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The Prohibition-style bar trend, which started in 2000 with Sasha Petraske's Milk & Honey, finally reached Denver last month, when restaurateur Frank Bonanno (Mizuna, Bones,...
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I often wonder how my political science major and Spanish minor have played into my career. But Alexandra Parks, a bartender who's now splitting her time between Lala's Wine...
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My strange aversion to the smell of some Asian restaurants dates back to my glamour days as an advertising exec in Manhattan, when I was barely eking out a living and my...
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When I sat down at Japoix and took my first sip of the Electric French Kiss ($11), made with Ty Ku Liquor, lemonade and a Szechuan button, I was shocked — for myriad...
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As a native Denverite, I both hate and love Boulder. Its self-righteousness sends me over the edge: Give Boulderites a chance, and they'll recite all the statistics about how...
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The devil's in the details at El Diablo, the latest project of Jesse Morreale — who also brought us La Rumba, Rockbar, the original Mezcal, Tambien and Sketch, right next...
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When I was a teenager looking for trouble in Denver, I had relatively few choices downtown. There was always Larimer Square, though, where I got into more than my fair share of...
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While I have my "go-to" cocktails, I often want to break out of my cocktail rut. And when I do, I have go-to bars where I know the mixologists can work magic. I'll tell the...
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I am a creature of habit. In the past, when I found myself at the bar at Capital Grille — which was quite often, since this steakhouse in Larimer Square is both an easy...
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I lived in New York City after college and longed for the day I could go to one of the many expensive restaurants I read about in New York magazine — but I was barely...
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I avoid perky waitresses. I can handle friendly, even cheery, but perky annoys me the way that a tennis-ball-obsessed golden retriever annoys me. With so much panting and...
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The Highland Tavern is an enigma. Wrapped in a mystery. Covered in pork. The food sounds like quintessential tavern-type fare, but it's so much better-tasting than typical...
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There are very few times when I don't care what I'm drinking. Fact is, I'm usually the annoying person asking the bartender what brand of bitters he's using and the ounce...
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About this time of year, I'm itching for sun and surf. The weather can be such a tease — it might be 70 degrees today and snowing tomorrow — that I find myself...
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The drink: Absinthe has such a splendid, uninhibited history — inspiring Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh and Oscar Wilde — that it must be great, right? And more...
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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...
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In sales, they say that it takes five good impressions to overcome a bad first impression. I know this is true, because I have, on occasion and against all odds, made a lousy...
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Salt occupies the corner that Tom's Tavern, a no-frills burger joint, held down for forty years — but the similarities end there. Salt's beautifully remodeled interior is...
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I love the National Western Stock Show and everything about it; I even love the smell from the stockyards that drifts into downtown Denver this time of year. The town is full...
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The sign on the Rackhouse Pub promises "Whiskey Beer Food." It's been a tough year, so I'm looking for signs. Life has gotten so complex that a sign, just a sign, can help...
