The Denver Omelette

Trying to find new happy hours in downtown Denver? Here’s a nice long list (Excel spreadsheet) with details on both beverage and food deals! Denver Happy Hours List If you notice a good place missing from this list – please don’t hesitate to let us know and we’ll update it! (PS. The Denver Omelette gals [...]

I need to preface this post by saying that choosing a bar in your 30′s is a lot different than what you would choose, say, in your 20′s.  Now-a-days I look for a lot of the same things I look for in a man:  financial independence (happy hour specials), individuality (no chains), substance (good food), [...]

by Mama Monroe I live in the Congress Park neighborhood of Denver. It’s not such a bad place. I love Colfax, I like the centrality of the location, proximity to anything that might be going on anywhere, I love the old houses and I REALLY love the Capitol Hill Pharmacy on 12th. (Those sweet old [...]

by Mama Monroe Dear Rioja… You intrigued me with your Tuesday night $15 bites and sips. How devious. How affordable. You casually pair delicious culinary temptations with fine wine and you smirk. Some cheap skank will like this…. he he he. And of course I am that skank. I fell for it, hard. I’ve heard [...]

by Mama Monroe For fuck’s sake what the fuck with all this snow??? I apologize for my language but it is October (which should mean beautiful sunny days, cool nights and falling leaves) and I am cold, soggy and annoyed that most people have a snow day today while I plowed through the mess to [...]

by Mama Monroe 3/4 of the Denver Omelette made it to happy hour this past Friday which is a pretty damn good turnout. Plus I’m happy to report Peaches and I have worked it out so that she can get her ass out of Boulder early EVERY Friday and make it to happy hour which [...]

by Mama Monroe Last weekend bore witness to an historic occasion that happens so rarely as of late it might be likened to a celestial event such as Haley’s Comet. Well, OK, maybe more like a full moon… which is probably more appropriate since someone’s ASS (ahem Peaches) usually makes an appearance. And also because [...]

I say bring it on. We gots to be known for something.

by Mama Monroe The hubs and I found ourselves alone for happy hour this past Friday which meant changing it up a little from the regular routine. He came home hungry and a bit moody from a painful and LONG Friday afternoon commute from Boulder, and I was sporting a new haircut that had me [...]

by Mama Monroe 1. $2 glass of wine 2. $2 glass of wine 3. $2 glass of wine 4. $2 glass of wine 5. slice of pizza bigger than my husband’s head (which is very large) from Fat Sully’s 6. tab of $11.89 This is one m.f. good Denver happy hour if you don’t mind [...]