Mugsy’s Bar sits in a no-man’s land between Denver’s Windsor neighborhood, Aurora and unincorporated Arapahoe County.

The Stage Stop was built in 1868, before Colorado was even a state. Now the famous bar serves as a meeting place for Rollinsville neighbors and day-trippers from Denver and Boulder.

The Morrison Holiday Bar is Morrison’s neighborhood watering hole — and is also a well-known stop for hikers, bikers and other Denverites enjoying day trips from the city.

Nestled between in a strip mall in Aurora is the unassuming Sports Station Bar and Grill (850 Dayton Street), located in an odd no-man’s land somewhere between Lowry, East Colfax Avenue and Havana Street.

Barry Zadikoff’s family has been in the bar business in the Mile High City since the 1950s. His parents and grandparents owned bars, and he followed in their footsteps. Zadikoff himself has owned quite a few watering holes over the years, but lately he’s been focused on the one that…

In my journey through Denver’s bars, I sometimes debate whether an establishment falls into the category of “neighborhood bar” or not. But Esters Neighborhood Pub in Virginia Village makes my deliberation easy by including “neighborhood” in its name. And I discovered that the place is definitely a watering hole for…

This is the final installment of our three-part Beermuda Triangle series, which explores the Beer Depot, Tennyson’s Tap and the Berkeley Inn, three bars at the corner of West 38th Avenue and Tennyson Street that are as easy to get lost in as the mysterious waters of the Atlantic Ocean…

This is part two of our three-part Beermuda Triangle series, which explores the Beer Depot, Tennyson’s Tap and the Berkeley Inn, three bars at the corner of West 38th Avenue and Tennyson Street that are as easy to get lost in as the mysterious waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Read…

The Beer Depot (4231 West 38th Avenue) is not, as I thought when I first heard the name, a liquor store. It is one of three bars that form part of the Berkeley neighborhood’s “Beermuda Triangle,” something I learned about at the Beer Depot itself. When a friend and I stopped…

Next Door Lounge (not to be confused with Next Door American Eatery, which has several locations around town) is a small but mighty bar that you might just miss if you aren’t paying attention while driving along East 17th Avenue in Uptown. Sandwiched between sister restaurant Bread-N-Butter and Jack’s Uptown Grille,…

I used to frequent the Atomic Cowboy (the original one, at 3237 East Colfax Avenue) when I first moved to Denver more than ten years ago — and so did nearly everyone else in my Congress Park neighborhood. Back then, the Atomic Cowboy was just a simple but hip bar for…

In Aurora’s Mission Viejo neighborhood, if you look hard enough in the back corner of a nondescript shopping center off South Chambers Road and East Hampden Avenue (across the street from the Jumpoline Family Fun Center), you just might find the hidden gem that is G’Ducks Bar. The sign for…

On the second-to-last day of 2017, I found myself at Sam’s Bar & Lounge (6801 Leetsdale Drive) with my roommate, celebrating my return to Denver after a holiday trip to the East Coast to visit my family. The day before New Year’s Eve is not known as a big bar-going day,…

I’ve always enjoyed Three Lions —- officially named Three Lions, A World Football Pub —- even before it was Three Lions. Back in my early days in Denver, I was a  fan of the Bank, which was the previous bar housed in the space at 2239 East Colfax Avenue. The Bank had an…

As I mentioned before, I’m starting to venture farther into the Denver suburbs in search of new drinking spots to know and love. The latest journey took me right to the border of Golden and Lakewood, to a bar on the Golden side of Youngfield Street. As a fairly lazy…

As the days get colder, you can count on Colfax Avenue to stay burning bright at all hours, full of places to take refuge from the wind. One place that has become a quietly reliable Colfax fixture over the years, as well as a great place to warm yourself and…

I have noticed the awning and sign for W.T. Shorty’s Sports Grill (990 South Oneida Street) a few times over the years, tucked back in a strip mall off of Leetsdale Drive in Virginia Vale among establishments with names like the Gift Card Shop and David’s Kebab House. It always looked…

I’ve been starting to run short on Denver neighborhood bars to visit, so it was time for another trip to Lakewood with a friend of mine who lives out that way. West Colfax Avenue in Lakewood is full of amazing-looking dive bars, so we decided to shoot for that general…

I took me three tries to finally get a drink at the White Horse Bar (or Lounge, depending on whether you believe the sign on top of the building or what the internet tells you). Last winter, I tried to visit the White Horse (5130 West Alameda Avenue) with a friend who…

I found myself at Sancho’s Broken Arrow (741 East Colfax Avenue) with a friend on a recent Saturday afternoon and realized that the last time I had been in was quite a while ago — too long ago, really. The bar was comfortingly familiar and seemed somehow untouched by the hands…

The Zephyr Lounge, the legendary bar at 11940 East Colfax bar in Aurora, turns seventy years old this year. If you haven’t made it to this unique neighborhood spot that provides just the right ambiance with a mix of wood paneling, random art, thrice-a-day happy hours, karaoke, live music, neon…

It’s getting close to Halloween, so for me, it’s a season all about ghost stories. One of my favorite reliable, and reliably haunted, neighborhood bars in town is the Stockyard Saloon. Although, I suppose the location, nestled among the warehouses and National Western Complex at 4710 National Western Drive in…