Built as a movie theater in 1927, the Oriental Theater showed films daily for decades, but it hit a rough patch in the ’50s, during the flight to the suburbs. In an effort to boost attendance in the ’60s, the theater was updated with plush seating, new carpeting, fresh paint and a bigger projection screen. […]
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The Children’s Museum of Denver, which was founded in 1973, provides an interactive and fun learning experience for children, newborn through eight, and their parents. With hands-on exhibits, daily programming and year-round special events, it’s hard not to enjoy being educated here, no matter what your age.
Afternoon tea at the Lumber Baron includes a tour of the haunted hotel.
Entertainment and dining complex with public aquarium featuring more than one million gallons of underwater exhibits and more than 500 animal species.
Denver’s Bug Theatre was originally built as a movie house in 1912 and passed through several different hands before landing in the hands of local artists Chandler Romeo and Reed Weimer. Since then, it has become a major venue for alternative arts, including movies, comedy, music and other performances.
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Offering step and coed aerobics, line-dance class, women’s “get fit” and other weekly exercise programs.
This legendary and well-loved New Mexican (not Mexican) joint has received national acclaim, and that’s because chile man Jack Martinez knows what his customers want. First, there’s the good, honest New Mexico-style green chile he’s been dishing up since his days as a chile importer. Then there’s the succulent shrimp, juicy chicken and exceptionally potent […]
All the pieces come together in kitchen at Julia Blackbird’s. Although the dining room looks like something concocted by the Santa Fe tourism board, the menu offers very genuine fare. This is classic, homegrown New Mexican comfort food, everything from simple burritos and calabacitas to an excellent posole, grilled elote, fideo and rellenos (fried hard, […]
The decades-old Tacos Jalisco is holding firm against the remodels and condo buyouts encroaching from all directions. Inside, the look is half strip-mall Mexican and half ranchero, and the menu? Pure Colorado Mexican, with a little Tex-Mex, a little Norteno, some Michoacan influences and a healthy dose of big burritos, cheesy enchiladas and excellent seafood […]
Chef/owner Pat Perry’s Highland’s Garden Cafe spills across two Victorian homes in the heart of Highland – as well as an expansive garden and patio. Dining outside is particularly lovely in the summer, when you can eat right in the middle of the garden that supplies many of the ingredients for the dishes on your […]
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Sabor Latino’s feel-good ambience makes this decades-old northwest Denver joint easy to love. The dining room is comfortably rustic, with an atmosphere that hangs somewhere in that inviting, tender middle ground between aging white-tablecloth class and neighborhood eclecticism. The menu is half-Mexican standards and half-greatest hits of Central and South American cuisines (some holdovers from […]
A quintessential red-sauce joint that’s been serving northwest Denver for more than fifty years. The bottomless pot of minestrone comes with the meal, the bread is the kind of thick, spongy Italian that’s ideal for sopping up the gravylike red sauce, the pastas are made in-house, and the zabaglione-custard-topped tiramisu is a wonder.
Situated in the now-hip Highland neighborhood, Carl’s Pizza is anything but trendy. It’s an old-time neighborhood Italian joint serving good spaghetti and meatballs, manicotti and pizza since 1953. Dinners come with soup or salad; spaghetti and meatballs can be ordered by the pint or the quart. It’s nothing fancy, just good food with a good […]
Back in 1996, when bang! opened in northwest Denver, Highland was far from the hot dining destination it is today. But bang! didn’t just start with a bang; it continues to do a bang-up business almost two decades later, even with a lot more competition in the neighborhood these days. It helps that bang! owns […]