Picture a neighborhood hangout, the place ’round the corner and down the street where you feel more at home than home. Maybe it exists in your memory, a Cheers-esque den of comfort and familiar characters. Maybe it really is just down your block. Bonnano Concepts, a restaurant group gifted with…
One of Colorado’s most-loved, least-known beer festivals is in trouble this year after losing its longtime home and will probably need major financial support in order to continue. The Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival was founded by brother-and-sister team of Laura and Bill Lodge in Vail in 2001, and…
Paul Vismara has a lot of talents. He’s the co-author of Italy: Beer Country The Story of Italian Craft Beer, an expert beer slinger at Falling Rock Tap House and an artist: Vismara painted the beer logo murals that grace Falling Rock. And at 1 p.m., on Saturday, March 26, he’ll…
Guthrie’s Old Fashioned at Fort Greene Eleanor Cheetham worked behind the bar for three years at Crash 45, a neighborhood bar in Globeville. When the owner wanted out, she and a partner bought it, remodeled it with a Brooklyn aesthetic and renamed it Fort Greene. When her partner wanted out,…
There were at least 85 different beers served Saturday at Collaboration Fest — so sadly, there was no way I could get to them all. But I did try quite a few, and they were almost all good. Really good. In fact, one of the common themes I kept hearing from…
Golden Moon Distillery bottled and released its newest product last week: Colorado Single Malt Whiskey. The new spirit is modeled after single malt whisky made in Scotland but with a few modifications to give it a Colorado identity. Distiller Stephen Gould produced only one barrel of the new whiskey —…
While Kobe An Shabu Shabu in Lower Highland dazzles with tabletop cooking and fashionable fare, its forebear, Kobe An, has beem serving more typical Japanese cuisine in Denver for decades. Now below ground in a Cherry Creek spot, where it moved last year, the venerable eatery puts out a surprisingly up-to-date $5 happy…
Just about everyone who lives in Denver, or who visits friends and family here, makes a pilgrimage along West Colfax Avenue in Lakewood to Casa Bonita — whether it’s once a week, once a month, once a year or once a decade. But now there’s another reason to pull into the vast…
Colorado native Sarah Haughey, who worked at both Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project and Elevation Beer Company, plans to deepen the Arkansas Valley’s craft-beer scene this summer when she opens the Jailhouse on Buena Vista’s main drag, East Main Street. It will feature ten rotating craft-beer taps and a small selection…
Dan Appell says he “grew up” in the Italian deli that his father bought in 1982 in Parsippany, New Jersey, doing just about every job there was to do from the age of six through his graduation from college. And he would have been just fine if he’d never left…
Crown Town at Stranahan’s Colorado Distillery In Colorado, distilleries can only sell spirits on-site that they produce themselves. Therefore, at the cocktail lounge inside Stranahan’s Colorado Distillery, which opened in 2014, all the cocktails are whiskey cocktails. But the one-spirit challenge is met enthusiastically by Hayley Panas, who just refreshed…
Longmont-based Oskar Blues, one of the fastest-growing craft breweries in the country, announced today that it’s rolled up industry darling Cigar City Brewing, bringing the Florida beer maker under the umbrella of Fireman Capital Partners, the private equity firm that also controls Oskar Blues, Michigan’s Perrin Brewing, and the Squatters…
The White Whale Room opened last Thursday, offering coffee, food and cocktails in a bright, arty space less than 100 feet from the Alameda Station light rail platform at 415 South Cherokee Street. The restaurant and coffee shop is part of the redevelpment of the area behind the Kmart at…
Downtown Englewood gets a new bar tonight with the opening of the Englewood Grand at 3435 South Broadway Street. The simple, straightforward watering hole is the work of Phil and Erika Zierke, neighborhood residents who saw the need for a community gathering spot with an enticing but uncomplicated drinks list. The bar…
One of the best parts of happy hour is matching and mixing dishes into strange table spreads that would have a Cordon Bleu instructor in tears. At happy hour, no one’s going to tell you not to order a sandwich, arancini and a pizza all at the same time. This…
Name confusion is a fact of life in the craft brewing industry these days, which is why there have been so many trademarks battles — and trademark resolutions — in the past few years. The folks at Prost Brewing in Denver and The Post Brewing in Lafayette have a more…
In the 1500s in what is now Germany, there was a law that beer could only be made with three ingredients: water, barley and hops. But that was then and this is now. In the United States in the new Millennium, you can find beers made with just about any…
Mondegreen Lime at Pon Pon Bar If Paul Garcia isn’t making cocktails at Pon Pon, he’s on the other side of the bar, spinning records. Garcia opened the arty cocktail lounge two months ago at 2528 Walnut Street, where you can listen to him play selections from his vinyl collection…
Nothing tastes better than a beer at the end of a long, terrible day. But what if the beer itself has been through hell and high water? Find out this week when Upslope Brewing begins pouring Scottish Style Ale, a collaboration with Spirit Hound Distillers that was born in the…
It’s not easy to be all things to all people, but for the past five years, the Denver Bicycle Cafe has tried, operating a spot that’s a combination of cozy coffeehouse, bike sales-and-repair shop, and beer bar noted for its focus on small local breweries. This month, DBC will try to…
Mike Henderson, beverage director for Root Down, Linger and Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, is out to prove that Denver’s cocktail scene is one of the best in the country. On Monday, he competed in the regional semifinal of the Bartender of the Year event hosted in New Orleans by Heaven Hill…
Denver Restaurant Week can change the heart of a kitchen: For ten days, eateries in the city steel themselves for big crowds and plate after plate of risotto, roasted chicken and flourless chocolate cake. You can tell a lot about a restaurant from how well it handles the event and…
