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A Gentleman's Pub
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Sure, you can get a pint at Pint's Pub, and a true, cask-conditioned, house-brewed ale at that, but the real draw here is the whisky: 230 different whiskies, to be exact. "It's an obsession that got away with me," owner Scott Diamond says, explaining the array. "I started with fifty, but that wasn't enough. It went to a hundred, but there were still more out there." A self-professed Anglophile, Diamond found an old bank building behind the courthouse in 1993 and dressed it up to feel like a British pub, "a place for people who just wanted a drink, a good drink, and talk, not idiots with their baseball caps on backwards." Instead of big-screen TVs, single malts cover the back bar and climb up the ceiling, where they hang like bats, upside down, ready to dispense a dram in a flash. Lowland or Highland, Campbeltown or Island, it's all here, from Abelour to Talisker, as well as rare finds like the juniper-scented Caol Ila or whiskies from shuttered distilleries like Allt-a-Bhainne and Port Ellen. So if you can't make it to Scotland, come to Denver. Just leave the baseball cap at home.
—Tara Q. Thomas
221 W. 13th Ave., Denver, CO; 303-534-7543
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Lola's
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Lola's sleek space is conducive to a night of serious Tequila study, encouraged by 90-some selections lined up in alphabetical order, from a bracing Aficionado Plata to a Zaffarancho Reposado, along with añejos and after-dinner sips like Herradura's Seleccion Suprema, or for the well-heeled, the Cuervo 1800 Colección, a $90 splurge. Before starting in on your agave exploration, however, call over the guacamole goddess to mash up some dip to your taste. It's so addictive you may forget dinner, which would be a shame - chef Jamey Fader's smoked duck taquitos are the best in town.
—T.Q.T.
Lola,1469 S. Pearl St., Denver, CO; 720-570-8686
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Pint's Pub
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Sure, you can get a pint at Pint's Pub, and a true, cask-conditioned, house-brewed ale at that, but the real draw here is the whisky: 230 different whiskies, to be exact. "It's an obsession that got away with me," owner Scott Diamond says, explaining the array. "I started with fifty, but that wasn't enough. It went to a hundred, but there were still more out there." A self-professed Anglophile, Diamond found an old bank building behind the courthouse in 1993 and dressed it up to feel like a British pub, "a place for people who just wanted a drink, a good drink, and talk, not idiots with their baseball caps on backwards." Instead of big-screen TVs, single malts cover the back bar and climb up the ceiling, where they hang like bats, upside down, ready to dispense a dram in a flash. Lowland or Highland, Campbeltown or Island, it's all here, from Abelour to Talisker, as well as rare finds like the juniper-scented Caol Ila or whiskies from shuttered distilleries like Allt-a-Bhainne and Port Ellen. So if you can't make it to Scotland, come to Denver. Just leave the baseball cap at home.
—T.Q.T.
Pint's Pub, 221 W. 13th Ave., Denver, CO; 303-534-7543
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