Aurora in Denver
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Altitude’s Aurora store is one of the rare dispensaries that occupies a building actually constructed to be a pot shop. You’ll find no confusing exits or hallways added to conform to regulations – but you might confuse the place for an art gallery after taking in the veiled lighting, canvases on the walls and decorated […]
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Move over, Colonel: There’s a new KFC in town. Angry Chicken brought Korean fried chicken to Havana Street at the end of 2017, making the spicy, crackly bird more accessible than ever in metro Denver. And definitely more delicious. With a swank dining room, well-stocked bar (fried chicken is bar food, after all) and roster […]
In 2022, Annette chef-owner Caroline Glover became Aurora’s first James Beard Award winner, five years after she opened her first solo venture. During its run, this Stanley Marketplace anchor has only gotten better as Glover plays with seasonal ingredients to keep things fresh while also revisiting past favorites from time to time. The beef tongue […]
Anthony’s got its start in 1984, when Henry Mann opened his first slice shop on the 16th Street Mall. As at any stereotypical pizza shop, the service has always been gruff, though not unfriendly. Know what you want when you get to the counter, order it, and you’ll have no problems. In addition to quality […]
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While some pizza joints strive to present an authentic version of the Italian pizzeria experience, Armando’s is a museum-quality reproduction of the classic (and, some would say, nonexistent) fantasy neighborhood Italian joint, serving amazing red-sauce spaghetti and meatballs. The dining room always seems to have the buzz of a big holiday meal — the floor […]
The women who work at the Athenian are not there just to serve patrons; they want to get to know patrons. And so those servers see fit to get involved with every dinner decision, sometimes with persuasive forcefulness. They rarely err in their recommendations, though, smiling knowingly while delivering platters of gyros, hummus and saganaki, […]
What started as a hip mashup of pizza joint, retro-swank hang and Southern-style biscuit emporium on East Colfax Avenue has traveled to the far east – to Stanley Marketplace. This is a pared-down version of the food-and-drink trifecta that’s been winning hearts and minds in Denver proper for years: At this outpost, the bar and […]
Located on East Alameda Avenue right off of I-225, the Cinema Grill offers full-service in-theater dining, with a menu that includes appetizers, entrees and desserts as well as beer, wine and cocktails. It screens first-run feature films in both regular-format and 3-D.
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The Aurora Fox Arts Center is home to the Aurora Fox Studio Theatre and the Aurora Fox Children’s Theatre, and has been a real draw on East Colfax Avenue for close to three decades. It offers productions year-round in the 245-seat theater, as well as exhibits and other activities in the rest of the space.
Permanent exhibits of Aurora history and changing exhibits on various topics of general interest, classes and lectures.