STK Denver

STK hands you a list with 139 labels and somehow manages to make it feel smaller than a airport hotel bar. The by-the-glass program is essentially three options at $9 during happy hour — a number that sounds friendly until you realize the bottle list is stacked with the kind of names you'd find on a Cheesecake Factory menu. This is a steakhouse that decided wine was a revenue line item, not a reason to show up.

To be fair, 139 bottles is a real number, and the Champagne and sparkling section does have some depth — Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label, Moët Impérial Brut and Rosé, Nicolas Feuillatte. But the selections that get any spotlight are Caymus Bonanza Cab and La Marca Prosecco, which tells you exactly who they're writing this list for. There's a Sauvignon Blanc section and a Rosé section called out specifically, but the producers surfacing from the data — Silver Gate, Santa Margherita, Caposaldo — are reliable crowd-pleasers built for volume, not curiosity. If you came hoping to find something from a small Napa producer or a Rhône you haven't seen before, you'll leave disappointed.

Three pours at $9 during happy hour is the headline, and it features predictable faces: Caymus Bonanza Cabernet Sauvignon, Silver Gate Rosé, and Silver Gate Moscato. Outside of happy hour pricing, we don't have enough data to confirm what the full glass program looks like — which itself is a problem. A steakhouse with 139 bottles should have more than three glass options worth talking about.