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…
If the president can do it, so can everyone else. What Colorado needs now are more sudsy sit-downs. Here’s an example (see our previous pairings here, here and here): Dispute: Bill Ritter vs. Labor Unions and his own party Beer: Steamworks Brewing Company’s Colorado Kolsch Ouch. It’s not easy fighting…
Many restaurants will be offering specials tonight to coincide with First Friday, and the Infinite Monkey Theorem winery, at the edge of the Santa Fe Arts District at Fifth and Santa Fe, is even hosting a wine-tasting at 5 p.m. with light bites from Masterpiece Delicatessen. For info, call 970-260-0710…
A gigantic painting of a can of Dale’s Pale Ale is nearing completion on a silo outside of the Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids & Solids, the brewery which makes Dale’s. This is what the can, which we wrote about here, looked like as of about 4 p.m. on Thursday, August…
Starting next week, you can enjoy some alcohol with your meal at An’s Lemongrass Grille — at least the downtown location at 1617 California Street. It was recently awarded a liquor license, and the plan is to start serving beer and wine, and maybe some sake as well. The local…
If the president can do it, so can everyone else. What Colorado needs now are more sudsy sit-downs. Here’s an example (see our previous pairings here and here): Dispute: Union Station vs. government agencies, developers and civic groups Beer: Wynkoop Brewing Company’s Light Rail Ale C’mon, folks. Union Station is…
During a recent happy hour, I became incredibly fascinated with what I’m going to call the “tip-o-matic” (okay, so I ripped off the term from a fellow happy-hour comrade), a wheel-and-chain dispenser of a certain alcoholic liquid that’s stored in what used to be an army water bottle. The apparatus…
If the president can do it, so can everyone else. What Colorado needs now are more sudsy sit-downs. Here’s an example (see yesterday’s sudsy sit-down here): Dispute: Brandon Marshall vs. Josh McDaniels Beer: Great Divide Brewing Company’s Hercules Double IPA When it comes to dick-swinging contests, everything’s got to be…
When this place decided to introduce its first happy hour this summer, it dove right in. So now, seven days a week from 3 to 6 p.m., you can dive right into a bucket of six Coronas for just $15. Where am I drinking? (First correct answer gets a free…
No big deal: Just four guys having a beer and settling a brewhaha. That’s what Barry, Joe, Hank and Jim did last week (with Colorado’s Blue Moon in a starring role). It’s something that happens all over the world, millions of times a day. In fact, it worked well enough…
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…
Lunch: There’s a very good reason why Pho 95, the Vietnamese soup and noodle shack at 1002 South Federal Boulevard, is ridiculously busy morning, noon and night: The service is by far the best on the Boulevard and the pho, rich, steaming hot and fragrant with anise, is phenomenal, not…
Beginning today and continuing through August 23, The Capital Grille, the terrific steakhouse at 1450 Larimer Street, is uncorking a six-week Master Wine Tasting event, whereby 12 different South African and Napa Valley wines, all selected by George Milotes, the cow palace’s corporate Master Sommelier, will be available for $10…
This triple-threat flight of margaritas — one Coin-style, one watermelon, one caliente — are just the thing to get your weekend off to a very happy start. If you can find them, that is. Where am I drinking?…
It’s not quite on the same tap as the Great American Beer Festival, which flows down on Denver on September 24 at the Colorado Convention Center, but the toddler-aged Greater Boulder Beer Festival, which turns two this year, isn’t exactly a slacker when it comes to suds. Sure, it’s small…
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?…
If the pundits are to be believed, the entirety of our country’s centuries-old racial upheaval will be solved today with the cracking open of a couple cold ones. After President Barack Obama ignited a fiery national debate on race relations last week by weighing in on the controversial arrest of…
Today marks the first day of the Wine Festival at Steamboat, a four-day food-and-wine event that includes cooking demonstrations, food and wine seminars, grand tastings, fly-fishing and mountain biking, food and wine day trips, and the uncorking of more than 800 domestic and international bottles of vino. Headlining Colorado’s culinary…
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…
The White House could get a little taste of Denver this week if President Barack Obama is able to pull off a meeting over beers Thursday between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge, Massachusetts police sergeant James Crowley, who arrested Gates on July 16 at his own home. While…
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…
