Urban Cafe & Restaurant

Urban Cafe & Restaurant got its start in 2020 serving food under a tent in a parking lot on Santa Fe Drive, but luckily for Denver Health employees (as well as the dining public), it now has a brick-and-mortar home in a space connected to the hospital. The line moves quickly, with customers ordering smoothies and cheap breakfast sandwiches in the a.m. and unusual sandwiches (like the pistachio cream, burrata and mortadella option) and Persian specialties in the afternoon and early evening. Try the zereshk polo, slow-cooked chicken in a mild tomato sauce alongside a heaping platter of saffron rice studded with pistachios and almonds.