Allen Milham and I are sitting on the floor of the United Airlines terminal at LaGuardia airport discussing dessert, our brains still high on sugar from the James Beard House dinner, created by a fleet of Denver chefs, that brought us to New York in the first place. Denver, concludes…
Despite the really unpleasant stench that greeted me at the front door of this otherwise pleasant restaurant residing in an old house on a busy stretch of pavement, I stayed, curious because this was once an elegant haunt (with a different cuisine) that I frequented in high school on very…
“It came to me in a dream one night,” says Larry Bigay. “I have a pad of paper by my bedside, and I woke up early one morning, and started to draw what I’d seen in my dream.” What he saw were visions of hot dogs dancing in his head…
If I were shopping venues for a wedding (or really, just about any party in Denver), I’d likely overlook chain hotels — not only do most of those settings induce flashbacks of awful corporate events, but I’ve also had some pretty terrible food from the catering arms of those joints,…
Cafe Society was swimming in sushi yesterday, as Lori Midson’s latest “Guess where I’m eating” rubbed readers’ nerves raw as they tried to identify this pretty plate of sushi. And then Kyle Garratt showed more raw courage, as he attempted to conquer the Nuclear Roll at Osaka Sushi…
Much to the chagrin of my parents, who moved to Colorado to enjoy the great outdoors, I’ve never been big on athletic activities. But childhood is not a democracy, and they dragged me along on their mountain climbs, bike rides and ski trips no matter how loudly I cried, hoping…
There are several ways to eat a mini-cupcake: You can pop the entire thing into your mouth (unsubtle but effective); nibble at the frosting, then the cake, then the frosting, then the cake; bite it cleanly in two, so you get frosting and cake in your mouth at the same…
You could almost hear Whitney Houston singing “I believe that children are our future” playing in the background of TEDx in Boulder Saturday night, because according to the speakers, food issues start with kids. The night of lectures — offered with the tagline “ideas worth spreading” — was heavy on…
Five. That’s how many times the specials board describing the Nuclear Roll at Osaka Sushi said “very” before “spicy.” Ten. That’s how many ice cubes were on the plate owner Jay Chung gave me before I started inhaling this tuna roll topped with liquid fire. “Just in case,” he said…
When Trios Enoteca, the nearly 15-year-old wine bar, shut its doors a month ago, it left a prime piece of LoDo real estate up for grabs. So predictably, it didn’t take long for someone to snatch up the space and move in…
After hosting a charity dinner on Saturday night, Charcoal, a new 5,200-square-foot restaurant from Patrik Landberg, the former chef of Satchel’s in Park Hill (now Pary’s on 28th), opened to the public on Sunday, turning out contemporary European cuisine in an artfully choreographed setting…
For anyone who believes that Sushi Den and Sushi Sasa are the only two players when it comes to slicing and dicing the raw stuff, you’re wrong: Here, at this unheralded shrine to the ocean, ambitions run as high as the waves in a wrathful sea, and the sushi and…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, including one focusing on a salad-studded breakfast at Snooze to another breakfast that was really something to crow about. For correctly identifying the above plate as coming from Red Rooster, Juliannemichelle77 wins an EatDenver deck…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as an incentive to join the growing Meatless Monday movement, we’re featuring an animal-free recipe each week. Fall is in the air, which puts us in the mood for some thick, hearty soup. This black bean-based…
Denver is awash in beer — and in opinions about beer, about Jonathan Shikes’s suggestion of five ways to freshen up the Great American Beer Festival, and about Laura Shunk’s list of the area’s five best tap rooms. No Liquids and Solids? No Amato’s Ale House? And what’s Denver Beer…
When six Denver chefs, one bartender and, for good measure, a muscled and tatted sausage emperor all trotted out of the kitchen, following a sensational multi-course, Colorado-inspired dinner prepared in a Manhattan brownstone, a woman seated at the table just adjacent to the burners stood up, applauded and declared that…
We’ll always have Paris. Paris on the Platte will be celebrating its 25th anniversary all weekend, with two days of music and memories starting at 8:30 p.m. tonight, and continuing tomorrow. In anticipation of the celebration, DT has already shared his memory of learning to smoke at Paris, right before…
It was just before 5 p.m. on Wednesday when the car dropped me off at the James Beard House, the unassuming West Village brownstone that’s the former home of the legendary late American chef and cookbook author, deemed the “dean of American cookery” by the New York Times, whose quarters…
Late last year, Pete Kallas, the owner of Steakhouse 10, the Athenian, Undici Ristorante and Greeks Gone Wild, a fast-casual joint in the DU ‘hood, snapped up the digs of a former Fuhgidabowdit Pizzeria outpost — directly next door to the Greek den — which has sat dark for the…
The person I was having a late breakfast with wasn’t crazy about the “salad” on his eggs Benedict, but the hash browns are always a hit, as is the lemon-misted hollandaise sauce. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s…
Denver is blessed with many great restaurants — some modest, some considerably more ambitious — and yesterday, Kendra Anderson served up six moderately-priced restaurants that happen to have very impressive wine lists. Their wine lists night be “super cool,” but the rest of the post’s headline was not…
The tables are tall, the Wrangler-wearing drinkers taller, and the tales taller still at this classic dive. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we…
