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The Mi Pueblo Market in Thornton might be the best grocery store in the entire world. On any given day, the clean and brightly decorated market is warmly bumping a reggaeton Rihanna remix as shoppers peruse cascading bins of fresh avocados, bananas and tomatillos. Horchata sells by the jug, queso comes in just one variety […]
?The affable man who owns Tia Maria treats his customers like royalty, which is reason enough to plop your butt down in a cushy booth and spend the afternoon slumped over shots, which he doles out in frequent doses. The tequila syllabus is impressive — and so are the tasting notes that accompany it — […]
You know you’ve become an American icon when you make regular appearances in Larry the Cable Guy’s standup routine, and by that standard, Waffle House is the Elvis Presley of Interstate dining. With more than 1,400 franchises in 25 states (including Denver / Boulder), this Georgia-based breakfast joint, founded in 1955, is among a handful […]
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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 […]
More than thirty years ago, the Michel brothers — all bona fide North Dakotans — opened a trio of diner-like joints known as the Butcher Block Cafe. They all feature old-school lunch counters and a few rows of diner tables, which are usually filled with a chatty crowd of shift workers, solo diners reading the […]
Located down the street from Buckin’ Harley’s, just off Pecos Street and Highway 36, the Ugly Dog caters to sports fans as well as dog lovers. Yes, the gals working there wear tight, sleeveless referee shirts, and you can catch a game on one of its twenty LCD TVs — but you can also bring […]
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Many MMJ patients sigh in resignation when thinking about the dank, delicious edibles that used to come out of Standing Akimbo (the dispensary doubled as a pot-infused bakery and earned high praise for its goods before ceasing edibles operations in 2013). Today the quaint, peace-loving dispensary is one of the few pot shops that actually […]
Owner: Ryan Gilbert Raw marijuana price range: $42 an eighth for nonmembers, $200 ounces. Other types of medicine: hash, BHO, scarce edibles. Handicap accessible? Yes Read our full review of MariTrust.
After a long run as the Golden Cue and a brief stint as Chasers, the owner of JR’s Silver Bullet in Thornton and England native Rob Kirk opened @ Cheers in March, 2011. While the place still hangs on to some of its charm when it was the Golden Cue (yes, there are still plenty […]
Don’t let the name of this strip-mall joint (which is not affiliated with the Aurora or Arvada locations of Woody’s) fool you: This is one of the metro area’s best Asian eateries, in disguise. The menu – a literal binder – is full of dishes with roots in the Indochina peninsula, from duck larb to […]
If you’ve seen the graveled parking lot of Carniceria y Taqueria La Flor de Michoacan filling up promptly at 4 p.m. every Friday, Saturday and Sunday with a brotherhood of food warriors — burly men drawn by the mingled scents of char and sizzle permeating the air — you might have wondered what that makeshift, […]
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*This location is closed until further notice.* Raw marijuana price range: $25/eighths, $180 ounces. $40/eighth special strains. Online menu: Yes. Other types of medicine: Edibles. Handicap accessible? Yes.
In addition to running a string of bars and clubs since the 1960s, Chuck Persichetti owned Brewski’s, at Highway 36 and Pecos, for a decade. Nearly ten years after selling the place (which is now Buckin’ Harley’s), he resurrected the Brewski’s name and opened an updated version of his old spot in Thornton, at the […]
The Welcome Inn also goes by the name New Welcome Inn, but there’s nothing new about this bar that’s been run by the same family for over thirty years; the music is loud, the games popular, and the linoleum on the bar worn by generations of elbows. What’s new is the area around the bar: […]
