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Downtown Eats

West Colfax Eats

  • Bistro Vendôme (French)

  • Appaloosa Grill (American)

    • Live music

  • Tamayo (Mexican)

  • Red Square Bistro (European/Russian)

  • Yazoo BBQ Company (barbeque)

  • My Brother’s Bar (American)

    • Oldest bar in Denver (est. 1873)

Highlands Eats

RiNo/Five Points Eats

  • Linger (Eclectic)

  • Root Down (American)

  • Little Man Ice Cream

  • Rise and Shine Biscuit Kitchen

    • North Carolina style breakfast

  • Rupert’s on the Edge (American)

    • Breakfast & lunch

  • Himchuli (Indian & Nepali)

  • Blue Pan Pizza (pizza)

Uptown Eats

Curtis Park Eats

  • Watercourse Foods (vegan)

  • Hamburger Mary's Denver (American)

  • The Corner Beet (vegetarian)

  • Steuben's Uptown (American)

  • Ace Eat Serve

    • Eatery with ping-pong hall

  • Nocturne Jazz

    • Jazz club and eatery

Baker/Speer/Sante Fe Eats

City Park Eats

  • Denver Biscuit Company (breakfast)

  • The Thin Man (bar)

Capitol Hill/Alamo Placita Eats

SoBo/Washington Park Eats

  • Melita’s Greek Cafe (Greek)

  • Charlie Brown's Bar & Grill (Greek)

    • Live music (piano)

  • Little India on 6th (Indian)

  • SubCulture (sandwiches)

  • City O’City (vegetarian)

  • Little Gingko Asian Cafe (Chinese)

  • Ritual Social House (American)

  • Benny Blanco’s Slice Of The Bronx (pizza)

  • Illegal Pete's (southwestern)

  • Sputnik (vegetarian/vegan)

Alameda/Federal

  • Vinh Xuong Bakery (Vietnamese)

    • Best banh mi

  • Tony Phở

  • Phở 95

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Establishment

Description

1UP Arcade Bar

  • Arcade bar

  • The Dark Side of Denver Ghost Tours - walking tour around Capitol Hill neighborhood with a group; it’s more historical than scary.

Ace Eat Serve

  • Eatery with ping-pong hall

Mutiny Cafe

  • Cafe with comics, books, and chess

Denver Botanic Gardens

Sloane’s Lake Park

City Park

  • Free jazz on Sundays in the summer

Cherry Creek Trail

  • Lowered trail leading from Capitol Hill to the upscale Cherry Creek neighborhood with ample shops and eateries

Union Station

  • Functioning station

  • Gathering place with historic architecture

  • Various shops and eateries

Colorado State Capitol

  • Between Capitol Hill and downtown with pretty views from the steps

Wax Trax Records

  • Record store in Capital Hill

Denver Beer Co Platte Street

  • Brewery and outdoor beer garden in the Highlands

Coffee Shops

Music Venues

  • Roostercat Coffeehouse

  • The Corner Beet

  • Mutiny Cafe

  • Copper Door Coffee Roasters

  • Hudson Hill

  • Sky Tea (Drip Denver)

  • Pablo’s Coffee

  • Queen City Collective Coffee

  • The Bardo Coffee House

  • Metropolis Coffee

  • Thump Coffee

  • Doppio Coffee

  • Novo Coffee

  • The Ogden

  • Bluebird Theater

  • Mission Ballroom

  • Milk Bar

  • Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom

  • The Black Box

  • Fillmore Auditorium

  • Your Mom’s House

  • Mercury Cafe

  • Howl at the Moon Denver

  • Marquis Theater

  • Nocturn Jazz Club

  • Hi-Dive

  • Red Rocks

Happy Hour Spots & Bars

Breweries

  • Epic Brewing Company

  • Spangalang Brewery

  • TRVE Brewing Company

  • Bierstadt Lagerhaus

  • Cerebral Brewing

  • Odell Brewing Co.

  • Crooked Stave

  • New Belgium Brewing

  • Denver Beer Co Platte Street

    • Brewery and outdoor beer garden in the Highlands

  • Wynkoop Brewing Company

  • Great Divide Brewing Company

Theaters

Dispensaries

  • Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

  • Paramount Theatre

  • Landmark’s Esquire Theatre

  • Alternative Medicine on Capital Hill

  • LivWell

  • Green Man

  • High Level Health

  • Good Chemistry

  • DenCo

  • Life Flower

  • Green Solution

  • Native Roots

  • Emerald Fields

  • The Giving Tree of Denver

  • Lightshade

  • Kind Love

Museums & Monuments

Notable Neighborhoods

  • Molly Brown House Museum

  • Denver Art Museum

  • Denver Botanic Gardens

  • Denver Museum of Nature & Science

    • Viewing platform exists on the second floor of the museum to get a perfect view of the Denver skyline in front of the mountains

  • Union Station

    • Functioning station

    • Gathering place with historic architecture

    • Various shops and eateries

  • Colorado State Capitol

    • Between Capitol Hill and downtown with pretty views from the steps

Capitol Hill neighborhood

  • Has cool independent shops on 13th

  • Cheeseman Park

  • Colfax Ave is lively but not recommended for tourists

South Broadway neighborhood (SoBo)

  • Independent shops and bars near 1st and Broadway

Highlands neighborhood

  • Sloan’s Lake

Washington Park neighborhood

Lodo and RiNo

Art Districts & Murals, Markets

Hiking Outside of Denver (car required)

  • Mount Falcon

  • Hanging Lake

Retail Shops

Parks & Trails

  • Rocky Mountain Punk Nature Art & Oddities

    • Absolutely worth visiting

  • Wax Trax Records

    • Record store in Capitol Hill

  • Sloan’s Lake Park

  • City Park

    • Free jazz on Sundays in the summer

  • Washington Park

    • Huge but often crowded

  • Cherry Creek Trail

    • Lowered trail leading from Capitol Hill to the upscale Cherry Creek neighborhood with ample shops and eateries

Tours

  • The Dark Side of Denver Ghost Tours

    • Walking tour around Capitol Hill neighborhood with a group; it’s more historical than scary.