Robert Thompson, who owns Argyll, which just closed in Cherry Creek (but will reopen in 2012 in the Baker ‘hood) and the soon-to-be-open Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, which has taken over the former Baur’s space downtown and Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink, slated to open in…
Happy Place: La Loma, 2527 West 26th Avenue, 303-433-8300 The Deals: $6.50-$7.50 margaritas; $2.75 draft beers; $4 house wines; $4-8 appetizer specials The Hours: Monday through Saturday from 2 to 6 p.m. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
After spending two-and-a-half years and a boatload of money on research, Molson Coors learned that women don’t drink beer. At least, 79 percent of the women they studied don’t drink beer. And since that represents a sizable market untouched by the brewing industry, the company decided to craft a beer…
Gary Vaynerchuk, New York Times-bestselling author and host of the Daily Grape video podcast, has real power with wine purchasers. And when he said that the 2007 Guy Drew Vineyards Metate, from a vineyard in Cortez, was “surprisingly good,” the viewers that regularly leave 700-plus comments on his daily video…
So many delicious rosés, so few languid, warm-weather days to enjoy them. This is simultaneously our favorite and most dreaded part of the summer; the temps are sizzling (which we love), but the days are getting shorter (which we hate). The sad fact of the matter is that there are…
Denver’s Del Norte Brewing, which specializes in summer-friendly Mexican-style lagers, is looking for help coming up with a Spanish-language name for its latest beer (its sixth), a Bohemian Pilsner. “We have a few in mind, but are always up for some suggestions,” the company says on its Facebook page –…
“Get ready for the fight of your lives.” That was the advice barked at Jeff Smokevitch and Giles Flanigan, the owners of Brown Dog Pizza, a Telluride-based pizzeria that had inked a lease on a vacant, build-out space on South Gaylord Street where they wanted to open a second Brown…
I’m the first one to bitch and moan about how all the great dives in Denver are disappearing — but then when someone like Frank Bonanno (Mizuna, Luca D’Italia, Osteria Marco, Bones and Green Russell) comes in and gentrifies the hell out of one of those dives, I can’t wait…
A coalition of fourteen Colorado brewers are getting ready to release Buddha Nuvo, one of the most expensive, most unusual beers ever made in Colorado. A Belgian-style saison, the beer was designed around the brightly-colored and exotically-shaped Buddha’s Hand fruit, along with grains of paradise, 175 pounds of pumpkin and…
Happy Place: The Irish Snug, 1201 East Colfax Avenue, 303-839-1394 The Hours: Daily from 3 to 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. to midnight. The Deals: Two-for-one draft beers, well drinks, and house wines by the glass; $3.95-$4.95 appetizer specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Williams & Graham, a new speakeasy that’s the vision of Todd Colehour, a former head honcho at Kona Grill, was slated to open in June with cocktail-tender Sean Kenyon. Until recently, Kenyon had been the star-tender at the now-closed Squeaky Bean, spearheading the beverage program. He was set to oversee…
It was late last year when we started spying beer cocktails in bars. There were just a few at first, and most of them were basic twists on micheladas or other fizzy drinks — experimental and not always tasty. But lately, the beer cocktail has become a veritable trend, with…
There are only a dozen or so bars or restaurants in Denver that have been around for four decades under the same ownership. It’s an exclusive club, and those who have been inducted are a testament to hard work — and in some cases to hard drinking. The Bull &…
The Cook Street School of Fine Cooking has educated many aspiring chefs — and now the school wants to do the same for aspiring sommeliers, as well as those who simply want to learn more about wine. On July 26, Cook Street will open its Wine Annex, a space within…
Adam Dunbar was only at Encore for seven months, but during his time there he made sweeping changes to the cocktail program, helping the restaurant transform into a serious spot for libations. Pre-Prohibition classics and innovative concoctions filled the beverage board, which included the best martini in town. But now…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with 25 years behind the bar, including at some of this town’s most liquid assets, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of…
Star-tender Sean Kenyon had all of his cocktail recipes ready to go for the late July opening of the Occidental, a cocktail bar that would have taken over the Squeaky Bean, which closed last month when owner Johnny Ballen and his landlord — ARV Holdings, the entity run by the…
I’m hitting the highway soon for a little Colorado summer road trip. But before I pack the tent, the beef jerky, the CDs or even the cooler, I’m stashing my copy of The Beer Drinker’s Guide to Colorado map (fifth edition!) above the sun visor…
Scott Witsoe loves beer. He loves to brew it, to drink it and think about it. Talk with him just once, and his enthusiasm for hops, barley and yeast foams over like a beer poured too quickly. “I love the process of brewing,” he says. “It’s like a Zen moment…
Last month we attended the first annual Colorado Winefest – Denver, and for the first time tasted a number of truly delicious, locally produced wines we could recommend to you without pause. So you can certainly understand how we were legitimately fired up about an already scheduled wine-tasting trip to…
New Belgium Brewing announced this week that it will add a massive new canning line to its fifty-acre Fort Collins compound. When construction is complete, the brewery will have the ability to can around thirty percent of its total output. But just because it can doesn’t mean it will, says…
The Great American Beer Festival sold out — all 55,000 or so tickets — in an amazing seven days this year, or roughly twelve weeks before the world’s biggest beerapalooza begins on September 29. Last year’s fest sold out about five weeks before the event, while the 2009 festival didn’t…
