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All Things Foodie
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HEY, FOODIES—WE HOPE YOU’RE HUNGRY! October brings us our most deli-
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In these pages, you’ll find plenty of dining inspiration. Try the juicy wagyu burger at West Main Taproom in Parker or a new take on an Old Fashioned at Rare by Grist Cocktails and Brewery in Lone Tree. And find a wrap-up of international fare in our
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FEATURES 16 Taste Bud Travel Take Your Taste Buds on Vacation Without Leaving Your Neighborhood
21 Finding Your Mountain Oasis Vermejo Reserve Park Offers Unforgettable Outdoor Excursions, High-Country Luxury, and Glimpse into Ted Turner Conservation
26 West Main Taproom Chef Tyler Wiard’s Elevated Cuisine Combined With Local Beverages Makes For Exceptional Night Out
32 South Denver Strong Efforts to Support Local Eateries
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FOODIE DURING HARVEST SEASON, OUR FOODIE COMMUNITY IS RIPE FOR THE PICKING. Pumpkin patches and applefests, Colorado’s thriving brewing and distilling industry, and seasonal dinners to savor.
BREWERIES + WINERIES + DISTILLERIES + If you are looking for something totally unique, Rare by Grist's funky interior and smoked cocktails are calling your name. Don't miss their original versions of the Old Fashioned. 9535 Park Meadows Drive Lone Tree, CO + Trubucha is a locally owned, craft kombrewery located in Lone Tree, dedicated to producing high quality, fresh kombucha in many flavors, including blueberry lemon and mango 10047 Park Meadows Dr Lone Tree, CO + Lone Tree Brewing Co. is the area's first and largest independent craft brewery and dog friendly. With 5 flagship beers and 10 rotating seasonals, they have something for everyone. 8200 Park Meadows Drive, # 8222 Lone Tree, CO + Max Taps has all your favorite brewers, and those you haven't yet heard of in one place. A rotating calendar of food trucks offers a variety of food too. 2680 East County Line Road Highlands Ranch, CO + The wood barrel adorned interior at Purgatory Cellars WInery is a cozy place to try out their amphora fermented and stored wines 30 Springer Drive, Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80129, 12
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SEASONAL COMFORT FOODS + Looking for an authentic Dia de los Muertos recipe? Try the Chicken Mole recipe from Yvette Marquez-Sharpnack of MuyBuenoCookbook.com. All the traditional flavors, half the time. Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80126 + Autumn cooking reintroduces us to flavorful and enriching soup. Curried Butternut Squash Soup from Lea Ann Brown's CookingOnTheRanch.com is delish and nutrish. Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80126 + If you are looking for old school Denver Mexican comfort food, look no further than Sierra's Mini Chili Rellenos and Grandma's Green Chile. 10680 Cabela Drive Lone Tree, CO + Find The Village Pie Maker at Curate Mercantile for seasonal pies like cranberry apple or favorites like black cherry. Sweet comfort a' la mode. 8242 S University Blvd, #150 Centennial, CO
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+ Konark Grocers is a one stop shop for all your South Asian Indian cooking needs. Fresh produce, Indian spices, frozen meals and chaat make bringing your curry home easy. 7152 E County Line Rd
FALL ACTIVITIES + DCL Highlands Ranch hosts A Storybook Holiday Halloween: Welcome to Transylvania. Little ones can dress up for trick-or-treating in vampire bat cave and enjoy fangtastic entertainment. 9292 S Ridgeline Blvd, , Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80129 + Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield Farm hosts its iconic Pumpkin Fest and Corn Maze again this year. Food, entertainment and local artisans celebrate the autumn harvest 8500 West Deer Creek Canyon Road Littleton, CO + Share your Halloween spirit by participating in the HRCA's Halloween Home Decorating Event. Your home will be listed on the tour map with other spooky places. + Backcountry Wilderness' Haunted Forest cracks open the gates to bring the spooky and sinister outdoors. Beware as you discover what is lurking behind each bush and tree. 11033 Monarch Blvd., Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80124
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THE ONLY LIVING THINGS WE’VE SEEN IN THE PAST 45 MINUTES ARE A HERD OF GRAZING ELK AND AN OUT-OF-PLACE FEDEX DRIVER ZIPPING PAST IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. We’ve just pulled up to the historic stone mansions, cottages, and central hunting lodge at Vermejo Reserve Park, an ecological-minded luxury guest ranch in northern New Mexico, owned by media mogul, conservationist, and philanthropist Ted Turner. And we’ve just found a mountain oasis. We’re here for a long weekend to soak in the great outdoors with such excursions as fishing, hiking, archery, and shooting. And there’s a lot to explore. At 920 square miles, Vermejo is the largest privately owned tract of land in the United States. But Vermejo’s superpower is the spirit of conservation and innovation driven by the owner himself, Ted Turner, which has trickled down to every staff person you meet. Marketing manager Deann McBride joins us on a hike to Vermejo’s own Castle Rock, a sandstone formation surrounded by high-mountain grassland. Native Americans once roamed here. Billy the Kid and Louis L’Amour did too. “Two things I love about Vermejo,” Deann says. “One is we’ve got our own private national park on 550,000 pristine acres to get out and explore. And then there’s CONTINUED >
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Ted’s vision to get this all back to before the West was won, to save everything. It’s a continual process.” Vermejo is a paradise for hunters and fly fishers, artists, and photographers trying to escape the concrete jungle’s confines and see a living, breathing Western landscape being carefully curated. Herds of elk, deer, and feral horses roam the vast property. One of several success stories of Vermejo is the reintroduction of the Rio Grande cutthroat trout. Of course, the main attraction here is the renowned Castle Rock bison, a genetically pure herd with roots to the famous Yellowstone herd. It’s been a busy day. We sit down to dinner in the main lodge, a sprawling log-hewn building that houses the dining facilities and operations hub. Not too long ago, we’re told, before Ted Turner bought the property in 1996, ranch cowboys used to throw down pallets in front of the stone fireplace after a day’s labor. This evening’s dinner guests chat in buzzy excitement about their afternoon hunting ventures and what promises to be a hearty chef-prepared meal. The group seated next to us recounts their unforgettable excursion to harvest a bison. Down with one shot to the heart. The group was invited to participate in a culling of some of the aging bison—a way to strengthen the herd genetics. The dinner guests’ whopper story is the essence of why so many travelers make their way to Vermejo to take part in the incredible conservation work being done by Ted Turner’s staff of wildlife managers and scientists who are rebuilding the wild spaces and wildlife of the great American West. We’re staying next door at the ranch’s original residence called Casa Grande, built-in 1909 by Chicago grain magnate William Bartlett. He moved his entire family West with the hopes of
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alleviating his son’s tuberculosis. He ended up building a family compound that included opulent homes for his children, the hunting lodge, and other guest cottages. Casa Grande, with its marble-columned hallways and grand living spaces, is a 25,000-square-foot stone mansion whose seven renovated rooms can be booked individually or as a full buyout for larger parties. After dinner, we wander Casa Grande, that include a conservatory, sunroom, and sumptuous dining room with the original owner’s China on display. Complete renovations of Case Grande were finished in 2012, and each room was painstakingly appointed in antiques and other fashions to reflect its turn-of-the-20th-century aesthetic. We lounge on the living room’s deep blue velvet sofas, browsing a few of the hundreds of books lining the shelves around us, soaking in the history of not just this historical ranching property but Ted Turner’s own storied life. A rare Steinway grande itches to be played. And from the second-story balcony overlooking the room, of course, a mounted bison head holds court.
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