The Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, which celebrated its thirtieth anniversary this year, is the gastronomic and vinous equivalent of every foodie and wine lover’s mecca; it’s our golden fleece, our Holy Grail, our industry’s version of the Olympics…
Jensen Cummings, the exec chef of Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar, admits that he wasn’t always a wine nerd — especially when it comes to local juice — but a little education, he points out, goes a long way. “Not so long ago, I was uneducated and unaware of…
Like Antique Row on South Broadway or Gallery Row along Santa Fe Drive, there is a new brewery row forming in the River North and Five Points neighborhoods…
New Belgium Brewing and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. will team up this winter by opening a brewery-themed slopeside après-ski restaurant in Snowmass and a separate bar inside the newly renovated Westin Snowmass Resort…
Denver was in the mood to party on Saturday. And while things were getting wet, wild and just plain weird elsewhere in town, Great Divide Brewing was cooling things down with a suds-soaked party celebrating its eighteenth anniversary…
This experience probably would’ve been a lot more informative after an inappropriate amount of drinking the night before. The team behind a product called the Hangover Recovery Shot stopped in Denver yesterday to schmooze with potential investors at a business conference, and invited Westword to swing by and try their…
The thirteenth annual Rocky Mountain Tea Festival will fill the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse next month. In addition to the usual tea-related workshops and seminars, a special tea dinner and tea parties for the kids, this year adults will be able to enjoy a different kind of tea party: a “Tea…
Happy Place: Café|Bar, 295 South Pennsylvania Street, 303-362-0227. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $3 draft beer and well cocktails; $5 wines by the glass; $5-$8 food specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Super heroes aren’t real. Sorry. But you can drown that sad truth this weekend with a superhero beer — a collaboration between Breckenridge Brewery and Denver Comic Con, which kicked off yesterday at the Colorado Convention Center. The Fantastic Pour, a riff on the Fantastic Four, was settled on after…
As a service-industry lifer/professional, I loved Lori Midson’s list of the “Ten rudest things things customers do to make servers wish you’d never come to their restaurants.” Over the course of my 27-year career in service, I’ve seen examples of all of her top ten…and more. But what really gets…
Update: Clown Question, Bro will be tapped at 4 p.m. on Monday; clown costumes encouraged. The beer also has a logo — at right. Nineteen-year-old Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper didn’t take kindly to a question from a Toronto sports reporter about what kind of beer he planned to drink…
There’s something about the crack of a can of beer being opened that says summer: The sound is loud, proud and promises refreshment. In the past, that crack was reserved for cans of mass-market beers, but now there are dozens of choices available from Colorado’s favorite craft breweries. Here are…
Prost Brewing has pushed back its opening to late July or early August, even though the German-themed taproom plans to begin making beer next week…
True confession: We rarely go to Jax Fish House in search of amazing wine. That’s not to say that we never go there. In fact, we’ve had more meals at Jax than you can shake a fish stick at. Way back in the day when folks were still a bit…
Great Divide will celebrate eighteen years in Denver on Saturday with the brewery’s annual block party on Arapahoe Street — an event that will feature several special, one-off brews made on Great Divide’s six-month-old pilot brewing system. And all of the brewers on staff can take credit for the results…
Wit’s End Brewing, which may be Denver’s smallest beer maker, is getting bigger. Owner Scott Witsoe has purchased two three-barrel fermenting tanks from Strange Brewing, which is going through an expansion of its own. “Once I get these online, it will almost double my fermentation capacity,” says Witsoe, who started…
Wolfgang, the first beer that Great Divide tested and brewed on its now-six-month-old pilot brewing system, will hit liquor-store shelves in Colorado this week and elsewhere over the next month. The German-style dopplebock is based on the hefty, malt-forward lagers that German monks used to sustain themselves through long periods…
If you thought Denver was tired of new breweries, you thought wrong…
Jourdan Adler, the owner of The 1Up, the hip arcade/bar in LoDo, now has a second outpost of his video game-centric bar in the former Pete’s Monkey Bar space at 717 East Colfax. the 2Up. Last night, the 2Up — complete with 35 games, eight pinball machines and three skee-ball…
Happy Place: Hapa Sushi, 2780 East Second Avenue, 303-322-9554 The Hours: Daily from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. The Deals: $1-$3.50 sake specials; $2 Hapa beer; $2 nigri specials; half-priced appetizers Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Over the past few years, I’ve been fortunate enough to get to know Dale DeGroff. The driving force behind New York’s famous Rainbow Room, Dale has been widely credited with reinventing the bartending profession, setting off a cocktail explosion that continues to this day. He’s the James Beard Award-winning author…
The historic Flagstaff House, 1138 Flagstaff Road in Boulder, recently brought on sommelier Melanie Kaman to revamp its drink program — specifically its cocktail menu, which previously featured what the restaurant describes as “old-school classics.” “Some of the new drinks are just cocktails we love that weren’t already on the…
