The Best Places to Eat in Denver
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- Westword The Top 50 Restaurants in Denver Right Now
- Westword 2025 · Best New Taco Joint · Best of Denver
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- Westword 2024 · Best Fried Chicken Entree · Best of Denver
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- Westword 2025 · Best Upscale Thai Restaurant · Best of Denver
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Rank 407. BaekGa
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Rank 407. La Forêt
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- 5280 The 25 Best Restaurants in Denver
- Westword 2024 · Best Restaurant for a First Date · Best of Denver
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Rank 413. Cohesion Brewing Company
Czech Beer Bar
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- Punch Punch: The Who’s Who of Beer Cool
- Westword Westword: 2023 · Best Beer Service · Best of Denver
- Westword Westword: The Top 50 Bars in Denver Right Now
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- Westword 2023 · Best Beer Service · Best of Denver
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- Westword 2024 · Best New Restaurant in a Convenience Store · Best of Denver
- Westword 2025 · Best Banh Mi · Best of Denver
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Rank 413. Fellow Traveler
Cocktail Bar
The house-made Málört alone tells you something about this place's priorities. Fellow Traveler is a vegan cocktail bar on South Broadway where the drinks menu runs from Chinese baijiu to Hungarian digestifs, and the food manages to be plant-based without announcing it every five minutes. The "Strange Cargo" spirits list rewards the curious, and Westword has called it Denver's top vegan restaurant more than once.
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- Westword 2023 · Best Vegan Restaurant · Best of Denver
- Westword 2025 · Best You’d-Never-Know-It’s-Vegan Restaurant · Best of Denver
- Westword 2024 · Best Rotating Weekly Margarita · Best of Denver
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- Westword 2024 · Best Coffee Shop for Conversations · Best of Denver
- 5280 Best for Catching Multiple Buzzes · The 23 Best Bars in Denver
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- Punch Punch: Best New Bartenders · Mak Kelly
- Westword Westword: 2024 · Best Bar for Girls’ Night · Best of Denver
- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bar
- Punch Best New Bartenders · Mak Kelly
- Westword 2024 · Best Bar for Girls’ Night · Best of Denver
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bar
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- Westword 2024 · Best Bar to Visit Alone · Best of Denver
- Westword The Top 50 Bars in Denver Right Now
- Westword 2023 · Best Dive Bar With a View · Best of Denver
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Rank 413. Right Cream
Ice Cream Shop
Every mix-in at this Denver ice cream shop is made from scratch, which explains why the flavors change weekly and why people follow the Instagram just to see what's coming next. The team builds their own base, loads the pints accordingly, and sells them for pickup alongside draft beer, which is either a genius pairing or an obvious one depending on how you feel about it. A Westword Best Ice Cream pick two years running.
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- Westword 2023 · Best Ice Cream/Gelato Shop · Best of Denver
- Westword 2025 · Best Savory Food at an Ice Cream Shop · Best of Denver
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Talnua bills itself as America's first single pot still whiskey distillery, a style the founders fell for on their honeymoon in Ireland and then brought back to an industrial suite in Arvada. The taproom leans hard into the Old Fashioned as a format, then uses it to do things like peanut-butter-and-plantain whiskey or wasabi-popcorn gin. Whether that sounds like fun or chaos probably tells you everything you need to know about yourself.
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- Westword 2023 · Best Distillery Taproom · Best of Denver
- Westword 2025 · Best Distillery to Visit If You Have a Shamrock Tattoo · Best of Denver
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Rank 413. The Electric Cure
Tiki Bar
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- Westword 2024 · Best Satanic Gay Tiki Bar · Best of Denver
- Eater The Best Bars in Denver
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- Westword 2024 · Best Bar on a Snowy Night · Best of Denver
- Westword The Top 50 Bars in Denver Right Now
- Westword 2023 · Best Bar/Restaurant for a First Date · Best of Denver
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Rank 497. Dough Counter
Sicilian Pizzeria
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- Esquire Esquire: The Best Bars in America
- Eater Eater: The Best Bars in Denver
- 5280 5280: The 25 Best Restaurants in Denver
- Esquire The Best Bars in America
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Rank 499. Bodega
American
The bacon, egg, and cheese on a Kaiser roll has its own following at this Sunnyside daytime spot, a casual counter-service cafe where breakfast and lunch overlap in the best low-maintenance way. Burritos, rotating sandwiches, and a burger that regulars treat as non-negotiable fill out the menu. The kind of place where the line out front is just part of the deal.
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- Westword 2023 · Best Breakfast · Best of Denver
- Westword 2024 · Best Place to Escape for a Midday Meal · Best of Denver