Food & Drink

“It’s a Mexican coffee house. Like a bakery and cafe, but Mexican style,” says Adriana Cendejas of Tenoch Mexican Coffee House, the spot she opened with her brother near just two weeks ago. The pair comes from Mexico City, and they cribbed the name Tenoch from Tenochtitlán, the Aztec name…

In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, Mark Monette, the executive chef/partner of the Flagstaff House, sounds off on sharing kitchen space with Thomas Keller, turning fifty and doing double duty at two top drawer restaurants, which keeps him firmly entrenched in the kitchen. He took some away from the…

It’s fig season, and that means that restaurant menus all over the city are pimping the sweet, fleshy fruit. Here, where the above snap was flashed, the figs are enlivened with Gorgonzola and sheeted in prosciutto. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct…

We all have super-secret snacks that taste straight righteous to us, but would send other people scampering to discharge their tummy floaters into the nearest lavatory. Munchies so bizarre and immoral that a food writer hobnobbing with the gentry, sipping champagne and spearing delicate bits of seared ahi dipped in…

Mark Monette has been interested in food since he ate pounds of pancakes at the Boulder Village Inn that his father managed in the ’60s. Although his culinary training took him far afield, he ultimately returned to Boulder to run the kitchen at the Flagstaff House, which his family had…

In the 1960s, Boulder’s Greenbriar Inn transformed a building that dated back to1873 into a restaurant, a spot near Lefthand Canyon that attracted wedding parties and special-occasion celebrations with an ostentatious menu of now-dated, then-staples of fine dining, mostly heavily sauced dishes prepared tableside. The eatery has evolved since then,…

Several months ago, Peter and Mara Soutiere nabbed the tiny hallway space behind their Pearl Street-facing restaurant, Tahona Tequila Bistro, and began drawing up plans for an intimate restaurant that would share a kitchen with Tahona. At that time, the couple was still finessing plans and unwilling to divulge details…

Nearly three years ago, in July of 2008, the original Chinook Tavern, one of Denver’s only German restaurants, shuttered in Cherry Creek, and while the family who owns Chinook — manager Clemens Georg, executive chef Markus Georg, patriarch Manfred Georg, and matriarch Lieselotte Georg — had secured a new parcel…

I’m definitely a bread head, but for the love of loaves, there’s absolutely no reason to suffocate an otherwise decent breakfast sandwich with enough bread to wallpaper the walls. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I…

Mark Monette Flagstaff House 1138 Flagstaff Drive, Boulder 303-442-4640 www.flagstaffhouse.com This is part two of my interview with Mark Monette, executive chef of the Flagstaff House. Part one of that interview, in which Monette talks about cooking with Thomas Keller and his disdain for duck tongues, ran yesterday. Culinary inspirations:…

Zi Fusion seemed to suffer from an identity crisis from the start. It was originally going to open last fall as Zi Cuisine — but that sounded dangerously close to Z Cuisine, Patrick Dupay’s popular French restaurant in Highland. So Zi Cuisine quickly changed its name to Zi Fusion, which…

Brussel sprouts and bacon is a dish that may have worn out its welcome, as Lori Midson suggests in this Guess where I’m eating? post, but the Guess where? games she serves up every day still attract plenty of players — and wise-ass comments, like this one from dmc: But…