City Fruit is powered — literally and figuratively — by Kendra Vaughn. Every weekday, the young entrepreneur gets up at 5 a.m. to pack a bicycle cart full of the freshest produce she can find. Then she prepares for a day of fighting downtown traffic, dressing for battle in layers…
The raves are coming in for the Wooden Table and its talented chef, Brett Shaheen, the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview. Shaheen has worked at kitchens around Denver, and left a gig as exec chef at Osteria Marco to do his own thing — in the ‘burbs…
A year ago, Bryan Dayton and Steve Redzikowski were just hitting their stride at Boulder’s Oak at Fourteenth, garnering national accolades in the process. And then on March 9, fire broke out in the chimney of the wood-burning oven, forcing Oak to close for months so that the entire space…
It all started with a rum collection and a tiki night. “I collect rum, and while I was bartending at Madison Street, I started bringing in my own rum collection, which then turned into a great tiki culture on Tuesday nights,” says Matty Durgin, who, along with Wade Kirwan and…
In just a week and a half, the Denver outpost of The Kitchen will make its debut on 16th Street, extending the community-based restaurant empire Kimbal Musk and Hugo Matheson began in Boulder eight years ago to the Mile High City. And while Musk has promised that the Denver space…
This was hailed on the menu as “Spicy Thai shrimp.” Spicy? Hardly. But if you have a sweet tooth, the sugary sauce could double as dessert. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is…
Jenna Johansen, the former exec chef — and still part owner — of Dish restaurant, in Edwards (she’s now in Denver, engaged to Il Mondo Vecchio sausage king Mark DeNittis, who’s involved with a new project, Salumeria Cansano in Wash Park), is strutting her culinary prowess on a new Bravo…
Brett Shaheen Wooden Table 2500 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village 303-730-2152 www.thewoodentablerestaurant.com This is part one of my interview with Brett Shaheen, exec chef of the Wooden Table. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Flipping pizzas at Pizza Hut. That was Brett Shaheen’s first introduction to a professional…
It would have been so much easier to just pay that bar tab. Instead, Robert Engles is slated to be in court in Boulder today, where he’ll face charges of criminal mischief, felony menacing and defrauding-an-innkeeper. On Saturday night, 42-year-old Engles was drinking…and drinking…at Centro Latin Kitchen, a Big Red…
Balls! Yesterday Lori Midson revealed that Jensen Cummings, the executive chef of Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar, will be launching a new venture devoted to meatballs — yes, meatballs — with two partners, probably in the University of Denver area. “I’m not leaving Row 14, but I am opening…
Denver Restaurant Half Month, not surprisingly, is bringing out the glutton in all of us, and while rezzies are filling up fast, it’s not too late to stamp your name on a seat at one of the 340 feedlots offering multi-course feasts between now and Friday, when the culinary orgy…
We’re three days from through Denver Restaurant Week. Kitchen staffs are napping, diners are moving their belts over a notch — and there are still eight more nights of great eating, with 340 restaurants across town offering special $52.80 dinners for two. (See the full list of Denver Restaurant Week…
Denver Tofu has been providing this city’s restaurateurs and consumers with a local source of tofu for forty years. But as we reported last week, Haruhisa Yamamoto, who has owned the company since the 1970s, is closing his factory and leaving the business. “The plant is under eminent domain by…
On March 29, when our Best of Denver® 2012 issue hits the pavement, we’ll announce which Denver joint has the best breakfast burritos. You have until midnight on March 22 to vote for your favorite, along with everything else food-and-drink-related, but in the meantime, this breakfast burrito may — or…
Outposts of Bubbachinos — the burrito-and-green-chile chain owned by Leonard Cordova, a grandson of the original Chubby’s owner, Stella Cordova — have expanded so quickly in this town over the last few years, we can barely keep up…
No. 34: Alfajores from Maria Empanada…
Any restaurant that presumes to go by the name Falafel King had better serve excellent falafel. Fortunately, not only does the Falafel King at 825 Colorado Boulevard serve great falafel, but the people serving it were charming and happy to point out the vegetarian- and vegan-friendly dishes on the roster…
The Thunderdome, Occupy Denver’s onetime kitchen and an erstwhile mobile vegan experience, is known for a lot of things — dick jokes and anarchist sentiments included — but gentility is not one of them. This explains why, in the group’s new series of cooking videos, the time lapse between pressing…
Rumors have been flying across Denver chef circles that Jensen Cummings, the executive chef of Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar, was ditching his gig behind the line to open a new restaurant — a rumor that’s only half true. See also: – Contest: Guess the location of the Slotted…
Applebee’s just hired hot Boulder-based Crispin Porter + Bogusky — the same creative outfit that Arby’s recently signed — to give the ubiquitous American meat-starch-veg spot an image boost of some kind. But here’s the rub: Unlike Arby’s, Applebee’s doesn’t really need a facelift…
On Friday, Lori Midson broke the news that Jeremy Kittelson, the exec chef at Ambria (and a partner in the four-month-old restaurant) had been fired in the middle of Denver Restaurant Week. “I was relieved of my position — told, simply, that it wasn’t working out — and I’m really…
What’s your favorite shrimp dish?” my friend asked our waiter. He’d been standing beside our cramped booth, shoulders slumped, holding a small notepad in one hand and studiously avoiding our eyes while we studied the huge menu and sucked down the sugary, freshly made lemonades he’d slid across the table…
