Soft Drinks

Photos: Sipping and sampling from Ace's 64 happy-hour cocktail combinations

The drink menu at Ace, this year's Best New Bar winner, features no shortage of cocktails -- 64 combinations, to be exact. Intrigued by the large number of options, we recently stopped by to sip and sample from Ace's new happy-hour menu, and bar manager Randy Layman was kind enough to serve up all 6 ... More >>

Restaurants selling drinks to support National Lemonade Day and childhood cancer research

Today is National Lemonade Day, and it's not just for kids. For the past few days, local restaurants have been taking a stand on this holiday, raising funds to combat childhood cancer. In 2000, four-year-old cancer patient Alexandra Scott decided to set up a lemonade stand in front of her house to ... More >>

Patrick Creager ramps up Follow That Cart, a mobile soda fountain

Someday, Patrick Creager and his wife, Ari Murdock, would like to open up a soda fountain. "I love the concept of a modern soda shop," he explains. "I really delved in behind the bar at Olivea, and I found ways to incorporate fruits and vegetables and spices and herbs with sugar as a medium. Then I ... More >>

Denver's five best restaurant scoops of ice cream and gelato

The warm weather has us constantly craving ice cream, and yesterday, we listed our five best Denver parlors. While those are the places we're most likely to go for a double-scoop cone, ice cream parlors aren't the only places in town that turn out the dessert we crave: there are quite a few Denver r ... More >>

Five ways to make public-school food and drinks healthier

When money and ethics collide, the crash is usually fun to watch. But when you throw public school meals into that mix, you get an ugly food fight with few winners and lots of losers -- and those losers are kids who are just trying to eat their lunches and get to recess.

Josh Burbank: Drinks should just heighten the experience

Yesterday, Josh Burbank, barman at Jax Fish House, showed us how he makes homemade root beer. Now he's weighing on his mentors, behind-the-bar antics gone awry, and putting his blood, sweat and tears into every drink.

Photos: Josh Burbank makes root beer at Jax Fish House

As bartenders in this town dive deeper into their craft, we've seen a lot of housemade sodas pop up on lists. Several places make their own tonic, for instance, and a few turn out their own ginger beers. We know of places trying to work out the kinks of more ambitious sodas, too, and at least one -- ... More >>

Photos: Denver gets a Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shop

Rocket Fizz Denver.​It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that adults love candy and soda pop just as much as kids. According to Patrick Evans, owner of the new Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shop at Writer's Square (technically 1512 Larimer Street), the majority of his customers a ... More >>

Oak at Fourteenth rolls out bottled housemade sodas, some with alcohol

Sarah Cowell​When Oak at Fourteenth shuttered last spring due to remodel after a fire, the staff and management seized a unique opportunity: While they scurried to get the restaurant rebuilt, they also spent the down months studying and creating so that when the place reopened, they'd be at th ... More >>

Welcome to the future: Coca-Cola's 100-flavor soda machine incites confusion, awe

Kelsey WhippleMeet Coca-Cola's freestyle soda fountain: 100 flavors to choose from before you still opt for Dr Pepper.​The Qdoba at Sixth and Grant has housed Coca-Cola's 100-flavor freestyle soda fountain for three weeks now, but the Terminator of the carbonated world is still creating lines ... More >>

What week is it? Your breakdown of obscure holidays, June 20 - 26

Go ahead, bring your dog to work.​It's the second-longest day of the year today, and not just because, like Garfield, you hate Mondays -- it's because it's the Summer Solstice tomorrow, so literally. And while solstices (solsti?) are generally holidays for pagan hippies who celebrate them by d ... More >>

Drink of the Week: Groundhog at Luca D'Italia

​ They say that Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog, did not see his shadow in Pennsylvania this morning, which means it will be an early spring. For those of us who've suffered through Denver's sub-zero temperatures these last few days, that's hopeful news -- but we also know from years past tha ... More >>

Top 16 White Elephant Christmas Gifts of 2010

Number 10.​It's the time of year for the giving and receiving so-called White Elephant gifts -- which, for those of us into kitsch stuff, can be better than receiving something allegedly classier. Understanding this, our friends at Arc Thrift Stores of Colorado have assembled their "must-have" ... More >>

ROOT Liquor pours into Colorado with parties at Bitter Bar and Colt & Gray

ROOT Flip: ROOT, Carpano Antica formula, sugar, whole egg​Colt & Gray was teeming with people last night, packed into the bar and apologizing right and left as they tripped over one another trying to maneuver the room. Clearly, if you build an open bar, they will come. And that's exactly wha ... More >>

