Sage currently operates three other Urban Farmer modern steakhouses, in Cleveland, Philadelphia and Portland. Executive chef Chris Starkus just moved to Denver from Portland to helm the new outpost, and general manager Troy Christian has also made Denver his permanent home after opening two other Urban Farmers.

Beef sweetbreads with mushrooms, sweet corn, corn custard, pickled shallots and chicken jus.
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Since Urban Farmer is a hotel restaurant, there's plenty of room for baking and other more experimental methods of food production. A glass terrarium in the basement holds mushroom colonies provided by Hazel Dell, a mushroom farm based in Fort Collins. Pressed-sawdust logs sprout several types of mushrooms that will be presented to guests tableside before being harvested and cooked to order.
Even the English muffins that will be served at breakfast and brunch — and that also serve as buns for the house Farm burger on the lunch menu — are baked in-house.

The heirloom tomato salad with white-bean purée, gastrique, cucumbers and red onion is a nod to a salad Starkus remembers from his childhood.
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Urban Farmer opens for dinner at 5 p.m. on Sunday and then will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner beginning Monday, August 14. Keep reading for more photos.

Rooftop beehives will provide honey for the restaurant; the chef also makes lip balm and other products to fully utilize the hives.
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The place isn't cheap, so save your pennies — or come during lunch or weekend brunch to experience the latest look for the glorious old hotel. Sage also took over management of the Cruise Room, so don't forget to stop in and bask in the pink glow of the art-deco bar that's been a part of Denver's drinking scene since the end of Prohibition.