McCormick’s Fish House & Bar

At McCormick’s — an outpost of the McCormick’s & Schmick’s chain in the elegant Oxford Hotel — you can easily forget that you’re more than a thousand miles from a coastline. The restaurant’s extensive menu features a ton of fresh fish, prepared plain or fancy, as well as steaks, salads and more land-locked entrees. And […]

McCoy’s Restaurant

Watch daybreak over Denver or sunset over the Rockies from this eatery’s perch above I-70 on Federal Boulevard. Slide into a vinyl booth or swivel on a stool at the counter while you wait for your chicken-fried steak or smothered burrito. The lonely lives of truckers, the frantic conversations of angst-ridden teens jolted with java, […]

McDonough’s Irish Pub

McDonough’s Irish Pub is more of a well-worn dive than a typical Irish pub. But in keeping with a dive, McDonough’s serves some of the cheapest drinks in this section of Aurora near the intersection of Parker Road and Iliff Avenue. One half of the bar has a pool table and dartboards, while the other […]

McLoughlin’s

Located just west of the Millennium bridge from 15th Street, North at Little Raven one block to 16th Street, McLoughlin’s offers refreshing cuisine in one of the very first areas settled along the Front Range of Colorado, in the quiet and once-forgotten heart of Denver. The area is populated by many parks and walkways along […]

Mead St. Provisions

This longtime Highland fixture opened as Mead Street Station in 1994, but in the summer of 2020, it closed down for some major renovations and a rebrand. When it reopened as Mead St. Provisions, it was decked out with a deli case loaded with charcuterie and other meats and had a new sandwich-heavy menu, though […]

Mecca Grill

The service is peculiar and the droning music even weirder at Mecca Grill, a mini-mall storefront with a saffron-stained dining room. But the food — herby falafel, hummus, gyros, lemony fattoush, shawarma, kabobs and grape leaves — is undeniably good. The best dish: the bold-flavored lamb shank, an extravagantly huge hunk of meat that arrives […]

Meet & Eat Bistro

This strip-mall spot on the Denver-Aurora city line offers a typical roster of Chinese dishes that appeal to the American palate: lo mein, fried rice, beef and broccoli and the like. They are all done well, but we recommend diners skip to the section of the menu labeled “Traditional Chinese Entrees,” where they’ll find more […]

Megenagna Ethiopian Restaurant and Grocery

Megenagna serves Aurora’s Ethiopian community as well as other nearby residents who appreciate house-baked goods, meats and packaged Ethiopian specialties – along with fresh-made entrees that exude the welcoming aroma of spice blend. Every dish comes with tangy, spongy housemade injera, great for sopping up vegetable stews or wrapping up bites of spicy beef.

Melita’s Greek Cafe & Market

There are people who come to Melita’s to bulk up on Greek feta; others stock up on sumac, a lemony powder that Greeks use on, well, just about everything. Still others pop in for the aptly named Hercules burger, five or six inches of heft favored by those whose only afternoon requirement is a really […]

Mellow Mushroom Downtown Denver

The Atlanta-based pizza chain trumped more than hundred locations nationwide, including one in Tabor Center and another in the Streets at SouthGlenn. The pizza here is Southern-style and stone-baked; the restaurant offers late-night dining, nightly live entertainment and a temperature-controlled covered patio.

Mellow Mushroom Streets at Southglenn

The Atlanta-based pizza chain trumped more than hundred locations nationwide, including one in Tabor Center and another in the Streets at SouthGlenn. The pizza here is Southern-style and stone-baked; the restaurant offers late-night dining, nightly live entertainment and a temperature-controlled covered patio.

The Melting Pot

If you like fondue, you’ll go weak in the knees for the Melting Pot. This national chain has two locations in metro Denver – one in a lovely old Carnegie library in Littleton, the other in Louisville. Fondue may be delicious, but it’s also a pain to make and clean up, so it’s much better […]

The Melting Pot

If you like fondue, you’ll go weak in the knees for the Melting Pot. This national chain has two locations in metro Denver — one in a lovely old Carnegie library in Littleton, the other in Louisville. Fondue may be delicious, but it’s also a pain to make and clean up, so it’s much better […]

Mercantile Dining & Provision

The concept for Alex Seidel’s second restaurant was as grand and ambitious as that of Union Station itself, where Mercantile launched in the summer of 2014. The refurbished train station showed off vaulted ceilings, gleaming marble, dark woods and a variety of new bars and restaurants that fit nearly every traveler’s needs. Likewise, Mercantile offered […]

Mercury Cafe

For more than forty years, Marilyn Megenity hosted the town’s most eclectic party at the Mercury Cafe, her club/cafe/community gathering place. Although it’s now owned by entrepreneur Danny Newman, he’s vowed to keep the Merc instact as an institution known as much for its enlightening entertainment options – plays, poetry slams, tango parties – as […]

Meritage

Omni Interlocken Resort sits right off the highway between Denver and Boulder. But once you’ve parked your car and entered into this stunning complex, you feel like you could be a world away – especially when you’re dining at the Meritage, a casually elegant restaurant with a stunning setting. The menu features a wide range […]

Mexico City Restaurant & Lounge

Founded by Willie and Esther Garcia in the 1960s, Mexico City Lounge has been a family-owned staple for decades. It hasn’t changed much in that time, with the exception of a slight facelift in 2012, though the area around it sure has…and the ownership has moved down a couple of generations. But despite the evolution […]