Shanahan’s Steakhouse

Mike Shanahan may be long gone from Denver, but he left a major legacy with his namesake restaurant in the Denver Tech Center. Steakhouses are all about unabashed high-roller gluttony, and when you’re paying a head and a hoof for their beef, the cow had better damn well be worth the price of its hide. […]

Simms Steakhouse

Perched high on a hill overlooking downtown Denver, Simms Steak House — which occupies the former home of Simms Landing — wows diners with a stunning silhouette of the skyline. As a result, it’s a perfect destination for date night, Sunday brunch or dinner with out-of-towners. But the big, classic menu — highlighting Colorado-caught fish […]

The Summit Steakhouse

For nearly four decades, the Summit Steakhouse in Aurora has catered to a meat-and-potatoes-loving crowd. In some ways, not a lot has changed over the years. Tablecloths and tea lights are still de rigueur. Red roses are given to female guests, and on many nights, a pianist tickles the ivories in the lounge. Entrees such […]

Westerkamps Steakhouse and Meat Market

When Chris Gonzales and his father-in-law, Jaime Rizo, bought an old building in an industrial section of north Denver over a decade ago, it housed a grocery store and meat market that had opened when the neighborhood was filled with Germans. The pair decided to keep the name, converting the shop into a meat market […]

Willie G’s Seafood & Steaks

Located on Denver’s bustling 16th Street Mall, Willie G’s Seafood & Steaks is a quiet, classy oasis with an upscale-steakhouse atmosphere. But its lively patio, at the corner of 16th and Lawrence, was just made for people-watching, so settle in and eat, drink and gawk to your heart’s content. Willie G’s is part of the […]

Yard House

Steele Platt knows what Denver likes. Although the restaurateur, who had several places in the Tivoli in the ’80s, left Colorado decades ago, the Yard House chain that he founded in California in 1996 is also ideally suited for Colorado. For starters, beers are big at the Yard House – the restaurant has over a […]