The Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant, a born-in-Colorado restaurant group, has opened a seventh location in Frisco. This new Rio outpost will be the company’s first new location in almost 10 years and will serve up its famous margaritas, and made from scratch Mexican food to Summit County in a newly designed building.

“Frisco is at the epicenter of year-round recreation in Colorado – which is a huge part of our company culture,” said Rio founder and President Pat McGaughran. “The Rio is the ideal destination for people looking to reward themselves after playing hard in Colorado – whether it’s skiing, biking, hiking or enjoying time with family. This is part of what makes the Rio uniquely Colorado.”

Located off the I-70 corridor at “The Basecamp,” 182 Lusher Court, the Rio is adjacent to the new Whole Foods. It will be the first free standing Rio, built from the ground up and is located next to the bus stop that provides convenient access to area ski resorts including Copper, Breckenridge, Keystone and Vail.

The building offers flexible design that will allow it go from 3,000 square feet to 7,000 square feet over two floors, depending upon seasonable demands, weather conditions and volume. It will boast two large patios ideal for après skiers and summer mountaineers. The menu will include traditional Rio favorites like the Rio Marg, while also offering menu items specific to the Frisco location.

“The Rio’s expansion is largely spurred by demand from the local community,” said CEO Jason Barrett. “We have a strong base of Rio loyalists in Summit County and are looking forward to bringing a sense of vibrancy, variety and Colorado tradition to this growing community. The Rio will add to the spirit of adventure that already exists here.”

The Rio Grande is a 28 year-old Colorado restaurant with six locations along the Front Range, including Fort Collins, Boulder, Denver, Greeley, Park Meadows and Steamboat Springs.

For more information on the Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant, go to www.riograndemexican.com/ or follow on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Eavesdropping on a woman reading the washing instructions on a child’s garment: “100 percent polyester. Wash inside out. Remove child before washing. Made in China.”

Eavesdropping on a woman on Facebook talking about the Broncos-Seahawks game: “At least we made (Richard) Sherman yell the “f-word” before overtime!”

Pack your taste buds for a trek to the more-than-a-mile-high mountains for the second annual Vail Beaver Creek Restaurant Week Friday through Oct. 5.

With participating restaurants spanning across these two neighboring mountain resorts, this culinary celebration takes dining to new heights. The 10-day long event will feature a wide variety of prix fixe menus and specials all at $20.14 per person and all showcasing the diverse culinary offerings available throughout the Vail and Beaver Creek Villages. (I’ll go out on a limb here and predict that next year’s fixed-price meals will cost $20.15.)

Learn more about participating Vail Beaver Creek Restaurant Week restaurants and their menus at www.diningataltitude.com.

Season five “Top Chef” winner Hosea Rosenberg will open his much-anticipated Boulder restaurant/market/butcher shop Blackbelly Market in October.

Can’t wait till then?

To appease future restaurant guests, Rosenberg is opening the doors of his food truck Darth Tater to serve breakfast from the Blackbelly Market parking lot, 1606 Conestoga St. No. 3, Boulder, every morning starting at 7 a.m. until the food runs out.  Menu items include 0n-the-go breakfast burritos, coffee and daily specialty items.

Justin Cucci, the much-touted top toque who brought us Root Down, Linger and Root Down DIA, will open a new-concept eatery south of Linger in the uber popular LoHi neighborhood in the middle of next year, according to www.denver.eater.com.

“The new spot will be housed in a 2,700 square foot space located on the top, fifth floor, of a brand new development,” Eater Denver says. “The restaurant will showcase unobstructed eastern views of downtown Denver from a large open-air patio.

Thrillist.com, the website obsessed with building obscure lists, has dug deep to deliver its compilation of “The oldest bar in every state and (Washington), D.C.”

In Colorado, although Denver’s historic Buckhorn Exchange holds bragging rights to possessing Colorado’s No. 1 liquor license, that legal libation document wasn’t issued until 1893, long after the International Bowling Saloon first opened in Golden in 1859. The watering hole later served as a meeting house for the Colorado Territorial House of Representatives, according to Thrillist’s thirsty research.

That bar is now known as the Buffalo Rose Tavern, a live music venue where Thrillist presumes a lot of Coors is consumed. The current building has stood since 1902.

To see the rest of the country’s oldest bars, go to www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/america-s-oldest-bars-the-oldest-bar-in-all-50-us-states-and-washington-dc.

If you’re curious about the chronology of Colorado’s purveyors of adult beverages, check out www.coloradoskiauthority.com/history/bars/#.VB8IUCx0zIU.

Lakewood has created the free West Metro Veterans Fair to help military families connect with resources they need.

More than 20 organizations ranging from representatives of housing options to health care will be at the fair from 2 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Lakewood Link Recreation Center, 1295 S. Reed St. For more information, visit www.Lakewood.org/VeteransFair.

The Starz Denver Film Festival, sponsored by Starz Entertainment and produced by the Denver Film Society, has announced dates for the 37th edition: Nov. 12-23.

Recognized as the Rocky Mountain Region’s premier film event, SDFF attracts nearly 55,000 filmgoers and is widely recognized for presenting Academy Award- and Independent Spirit Award-winning films, such as “The Artist”, “Black Swan”, “Brokeback Mountain”, “Nebraska”, “No Country for Old Men” and “Silver Linings Playbook” well before achieving their collective accolades.

This year’s SDFF campaign, created by the Denver-based agency AOR, Inc., will invite audiences to “Step Into The Story” through more than 200 titles among local, national and international independent films, industry panels, workshops, achievement awards and tributes. The full 12-day festival program will be announced on Oct. 27.

The Sie FilmCenter and UA Denver Pavilions Stadium will serve as anchor venues with all red carpet presentations at the Buell Theatre. Individual tickets go on sale to Denver Film Society members on Oct. 29 and to the general public on Oct. 31. Tickets will be available for purchase online at www.denverfilm.org or the SDFF main box office location at the Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave.

SDFF Patron Packages are now available, including a $100 discount through the month of September. Click here for levels and benefits and contact Alison Greenberg to purchase at 303-595-3456 ext. 229 or alison@denverfilm.org.

To keep up to date with the Starz Denver Film Festival on social media: like the SDFF Facebook page, follow @DenverFilm on Twitter and join the conversation by using the hashtag: #SDFF37.

Founded in 1978, the Denver Film Society (DFS) is a membership-based, 501(c)(3) nonprofit cultural institution that produces film events throughout the year, including the award-winning Starz Denver Film Festival and the popular, summertime series Film on the Rocks. With a vision to cultivate community and transform lives through film, the Film Society provides opportunities for diverse audiences to discover film through creative, thought-provoking experiences.

The permanent home of the Denver Film Society, the Sie FilmCenter, is Denver’s only year-round cinematheque, presenting a weekly-changing calendar of first-run exclusives and arthouse revivals both domestic and foreign, narrative and documentary – over 600 per year, all shown in their original language and format. DFS’s one-of-a-kind programs annually reach more than 200,000 film lovers and film lovers-in-training.