WhiskyX Experience; Breakfast Burrito Day; more Little Man ice cream on the way
The Front Range will be a regular utopia of quirky food and drink events this weekend and, like Aerosmith always says, you don’t wanna miss a thing. Oktoberfest-themed eating relay race? Check. A sampling of some of the most rare whiskeys in the world? Also check.
It starts with The WhiskyX Experience on Friday, Oct. 13. This is where you’ll learn the difference between bourbon and rye, and Scotch whiskey and single malt scotch. Or everything they should have taught us in school but didn’t. Sample some of the best whiskey in the world with some of the best food in the state — Jen Jasinski, Tommy Lee, Paul C. Reilly and more will be cooking — and music by the Drive-By Truckers. Oct.
Rhein Haus’ 2nd annual OktoberFEAST eating relay race is Saturday, Oct. 14. Grab the three biggest appetites you know and head downtown to eat pretzel bites, Nuremberg sausages, currywurst and Berliners (German doughnuts) as fast as you possibly can. Oh, and you have to down a ½ liter of lager at each station, too. Oct. 14 at 3
If you fancy yourself too sophisticated to eat sausage with your hands, then you probably already know about Boulder’s Burgundy Wine Festival. This is one of the premiere wine events in the country, featuring a dinner at Frasca Food and Wine, a rare Burgundy wine seminar with master sommeliers, and the Grand Tasting of more than 200 Burgundy wines.
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It may not be Rocky Mountain Oyster Day, but Denver’s newest food holiday is going to be one worth celebrating. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, along with Santiago’s Mexican Restaurants, recently proclaimed Saturday, Oct. 14, Breakfast Burrito Day.
Back in March we asked you, our green-chile-obsessed readers, to vote for your favorite breakfast burrito in our Breakfast Burrito Bracket, and three of our contenders — including the winner — are offering up deals.
Santiago’s — perhaps the state’s most popular burrito slinger, and member of our Final Four — will offer breakfast burritos for just $1.25, the price when it first opened in 1990. The $1.25 burritos will be available all day, from open until close, but there’s a limit of five burritos per order. ,
The bracket winner, Asada Rico, will be selling its burritos for just 99 cents on the 14th. This is noteworthy not just because of the low price, but also because Asada Rico is normally closed on Saturdays.
How can it get any better? How about a FREE breakfast burrito? Illegal Pete’s, which fell to Little Anita’s in the first round of the tournament, will give out free breakfast burritos on Oct. 14 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.
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Denver photographer Chad Chisholm likes to travel and likes to drink, so why not combine the two into a beautiful coffee table book about global cocktails? Hence “Imbibe Worldwide,” Chisholm’s collection of 70 cocktail recipes inspired by his travels around the world. Colorado is represented via the Ski Bunny, Palisade Peach Martini and John’s Cosmo, created by Broadmoor bartender John Cody. Imbibeworldwide.com
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Frozen Matter is doubling down on its Uptown microcreamery and opening a second location in Wash Park. If you haven’t tried Frozen Matter, it’s the only ice cream shop in the state that’s also a licensed dairy plant, which means super-fresh (and super-delicious) ice cream. Look for the new shop in December. 1061 S.
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If your job doesn’t involve eating out at restaurants several times a week (harder than it looks, I promise), then you may struggle with figuring out what to eat for dinner each night. Castle Rock couple Suzanne and Kevin Hayen, started Let’s be Chefs, an app that sends recipes and shopping lists to your phone as often as you’d like, to help you solve the nightly dinner dilemma. “Built in Colorado” named them one of 50 startups to watch. So watch them. Letsbechefs.com ●●●
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by how many bites of ice cream we eat. This year, we got two more opportunities to eat Little Man ice cream — at Congress Park’s Sweet Cooie’s and Lowry’s Rocket Ice Cream — and next year we’re getting four more. Here’s what you need to know about Little Man’s upcoming spots:
Constellation in Stapleton. Constellation pays homage to the Stapleton neighborhood’s aviation history by featuring a gravity-defying 70foot wing hovering above the glass kiosk.
Little Man Creamery in Sloan’s Lake: Little Man’s Director of Operations, Loren Martinez, calls it “‘Willy Wonka’ meets ‘Metropolis,’ minus the creepiness.”
Churn Ice Cream in Fort Collins. A 22-foot old lumber churn bucket. It won’t break ground until March 2018, so details are still under wraps.
Plus, there will be a Park Hill location (so new, it doesn’t even have a name!). 2211 Oneida St.,