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Thistle & Mint

We are a catering and personal chef company that works to bring the cuisine of Colorado to you.
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Thistle & Mint is owned and operated by Chef Jared and his wife Olivia. With a love for Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region, Thistle & Mint celebrates the resources, beauty and the history of the land around us through food. We work to learn more about how Colorado’s cuisine has been shaped over time by rediscovering lost traditions. We find ways to use native but uncommon ingredients (like thistle) while not leaving out some of the favorites (such as mint).

08/30/2024

Don’t miss out on this. Limited availability, reserve to guarantee a spot.

08/21/2024

Turnips.

08/19/2024

Shared Tastes at Burns Family Artisan Ales Taphouse September 3rd starting at 6pm.
Appetizer, Dessert and a Beer Flight to share
Link in bio.
See you there

08/13/2024

Rainy weather brings me back to the days I started foraging. I would aimlessly wander the woods and keep my eyes down while rain trickled down my neck. My first patch of morels was found shortly after my dog, ran off the trail to find a rotting deer leg. Just a few steps away was a large patch of black morels.

Now I let the pros do it and focus my time elsewhere, but I make sure I get a day or so every month to explore.

Pictured Morels and Sh*tos stuffed with morels and pork with honey cured egg yolks floating in mushroom shoyu.

08/10/2024

Are you coming to dinner at 14er Brewing? You don’t want to miss out on the one. Reserve your seat tonight.

08/06/2024

As a kid I always felt that corn was the ultimate Fourth of July food. It meant Summer and fireworks. The only way to eat it was slathered in butter hot off the grill.

But today, with hush puppies, smoked trout fondue and tossed it herb butter.
Make sure to swing by every first Tuesday, grab a quick bite at Burns Family Artisan Ales Taphouse on South Broadway. The only place you can get elevated appetizers and desserts from us.

08/03/2024

Come dine with us in August.
BFAA Taphouse on August 6th shared app, dessert and flight.
BFAA Barrelhouse on August 10th our five course beer dinner.
Lastly we will have our first dinner at 14er Brewing on August 18th
See you there!
Link for reservations in bio.

07/30/2024

Making fluffy hollandaise, drying meats, to puffing bread. Air is the least seen element in cooking, yet without it how could we develop flavor through texture?

07/26/2024

Water is the cradle of all life. Essential for a cooking. We always taught that cooking at its core is the removal of water from ingredients with the intent to transform them to something edible.

07/08/2024

When food and beer collide.

Photos from our latest beer pairing dinner at Woods Boss Brewing Co.

07/04/2024

It’s a long weekend, end it with a few beers paired with a fantastic meal at your favorite brewery.
Tickets are still available for dinner on Sunday, link in bio.

06/13/2024

Asparagus, lovage, smoked trout

06/11/2024

It’s officially been five years of Beer Pairing Dinners. We’ve gone from doing a dinner every few months to fancy to-go dinner during Covid, and now we host three or more dinners a month.

You can find us at Burns Family Artisan Ales twice a month (once at each location). And we rotate through some of Denver finest breweries including River North, Woods Boss, Hogshead and Goldspot.
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We don’t have any more events scheduled for this month but you can join us at Woods Boss on July 2nd.
If you want a quick bite come stop by our food truck we are at Goldspot 6 days a week.
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Thank you to everyone that has been supporting us these past five years and the next five to come.

06/04/2024

It’s already June, that means that tomorrow is Shared Tastes. From 6-9pm this Tuesday, come to the Taphouse to get an appetizer, dessert and a flight to share.

05/29/2024

The first week of June is full of options.
Let’s Eat!

05/19/2024

Hunters Sauce, sauce chasseur, jäger sauce. It goes by many names but is still my favorite sauce. It gets its name from hunters gathering mushrooms and its ability for it to pair with game meats.
In the German tradition it is paired with veal schnitzel, in my tradition we pair it with pork “schnitzel” breaded with nacho borracho tortilla chips and the perfect beer to pair with is an American amber lager from Goldspot.

05/16/2024

It’s been five years since this picture was taken. Colorado bass, with watercress, asparagus and cornbread. Served at the first beer pairing dinner with Burns Family Artisan Ales.

05/12/2024

My favorite vegetable this season. Lightly grilled with bearnaise and popcorn.

05/03/2024

Shared Taste at BFAA Taphouse is this Tuesday. Are you coming?
Pre-orders open.

04/30/2024

May events
May 7th Shared Tastes at BFAA Taphouse

May 11th Artisanal Beer Dinner at BFAA Barrelhouse

May 18th five course farm dinner at Goldspot Brewing
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Come dine with us this may. Link in bio

04/24/2024

This Sunday come join us at for our 5 course beer pairing dinner. It’s barleywine month and spring is starting, so naturally our menu will feature Barleywines and Spring produce.

04/16/2024

Bison Tartare with hot water cornbread from our last dinner at

04/10/2024

I’m excited for spring and all the fresh produce it brings. So many bright and colorful dishes to come. We thank all of our farmers who are diligently tending the fields.

Pictured Asparagus and fennel soup.

04/05/2024

To many good options this month? Come to them all.
April 13th
April 21st
April 28th

04/04/2024

I wanted to talk a bit about the dishes we love that never make it to instagram. My feeling about it became to scrambled and hard to put together. Instead here are the dishes that never looked interesting for social media. The dishes that came first in flavor and second in looks. Just because it looks cool doesn’t mean it tastes good.

03/22/2024

Make your reservations. This one will be good. Three courses at Cerebral Beer Co.
link in bio.

03/19/2024

This warm weather is making us excited for spring vegetables.
Come out and dine with us as our plates become more veggie centric, we have many exciting dining opportunities in the next months.

• march 27th three course dinner
•April 2nd Shared Taste Taphouse
•April 13 Artisanal Beer Dinner
•April 21st Whiskey Dinner
•April 28th five course

03/10/2024

Oatmeal Creme Pies, tender cookies fill with oat frosting

03/08/2024

Come to dinner with us on St. Paddy’s day. We’ll be at Diebolt with 5 Irish inspired courses paired with five amazing beers.
Will you be there?

03/08/2024

Duck Salad
Duck breast have been marinated in beet juice, spiced up and grilled, grilled beets, frisée and a spicy dressing

Reminds me of the teriyaki chicken my aunt would make in the summer.

This was served at Shared Tastes at Burns Family Artisan Ales Taphouse, paired with an American porter and blueberry ale

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Denver, CO
80203

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http://thistleandmintfood.com/

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“I am the Chef and Owner of Thistle and Mint, a personal chef and small event catering business. I love the beauty of Colorado and the Rocky Mountains. This is why my focus is on cuisine that is made of ingredients that are sourced locally from farmers and growers that are located here as well as those that are available naturally in the wild. I grow some things and forage for items too. I am committed to making buzz-words like " Hyper-local" and " Farm-to-table" mean something more than just things people say to loosely describe a type of cuisine. My menu is only made up of things that can actually be found in Colorado and the Rocky Mountains and it really is seasonal, too.”