Peruvian-born Marjorie Silva opened Azucar Bakery in 2006 to fill a hole in a town more accustomed to cupcakes and pie than flan and Suspiro de Limeña. Rapid growth led Silva and her team to relocate in 2011 to their current location on South Broadway, a shiny, pink-frosted space befitting the goodies within. Silva’s crew […]
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Started in Steamboat in 1999, Backcountry Delicatessen has since set up shops along the Front Range, where the restaurant isn’t so much a pre-hike stop as a workday destination. It’s open for breakfast and lunch, cranking out morning specials and salads and sandwiches galore, broken down into simple categories like “beef” and “ham” as well […]
Opening a Wisconsin-themed bar in Colorado isn’t necessarily a bad ploy if you want an instant customer base; after all, Great Lakes transplants just might outnumber Denver natives in hip neighborhoods like Baker. But you don’t have to like cheese curds or Old Milwaukee to have a good time at Badger’s, which replaced the aging […]
Independent doughnut shop Baked N Denver officially launched inside an old Winchell’s building in July 2020 (back then, it was called Wake & Bake). The name may have changed , but it still turns out a variety of classic doughnuts along with breakfast sandwiches and burritos, coffee and juice. You’ll find a few nods to […]
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After this spot’s long run as the Atrium Bar & Grill, new owners took it over, cleaned it up and made it into a respectable neighborhood watering hole called the Bar. As the name might imply, it’s a no-frills joint where pretty much anyone is welcome. While the bar on the south side of the […]
Chris Graves decided to open a coffee shop after 25 years of hanging out in them, all the while taking stock of various details and inconveniences that he would change at his own place. “There were just little things about them that bothered me,” he explains. “Like, why is the CD player skipping, why is […]
It’d be tough to find a Denver dispensary more low-key than bgood, which has no signage outside proclaiming all of the skunky goodness waiting beyond its doors. The Washington Park-area pot shop is like one of those hip restaurants that only the in crowd knows about, but once you find it, it’s hard to go […]
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Timing, company and appetite make all the difference when dining at Black Pearl. But mostly, it’s appetite. Because the cuisine is rigorously New American, you have to be in the mood for deconstructed clam chowder, for a menu that mixes classical French (such as Black Pearl’s moules et frites in Pernod broth) with mac-and-cheese, but […]
Blue Bonnet may not serve the most authentic Mexican food in town, but a meal here has been an authentic Denver experience for decades. You can eat that meal in the modest dining room, the colorful bar or out on the patio — which has grown to the size of a beach over the years […]
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Ice cream lovers throughout Denver know that Bonnie Brae Ice Cream has been much more than a neighborhood business since it opened in 1986. The ice cream shop is as much of a destination as the finest dining room or downtown hot spot. Any day of the week, regardless of the weather, there’s likely to […]
