Chef Chris Jakubiec Readies Fire for June Opening in the Art Hotel
I’m a firm believer in the culinary arts as the ultimate art form, because you can touch all five senses,” says Chris Jakubiec, executive chef of Fire and culinary director for the Art Hotel, which is...
View ArticleChef Alex Seidel on Matt Vawter and Growing in Place at Mercantile Dining
Over the past few weeks we’ve been exploring the profound impact that chefs such as Jennifer Jasinski and Max MacKissock have had on cooks who've worked for them, people like Dana Rodriguez (Work &...
View ArticleChef Matt Sullivan Will Head the Kitchen When Choppers Custom Salads Reopens...
When Choppers Custom Salads closed earlier this year, it wasn’t because business was bad: Sales were good, and so was the food. But founder Patrick O’Neill was turning his attention toward a new...
View ArticleJeff Osaka Pours Decades of Experience Into the Broth at Osaka Ramen
I’m not the first to fall under the spell of tonkotsu ramen, with its mysteriously alluring pork broth that hides a world of flavor in every white, cloudy spoonful. Jeff Osaka, chef-owner of the...
View ArticleChef Johnny DePierro Gets Ready to Open MiJo in the Avanti Food Hall
Bones executive chef Johnny DePierro is going to have a busy summer: He’s taking on a second job at MiJo, the joint he’s launching with his sous-chef, Michael Nevarez, inside the soon-to-open Avanti...
View ArticleBlue Pan Pizza Partners Jeff Smokevitch and Giles Flanagin Turn Adversity...
Jeff Smokevitch and Giles Flanagin of Blue Pan Pizza Competition often involves rejection, and rejection can turn into a major motivation for those driven to win. Jeff Smokevitch, chef and co-owner of...
View ArticleChef Shoshana Frost Is Fired Up for the Opening of Brik on York
Brik on York’s Shoshana Frost is training the staff on the Acunto Mario Classico wood-fired oven that was shipped from Italy, then installed and put through an eight-day curing process after a month at...
View ArticleErik and Shannon Duffy Are High on the Hog at Tender Belly
Erik and Shannon Duffy were born and raised in a small Iowa town, and their grandfather raised hogs on the nearby family farm, so when they founded Tender Belly in 2010, they were returning to their...
View ArticleChef Joseph Arena Puts His Modernist Spin on the Menu at 1515
Gene Tang hired Joseph Arena as 1515 Restaurant’s new executive chef in February, a move that reflected his penchant for bringing in young talent that appreciates the restaurant’s combination of...
View ArticleSnow Creek Ranch Stakes a Claim on Farm-to-Table Dinners
In mid-June, Michael Long — a founding partner of Opus Restaurant and the current executive chef at Le Central — presented the first farm dinner at Snow Creek Ranch in Larkspur; owners Joe and Michelle...
View ArticleChef Robert Grant Returns to Colorado and Brings Baur's a Taste of His Travels
When chef Robert Grant accepted an offer from restaurateur Dory Ford to help open Baur’s Restaurant & Listening Lounge in a historic downtown space, it marked Grant’s return to Denver after a...
View ArticleBriarwood Inn Chef Jeff Jones Goes From Adventurous Dinners to Lavish Banquets
The venerable Briarwood Inn in Golden hired a new chef in May. But rather than hire an industry veteran to turn out prime rib and buffet dinners for weddings, owner Lisa Paterson — who purchased the...
View ArticleGrowing Pains: Chefs and Farmers Talk About This Year's Wild Weather
If there’s one conversation everyone in Denver has had this summer, it’s about the weather. Overcast skies and persistent downpours meant an atypically soggy spring — and now we’re into monsoon season,...
View ArticleThe Squeaky Bean's Chris MacGillivray Has a Way With Vegetables
Chris MacGillivray just started as executive chef at the Squeaky Bean in May, but he’s already an old hand in the LoDo kitchen. That’s because he’d been there before, having worked under Max MacKissock...
View ArticleMezcal to Reopen This Summer With New Menu From Chef Chris Douglas
Mezcal closed its doors in May for a renovation of the twelve-year-old kitchen and dining room — and when the Colfax Avenue cantina reopens later this summer, it will unveil more of a reboot than a...
View ArticleChef & Tell: Nick Shankland of Hideaway Kitchen + Bar
Restaurateur Alan Zizmor closed Hideaway Kitchen & Bar in Genesee last winter for a makeover, reopening in April with not just a new look, but also a new chef: the young but seasoned Nick...
View ArticleChef & Tell: Matt and Carrie Stein Talk Seafood at the Chowder Room
Two teenagers became high-school sweethearts in Westchester County, New York, a few decades ago — but as happens with most young romances, they drifted apart. So how is it that years later, the two...
View ArticleWill and Coral Frischkorn Add a Second Cured in Boulder
Will and Coral Frischkorn opened Cured in 2011 with two ideas in mind for their business. The first was that “we wanted a place with what we eat for dinner six nights a week,” says Will. The second was...
View ArticleCarbon/Habit Culinary Team Talks About Street-Smart Eats and Movie Theater Beers
The menu at the pop-culture-riddled Carbon Beverage Cafe, which just opened in the former home of Paris on the Platte, reads either like the weed-addled daydreams of a couple of sofa-bound stoners or...
View ArticleStreet-Taco Veterans Will Soon Open Villagran Restaurante on Alameda
Five years ago, when the food-truck movement was just gathering speed in Denver and some of the city's top talents (Kevin Morrison of Pinche Tacos, for example) were launching mobile kitchens as a way...
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