McDonald’s has long had a bad rap for offering low-paying, entry-level work, spawning the pejorative term “McJob.” But Cody Teets recently authored a book, Golden Opportunity: Remarkable Careers That Began at McDonald’s, about her jobs under the Golden Arches, where she started as a cashier in 1982 and is now…
Elway’s Downtown dedicated its new outdoor patio yesterday, and guess who showed up for the celebration? Yep, that’s right: John Elway himself. The “outdoor expansion” is on the wide sidewalk in front of the Ritz-Carlton, with the bridge across Curtis Street providing handy cover from both sun and rain. In…
Charlie Palmer, the celebrated New York-based chef and restaurateur who owns and operates dozens of restaurants across the country, said his final goodbyes to Denver last night, just hours before announcing that Charlie Palmer’s District Tavern and Wazee Wood-Fire Pizza, the two restaurants he opened in LoDo in late 2011,…
Aaron Bennett Bácaro Venetian Taverna 921 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-444-4888 www.bacaro.com Part one of my interview with Aaron Bennett, exec chef of Boulder’s Bácaro Venetian Taverna, ran yesterday; this is part two of our chat . Favorite restaurant in America: Probably Le Bouchon. When I ate there, I saw such…
Wendy’s is currently the third-largest hamburger fast-food chain — behind Burger King at number two, and McDonald’s in the catbird seat — and the company taste-testers are rolling out a new breakfast menu in select locations, complete with breakfast sandwiches, biscuits & gravy and, of course, breakfast burritos…
Aaron Bennett, the exec chef of Boulder’s Bácaro Venetian Taverna, is the focus of this week’s Chef and Tell interview, and some of his comments already have readers simmering. The one that seems to be causing the most consternation? Bennett’s list of pet peeves: “People who come into a restaurant…
Part of the project is always getting to know your different clients, getting inside their heads,” says Sarah Semple Brown, who founded the design and architecture firm Semple Brown Design in the early ’80s and has been designing restaurant spaces ever since. “It’s like reality TV at its best.” Brown’s…
Update below: Jesse Morreale has been spending a lot of time in meetings with the city recently, ever since the First Avenue Hotel, home of El Diablo and Sketch, was red-tagged on July 10. After a hearing before the Board of Appeals last week, he was able to reopen the…
Tony Pasquini opened the first Pasquini’s Pizzeria in 1986 at 1310 South Broadway, a space that’s expanded several times over the years. But that hasn’t been the only change in the Pasquini’s restaurant empire. At the same time Pasquini opened other locations, he also allowed franchise operators to run restaurants…
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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. It’s August, Barb…
Denver’s culinary enthusiasts have some seriously glorious food faces. As proof, we offer the following photos, taken by Westword photographer Brandon Marshall at last night’s LoDo Bites celebration. Hundreds of food fans flocked to a string of lower downtown eateries including 1515 Restaurant, Ambria, Bistro Vendome, Coohills, Euclid Hall, The…
I was jonesing for Dairy Queen…but was overruled by a frozen yogurt fiend. Fair enough. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner…
Aaron Bennett Bácaro Venetian Taverna 921 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-444-4888 www.bacaro.com This is part one of my interview with Aaron Bennett, exec chef of Boulder’s Bácaro Venetian Taverna. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Aaron Bennett’s career in the kitchen began when he was thirteen. Like most teen…
No good deed goes unpunished. While we’ve been looking for a new restaurant reviewer, Jenn Wohletz has been lending a hand, writing full-length pieces that play off her “Jenn in Chains” posts on Cafe Society. Last week, for example, she took on the British Bulldog, one of nineteen links in…
“Part of the project is always getting to know your different clients, getting inside their heads,” says Sarah Semple Brown, who founded the design and architecture Semple Brown Design in the early ’80s and has been designing restaurant spaces ever since. “It’s like reality TV at its best.”…
Unless you’ve been hibernating under a bun, you know that come Wednesday, the glorious Denver Burger Battle is back for another round of flame wars. This year’s competition heats up at Sports Authority Field at Mile High at 7 p.m., and while we’ve already given away a pair of VIP…
Colorado ranked lowest on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2012 obesity rate study, but don’t grab for the funnel cakes in celebration just yet: Over the past fifteen years, the obesity rate has doubled or almost doubled in 38 states, and even Colorado’s has increased substantially. As the…
In December of last year, Jake Brodsky, the chief bean at NOVO Coffee, shuttered his only retail location, at the Denver Art Museum, moving his entire operation — roasting, retail, coffee-cupping classes and all — to his existing roasting facility at 3008 Larimer Street. But while the museum location didn’t…
Three years ago, Tyler Nemkov was a Johnson & Wales student who came to Cafe Society as an intern, interested in where a culinary career could take him. So far, it’s taken him to J-school at the University of Colorado, a gig at Cured and, at the edge of 23,…
When Felipe Cufre moved from Argentina to Denver three years ago to join his American wife, he knew he wanted to do something related to food. He was working on a cookbook when he stumbled on the inaugural Civic Center Eats food-truck gathering in Civic Center Park in 2010, which…
It’s been one month since the Aurora theater shooting, and victims, their loved ones and the community at large are still reeling. But out of the darkness has come some light, including Purple Door Coffee — a soon-to-open coffeehouse dedicated to providing job opportunities for at-risk and homeless youth. That…
