Oxford Hotel

Reader: I've made some history using the Oxford's urinals

Yesterday, Patricia Calhoun offered up some alternative Denver tour stops for a group from Virginia, including the urinals at the Oxford Hotel, which have been around so long that Bat Masterson is said to have drained his lizard in them. Plenty of readers expressed affection for this unusual attract ... More >>

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Reader: If I wanted cosplay with my drinks, I wouldn't go to the Cruise Room

The Cruise Room is a Colorado classic. Modeled after a lounge on the Queen Mary, the bar opened the day after Prohibition ended in December 1933. By which point the jazz age had given way to the Depression -- but that didn't stop Landry's, the new owner of McCormick's and Schmicks, which has the f ... More >>

Photos: Renovated Cruise Room and McCormick's dining room are decked out for the holidays

The update of the restaurant facilities at the Oxford Hotel was supposed to start eighteen months ago -- but the sale of McCormick & Schmick's, which runs those facilities, to Tilman Fertitta of Landry's Restaurants late last year put the plan on hold. But Landry's picked up the project this fall, ... More >>

Cruise Room gets a facelift -- but the history remains

Developer Dana Crawford remembers the first time she saw the Cruise Room. It was in the '50s, and the Oxford Hotel, a once-elegant Victorian establishment that welcomed visitors getting off the train at Denver's Union Station, had become a "flophouse," she recalls. "The people who lived there were r ... More >>

Six lovely bubbly-based cocktails

If you're anything like us, then at times your veins may seem to be pumping pure bubbly. But if you're not, then we reckon there are at least two guaranteed occasions upon which you find yourself consuming drinks made with sparkling wine: Sunday brunch and New Year's Eve.

¡Hip, Hip Urrea!

Tilman Fertitta of Landry's buys McCormick and Schmick's -- and Morton's could be next

Late last week, Tilman J. Fertitta, who owns Landry's, Inc., closed a deal to purchase McCormick & Schmick's, a nationwide restaurant chain that has two locations in Denver, including one in the Oxford Hotel. That spot has been serving up cheap happy hour deals and oysters since 1986 -- before LoD ... More >>

LoDo Aglow demonstrates the light stuff

The windows of the Oxford Hotel, which won first place.​Entries in the third annual LoDo Aglow contest -- for which 22 businesses in lower downtown decorated their windows -- ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. The really ridiculous. Who knew that one of Santa's elves was a pole dancer ... More >>

Things to do in Denver when you're talking like a pirate

A Flickr photo.​Ahoy, mateys! In case ye landlubbers and scalawags are unaware, today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Founded in 1995 by Oregonians John Baur and Mark Summers -- also known as Ol' Chumbucket and Cap'n Slappy, respectively -- the parodic holiday has grown into something ... More >>

McCormick's Fish House & Bar renovation, like the Rapture, has been postponed

​The Rapture has been postponed from last Saturday to October 21, and the renovation of McCormick's Fish House & Bar has also been postponed -- but only until May 31. That means you have another week to enjoy the bar's legendary greyhounds (fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice), happy-hour food de ... More >>

A toast to the people and places in the Ballpark neighborhood

Is this the oldest bar downtown?​Before Coors Field opened in 1995, a group of hearty baseball/bar fans took a field trip to the neighborhood around the ballpark, drinking in one of the oldest parts of town, an area that would inevitably change. We started at the bar at the Nisei post on Marke ... More >>

LoDo restaurants in the limelight at annual awards

The Tavern Downtown is in the LoDo limelight.​Two decades ago, when the first LoDo Limelight Awards were handed out, restaurants were few and far between in lower downtown. But today the restaurant and hospitality industries are the heart of LoDo, and businesses ranging from the venerable Oxfo ... More >>

Top ten places to drink like a pirate in landlocked Denver. Arrrrrgh!

​At 11 a.m., the Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, will release its new beer, Skull & Crossbones Black Ale, inspired by Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship, the new exhibit that sets sail today at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The dark- ... More >>

Tonight: Red Wine and Seafood at the Oxford Hotel

​The annual Red Wine and Seafood benefit for Volunteers of America has a Cajun-inspired flavor this year. The Oxford Hotel, 1600 17th Street, will again host the event, which runs from 6 to 9 p.m. and includes food, dancing, a silent auction and more. Admission is $75 and reservations are requ ... More >>

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Beer dinners, latke cookoffs and more

​The city is awash in beer dinners this week -- but there are also many classes, food drives and the annual Top Latke Cookoff. Here's a taste of what's on the menu:

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Tonight: Red wine and seafood for VOA

​Typically, seafood is paired with white wines, not reds -- simply because the heavier wines can overpower the light, flaky meat. But if you're ready to move beyond a basic pinot noir with your salmon, then you'll want to attend tonight's Red Wine and Seafood Dinner at the Oxford Hotel ballro ... More >>

Illuminating LoDo

Get lit in LoDo this holiday season!

Dixons packaged itself for the holidays.​Twenty-seven businesses entered the first annual LoDo Aglow: Scenes of the Season window-decorating contest, lighting up for the holidays (and through the Stock Show, like the Denver City and County Building). And the winners, announced this week by t ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: LoDo gets lit!

​Every December, my parents would pack the family into the station wagon and head to downtown Chicago, where we'd look at the displays in the department-store windows and all the Christmas lights that glowed brighter than the tail-lights in the traffic jam around us. Downtown department store ... More >>

Buck up! The Irish coffee's on at McCormick's

​ On the first big snow day, restaurants and bars offer a flurry of cold-weather specials. But it's hard to beat the standing deal at McCormick's Fish House & Bar, the cozy spot tucked into the Oxford Hotel at 17th and Wazee streets. Whenever it's snowing, this McCormick's offers Irish coffe ... More >>

Happy Hauntings

A taste of restaurant history before LoDo Bites

We just heard that tonight's LoDo Bites is sold out -- bad news for procrastinators, great news for the LoDo District, which is putting on the event. It also says a lot about how far this part of town has come from the days when the Wazee Supper Club was your only late-night option in downtown (an ... More >>

Third Way finds another way to host fundraiser

The Oxford Hotel is accommodating Third WayFor the past five years, the Third Way Center benefited from a major wine-tasting/fundraiser wine-tasting fundraiser in LoDo. But the event, scheduled for tonight, "was cancelled rather abruptly a week ago by the host/venue, leaving Third Way Center high an ... More >>

An unhappy hour at McCormick's

What? After twenty years of offering the most dependable happy hour in the city, with a terrific cheeseburger among the other $1.95 specials, McCormick's has changed its hours? Just walked into the bar at the corner of the Oxford Hotel and found out that corporate had dictated a cutback several mont ... More >>

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Best Literary Homage

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The Bite

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Best Rest Stop -- Urban

Oxford Hotel

Night & Day

April 8-14, 1999

Mouthing Off

Mouthing Off

Mouthing Off

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April 9-15, 1998