At a ceremony on November 10, Mayor Michael Hancock and Brad Buchanan, executive director of Denver Community Planning and Development, honored seventeen projects for excellence in architecture, design and place-making at the 2016 Mayor’s Design Awards ceremony. Several of those projects house restaurants, and one, the home of Torchy's, might be the best adaptation ever of an old Arby's. Among the restaurant-related winners:
Bindery on Blake
2901 & 2875 Blake Street
Houses Rackhouse Pub, among other businesses.
Blue Moon Brewing Company
3750 Chestnut Place
The Metlo
1111 Broadway
Galaxie
3520 East Colfax Avenue
Home to Chow and Humble Pie
Torchy's Tacos
1085 Broadway
Both the Art and Halcyon hotels also won awards. See photos of all the winners here.