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At Queen City Cycles, you can get your bike repaired while you enjoy a cup of tea in a great Highland hangout. Brother-sister team Ethan and Michelle Bontrager run Queen City, formerly known as Urbanistic Tea and Bike Shop, in Highlands Square. Ethan is the master mechanic who can also fix wagons and strollers, while […]
From her first store in Brighton to a Front Range flotilla of Mexican fast-food outlets, over the past 27 years, Santiago’s owner Carmen Morales has helped make breakfast burritos and green chile into Denver’s most iconic dishes. Cheap, hearty, fresh and filling are what Denverites crave in their Mexican eats, and Santiago’s fulfills all of […]
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Alive Herbal Medicine seems out of place. Not because it’s situated in the small Sunnyside neighborhood next to a residential area, or because the corrugated tin barn of a building looks like it belongs on a farm and not off a busy interstate in the middle of Denver. What feels out of place is where […]
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Part of the trio of bars forming the “Beermuda Triangle” at the corner of 38th and Tennyson, the Berkeley Inn is a neighborhood institution. The joint opened in 1934 and is rumored to have subterranean tunnels made for transporting bootleg alcohol during Prohibition. Regulars band together to help out other regulars in times of need, […]
The original Ernie’s, which opened in this spot in 1943, served pizza. So does the Ernie’s opened by Larimer Associates in 2009. But this East Coast pie palace also pimps an impressive antipasto board featuring sweet and sour figs, Gorgonzola-stuffed queen olives, cherry peppers stuffed with provolone and prosciutto, and balsamic cippolini onions. And that’s […]
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Starting at 6 a.m., the faithful elbow their way through the doors of Pico de Gallo, a comradely strip-mall Mexican joint, looking for the town’s best breakfast burrito. Stuffed like a sumo wrestler before his next throwdown, the griddled tortilla is packed with scrambled eggs, crumbles of housemade chorizo that drip with just the right […]
Owner: Carrie Jensen Owner’s statement: “My father-in-law was battling cancer. We saw how it helped him, and kind of got involved from there.” Opened: October 2009 Raw marijuana price range: Grams $18 (non-members)/$14 (members), eighths $50/$40, ounces $375/$300. Other types of medicine: Tinctures $30 per ounce; edibles $6 to $8; hash $25 to $30. Patient […]
Manager: Jake Browne Mission statement: “The Releaf Center is committed to providing Colorado Medical Marijuana patients with the highest quality Marijuana and THC derived medicine available.” Opened: August 2009 Raw marijuana price range: $35/eighth to $45/eighth Other types of medicine: Hash ($25-$60/gram), Kief, large selection of vendor edibles, medicated sodas Patient amenities: Clones and seed […]
Temporarily closed: Part market, part sandwich shop, Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli almost always has a line of people in front of the counter. In 1974, Rosa Lonardo and her husband, Nick, bought this place from Dominic Carbone, who taught the pair how to make sausages and meatballs the old-fashioned way before turning over the keys […]
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Denver transplants, heed our advice: Acquire an opinion on green chile, and quickly, for no food in the Mile High City is as fervently debated among friends. While many greens are contenders, the Chubby’s chile is legendary. Stella Cordova took over the Chubby Burger Drive-Inn in the 1960s, keeping the burgers and fries and adding […]
