Small plates, big flavors. Where am I drinking — and eating — and drinking?…

Who doesn’t love an occasional gin and tonic? During the summer in landlocked Denver, a gin and tonic makes me feel like part of the yachting set, like I should be wearing Docksiders and screaming, “Hoist the mainsail! Batten down the hatches!” The gin and tonic is an invention of…

The happy-hour taco deals are enough to make anyone happy here. And on Mondays, the deals run all night…

Every week, Drink of the Week columnist Nancy Levine gets behind the bar with a local mixologist. Now serving: Mike Henderson, bar manager at TAG. How did you get into bartending? After college, I got a job as a doorman at a bar called Paul’s Club in Madison, Wisconsin. I…

Guess where I’m drinking this behemoth margarita? Not the best margarita I’ve ever had, but definitely one of the largest…

On Saturday, August 15, the Rio Grande will celebrate ten years of pouring on the fun — and pouring out the booze — in LoDo. This homegrown chain is a margarita powerhouse; with only six restaurants, the Rio Grande restaurant group claims to be the largest seller of Jose Cuervo…

Bet you can’t drink three of them……

I hated the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. For a year the PR hype machine had told me how great it was going to be, and then everyone I know who saw it told me how great it was and how much I’d love it. So by the time I…

Party! party! You don’t need a special occasion to enjoy a mojito here, but it doesn’t hurt.Guess where I’m drinking, and there will be a mojito with your name on it at the bar…

The first time someone asked if I’d like to try Shochu, I replied, “God bless you.” The correct answer should have been, “Ohhhhh, yes. I’ve heard that Shochu is delicious.” Because it is. If you’ve never tried Shochu, you’re missing out. Shochu is a distilled liquor made from barley, sweet…

Figuring out where I’m drinking should be easy; there’s a hint in the photo. Figuring out what will be harder, since you can’t find this drink in any other Denver bar, although it’s making a comeback on the East Coast. What is it — and where?…

Back in college, while reading some novel set in Prague, I became obsessed with visiting that city. I finally managed to get there a few years ago, and I loved everything about it — except the food. While I enjoy pork, I don’t enjoy it at every meal. And that…

Last night I attended the first of a quintet of dinners coming from the Denver Five, the merry band of chefs who’ve represented Denver so ably by cooking at the renowned James Beard House in New York City the last two years. The group consists of Tyler Wiard (Elway’s), Jamey…

Booze, glorious booze. Last night the fine folks from the Denver Independent Network of Restaurants (DINR), the Colorado Wine Board, the Colorado Brewers Guild and the Colorado Distillers Guild held a Colorado wine-, beer- and spirits-tasting event that packed the Walker Fine Art Gallery with more than sixty different wines,…

Happy hour starts in five minutes here. Where am I drinking? …

Primebar brought a big new concept to the old Palomino space. And when I say “big,” I mean huge: 12,000 square feet, with 400 seats inside and 100 more on the patio that fronts Skyline Park and looks out on the 16th Street Mall, as well as bars in the…

While some people are enjoying the great outdoors this weekend, others of us are enjoying the greatest of the indoors: dark, dissolute bars. Where am I drinking?…

The minute LoHi SteakBar opened its doors in the transformed North Star Brewery space last week, I was there to try a few of the cocktails that bar manager Dan Guaydacan has concocted. And no sooner had I sat down than Joe Vostrejs, the COO of Larimer Associates who’s behind…