Denver Guide - 2024

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)

• Los Mesones Restaurant (Mexican)

  • One of the best birria tacos

• El Consome De Morelos (Mexican)

  • Food truck with the best birria tacos

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

• El Taco de México

  • Best lengua tacos

• 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

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

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

• Charlie Brown's Bar & Grill

• Steuben's Uptown

• Tacos Tequila Whiskey

• Hudson Hill

• Ritual Social House

• Illegal Pete's

• City O'City

• The Thin Man

• 1UP Arcade Bar

• Ace Eat Serve

  • Eatery with ping-pong hall

• 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)

• Sante Fe Art District

• Murals in the RiNo Art District

• Murals around downtown and West Colfax neighborhood

• Milk Market

• 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.