his potential job and the city seemed like the right…
Yes, that pizza is charred — not because the pizza yanker screwed up, or the oven was at the wrong temperature, but because I like a little char and blister with my chew. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a…
Copper Kettle Brewing will answer a few prayers made to the gods of chocolate this summer by bottling its award-winning Mexican Chocolate Stout. The brewery won a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2011, just five months after opening and has been planning to bottle the beer…
FEAST! Vail descended upon the alpine mountain village over the Memorial Day weekend, and for a first-year event, this was definitely a winning feast fit for foodists, cocktail connoisseurs, oenophiles and beer drinkers. From a small-plate extravaganza that showcased the talents of several local chefs, including Frank Bonanno, Elise Wiggins,…
The suburbs are notoriously short of great ethnic restaurants, but one gap has been filled in Northglenn, where Saigon Basil just opened at 10665 Melody Drive. The family-owned restaurant features an extensive menu of traditional Vietnamese cuisine; keep reading for a look at the space and the food. See also:…
Forty Denver restaurants, including Biker Jim’s, Euclid Hall, Jonesy’s Eat Bar, Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, Linger, Panzano and Pinche Tacos, along with beers from Breckenridge Brewery, Great Divide, Mountain Sun Brewery and Wynkoop Brewery, wines from Bookcliff Cellars, Bonacquisti Winery, Cottonwood Cellars, Mesa Park and Two Rivers and…
The building that now houses Federal Bar & Grill has gone through many changes since its 1904 construction. Turned into the Micky Manor, a neighborhood Italian joint, in the ’30s, it went through several owners before closing altogether two years ago. Now new owner Christopher Mohaupt has put his twenty…
Szechuan Chinese — nestled in the corner of a strip mall off Garrison and Sixth Avenue — is a destination spot for this town’s dumpling lovers, and earned Best of Denver awards in ’06 and ’07. But the vegetarian menu here is reason to celebrate, too; several tofu dishes are…
Cafe Society served up three Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a still-unidentified flight of craft beers from a brewery whose suds you’ll never find in liquor stores, to a spicy Szechuan chicken dish from a Chinese restaurant that also remains unidentified, to a Greek salad from a pizza…
The “caveman diet” is getting a real workout across Colorado. The creation of Loren Cordain, a Colorado State University professor who wrote The Paleo Diet and numerous follow-up books, the diet has been picked up by the Crossfit community and many other fans of healthy eating. But while it promises…
It’s been in the works for years — and, finally, tomorrow the crew behind Boulder’s Pizzeria Locale (and, of course, Frasca Food and Wine) will open the doors on a Pizzeria Locale in Denver. But it won’t be a carbon copy of the original in Boulder. For starters, it won’t…
The official start of summer is still more than three weeks away — but unofficially, once you’ve cleaned up (or sobered up) from that Memorial Day barbecue, summer is definitely here. And to encourage long, languid lunches during the hot days ahead, Mary Nguyen has expanded brunch hours at Parallel…
Rooster & Moon, 955 Bannock Street, has partnered with Denver Urban Ministries — a local nonprofit that assists impoverished communities — for a week-long food drive at the coffee shop and pub that starts today. Customers who donate to the effort will receive a free drink of their choice (alcoholic…
This week Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Taita Peruvian Cuisine & Bar, Mark Antonat’s journey up Federal stopped at J’s Noodle Star Thai, and Lori Midson traveled to Boulder to interview Nate Bychinski, executive chef of Mateo. And there was lots of other action on the Denver dining scene, including several openings…
