If you’re an experienced happy-hour hustler, trolling the city for $3 wells and half-price burgers, you’re used to the routine: meager pours of booze, undercooked and indifferently presented food, and the kind of service doldrums that seem to arrive with happy hour — generally right around the end of everyone…
What did your grandparents eat when they stopped for a bite on the road? What kind of Colorado cuisine was served to tourists fresh from Stapleton Airport? And what did Playboy Bunnies graze on in-between dances? At 11 a.m. today at the History Colorado Center, Library Director Laura Ruttum Senturia…
The flood that raged through Lyons last fall left the town temporarily isolated from the outside world. So when the waters receded and the rebuilding began, restaurateurs and Lyons residents Katie Baum and De’Anna Duncan wanted to bring a new community space to Main Street, restoring some of what had…
People would laugh until they cried when Lori Callahan took the stage at Comedy Works South. And on April 13, both laughter and tears poured out as friends, family members and Callahan’s fellow comics gathered in the room where the redheaded comic had slung jokes for years, taking their turn…
It’s the ultimate in wearable tech. Google Glass lets you see the future, and Galaxy Gear lets you put the future on your wrist. But the Ambrosia Vibe lets you fuck the future. Developed by Denver-based Orgasmatronics Inc., the strap-on Ambrosia Vibe promises to be the first-ever bionic strap-on dildo,…
People would laugh until they cried when Lori Callahan took the stage at Comedy Works South. And on April 13, both laughter and tears poured out as friends, family members and Callahan’s fellow comics gathered in the room where the redheaded comic had slung jokes for years, taking their turn…
Summer heat and bountiful sunshine are bringing more food trucks to Denver’s streets than ever before this year. From events like Civic Center Eats and the upcoming Best of Denver’s Gourmet Street Food Tour — and even right to your office — thrill-seeking diners can play tourist with international cuisine…
What was your first cocktail? I recently found myself at Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace, the place where I had my first-ever drink. Er, first legal drink, that is. With a tasty mezcal cocktail in front of me, and a light crowd of happy-hour Banana Republic professionals around me,…
No matter how much fun you have at a bar in Denver, there’s always the melancholy time when the lights go up and everyone has to pay the tab and head home. If you’re unlucky, the bouncer will shove you out. If you’re especially unfortunate, the DJ will play Semisonic’s…
When Colorado booze manages to infiltrate the secretive San Francisco market, it’s time to take notice. A recent trip to the Other Queen City found bottles of Leopold Bros. Highland Amaro Fernet being downed. This, in a place where Fernet Branca, the leading manufacturer of the bitter-tasting stuff, draws 40…
The second annual DSTILL conference is bringing distillers, bartenders and garden-variety boozehounds to Denver to celebrate the burgeoning art of Colorado craft distilling. Before the big players of alcohol start pourin’ at tonight’s big Showcase event at the McNichols Building, DSTILL invited participants to tour a handful of Boulder distilleries,…
When the 33-year-old Denverite Jeff Pickles collected 3,333,360 points on a vintage Pac-Man machine at LoDo’s 1up arcade bar, he became one of only a handful of gamers to nab a perfect Pac-Man run, as reported in our current cover story, “Leader of the Pac.” He has photographic proof and…
Nailing a perfect Pac-Man game, as Jeff Pickles did, requires a combination of twitch skills, marathon-worthy knees and a healthy hunger for blue ghosts. Scoring has become a science, as a small but active community of players continues its decades-long quest to uncover the game’s secrets. Exhaustive YouTube walkthroughs, interactive…
The end was near. Jeff Pickles had been standing in front of the weathered Pac-Man machine for more than three hours, guiding the yellow puck through the same maze over and over and over again, gobbling up every dot, power pellet and piece of fruit in his way. He was…
With Mardi Gras coming next week, people of all kinds and creeds are searching for a way to celebrate without slipping into bejeweled, beaded hell. Fat chance. You’re one of those souls whose skin takes on a ghostly pallor when you’re dressed in purple, gold and green? You habitually cower…
The name Los Chingones — “The Badasses,” more or less — suggests that Troy Guard’s new restaurant is populated with tequila-slamming roughnecks. Yet its paloma, a tequila drink made with pink grapefruit and soda, is not exactly chingón, shall we say. The gentle yet addictive paloma has single-handedly caused my…
Is there any liquor with a reputation as misleading as absinthe? Sure, it may be a hip, edgy cocktail ingredient today, but not long ago it was blamed for everything from Van Gogh slicing off his ear to Ernest Hemingway moving to Idaho to the L.A. Rams’ 1992 season. America’s…
Distilleries are popping up all over Colorado, to help quench the thirst of drinkers crowding craft cocktail bars. But smaller distillers can face a challenge as they try to get their products into the hands of the bartenders who live, breathe, mix and drink booze every day. Now a new…
One of the few cocktail innovations that Italy has managed to squeeze out in the past century, the Negroni is a proud member of the select group of iconic cocktails. Like the Martini and the Old-Fashioned, it’s now mandatory in any bar’s recipe book, and a talisman of Old World…
January 1, 2014. America wakes from its fitful slumber to a splitting headache. With their rallying cry of “Urrrghhh,” these brave and lonely souls troop to their temples of coffee and corned beef. Some chase espresso with chorizo to burn out the devil spirits playing field hockey in their skulls…
Longmont’s Cyclhops Bike CANtina is the latest emerald-capped tooth in Oskar Blues’ crooked grin. Armed with tacos and bikes, the restaurant, which is having a grand opening bash today, may be the quirky company’s oddest creation yet. But Jason Rogers, a Cyclhops chef partner, says it makes perfect sense. “This…
The Oskar Blues crew is better known for peddling beer than pedaling bikes, but their new restaurant is bringing both to Longmont, under one roof. With tacos. And tequila. The Cyclhops Bike CANtina is an Oskar Blues joint through and through, right down to the pun in its name. And,…
