Death Star at The Infinite Monkey Theorem Urban Winery Here we are between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s that wonderful holiday season, but it also feels like Star Wars season, with the latest installation of the Sci-Fi classic hitting cinemas later this week. Star Wars fandom is at an all-time high,…
There’s a new experimental brewery and restaurant heading to River North next year, one that plans to push boundaries when it comes to technique, style and ingredients. The brewers there have many decades’ worth of experience between them, having made everything from Belgian wits to Bavarian pilsners to American IPAs,…
Stepping into the historic 715 Club, at the corner of Welton and 26th in Five Points, is like stepping into another era. The entire bar is a museum of old Denver, with mementos from the past of both the city and original owner Charles Cousins hidden beneath a thirty-year-old layer…
The fourth annual Denver Beer Festivus lured beer lovers and their ugly sweaters to Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum on Saturday, featuring only breweries with a Denver address — nearly 50, in total. Guests got into the spirit of the fake holiday — originally created for an…
Tina Pachorek, co-owner of the Cheeky Monk and Lost Highway Brewing, has been working with the Denver Police Department’s District 6 and its commander, Tony Lopez, for years, trying to make the neighborhood around East Colfax Avenue safer. “He and his staff have been a big advocate for our area for…
Where’s the line between high class and low-end? Denver is more socially and regionally stratified than ever, but most of us end up mingling in with and among each other like enriched flour cereal squares in a bowl of Chex Mix. On the high end you have a place like…
Denver’s most brewery-centered neighborhood will get even more crowded next year when MicroStar Logistics, which supplies kegs to craft breweries around the country, moves from Greenwood Village to River North. The company will take 13,000 square feet of space in Gauge, at 35th and Wazee streets, a new project from…
History is important — especially in Denver’s white-hot real-estate market, where it seems like vestiges of the past are torn down daily to make room for new buildings — and the Wynkoop Brewing Company is a living piece of it. Not only is it housed in a 116-year-old warehouse, the…
Noble Experiment at AcornThe Noble Experiment at AcornIt’s ironic that the flavors often associated with the winter holidays actually come from tropical climates. Nutmeg, for example, is a seed plucked from trees indigenous to Indonesia. Allspice hails from Mexico and Central America. And cloves are flower buds that grow on…
In June, Denver firefighter John Whelan died after falling through a skylight on the roof of a building while fighting a fire. The night he died, a group of fellow firefighters had a drink in his honor at Tooey’s Off Colfax, a bar just a block away from Fire Station…
Climbing a fourteener. Dabs. Margaritas and Skee-Ball at Casa Bonita. A show at Red Rocks. Green chile with fat chunks of pork. There are certain things you simply must do when in Colorado, and visiting Denver’s oldest restaurant should be one of them. The Buckhorn Exchange was founded in 1893 and…
Oskar Blues makes beer. But the Longmont-based company also runs restaurants, manages a farm, build bicycles, produces root beer, buys and sells property, sponsors auto races — and now, it brews coffee as well. To celebrate its company, Hotbox Roasters (which produces three different roasts from Kenya, Bolivia and Indonesia),…
American craft breweries have been shaking up the European beer world over the past few years by exporting their big bold flavors overseas. Now an Italian brewer wants to bring Italian-style beers to the United States. Alex Liberati, a restaurateur and owner of the Revelation Cat gypsy brewery in Rome,…
The Groni at Dos Santos Taqueria de Mexico “I think this has been a little bit of a dark horse compared to our other cocktails,” says Raul Ramos, bartender at Dos Santos Taqueria de Mexico. Most of the cocktails he serves at the Uptown taco shop are tequila-heavy, but the…
Cerebral Brewing opened last weekend on East Colfax Avenue, and drinking beer there is like going back to science class but a lot more fun. Founded by Sean Buchan, Chris Washenberger and Dan McGuire, the brewery takes its name and its theme from the professional backgrounds of Washenberger, a molecular biologist,…
It’s become caught up in a life of brunch, curing meat, cannabis and yoga. This is Denver, after all. With the opening of his Boulder restaurant Blackbelly Market, Chef Hosea Rosenberg’s interests encompass those hobbies and far beyond. A ways away from the extravagance of West Boulder, Blackbelly still does…
Tickets for the third annual Collaboration Fest — an event that has quickly become one of Colorado’s signature beer parties — went on sale yesterday for $50 a pop ($75 for VIP) at collaborationfest.com. Collaboration Fest will take place on March 19, 2016, at Sports Authority Field at Mile High,…
Green Girls of Paris at Black Eye CoffeeWhen bartenders love an ingredient — the way it tastes, the way it smells, the way it’s made, the story behind it — they find a way to create a cocktail centered on that ingredient. When the the first drops of the cocktail…
1515 Restaurant has been undergoing some changes to the ground-floor lounge and bar. Owner Gene Tang is already committed to modern, cutting-edge cuisine in the kitchen, and now that modern flair is being reflected in the bar’s decor and cocktail program. The dining room at 1515 is on the second floor,…
A number of things have changed at the Squeaky Bean, but Farrah Fawcett still watches over all the comings and goings. Her candlelit memorial is a touchstone every time I return to the Bean, through chef changes, ups and downs and meals both inspiring and confusing. Though I love sitting…
It’s brilliant marketing: Engender lots of goodwill from the buying public and plenty of national attention by eschewing profits for one day, Black Friday. Then watch that goodwill pay off later — in the form of big bucks. REI pulled off a nice PR coup earlier this month when it…
Colorado brewers are a proud bunch, proud of their beer, of their profession and of their state – which is why many of them have made small batches of beer that use only ingredients made or grown in Colorado. But finding those ingredients isn’t easy. There’s one one independent grain…
