There’s no better time to lend a hand than during the holiday season, as Denver venues support non-profits and offer tasty delicious and drink at the same time. And to fill out the rest of the week, you can mix yoga and wine, chocolate and cheese, or beer and tequila…
If you don’t have an unfortunate sweater by now, you’d better ask Grandma nicely: This winter is all about the “ugly” holiday sweater, a pass to good beer, good times and even fabulous prizes. Wear it with pride this weekend as you sample new holiday beers, build a gingerbread house,…
It’s a wild week in December, staring with Repeal Day parties and Colorado Gives Day, and then pre-holiday parties will ramp up to the end of 2016. Cocktails, wines and music abound, with opportunities to support local non-profits. Get dressed in flapper finery or dig up your ugliest sweater and…
There’s still time to find a local, hand-crafted gift for the special people in your life, and there are plenty of places where you can find them. A new apron could be perfect for the family chef, or a bottle of Colorado bubbly would look good under the tree. This…
Nights like these call for a hot mug of comfort. You can find one at Frisco’s iconic Wassail Days festival, which starts this Friday, or stick close to home and check out gifts for sale and booze for drinking at the Denver Flea in its new location. The culinary calendar…
Thanksgiving is over — part of it anyway, as leftovers still wait to be prodded and picked at. But that turkey sandwich will be good for at least one more day, so get out into the city and taste what local chefs, makers and brewers have to offer this weekend…
Need a break from Thanksgiving preparations? You have a few delicious options for avoiding the impending chaos, including a Parisian rendezvous in Larimer Square or a chance to sample unique whiskey. Keep reading for the seven tastiest events over the next few days.
If you’re dreading Thanksgiving or obsessing over the proper size of stuffing cubes, Denver’s culinary calendar has a way to manage your stress. An evening of pancakes, art and music will distract you from pending family arguments, or you can tuck into unlimited oysters, beers and po-boys. The holiday market…
Pancakes! Scotch! Art! Cigars! Wine! Until some genius is able to combine these wonderful things into one event, you’ll have to make a few stops around Denver this week to take it all in. You can brush up on your French wine (and your French), gobble pancakes and gab with…
Today on Veterans Day, we honor those serving, those who have served and those who love them. Restaurants all over the Front Range will honor veterans with special deals — ranging from free doughnuts to free beers to free meals — for any retired or active-duty military member in uniform…
Sources tell us that some sort of contest will be decided this Tuesday — and not the kind of contest that will be shown on the Food Network. Even if you plan to spend that evening watching the election results roll in/prepping for doomsday, there are plenty of culinary events…
Autumn is warming up — in the culinary sense, anyway — with beer, wine and football to help banish the encroaching chill. Grab a seating for day drinking and a bagel brunch on Brighton Boulevard, or visit Infinite Monkey Theorem for a pair of local wine parties. There’s even a…
Tuesday night at 5:30 p.m. in September is a bit late to chase Rio 2016 excitement. It is right on time for happy hour at Cafe Brazil, one of Denver’s finest South American restaurants. From the Brazilian Highlands to the streets of Madrid, it reps for Latin cuisine both familiar…
Ah, to be a tourist on the 16th Street Mall. The lights, the music, the… smells. Perhaps you’ll grab a sandwich from Acme Delicatessen in Union Station as you gawk at the high ceilings. Or you’ll be entranced, as so many others are, by The Cheesecake Factory and its fiesta-colored…
Opened and crewed by service industry experts, The Way Back is a polished, accomplished bar that stands out on well-trod 38th Avenue. Given the talent behind the place — alumni of Williams & Graham, Linger and twelve, for starters — little wonder that it landed with feet firmly planted. The…
The hip-hop booming from Los Chingones fades into ’80s AOR as you enter Sugarmill. Though conjoined physically as well as spiritually as part of Troy Guard’s TAG Restaurant Group, the two restaurants take very different places in the TAG empire. Chingones is loud, spicy, lascivious. Sugarmill is forthright and laid…
Cramped tables. Your friends tom yum, larb and pad woon sen with shrimp. Spice so intense you’re breathing fire. Everyone has their own taste, but everyone expects specific things from a Thai restaurant. Those expectations are almost useless at Aloy Modern Thai, which takes the cred owners Bo Bean and Arisa…
Max’s Wine Dive pulls off the admirable trick of being a chain restaurant without acting or feeling like one. Based out of Houston, the company sells itself with the motto “Fried chicken and champagne — why the hell not?” But don’t expect trailer park kitsch. Max’s made canny moves by…
At 5:30 p.m on the first workday of the week, there isn’t an oyster to be found at Brazen. Before most Denverites had punched the clock and slid down the brontosaurus tail, Brazen patrons had already declared this Mollusk Monday, ordering happy-hour oysters by the dozen. They came from over…
To be fully honest and up front, the happy hour at Sarto’s isn’t, strictly speaking, a “happy hour.” But, spoiler warning: it is indeed happy. The cicchetti bar in place at this gleaming Italian spot in Jefferson Park is built around the Venice-born tradition of tapas and drinks humming in…
“Have you been here before?” the woman asked, settling into her seat on the patio at Masterpiece Kitchen. “Well, just for happy hour,” her friend replied. “But that doesn’t really count.” Overhearing this made me wonder if happy hour does indeed matter at a place like MK, which opened back…
Happy-hour conversation usually doesn’t turn to debates over authenticity. However you want to define culturally appropriate cuisine, it’s rarely an issue when cheap tacos or pork buns are coming fast and furious. There are plenty of deep happy-hour cuts beyond the sangria and Brussels sprouts syndicate — and Paxia Authentic…
