Green Russell

Enter through the door of a tiny pie shop and suddenly you're in what's billed as a chef-driven cocktail joint. Like the food in Frank Bonanno's multiple Denver restaurants, the drinks here feature fresh, quality ingredients. Fresh herbs, house-made bitters and infused sodas are expertly crafted into trendy cocktails and paired with such goodies as pork belly pigs-in-a-blanket or loaded chips. And because there is a real pie shop, you can ask the bartender to match your cocktail to the pie of the day for a most unusual dessert combo. Jazz is the music theme here and there's live jazz on Sunday and Monday evenings. Order a cocktail with tonic to taste the difference in beverage director Adam Hodak's house-made version, with added hints of citrus and spice.