Uptown Brothers Brewing, a restaurant and craft beer bar that opened in May 2010, closed its doors for good right after midnight this morning, a victim of the difficult economy. “We came close to making it; we were at about 80 percent of our break-even number, but we have no…
There is no brewery in Colorado that has a longer history than Coors, no beer maker that has employed a higher number of locals, and no company that is more associated with our state. On the other hand, Coors has a checkered history here, from its labor policies to the…
Happy Place: Rooster and Moon Coffee Pub, 955 Bannock Street, 303-993-2622 The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. The Deals: $1 sliders; $4.50-$5 small plates; $1 off all wines by the glass, specialty drinks, and well drinks; $.50 off cans of Olympia…
When Chinook Tavern shuttered its longtime home in Cherry Creek North back in the summer of 2008, many regulars were left crying in their one-liter steins, wondering where they would ever find another place to drink German beer and eat veal wiener schnitzel. Now they have their answer: The new…
Construction continues at Vine Street Pub, where a new brewery operated by the Mountain Sun group should be ready by mid-September — ready, but not operational. That’s because it will take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months for the company to work out its permitting issues from…
We almost choked as we typed the words “tired of rosé” just now. While there’s simply no other wine we’d rather drink on a sultry summer evening, we’re willing to concede that not everyone is as equally enamored as we are. More optimistically, we prefer to consider alternative scenarios to…
After years of cutting dangerous and jagged holes in beer cans then awkwardly cranking our heads sideways in order to drink a beer in 4.2 seconds, our long national struggle is over: Fluid N Motion has invented the Flowzie, a shotgun koozie that keeps beer cold and allows people to…
Robert Thompson, who owns Argyll, which just closed in Cherry Creek (but will reopen in 2012 in the Baker ‘hood) and the soon-to-be-open Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, which has taken over the former Baur’s space downtown and Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink, slated to open in…
Happy Place: La Loma, 2527 West 26th Avenue, 303-433-8300 The Deals: $6.50-$7.50 margaritas; $2.75 draft beers; $4 house wines; $4-8 appetizer specials The Hours: Monday through Saturday from 2 to 6 p.m. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
After spending two-and-a-half years and a boatload of money on research, Molson Coors learned that women don’t drink beer. At least, 79 percent of the women they studied don’t drink beer. And since that represents a sizable market untouched by the brewing industry, the company decided to craft a beer…
Gary Vaynerchuk, New York Times-bestselling author and host of the Daily Grape video podcast, has real power with wine purchasers. And when he said that the 2007 Guy Drew Vineyards Metate, from a vineyard in Cortez, was “surprisingly good,” the viewers that regularly leave 700-plus comments on his daily video…
So many delicious rosés, so few languid, warm-weather days to enjoy them. This is simultaneously our favorite and most dreaded part of the summer; the temps are sizzling (which we love), but the days are getting shorter (which we hate). The sad fact of the matter is that there are…
Denver’s Del Norte Brewing, which specializes in summer-friendly Mexican-style lagers, is looking for help coming up with a Spanish-language name for its latest beer (its sixth), a Bohemian Pilsner. “We have a few in mind, but are always up for some suggestions,” the company says on its Facebook page –…
“Get ready for the fight of your lives.” That was the advice barked at Jeff Smokevitch and Giles Flanigan, the owners of Brown Dog Pizza, a Telluride-based pizzeria that had inked a lease on a vacant, build-out space on South Gaylord Street where they wanted to open a second Brown…
I’m the first one to bitch and moan about how all the great dives in Denver are disappearing — but then when someone like Frank Bonanno (Mizuna, Luca D’Italia, Osteria Marco, Bones and Green Russell) comes in and gentrifies the hell out of one of those dives, I can’t wait…
A coalition of fourteen Colorado brewers are getting ready to release Buddha Nuvo, one of the most expensive, most unusual beers ever made in Colorado. A Belgian-style saison, the beer was designed around the brightly-colored and exotically-shaped Buddha’s Hand fruit, along with grains of paradise, 175 pounds of pumpkin and…
Happy Place: The Irish Snug, 1201 East Colfax Avenue, 303-839-1394 The Hours: Daily from 3 to 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. to midnight. The Deals: Two-for-one draft beers, well drinks, and house wines by the glass; $3.95-$4.95 appetizer specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Williams & Graham, a new speakeasy that’s the vision of Todd Colehour, a former head honcho at Kona Grill, was slated to open in June with cocktail-tender Sean Kenyon. Until recently, Kenyon had been the star-tender at the now-closed Squeaky Bean, spearheading the beverage program. He was set to oversee…
It was late last year when we started spying beer cocktails in bars. There were just a few at first, and most of them were basic twists on micheladas or other fizzy drinks — experimental and not always tasty. But lately, the beer cocktail has become a veritable trend, with…
There are only a dozen or so bars or restaurants in Denver that have been around for four decades under the same ownership. It’s an exclusive club, and those who have been inducted are a testament to hard work — and in some cases to hard drinking. The Bull &…
The Cook Street School of Fine Cooking has educated many aspiring chefs — and now the school wants to do the same for aspiring sommeliers, as well as those who simply want to learn more about wine. On July 26, Cook Street will open its Wine Annex, a space within…
Adam Dunbar was only at Encore for seven months, but during his time there he made sweeping changes to the cocktail program, helping the restaurant transform into a serious spot for libations. Pre-Prohibition classics and innovative concoctions filled the beverage board, which included the best martini in town. But now…
