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. With Saint Patrick’s…
“Anything I can possibly dream up is now doable, because I’m able to really play around with food,” says Ian Kleinman, Denver’s answer to Alton Brown, the wacky culinary scientist (and only food personality worth watching) on the Food Network. Kleinman, too, is a culinary chemist — a molecular gastronomist…
After forty years, the Old Spaghetti Factory at 1215 18th Street has gotten a facelift. “Coming soon in Denver our new look!,” promises the website of the chain that got its start in 1969, and today numbers forty restaurants across this country. “We will be remodeling this location. Please excuse…
There are a multitude of Chinese joints in Denver to satisfy your yearning for chicken feet, sea cucumber, preserved eggs and duck tongues, none of which has ever graced the menu of the Imperial, 431 South Broadway, which will mark its 25th anniversary of serving American-Chinese favorites with a month…
Last month, it was all about hamburgers. This month, it could be hot dogs. Bernie’s Hot Dog Co., at 1601 Mayberry (in the Highlands Ranch Town Center) in Highlands Ranch, introduced its new menu today, a “healthy” revision of the original, “modified based on customer feedback, market trends and a…
I’m a sucker for soups, and there aren’t too many places around town that feature a flight of them. Bummer, then, that not a single one satisfied my craving. The lobster bisque was pelted with a mine of salt; the French onion soup arrived watery and lukewarm; and I’m still…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Just got off the phone with Patrick Mangold-White, co-owner of Kaos Pizzeria, the tiny pie shack at 1439 South Pearl Street that’s located just down the block from Gaia Bistro, the lovely breakfast and lunch refuge that Mangold-White also runs with his partner Jon Edwards. The reason for the call?…
While Michelle Obama concentrates on obesity reform, I’m focusing on the five most fat-inducing, artery-clogging concoctions ever prepared by man using the Twinkie as a not-so secret ingredient. And they are:…
A dark bar, a cute bartender and a BIG Manhattan are the only ingredients I need for a good night. And if the bartender hadn’t shaken my Manhattan, it would have been a perfect night, but alas, it seems that only a few of us know that a Manhattan should…
U.S. Agriculture Secretary marked National School Breakfast Week today by donning a hair net at a public school in Washington, D.C. and shoveling oatmeal onto trays. Not really. But he did call “for increased participation in the School Breakfast Program and advancing the health and nutrition of our nation’s children.”…
For the love of Buddha, what the hell is so appealing about the Chinese joints that promise a scoop of substandard sesame chicken for next to nothing? Yesterday, while driving down Federal, I saw the same sign that you see in the above snap and nearly crashed. Instead, I cried…
You people clearly take Restaurant Week seriously, as evidenced by the 108 comments that came in over the past 17 days of gluttony. Some of you, we found out, are annoying nitpickers who probably pick your nose as much as you pick on restaurants; at least one of you believes…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
That right there is Americanized Chinese food at its finest, or its worst, depending upon how you look at it. It’s got that familiar sheen, all the standard vegetables and a handful of perfectly fine scallops lobbed in to remind that you that you’re not eating at one of those…
Old Tyme Dogs & Drafts has dried up at 2479 South Broadway, and the business is now listed for sale at $50,000 — or $450,000 if you want the real estate, too. That real estate has a long history. Before it was Old Tyme, it was briefly home to the…
For those who can’t get enough artery-clogging items stuffed into their drive-thru bag, here are a few worthy items from the week’s burger news for their cholesterol consideration. When Noah built his ark for two of every animal, I don’t believe that this godawful mess was part of the plan:…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, with that giant platter of Ethiopian food still stumping readers. But Fletch nailed this spuds and chile plate in record time, and for correctly coming up with Bull & Bush, he’s now the lucky winner of a DINR…
Think it’s too late to snag a last-minute seat at one of the 281 restaurants celebrating Denver Restaurant Week? Think again. As of 5:15 p.m., there were prime time spots (6:30 to 8:30 p.m.) still available all over the city, according to www.opentable.com. Here’s a full plate of what’s available:…
See that snap up top? That massive fortress is slated to become Virgilio’s Pizzeria and Wine Bar, the second outpost for Virgilio Urbano, whose original namesake pizzeria in Belmar is roughly the size of a pea compared to the 6,700-square-foot palace that Urbano will open later this summer at 10025…
Matt LaBarge, co-owner of the popular South Broadway spots hi-dive and Sputnik, is all set to open his third spot, Lost Lake Lounge, at 5 p.m. tonight. He’s turned the former Bulldog Bar space (which was the Monroe Tavern before that, and Mr. Von’s Alamo before that), into a cabin-styled…
Tomorrow afternoon, the hip Aloft hotel in Broomfield (“Aloha!” chirps whoever answers the phone) will host a bash to welcome the Further Festival to 1stBank Center. Sounds like fun — but also a far cry from Kevin Taylor Steak, which was supposed to open at the hotel last September. Then…
