The Place: Panzano, 909 17th Street, 303-296-3525 The Hours: Everyday from 2:30 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $3 draft beers; $4 wines by the glass, $5 specialty cocktails; $3-4 happy hour small plates The Digs: Panzano is cool. Panzano is chic. And, most important, Panzano is comfortable. This corner restaurant…
There is nothing like the Great American Beer Festival anywhere on earth. Featuring 2,000 beers from more than 450 breweries, it is the largest craft beer fest in the world, and a trip to Denver is on the life lists of every beer lover in the United States. But it…
Breckenridge Brewery is almost old enough to drink. The company, which was founded in 1990 by Richard Squire, will celebrate its twentieth anniversary this week with a couple of parties and a nod to strong sales. Breckenridge is now the state’s third oldest microbrewery and the 46th largest nationwide…
The Great American Beer Festival has snagged Boulder chef and Top Chef Season 5 winner Hosea Rosenberg, who will give a presentation on street-food trends and beer. Rosenberg recently partnered with Laura Rice to open StrEAT Chefs, a tricked-out Airstream trailer that cruises Boulder, serving gourmet street food like tortas…
I can’t be the only person who got served multiple frostbitten glasses of sauvignon blanc during last month’s heat wave. Now that we’ve turned the corner into July where an onslaught of sweltering happy hours await us, we can only pray for salvation from glasses full of limp Rioja and…
It’s the Fourth of July weekend (yes, it is here already) and you need some beer to drink to property get into the spirit of things. Well, there’s nothing more American than Red, White and Blue, so try these beers for a truly festive fourth. Red: It’s hard to go…
Mike Henderson may have jumped ship for other projects, but the cocktail show at TAG must go on. TAG tender Brian Melton will take over lead mixology duties, while floor manager Travis Plakke will take care of the behind-the-scenes details. And in TAG’s dark basement lounge on Tuesday night, the…
Priviett Moskva! Coors recently began distributing Coors Light in Russia, where the Silver Bullet will take on the former Iron Curtain. But without Rocky Mountain Spring Water: the beer will be brewed in Moscow by Moscow Brewing Company. That’s big news, but it barely ranks in the pantheon of milestones…
Sometime around my junior or senior year of college — the details are hazy, as they should be — I began blacking out on Wednesdays. Every Wednesday, for years. That’s because a few friends got bartending and kitchen jobs at a massive bar/club in downtown Iowa City, which meant the…
Wanna know who’s applying for a liquor license in town? Tough. You’ll have to wait The City of Denver’s excise and license hearing web site hasn’t been working in a while. Instead of seeing what the next happening spot is, interested parties can only see the message: “Unknown Error. The…
Italy, Spain, Portugal and … Colorado? So says Wine Enthusiast magazine, which recently named the Wine Country Inn in Palisade one of seven favorite vineyards where you can also get some R&R, or, in its words, “sleep with the grapes.” Here’s what the mag had to say:…
The Place: Table Mountain Inn, 1310 Washington Avenue, Golden, 303-277-9898. The Hours: Daily from 3 to 6 p.m. and 9 to 11 p.m. The Deals: $5 Honcho Mesa margaritas; $3 select wines by the glass, cocktails and Colorado microbrews; $2 Coors and Budweiser; $4 and $5 appetizers…
If you haven’t already bought tickets to the Great American Beer Festival – which will make Denver the center of the beer universe September 16-18 – there is still time. But not much. Tickets went on sale Monday – at $55 a pop – and the Boulder-based Brewers Association, which…
Do you ever feel like July might as well be renamed “barbecue month”? Even though this ancient cooking method hails from the Caribbean, we Americans have utterly claimed the summertime ritual for our own. Like with so many traditions though, they can get a bit – um — old if…
The Place: Il Posto, 2011 East Seventeenth Avenue, 303-394-0100. The Hours: Sunday through Thursday from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: Discounted cocktails, half-price wines by the glass, and all tagliere and assaggini courses are half-price…
I avoid perky waitresses. I can handle friendly, even cheery, but perky annoys me the way that a tennis-ball-obsessed golden retriever annoys me. With so much panting and slobbering around me, I find it hard to relax and enjoy myself. So when I sat down at Q Worldly Barbeque and…
What separates a good wine bar from a great one? More than you’d think. It’s an elusive mix at best: Easy-to-pinpoint characteristics can surely make you love a place at first glance, but it’s the more subtle, nuanced elements that will ultimately bring you back. Here’s how the best are…
Mike Henderson may have left TAG to focus on his own project, but in the meantime, he’ll be working, at least part time, behind the bar at Colt & Gray. Yesterday marked Henderson’s first day on staff, and he started learning the ropes of the dining room and kitchen. “My…
Is Mayor John Hickenlooper’s tour around Colorado as he campaigns for governor really just an excuse for the former brewer to try out local beers? Campaign spokesman George Merritt denies it: “We certainly try to end up in local restaurants when we travel, and several times it has been a…
Hanson’s Grill & Tavern 1301 South Pearl Street 303-744-0210 www.hansonsgrill-tavern.com…
La Brisa Mexican Restaurant 375 South Pearl Street 303-282-4790…
In the basement of the Wynkoop Brewing Company, Joshua Willett and Jason Zumbrunnen are rolling out the brewery’s next big thing. Silverback Pale Ale, a brand new beer in a brand new can, will hit a limited number of liquor stores as soon as this weekend, but first the beer…
