2021 Denver Food + Wine Festival

Explore The CHEFS, BAKERS + beverage pros
WHO WILL MAKE THE 2023 DENVER FOOD + WINE FESTIVAL A HUGE SUCCESS!

Lexy Rae
Ay Papi

Lexy Rae is a local bartender who hails from Asheville, North Carolina. She loves to create cocktails that are fun, colorful, and often unconventional. Her favorite cocktail creations combine high-brow and low-brow ingredients as a representation of how cocktailing should invoke feelings of joy and playfulness; Lexy sincerely maintains the philosophy that bartending should be fun and not pretentious. She currently works at Ay Papi, a new cocktail bar in Cherry Creek, where Latin influence meets party vibes.