Guess where I’m eating?

Carrots: It’s the new dessert. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll receive an EatDenver dining deck, worth up…

Crafty Ladies at Highland Tap and Burger

It’s ladies’ night! Highland Tap and Burger, 2219 West 32nd Avenue, will host Crafty Ladies tonight, combining a tasting of Breckenridge Brewery’s beers with inventive food pairings — and crafts, or course. For more information, call 720-287-4493 or visit www.highlandtapdenver.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit…

Amanda Olig: Trust your gut

In this interview, Osteria Marco bar manager Amanda Olig weighs in on rye whiskey, how she got her first bartending job in Denver and what she drinks after a particularly difficult night…

La Cocina de Paula moves from LoDo to West Alameda

The first home Paula Contreras chose for her Colombian-Mexican restaurant, La Cocina de Paula, was a night club — the eatery took up residence in LoDo’s Oasis Hookah Bar & Lounge, where it peddled lunch seven days a week before the late night crowd came in. But at the end…

Mile High Spirits opens next week

A few months ago, partners Joe Vonfeldt, Chase Campbell and Wyn Ferrell revealed that they were building out a distillery in a warehouse space on upper Larimer where they’d make private label spirits for customers as well as their own line, including Elevate Vodka, Pegleg Rum and Denver Dry Gin…

Elway’s Downtown serves up a super daily happy hour

Happy Place: Elway’s Downtown, 1881 Curtis Street, 303-312-3107 The Hours: Daily from 2 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $5 selected wines by the glass; $7 cocktail of-the-day; $3 draft beers; half-priced selected appetizers Were We Happy? Flip the page to find out…

Top five reasons why people love Trader Joe’s so f*@%ing much

The prayers, pleas and entreaties of Coloradans have been heard, and we are finally getting a Trader Joe’s store at the Twenty Ninth Street mall in Boulder in 2013. The hoopla surrounding this blessed event — akin to the birth of the Christ child — has some uninitiated locals wondering…

Great Guinness Toast at Fado Irish Pub tonight

What better way to get in on a Guinness World Record than to participate in the annual Great Guinness Toast? The annual attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest toast — using Guinness brew, of course — will take place at 9 p.m. tonight at Fado…

Five meaty ways to satisfy carnivorous cravings in Denver

Mardi Gras is just around the corner, and while the holiday is now mostly associated with drunken sorority girls showing their, um, assets for a strand of shiny beads in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the festival used to provide a reason to stuff yourself before forty days of…