The Inventing Room Dessert Shop

Willy Wonka take notice: Denver has its own magician of all things sweet. Chef and inventor Ian Kleinman opened the Inventing Room, his science-lab dessert bar in the Ballpark neighborhood in October 2015, offering liquid-nitrogen ice cream, grape-jelly cotton candy, exploding whipped cream and plenty of other delights. Kids and adults alike queued up to […]

Ali Baba Grill

Ali Baba is a Lebanese restaurant, a Persian restaurant, a Mediterranean restaurant with hints of Syrian and Saudi Arabian modernity and haute cuisine. It’s also a mini-chain with locations in Denver, Golden and Boulder, all of which offer the same comfortable, slightly foreign setting, the same attentive service, the same expansive menu. Our favorites include […]

Brava Pizzeria della Strada

One of the original fast-casual concepts inside Avanti when it opened in the summer of 2015, Brava has resolutely held down its corner of the food hall as other eateries have come and gone. That’s thanks to owner Dave Bravdica, who has stuck mainly to the pies that made his mobile Forno Bravo wood-burning ovens […]

Atomic Cowboy/Denver Biscuit Co./Fat Sully’s

From its early days as an East Colfax hipster bar to its current configuration of breakfast joint, pizzeria and retro-swank watering hole, Atomic Cowboy/Denver Biscuit Co./Fat Sully’s Pizza has evolved into one of Denver’s most gleefully indulgent stops for wallowing in comfort food and whiling away hours with friends. Not content to cater just to […]