Tennyson’s Tap

Once home to the somewhat run-down Baron’s Restaurant and Lounge, the building at 4335 West 38th Avenue was taken over by new owners, remodeled, and reopened as Tennyson’s Tap in early 2011. The decor, inspired by that of traditional Western saloons, includes a 25-foot-long black-walnut bar top as well as knotty alder woodwork. Tennyson’s serves […]

Park Burger

The homegrown Park Burger is growing into a mini-chain; it’s turning into the grill next door. The original was opened in Platt Park by Frank Bonanno’s one-time right-hand guy, Jean-Philippe Failyau, who stuck with a simple formula that proved so winning, he’s opened several more locations in neighborhoods around town. Park Burger doesn’t keep a […]

Empanada Express Grill

This cozy corner of Venezuelan cuisine features the namesake empanadas, plus fat arepas made from white-corn flour and a few hard-to-find appetizers like tequeños (fried dough sticks), cachapas (corn-flour pancakes) and mashed yucca. Additional treats include South American soft drinks and fried plantain — both the sweet, ripe slices and the starchier chips made from […]

The Cannasseur

Opened: January 2009 Raw marijuana price range: $40-$45/eighth for members, $20/$60 for nonmembers. Other types of medicine: Bubble hash, BHO, assorted candy edibles, sodas. Handicap accessible? Yes. Read our full review of the Cannasseur.

Squeeze Inn

If you’re not looking for the Squeeze Inn, you’re likely to drive right past the tiny drink shack and its barely visible sign. But once you make your way into this single-room lounge with checker-tiled floors and red vinyl seats, you’ll never forget it. Set at the back of a wide-open lot, the one-time burger […]

Stir Cooking School

So you dig all things retro, and like those ’50s magazine ads, you like to putter in the kitchen with a cocktail glass in hand. Stir Cooking School is the perfect setting in which to learn a new recipe, get a lesson from a professional chef or delve into an exotic cuisine – all while […]

Araujo’s Restaurant

Araujo’s occupies a modest storefront across from a Safeway and smack in the middle of the Best Breakfast Burrito Neighborhood; Araujo helped the area win that title with its 99-cent to-go burritos. But Araujo offers so much more: There’s the daily Mexican buffet, filled with the greatest hits of Den-Mex cuisine: good green chile, excellent […]

Rustic Tavern

The Rustic Tavern is happy to be what it is: just a bar. Opened more than 53 years ago by JoAnn Turner and her husband, the simple neighborhood beer joint doubles as a comforting abode for regulars and strangers alike. The original Formica bar top has seen thousands of happy elbows, and the wooden booths […]

Purple Dragon

In the sea of blue and orange that surrounds Sports Authority Field at Mile High, a bright-purple building with a smoking dragon on it can’t help but stand out. Self-described as having the “best meds on Feds,” Purple Dragon is out to prove that quality cannabis and concentrates can be sold at affordable prices for […]