People sure are funny about buying wine. Some go with a friend’s recommendation. Lots of people buy whatever’s on sale, or falls within their own personal “less than $12 is too cheap, but more than $20 is too expensive” wine price-to-quality indicator scale. Certain folks only buy wines which have…
Steve Horner, go back to your corner. This week, Westword received a packet that contained copies of a dozen letters sent to Horner, the anti-ladies’ night crusader, from Steven Chavez, director of the Colorado Division of Civil Rights, all dated March 11 and all starting this way: “This letter is…
5:00 p.m. Arrive home, shuck off Working Professional disguise and gear up with the official uniform of St. Pat’s: green t-shirt, jeans, and comfy shoes for jigging. 5:15 p.m. Hustle to the bar to meet crew, shoving a sandwich engineered for maximum booze-sponging capabilities into mouth. Curse green clad revelers…
The Place: Olivea, 719 East Seventeenth Avenue, 303-861-5050 The Hours: Sunday through Friday from 5 until 7 p.m. The Deals: $5 select wines by the glass and small plates…
Dazzle, at 930 Lincoln Street, is already a great jazz bar with an incredibly expansive happy hour, both in terms of items — big burgers and fries (with homemade ketchup) for $5, a pot roast slider that’s a meal in itself for just two bucks — and hours (4 to…
Perfection is fleeting: snowmen melt, flowers fade, breasts sag. But sometimes you catch something at its apex and enjoy it for all it’s worth — until it’s gone. That is the story of bottomless mimosas at Sputnik, the hipster hangout at 3 South Broadway, which used to offer a $5…
Beer hasn’t always been delivered by truck. In the early 1900s, it took a horse and carriage to get Denver’s suds from the brewery to the bar. Although the tradition died after prohibition, the Wynkoop Brewing Company plans to bring it back. “I’ve got a horseman, two horses and an…
Denver has its fair share of watering holes where you can grab a green beer and official Irish grub on St. Paddy’s Day, but the reopening of Clancy’s Irish Pub is good news for anyone in the western suburbs. The Wood family purchased the restaurant, located at 10117 West 37th…
I always knew Happy/Bitter Bar’s Mark Stoddard was driven, but I didn’t realize he wanted to take on the world. In New York City last Sunday, Stoddard, Todd Thrasher (Washington, D.C.) and Sean Hoard (New York) were all named Cocktail World Cup U.S. finalists. And in a week, Stoddard will…
More than 20 breweries will be on tap this Saturday at Govnr’s Park, 672 Logan Street, for a brew fest fundraiser to benefit the International Rett Syndrome Foundation. A mere $15 grants you entry into the event, which begins at 5 p.m. and includes a souvenir glass and all the…
Sick of that 3.2 swill at 7-Eleven? Tired of waiting for legislators to give you permission to buy a bottle of vodka at a grocery store? You may get a chance to change the rules yourself, if Initiative 48 makes the November ballot. Although a proposal to allow convenience stores…
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery’s locations across the country are holding their annual fundraiser this week to raise money for fire departments and related charities. Although the Louisville-based chain typically allows each of its restaurants to brew their own beers, all of them used the same recipe for Fire Chief…
A great big glass garage door, open for warm weather, facing Sixth Avenue; more booths and tables with stools; a back-patio-length green paint job, aluminum roof and industrial heater; high-def flat-screen televisions and Golden Tee and Silver Strike video games; touch-screen point-of-sale registers; clean bathrooms with space to stretch out,…
The Star Bar, at 2137 Larimer Street, still hasn’t reopened after it was busted for serving underage drinkers; after getting popped for its fourth underage violation in as many years, the Border, a University of Denver institution at 2014 South University, shut down altogether last fall. (It reopened under new…
With 1,500 craft breweries across the country making tens of thousands of different beers every year, it’s getting hard to come up with new names. So Twisted Pine Brewing in Boulder is asking for help by running a contest on Twitter and Facebook soliciting the perfect moniker for a vanilla-oaked…
The Place: Delite 32 South Broadway; 303-722-1278. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 until 7 p.m. The Deal: Appetizers range from $2 to $4; all beer, well drinks and select red and white wines by the glass are half-price…
Spring is almost here, which means that thoughts will soon turn from warming plates of spaghetti to spaghetti straps. And ladies, here’s the best news yet for those of you who want to get rid of the winter wear around your midsection: Dr. Lu Wang, a preventive health expert at…
If you tipped a microbrew in 2009, then you did your part for the craft brewing industry. If you tipped more than one – and you know who you are – then you helped contribute to a record year that saw both production and sales figures grow. Craft brewers sold…
Roasted bone marrow. Beef cheeks and fennel fronds. Lamb bacon. If you’re like most Americans, you have absolutely no idea what these foods are and you’ve never even considered eating them. Let’s try this again: Edamame beans. Free-range chicken. Balsamic vinegar and fresh mozzarella. Even if you don’t have these…
This may come as a huge surprise, but if I had to choose between having to give up alcohol or coffee, I’d probably give up alcohol. Its true! The only thing I love more than a frosty cold adult beverage is a steaming hot latte. The only hints that I’ll…
It’s 1:15 a.m. on a Friday and you want to take the party back to your place, but the liquor cabinet and fridge are both empty, and the liquor stores all closed at midnight. What do you do?…
The drink: Maraschino Liqueur is nothing like the neon-colored cherries that came in your Shirley Temples. This multifaceted, very aromatic liqueur — one of the few liqueurs that is distilled — is a delicious retro spirit that many bartenders are wild about today. It dates back to 1821, when the…
