It’s not about winning. It’s about fun. Especially when you get your ass handed to you both by Denver’s monthly lifestyle magazine, 5280, and by the Tambien Beer Pong girls, who use every asset to their advantage. If Westword had won, it would have been about winning and fun. But…
Inside Len & Bill’s Lounge (2301 South Broadway), time has seemingly stopped. And I’m not just saying that because it’s a lazy way of describing how run-down everything is. When I wander in on an enervated afternoon, cop a lean on the creaky wooden bar and watch as John, the…
I saw this bumper sticker affixed to a light pole outside a brewery in a little mountain town last week, but the brewery wasn’t Rosie’s Brewpub and the town wasn’t Leadville. Instead, someone had decided to celebrate Rosie’s, which closed May 30, just a few feet from the front door…
The Lancer Lounge is crowded, but you can sidle up to the bar easily. Which is sort of surprising, given that it’s “panic hour,” where well drinks and draft beer are free. I guess it helps that it’s 10 p.m. on a Monday — no time for an upstanding citizen…
Cans of Breckenridge Brewery’s Avalanche Ale began rolling out of the plant this week and into liquor stores, just in time to catch the heart of the summer season. Breckenridge, which is borrowing its canning line from Ska Brewing Company in Durango, will also supply concert venues, golf courses and…
I rarely drink rum, but during a recent dinner at an unnamed Denver restaurant whose food happens to pair very well with rum, I broke off my commitment to wine and beer and sipped several sniffers of the potent stuff, which seemed like a smart idea at the time, but…
Il Posto, the Italian trattoria at 2011 East 17th Street, already has expanded hours (at least, by Denver standards), offering dinner Sunday through Thursday until 11:30 p.m. and until midnight on Friday and Saturday, and now, the buzzy Uptown restaurant has stretched its daily happy hour to include an extra…
Denver will get a new tap house later this summer when Eric Warner opens the Rackhouse Pub in the building recently purchased by Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey. Warner, the former head of Flying Dog Brewery (which moved from Denver to Maryland in 2008), says the place will have fifty beer handles…
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…
This hunka hunka burning love got his sunburn in the line of duty: Standing in the sun on the 16th Street Mall, hawking the very venue where we are now drinking…and gambling through the night, thanks to the passage of Amendment 50…
If Elvis is here, can Michael Jackson be far behind? All bets are off.Big clue to our location below:…
After two months of moving – and twelve- to fifteen-hour work days – Jess Graber, Jake Norris and the rest of the Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey crew are just about up and running in their new digs inside the former Heavenly Daze Brewery at 200 South Kalamath Street. And they’ve leased…
A new bar in town stocks not just quality booze, but a handy library of reference volumes to settle bets.Except this one: Bet you can’t guess which bar this is……
Tonight, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.,Morton’s in the Denver Tech Center, 8480 East Belleview Avenue, is uncorking five different Argentinian Malbec wines for oenophiles willing to fork over $45 for plenty of sips, plus hors d’oeuvres, including cheeses, sliced tenderloin with chimichurri sauce, broiled sea scallops and miniature hot chocolate…
It was just a matter of time before the Ritz-Carlton, Denver’s swankiest slumbering pad at 1881 Curtis Street, realized that you’re only as good as your happy hour, which has never been one of the Ritz’s gazillion amenities – until now, anyway. Now, if you’re a guest at the hotel,…
“This here’s an Indian hangout,” Gary reveals to me and three friends just a few minutes after we’ve bellied up to the bar he’s tending. Although there are no Native Americans present right now, he says that during the March PowWow, the owner brings in three bouncers at night just…
It’s not too late to make reservations for the single malt scotch tasting at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, slated for Thursday, June 25 at 6:30 p.m. But if you want to sample the slew of Britain’s best single malts — MaCallan, Famous Grouse and Highland Park Scotch,…
Members of the Colorado Bartenders Guild took first, second and third at the Bombay Sapphire regional cocktail competition on Tuesday night. Coming in third, Mike Henderson of TAG; second, Sean Kenyon of Steuben’s and Vesta Dipping Grill. And in first place? Anika Zappe, the musician/mixologist at Root Down. Zappe won…
I know you’ve been worried. Or worried-ish. But rest assured that, unlike their peers up at Molson Coors in Canada, the approximately 2,800 employees at MillerCoors in Golden will continue to get their 864 free beers a year … for now. Last week, I read that Molson Coors — the…
A number of Denver restaurants have bars that just do everything right. The restaurateurs recognize the importance of a comfortable bar setting. The bartenders are professionals who understand the complexity of a cocktail — and the simple value of a substantial pour. And the chefs realize that it’s important to…
Eighty-two year-old JoAnn Turner, who bought the Rustic Tavern (5126 West 29th Avenue) with her husband 52 years ago and continues to oversee its daily operations, is showing me her photo albums. There’s so-and-so: His dog got hit by a car and we buried it out back. There’s Uncle Fred:…
