Studio F’s Inaugural Pop-Up Dinner
James Mazzio’s new Studio F hosts star chef Charles Dale & winemaker John Sutcliffe in short-run “restaurant” James Mazzio, an award-winning chef of considerable local renown, recently launched a multi-faceted, multi-layered food venue in LoDo’s landmark Ice House. At the entrance, the Red Star Deli is a weekday operation serving perhaps the best and most imaginative sandwiches in the city. [...]
Frasca on Gayot’s Top 40 List
Much-honored Boulder eatery honored yet again Gayot, which describes itself as putting out ”restaurant, hotel, travel & other witty reviews by a handpicked, worldwide team of discerning professionals,” has just resleased its 2012 Restaurant Issue. Boulder’s Frasca Food & Wine (chef, Lachlan Mckinnon-Patterson) is one of their selected top 40 US restaurants – the only one in Colorado [...]
Virtual Revisit to Louie & The Redhead Lady
A few minutes of food TV stirred up a Louisiana breakfast memory We were just channel surfing when The Food Channel’s “Diners Drive-Ins & Dives” hit the crest of a wave that I rode straight into the realm of reminiscence. We happened to catch the beginning of one of Guy Fieri’s visits — just as [...]
Two from Colorado & One Ex Are Beard Finalists
The James Beard Foundation has announced the semi-finalists for the annual James Beard Awards, to be presented in New York on May 7. Frasca Food and Wine in Boulder and Jennifer Jasinski, chef/owner of Rioja, Euclid Hall and Bistro Vendome (all on/near Denver’s Larimer Square), respectively in the outstanding Wine Program and the Best Chef [...]
Good Food in Frisco at Bagali’s
Contemporary cuisine in low-key mountain town Once upon a time, there were three Bagali’s restaurants (Vail, Frisco and Broomfield), all related by cross-pollinated ownership. Today, there is just one, and it has recently changed hands. Chef Michal Ulehla and his wife Joyce now run Bagali’s in Frisco. They continue offering the type of Italian specialties that Bagali’s has [...]
Broadmoor to Get a New Top Toque
Chef Sigi Eisenberger leaving the kitchen to start farming The Broadmoor, which opened in 1918 and is Colorado’s most highly honored resort both for hotel services and for dining, has had only four executives chefs in its extraordinary history. It will soon get a fifth. After two decades as top toque at the storied Colorado [...]
Two Colorado Chefs Vying for F&W Honors
Lon Symensma, owner chef of Cho-Lon Modern Asian Bistro, has been nominated for Food & Wine magazine’s Best New chef honors — the only Denver chef in the running this year. Will Nolan, executive chef at Eight K Restaurant in the Viceroy Hotel in Snowmass Village and formerly with the Palace Restaurant in Durango, is also [...]
