Doughnuts have long been associated with a cop’s favorite breakfast, but even Homer Simpson appreciates glaze and sprinkles: “Doughnuts. Is there anything they can’t do?” asked the famous patriarch of the Simpson family of cartoon characters. As it turns out, doughnuts are on the rise, and Denver appears to want…
Every time I drive down a certain stretch of asphalt, I pass by a dusty parking lot with a dilapidated truck and a huge smoker that emits the scent of barbecue. Over the weekend, my curiosity got the best of me, and I stopped to get a closer whiff –…
Livability.com, a website that takes readers on a sojourn of America’s Best Places to Live and Visit, just released its list of the “Top 10 Foodie Cities” of 2014 — a roster of allegedly restaurant-strong cities that “strongly support local farmers, showcase regional cuisine and provide residents with bountiful opportunities…
As the private chef for some of the young athletes — and their families — that he trains as a swim coach at the Denver Country Club, Ryan Gannon knows healthy food. But it is his job as the Curtis Club’s cold kitchen chef that has helped him refine the…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a fat al pastor burrito blanketed with green chile from Socorro’s to a delicious Korean feast from Han Kang to a boozy whiskey-and-berry cocktail from a burger joint…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed one of a handful of new ampersand-branded restaurants in Denver, Olive & Finch, where she enjoyed some of the French-inspired fare — but found the fast-casual set-up a little too casual. In Chef and Tell, Chef DJ Nagle of Humboldt discusses geeking…
On Thursday, June 26, 24 local restaurants will battle it out for taco supremacy in the inaugural Top Taco Denver showdown, a benefit for the Colorado Restaurant Association’s Education Foundation ProStart scholarship program. The event, which unfolds in Sculpture Park, located just behind the Denver Center for the Performing Arts,…
On Wednesday night, seventeen chefs from across Denver convened on the patio of Elway’s Cherry Creek for the Hot Rocks Griller Challenge, an annual benefit — and one of the best food-related events of the year — for the Denver Health Foundation’s male-based programs. The chefs, all of whom created…
This restaurant has gone through several changes since it first opened, morphing from a vast space with a center island of prepared foodstuffs to a full-fledged restaurant that’s feeding enthusiastic crowds. And the beef-and-onion samosas, served with lemon wedges and a duo of tamarind and cilantro chutneys, are a definite…
Three years ago, sausage czar Jim Pittenger opened Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs, his brick-and-mortar on Larimer Street that followed several years of unrivaled success pimping game-changing dogs from a long-standing cart on the 16th Street Mall. And now Pittenger, whose famous fat wieners slapped with cream cheese and Coke-soaked onions…
After fifteen years the Hard Rock Cafe was looking like a fossil, especially as new restaurants — Lime, Grimaldi’s, 5280 Burgers — joined the lineup at the Denver Pavilions. So this link in the national chain just went through a major upgrade, a floor-to-ceiling makeover of the 11,000 square foot…
Gustavo Arellano, author of Ask a Mexican and a big fan of Den-Mex cuisine, has burritos on the brain these days, “and not just because of the whole pendejada involving Chipotle putting short stories by authors on its cups and bags…none of whom are Latinos,” he says. “While America loves…
Who says that suburban restaurants have to bow down to the chain-ganged masses? In the case of this further afield restaurant, which recently boasted a plate of fantastic arancini, coupled with head-on shrimp, the kitchen turns out terrific foodstuffs that make even city folk leave their sheltered boundaries. Can you…
When Olive & Finchopened in December, the French café-inspired eatery came as a surprise to fans of chef Mary Nguyen’s previous restaurants, Parallel Seventeen and Street Kitchen Asian Bistro. At Olive & Finch, she traded pho for prosciutto, black bean stir fries for breakfast burritos, and tuna rolls for tartines…
DJ Nagle Humboldt: Farm, Fish, Wine 1700 Humboldt Street 303-813-1700 humboldtrestaurant.com This is part two of my interview with DJ Nagle, executive chef of Humboldt: Farm, Fish, Wine; the first installment of our chat ran yesterday. Most noteworthy meal you’ve ever eaten: When I was a young cook working at…
The World Cup starts today, and to help get you in the spirit — and the spirits — this week we posted our list of six brilliant places to watch the World Cup. But some readers found our roster less than brilliant. Where was The Armoury? The Abbey? Conor O’Neill’s…
Hungry this morning? The Kolache Cabin is now camped at the intersection of Alameda and Santa Fe, where it sells a wide variety of breakfast and lunch pastries that take the traditional kolache on quite a trip. See also: Ten food trucks to follow in Denver this summer…
Restaurateur Mary Nguyen fashioned Olive & Finch after the traiteurs, or prepared-food purveyors, she encountered while traveling in France. Though not everything on the menu is French, some, like the poached-pear tartine, took our restaurant critic back to her own European travels. What else does the restaurant have to offer?…
Even the co-owner of Boulder’s best Chinese restaurant knows his limitations. “I knew that I had to come clean with a secret: I’m not Italian,” quips Edwin Zoe, who, along with his mother, owns Zoe Ma Ma, a stellar Chinese restaurant in downtown Boulder and, up until quite recently, Radda…
The perfect deli sandwich, says Frank Bonanno, goes something like this: “a ton of meat, sliced to order and paper-thin; shredded iceberg lettuce; paper-thin, sliced tomatoes; and a slightly crunchy, soft and toothsome hoagie roll.” That’s the kind of sandwich that Bonanno, who will open Salt & Grinder, a New…
The guy who cooks the food at this diminutive Mexican joint always has a twinkle in his eye, and his chalkboard of south-of-the-border eats, especially the al pastor with pineapple, always turns a good day into a great day. Awesome housemade horchata, too. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…
DJ Nagle Humboldt: Farm, Fish, Wine 1700 Humboldt Street 303-813-1700 humboldtrestaurant.com This is part one of my interview with DJ Nagle, executive chef of Humboldt: Farm, Fish, Wine; the second installment of our chat will run tomorrow. Even though it wasn’t a requirement, DJ Nagle always sported a tie when…
