CBS Sunday Morning wakes up with the Wynkoop

America will get a beery wake-up call on Sunday morning when CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood highlights the Wynkoop Brewing Company on its annual pre-Thanksgiving show, one that is typically dedicated to food and drinks. The crew from the show was in Denver at the Wynkoop all day Tuesday,…

Six stellar Thanksgiving wines to savor on Turkey Day

You can try to deny it all you want, but Thanksgiving is a mere nine days away. That’s right: In exactly one week and two days, you’ll be up to your eyeballs in gravy, green bean casserole and drama. If your family is anything like mine, you’ll wise up and…

Urban Bourbon Slushie at Lala’s

I often wonder how my political science major and Spanish minor have played into my career. But Alexandra Parks, a bartender who’s now splitting her time between Lala’s Wine Bar and Frank Bonanno’s Green Russell, has no such concerns about her biochemistry degree. Although Parks looks more like head cheerleader…

Ask the Bartender: What’s the ideal Colorado cocktail?

Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program. You can…

A new King Soopers brings booze to the party

Thanksgiving dinner isn’t complete without a big glass of wine, and King Soopers will open its first and only grocery/liquor store just in time to take advantage of that. The store, at 4600 Leetsdale Drive in Glendale, will roll out the shopping carts and slide open the automatic doors on…

Unearthing the happy hour at Root Down

Happy Place: Root Down, 1600 West 33rd Avenue, 303-993-4200 The Hours: Monday through Friday, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. The Deals: $3-5 select cocktails; $5 house wines and select draft beer; $3-5 food specials Were we happy? Flip the page…

Cantina Laredo hosts a preview of tomorrow’s tequila dinner

Cantina Laredo hosted a dinner and cooking class at the Centennial restaurant, 6851 South Gaylord Street, on November 8, to present new menu offerings and offer a preview of the first Jose Cuervo Tequila Dinner on Thursday, November 11. General manager Joann Harwell and executive chef Ed Ledford hosted the…

Snow! But can Twitter help you get a free snow beer in Denver?

Yeah, it’s snowing. We can see it, too. Love it? Hate it? Either way, snow means your local neighborhood watering holes and eateries want to warm you up — and some are offering specials. Look below for a few tweets we’ve seen recently. .bbpBox2137744897740800 {background:url(http://s.twimg.com/a/1288981003/images/themes/theme10/bg.gif) #2d4f8b;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px…

A taste of Denver International Wine Festival 2010

The Denver International Wine Festival celebrated year six with a VIP tour of Front Range wineries and Roundhouse Spirits — a tour that began Saturday with plenty of wine, ended with plenty of gin, and stuffed the middle with gourmet nibbles and a glut of info from a trip to…

If you still sorta miss Bump & Grind, you’ll miss what’s good at Park & Co.

Everyone, it seems, misses everything about Bump & Grind: the barely-dragged-themselves-out-of-bed queen servers of the weekend Petticoat Bruncheon, with their battery-operated, neighing horse-cock socks; the Mexican Benedict Arnold and Eric Eggs Estrada; the filthy coloring books. Though I’d been (and even brought my mother) to Bump & Grind on a…

Mateo closed until Friday for serving alcohol to a minor

Apparently those threatened police stings — the ones ingrained into every server’s head during training — are real. Boulder’s Mateo, 1837 Pearl Street, was a victim of the college town’s undercover attempt to crack down on underage drinking, and it looks like the restaurant didn’t pass…

Beer bloggers plot world domination

There are as many styles of beer blogging on the Internet as there are blogs, and there’s a new beer blog starting out there every other day. Last weekend, at least a hundred of those bloggers — from all across the country — showed up in Boulder to talk beer…

Lakeview Lounge hosts unofficial sunrise service

Lakeview Lounge, a classic dive at 2375 Sheridan Boulevard in Edgewater, is a great place to drink any time of the day or night, as Drew Bixby reported in this recent Drunk of the Week. But the best time of all might have been this past Saturday morning, the last…