RIP: A dozen dead (or almost-dead) soft drinks

​Soda, like most everything else in the world, has a lifespan. Some sodas live long and prosper, while others die and fade away (or, as is true of a few on this list, end up in the bargain section at Walmart). This list is devoted to those drinks that quenched our thirst, kept us awake, and ... More >>

Flour power: Want to save on sales tax? Buy a Kit Kat

​Keep chomping on your candy bar! Although several Colorado sales tax exemptions have been removed effective today, including "nonessential items related to sales of food and beverages" (i.e., to-go containers), materials used in direct mail advertising and standardized computer software, can ... More >>

Matt Selby gets called to Washington DC to cook for the Taste of America gala

Lori Midson​On Monday, February 22, Matt Selby, executive chef of Steuben's and Vesta Dipping Grill, will join 15 of the nation's top chefs and mixologists in Washington DC, as part of the Share Our Strength contingent at the Democratic Governor's Association conference. Selby, who is the chef ... More >>

Hot dog! Red Trolley responds to recent review

​My recent review of Red Trolley -- the Highland neighborhood ice cream shop turned hot dog parlor, breakfast bar and coffee shop -- was a strange one. The ice cream (the stuff the shop was founded on) is excellent almost across the board, and while I wasn't crazy about all of the hot dogs be ... More >>

Mary Jane's Relaxing Soda is a strange brew

It's not the real thing, but you may think it is​Stoners, beware! Mary Jane's Relaxing Soda does not contain pot. But 28-year-old soda jerk Matt Moody, the drink's inventor, insists that Mary Jane lives up to its name. "It's not a high, but it would be close to draw a comparison and that was ... More >>

Red Trolley needs to serve more than ice cream to stay on track through the winter. But hot dogs?

Gin and Homemade Tonic at TAG

Last night's "panic hour" at the Lancer Lounge

The Lancer Lounge is crowded, but you can sidle up to the bar easily. Which is sort of surprising, given that it's "panic hour," where well drinks and draft beer are free. I guess it helps that it's 10 p.m. on a Monday -- no time for an upstanding citizen to be drinking this much liquor -- but this ... More >>

Colicchio goes a-whorin' for Diet Coke?

On Oscar night, the entire food world was abuzz. Not because of anything that happened during the Academy Awards ceremony, but because of one of the (million and one) commercials that showed during the proceedings: namely, the Tom Colicchio Diet Coke spot that appeared to show the Top Chef judge an ... More >>

Sonic introduces new dollar menu

Following in the footsteps of such rival fast-food chains as Burger King, McDonald's and Wendy's, Sonic Drive-In is now offering twelve items for a dollar each on its new Everyday Value Menu. The deals are available all day long, and include the Jr. Deluxe Burger, Chicken Strip Sandwich, Jr. Frito ... More >>

Candy Girls: Sunkist Float Soda

Root beer float happy hour. Nuff said.

Candy Girls: Brach's Soda Poppers

Pepsi security breach

Pepsi security breach

What's All the Buzz on Agwa?

Sweet Basil Martini

Jax Fish House

Soda Pop Kids Return

Ex-members of Kill City Thrillers, Scott Baio Army and Call Sign Cobra come back for a sort of homecoming.

Out of Order

House of Kabob

Sticking with it

Drink of the Week

Tinta de Verona

From Russia, Without Love

This post-Soviet sitcom isn't worth Putin up with.

Summer Drinkin', Had Me a Blast

Take a spin through the city's coolest cocktails.

Best Movie Theater -- Comfort

Colorado Center Stadium 9

Drink of the Week

Raspberry Vodka and 7-Up

Best Comfort Food

Sam's No. 3

Drink of the Week

Negroni Martini

Soda and Water

DPS learns which schools are thirstiest for its Pepsi contract.

Off Limits

The joy of Pepsi

Best Three-Drink Maximum

Coors Brewery Tour

Best Reason to Get Hammered on Friday Night

Hangover Brunch
KVCU-AM/1190

Best Place to Buy Gifts Made in Colorado

Made in Colorado

Best plan to renovate an old venue

Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Best new concession item

Italian sodas

Supreme Beings

IT'S THE UNREAL THING

TALK ABOUT POP CULTURE! THE MERCURY CAFE'S SODA IS IN A GLASS BY ITSELF.