Bonfire Brewing Co.

Bonfire Brewing is known for its beer, so the tap room in downtown Eagle doesn’t serve food, though you can bring in your own grub. The wide selection of the brewery’s specialties is reason enough to check out the place, but if you’re looking for more, several TVs, a dart board and a shuffleboard table […]

Larkburger

Back in 2006, Thomas Salamunovich started a little stand-alone restaurant designed to feature the burger that, through experimentation and long practice, he’d come up with at the Larkspur Restaurant in Vail and had proved wildly popular at that fancy-pants place. In his words, it was “my vision for the perfect burger experience.” And Larkburger comes […]

Estes Valley Recreation

There are few places in the United States where a herd of elk will watch your golf game from the distance – but the Estes Park Golf Course in one of them. Located sixty miles northwest of Denver, the eighteen-hole course is easily one of the most beautiful courses in the nation, and the scenery […]

Medicine Man, LLC

Owner: Asked to remain anonymous. Anonymous owner’s statement: “I grew up in an all-natural family,” she says, and promotes natural health alternatives like marijuana, diet and exercise. Opened: November 24, 2009. Raw marijuana price range: Grams run $15 to $25, with most strains between $15 and $20. Other types of medicine: Edibles like lollipops and […]

La Cantina

La Cantina doesn’t exactly feel like a restaurant. Sandwiched into a public foyer and hallway, next to a locker room and below Vail’s West Lionshead Plaza bus stop, it feels like the guys piecing together your massive burrito and plate of nachos are squatters, ready to pack up their grill at a moment’s notice when […]

Bruce’s Bar

Although Bruce’s Bar is a bit out of the way — it’s in Severance, about half an hour from Fort Collins — lots of folks hit the spot for its burgers or World-Famous Rocky Mountain Oysters. The history of the place dates back to 1957, when Bruce Ruth bought Severance Recreation and christened it Bruce’s […]