As the temperature drops, it’s smart to blend your leafy greens with something a little more substantial to stave off the cold. Butter beans and pasta are two good options — you can use rice or quinoa if you’re gluten-free, and cannelli or kidney beans are also good substitutes for…
Paul Ryan is a marathon man. The Republican vice-presidential candidate runs them (although his time is in dispute) and he’s been on a marathon campaign trip through all the swing states, including Colorado. Where today Ryan and the Romney campaign will visit Johnson’s Corner in Johnstown, just south of the…
On Wednesday night, three Colorado chefs — Jorel Pierce (Euclid Hall), Tyler Wiard (Elway’s Cherry Creek) and Eliza Gavin (221 South Oak, in Telluride) — will compete on Top Chef Seattle, Bravo’s award-winning chef showdown, now in its tenth season. See also: – Tyler Wiard, Jorel Pierce will compete on…
Il Mondo Vecchio, a Denver salumeria and production plant, opened in 2009 in a bare-bones industrial building on South Cherokee Street. Mark DeNittis and his partner, Gennaro DeSantis, quickly earned acclaim for their fresh sausages and dry-cured artisan salumi products, many of which are sold at local markets and used…
Life can be ironic sometimes, like a dairy farmer who becomes lactose-intolerant. Jake Rosenbarger, owner of Kim and Jake’s Cakes, was recently diagnosed with Celiac disease. But despite this new-found gluten intolerance, he continues to do what he loves: baking delicious cakes. “In the world of food production and that…
If there’s anyone in this city who’s become synonymous with salumi and sausages, it’s Mark DeNittis, the co-founder of Il Mondo Vecchio, a Denver salumeria and production plant that opened in 2009 in a bare-bones industrial building on South Cherokee Street. DeNittis and his partner, Gennaro DeSantis, quickly generated local…
The holidays bring out the very best in fast food restaurants (and sometimes in their customers who can be more easily shamed into not behaving like dingleberries in long lines), especially when it comes to seasonal drinks and desserts of the minty, eggnoggy and gingerbread-y type that we don’t have…
The old house at 1515 Madison Street has gone through several incarnations since it was the elegant Normandy, a French restaurant run by Pierre Wolfe. Among other ventures, it housed both PS 1515 and the Pink Elephant — where cops busted burlesque dancers. Recently, there were plans to open a…
Do people care about schnitzel? You’re darn Teuton! As a side to her review of Cafe Berlin, Gretchen Kurtz served up the five best restaurants for a schnitzel fix — and her list has taken a pounding. Where is Cafe Prague? Sobo 151? And where’s that umlaut? See also: -…
And…the wait is over. This morning, Christina Smith and Josh Epps opened the second Jelly Cafe, a year and a half after bestowing the Capitol Hill neighborhood with the original Jelly Cafe, arguably the hamlet’s most popular breakfast joint for pancakes, eggs Benny, hashes and bloody Marys. See also: -…
Falafel is like fried chicken for non-meat-eaters. It’s crunchy and flavorful and filling. And there are many, many different ways to serve it. Dalia Hannah and Chris Hernandez are experimenting with as many of those ways as possible in their new food truck, Baba’s Falafel, which took to the streets…
The October 31 deadline that the Denver Department of Community Planning and Development had given the First Avenue Hotel came and went — without any new notices to vacate slapped on the building. On July 10 those notices, headlined with the word “Danger,” as well as five different letters signed…
There was a bit of miscommunication with my order — I’d asked for the sausage inside my breakfast burrito — and I wasn’t anticipating tomatoes and leaves on top, but once I dipped my fork inside the tortilla, I found beautifully scrambled eggs and sharp cheddar, and the wreath of…
I made my first foray into sushi at the relatively ripe age of twenty (I don’t count the gobs of bad California rolls that I squished down before that), and it was an instant, passionate love affair akin to the greatest romances of all time. Romeo and Juliet, Bogey and…
Mitch Mayers Black Pearl 1529 South Pearl Street 303-777-0500 www.blackpearldenver.com Part one of my interview with Mitch Mayers, exec chef of Black Pearl, an yesterday; this is part two of our conversation. Favorite restaurant in America: Morimoto, in New York City. When I ate dinner there, Morimoto was actually eating…
There’s been a lot of buzz about Tom’s Urban 24, the 24-hour restaurant at the edge of Larimer Square that opened just in time to become a hip Halloween haunt. But that was far from the only development on the dining scene in October. More than a dozen new restaurants…
Mitch Mayers always knew he wanted to be a chef, even when his parents insisted he go to Cornell. So he paired that with classes at culinary school, and after a stint with Hillstone — which sent him to Denver to run the kitchen at the Cherry Creek Grill –…
Hands on your buzzers, everyone! Here’s a trivia question: “High-school seniors share this in common with Cafe Berlin.” (Insert Jeopardy music here.) If you answered “What is 1995?,” you’d be right. In 1995, most of those seniors were in diapers, and Cafe Berlin, Denver’s longtime standby for hearty German fare,…
With seventeen years and three homes under its belt, Café Berlin (which I review this week) has become synonymous with German food in Denver (the jagerschnitzel is particularly noteworthy). But this restaurant is not the only place in town serving spaetzle and sauerkraut. Here are several more options for getting…
Here’s the good news: These are some of the best housemade tamales in the city. Now the bad news: You’ll have to wait until late next month to wrap your jaws around them, because the original off-the-eaten-path location of the restaurant that serves them has closed so that that the…
Wine may not be a typical gift for a first birthday, but Coohills will celebrate its first anniversary by offering a complimentary glass of Chandon Blanc de Noirs and an amuse bouche created by chef/co-owner Tom Coohill to all customers on Saturday, November 3. See also: – Coohills makes itself…
Mitch Mayers Black Pearl 1529 South Pearl Street 303-777-0500 www.blackpearldenver.com This is part one of my interview with Mitch Mayers, exec chef of Black Pearl; part two of our conversation will run tomorrow. Mitch Mayers wanted to cook; his parents insisted that he go to Cornell. He negotiated. “I made…
