To celebrate the first snow that made everything white in Denver, Mile High Dining made a double chocolate pecan pie from scratch. Even the crust was made from scratch with my secret ingredient, vodka. Delicious!

Mile High Dining visits a 100% vegan restaurant, Watercourse Foods. It's a large and busy place on Saturday evenings. Since they do not take reservations, we sat with families and waited our turn. Denver has a fair number of vegan restaurants and Watercourse is one of the oldest. It’s popular with the younger age set … Continue reading Watercourse Foods →

Champagne tasting was a new treat for Mile High Dining. We learned about sparkling wines from around the world but focused on champagne from France. Total Wine did a good job and presented us 8 different wines ranging in price from $12.00 to $200.00 per bottle. I selected 4 from Champagne France. The word champagne … Continue reading Champagne Tasting →

Corrine is located in the Meridian hotel with a busy and open lobby. On Saturday night the lobby was filled and there is even a vending machine serving champagne bottles! The restaurant is about 5 years old and serves American styled food. It’s open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The dinner menu provides many small … Continue reading Corrine →

Convivio Cafe is a Guatemalan bilingual coffee shop that is woman owned and operated. Convivio serves coffee that is grown and roasted by Guatemalan farmers. Currently they have snack items like muffins and cookies and plan to expand the food items as it has been open only for a week. Even their web site is … Continue reading Convivio Cafe →

Mile High Dining went in search of a pumpkin beer. After checking several breweries and not finding any, we went to the Denver Beer Company on a beautiful warm fall afternoon. Sadly they were just out of their pumpkin beer at the brewery so we substituted the Peanut Butter Stout. Extra strong and good tasting. … Continue reading Pumpkin Beer →

Mile High Dining went to Boulder not to watch the CU Buffs lose another football but to dine at Frasca. Although 5280 Magazine believes it is not a top 25 restaurant, Mile High believes otherwise. They have received more awards from the James Beard Foundation than any other restaurant in Colorado. Frasca focuses on northeast … Continue reading Frasca Food and Wine →

Mile High Dining took a class through the University of Denver on distilling spirits. It was conducted at the Golden Moon Distillery. Although we did not get to make any spirits we learned about the history of hard liquor and how it is made. Golden Moon is a small craft distillery that produces a range … Continue reading Golden Moon Distillery →

The Rouge Wine Bar is brand new as it just opened on October 11, 2022. It's part of a large activity and restaurant complex known as Pindustry. Parking is a mess! The Wine Bar is very large and offers both indoor and outdoor seating. Since it was a lovely fall day, outside we went. After … Continue reading The Rouge Wine Bar and Patio →

A trip to the foothills and we found the Blackbird Cafe. A woman owned and operated restaurant with a lovely setting on Bear Creek. It’s open for breakfast and lunch. A large outside patio allows a view of the changing leaves. Enjoy the patio before the snow falls. The breakfast menu is very extensive with … Continue reading Blackbird Cafe →