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Everybody loves a good bargain. And the Passport Program—which offers two-for-one boozy drink deals at 68 different venues across town—may be our very favorite way to pinch pennies. Two Parts initially launched the Passport Program in Denver in 2013, and it’s since expanded to eight more U.S. cities, as well as developing a winter program (the Winter Warmer) and a coffee-centric version (the Fika Passport).
If you haven’t jumped on the passport bandwagon yet, here’s how to do it: Go here to purchase yours and await its arrival in the mail. Once you’ve got it, head out to any participating restaurant or bar and order the drink special listed in your passport. Upon receiving your tipple, present the passport booklet to the staff and the bartender will stamp it. Then, your second libation will be on the house. Even if you’ve participated in the passport program before, you’ll find plenty of unexplored territory to cover on this year’s list; there are 38 new participating restaurants including Concourse Restaurant Moderne, Olive & Finch, and the Post Chicken & Beer.
That's only $1 per issue!
The program runs from May 25 to September 4. The $25 booklets often sell out, so do not wait to get yours.
Bonus: For each passport sold, $1 will be donated to local nonprofits, including Colorado Village Collaborative, the GrowHaus, and Warm Cookies of the Revolution.
Summer 2017 participating restaurants/bars and drink specials (new-to-the-list restaurants are in bold):
Ace Eat Serve – Ace Highballs or Singapore Slushies
Adelitas Cocina y Cantina / Palenque Mezcaleria – The Fortaleza Coin
Avelina – Speciality Cocktails or Glass of Red or White Wine ($12 and under)
Bar Max – Colfax Mules or Housemade Sangria
Bear Creek Distillery – Handcrafted Cocktails
Bellwether – Nitro Old Fashioned or Bartender’s Choice
Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales – IPAS
Blue Island Oyster Bar – Summer “Negroni” or Rose Cooler
Brazen – Tennyson Sour or Paloma
Briar Common Brewery + Eatery – House Beer
Call to Arms Brewing Co. – Any Core Pint
Carbon Cafe & Bar – Specialty Cocktail
Cerebral Brewing – Core Beers
Cho77 – Drunken Monk or Black & Gold Sake
Chowder Room – Select Cocktails
CLYDE – Russian Interference or Et Tu, Brute?
Colorado Cider Company – Glass of Cider
Colt & Gray – Drinks From a Bigger Boat
Concourse Restaurant Moderne – Speciality Cocktails
Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project Taproom – Any Drafts $8 or less
DiFranco’s – Red or White Wine By The Glass or Any Beer
Dio Mio – House Red or White Wine By The Glass
Dunbar Kitchen & Tap House – Pints
Fiction Beer Company – Select Draft Beers
FIRE at the ART, a Hotel – Liquid Gold
Fort Greene Bar – Cranes in the Sky Cocktail
The Great Divide Barrel Bar – Core Beers on Draft
The Greedy Hamster – Draft Beer or Specialty Cocktails
Hearth & Dram – Bartender’s Choice
Hudson Hill – House Cocktails or Bartender’s Daily Special
Humboldt: Farm Fish Wine – Humboldt Featured Wine or Mile High Sunrise
Illegal Pete’s – Anything from the Pete’s Classics or Margaritas & More Menu
Laws Whiskey House – Flights
Leña – Sangria or House Margaritas
Little Machine – Select Drafts
Lola Coastal Mexican – Fuego Verde Margaritas
Los Chingones – T&T or Craft Drafts
Luca – Campari Spritz or Slow and Low Old Fashioned
Lucky Pie Pizza & Taphouse – Luckytails
Max’s Wine Dive – Drafts or Wine By the Glass
MCA Cafe & Bar – Beer or Wine
Milk & Honey Bar Kitchen – Lavender Lemonades
Molecule Effect – Draft Beer or Bartender’s Choice
Olive & Finch – Finch’s Mule, Glass of Sangria or House Wine
Our Mutual Friend Brewing Company – Pints
Park Burger – Any Beer on Draft
Post Chicken & Beer – Gov’t Mules, Margaritas, or Manhattans
Postino Wine Café – Glass of Costa Rose or Victory Prima Pilsner
Prohibition – Draft Beer Excluding Rotator
Que Bueno Suerte! – Margaritas
Ratio Beerworks – Flagship Beers
Rebel Restaurant – Grey Day At Punalu’u
Rhein Haus – 1/2 Liter Rhein Haus Lager
The Rosedale – Specialty Cocktails or Drafts
Russell’s Smokehouse – Gold Rush or French 75
Sarto’s – Aperitivo Hour Drinks, Drafts, Wine by the Glass, Spritz, or Season Cocktails
Satchels on 6th – Contratto Spritz or Cocktail of the Day
Scratch Burrito and Happy Tap – House Cocktails
The Squeaky Bean – Specialty Passport Cocktail or Draft Beer
Ste. Ellie – Neo-Classics
Stem Ciders – 10oz Stem Ciders Pour
TAG – Black Rose or House Wine
Telegraph Bistro & Bar – Sangria, Basil Rickey or Paloma
Teller Bar – Colorado Beers, Colorado Spirits, and House Wines
TRVE Brewing Company – Pints
Upstairs Circus – Select Cocktails & Special $10 Mini DIY Project
Que Bueno! Mexican Grille – Margaritas or Specialty Cocktails
Timberline Steaks & Grille – Beer, Wine, or Specialty Cocktails