If you recently went looking for Häagen-Dazs in the Cherry Creek mall, instead you no doubt found a sleek frozen yogurt vendor with a line of self-serve dispensers and a toppings bar floating oddly close to the flow of passerbyers. Cherry On Top is the latest entry in a string…
Rich Grant, the beer-loving communications director for Visit Denver, is looking for the perfect Colorado cocktail. Denver already enjoys a reputation as the Napa of craft brewing — but Grant thinks we could use an emblematic cocktail, too. Something he could pour out for visiting journalists to give them a…
HHorton sees a Hooter. If you’re into breasts and thighs for happy hour, there’s no better place to find them than your local Hooters, where the servers wear skimpy attire and hang on your every word, if not your wallet. Cassie Smith of Roseville, Michigan, had been hoofing it at…
Colorado Winery Row, 4640 Pecos Street, is introducing a new monthly concert series; from 5 to 8 p.m. on select Fridays, you can enjoy live music and $5 glasses of wine…
It’s spring cocktail season, and you know what that means: the drinking is easy. And at the Hotel Teatro, which houses Prima and Restaurant Kevin Taylor, sommelier Brandon Tebbe has concocted the Summer-tini, a cocktail shaken with Vodka14, a Colorado organic vodka that’s distilled in the Rockies. “It’s a top…
Jamie Boudreau, a pioneer of molecular mixology, is a bartender’s bartender. That was evidenced by the crowd that gathered yesterday when he stopped by Boulder’s Bitter Bar for a public cocktail seminar on St-Germain, a seductive elderflower liqueur he represents when he’s not shaking or stirring somewhere in Seattle. There…
The Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, which owns several bagel and coffee chains, including Einstein Bros, recently announced that it will start using cage-free eggs in its stores. “We’re proud to be launching this initiative and believe that moving in this direction will help improve the treatment of hens,” says James…
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Strange Brewing Company, Denver’s newest craft beer maker, opened for business Wednesday, pouring its Paint It Black Stout and Strange Pale Ale for friends, family and beer lovers who showed up to toast the place. Located in a business park at 13th Avenue and Zuni Street, Strange was founded by…
Chipotle Mexican Grill, the ever-expanding Denver-based burrito chain, which just opened its first international store in London, is now upping the ante in the local produce department by committing to use 50 percent of at least one produce item from locally grown sources in its restaurants. In Colorado, that means…
Last week, during one of our recent torrential downpours, I ducked into a restaurant to dry off and shake off the shivers with a hearty bowl of steaming minestrone soup. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Oak Tavern exec chef Jeremy Roosa. To read part one of that interview, click here. Proudest moment as a chef: I’m always growing and learning, so I would like to think my proudest moment has yet to really happen. Looking back,…
Tonight, garden designer and cookbook author Lucinda Hutson will speak at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1005 York Street, as part of the Bonfils-Stanton Lecture Series. The garden will host an herb-garden tour at 5:15 and a Slow Food Denver tasting at 6 p.m.; the lecture starts at 7. Admission is…
Tonight at Vita, 1575 Boulder Street, the restaurant is offering two-for-one wine by the glass — with more than twenty varieties to choose from — plus $3 draft beers and $4 well cocktails to benefit Sports for a Cause…
There are more than forty restaurants in Denver’s Lower Highland neighborhood, and that’s if you stop counting at I-25. Extend the boundary by one block to the Platte River and you pick up another seven: a sushi place, a gourmet pizza shop, a wine bar/coffee shop, a date-night destination, a…
Back in February, trudging drunkenly down the middle of High Street in near-whiteout blizzard conditions, Darren and I decided that if the just-opened Jezebel’s could hold on through the winter in its outskirts-of-town location, we’d have found our summer spot, our walking-distance watering hole — the Holy Grail for Cole…
The Mercury Café isn’t known for its beer-drinking masses. Tango dancing, slam poetry, organic snacks? Definitely. Beer? Not so much. But the thirty-plus-year-old club/cafe/community gathering place nevertheless sells more beer made by Wynkoop Brewing than any other place in town – aside from the Wynkoop itself. It beats out the…
This classic dive was recently purchased by a new owner, who did a little updating inside — including adding the new “signage” hyping the patio. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered…
The Place: The Avenue Grill, 630 East Seventeenth Avenue, 303-861-2820. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. The Deal: $5 martinis; $3-4 draft beers; $4-5 house wines; $3-6 appetizers…
I love Paula Deen. I mean, which other high-profile chef whose mug is plastered all over your TV screen, gets hit in the face with a ham, loads her promotional videos with lewd sex talk and profanity, accidentally drops her pants, revealing her beige granny undies, while strutting across the…
After last Saturday’s “Spring Chicken” Hush Denver dinner on the roof of the Denver Art Museum Residences, the chefs from Sweet Basil pined for a platter of tacos, which they got in abundance (and happily shared) at a local restaurant renowned for its Mexican grub. Can you guess where I’m…
The city’s band of Brothers is about to get larger. As Jon Solomon reports in this week’s Bar Back column, the former Red Room at 320 East Colfax Avenue will soon be home to Uptown Brothers Brewing Company, which is slated to open May 24. But unlike My Brother’s Bar,…
