The Best Things to Do in Five Points & around
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- Westword 2026 · Best Art Museum Collaboration · Best of Denver
- Westword 2025 · Best Museum If You Only Have an Hour · Best of Denver
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- Westword 2026 · Best Piece of the Denver Pavilions · Best of Denver
- Westword 2025 · Best Reason to Go to the 16th Street Mall · Best of Denver
- Westword 2023 · Best Movie Theater — First Run · Best of Denver
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A wristband taps to your credit card at check-in so you never fish out your wallet again, which is either clever hospitality or a mild threat depending on your willpower. Number Thirty Eight is a vast indoor-outdoor beer hall where stalls run by Colorado breweries, cideries, wineries, and distilleries line the walls, the patio is dog-friendly, and Split Lip handles the burgers. Westword named it the city's best free entertainment.
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- Westword Westword: 2025 · Best Art Experience for Neurodiverse Kids: Sensory-Friendly Mornings · Best of Denver
- Westword Westword: 2024 · Best Museum to Make You Think · Best of Denver
- Westword Westword: 2024 · Best New Offerings at a Museum · Best of Denver
- Westword 2025 · Best Art Experience for Neurodiverse Kids: Sensory-Friendly Mornings · Best of Denver
- Westword 2024 · Best Museum to Make You Think · Best of Denver
- Westword 2024 · Best New Offerings at a Museum · Best of Denver
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- Westword 2025 · Best Free Recording Studio · Best of Denver
- Westword 2023 · Best Resurrection · Best of Denver
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A historic tavern on Larimer that's been a dive, a cougar bar, and a live-music dance hall, sometimes all in one night. The drinks are stiff and cheap, a band usually occupies the small stage, and the whole place functions as a pressure valve for anyone who's had enough of the polished LoDo scene just outside. The occasional Phi Alpha Whatever will wander in, but the regulars absorb them without incident.
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- Westword 2023 · Best Unpretentious Yet Legendary Venue · Best of Denver
- Westword 2025 · Best Bar in LoDo to Pretend You’re on Colfax · Best of Denver
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- Westword 2024 · Best Supper Club · Best of Denver
- Westword 2023 · Best Jazz Club · Best of Denver
- Westword 2025 · Best Dinner and a Show · Best of Denver
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The acoustically treated walls mean the sound hits you right no matter where you sit, which matters when the names on stage have included Esperanza Spalding and Bill Frisell. Dazzle is Denver's long-running jazz club, the kind that draws serious talent week after week and keeps the bar busy with martinis and a four-cheese mac that regulars order without looking up. DownBeat placed it among the top 100 jazz clubs in the world.
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- Westword 2024 · Best Late-Night Jazz · Best of Denver
- 5280 Best for Sips and a Show · The 23 Best Bars in Denver
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- Westword 2024 · Best Darts Club · Best of Denver
- 5280 Best for Fun and Games · The 23 Best Bars in Denver
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The building was a brothel, a flophouse, and a peep-show parlor before it became this. Now it's a bar and live-music venue dressed in 70s swank, vintage soft-core art, and low-slung lounges surrounding a sunken stage. The team calls it a "gastro-brothel," which is not a word you forget. Small plates and cocktails run alongside whatever's on stage, and the whole thing is loud, garish, and extremely committed to the bit.
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- Westword 2023 · Best Venue With a Sexy History · Best of Denver
- 5280 Best for Sips and a Show · The 23 Best Bars in Denver
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A geodesic dome built to look like a beehive sits inside this late-night dance bar and immersive art venue in RiNo. The team behind it took Tulum and Burning Man as their starting points, then handed the space to a crew of local artists, so you get vine-covered bars and a garden courtyard that somehow make sense together. It draws the kind of crowd that dresses for the art as much as the dancing.
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- Westword 2024 · Best Club to Dance, See Art and Feel Safe · Best of Denver
- Westword 2023 · Best Dance Club · Best of Denver
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Duke Ellington played this Five Points room when it was still the Casino Cabaret, which tells you something about the bones. It's a live music venue now running a wide-open booking policy: dubstep, hip-hop, bluegrass, and jam bands share the calendar without obvious contradiction. The main floor was rebuilt and the stage expanded, so the sound holds up. Crowds skew toward people who track setlists, but the room pulls in anyone chasing a late night.
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- Westword 2024 · Best Place to Find the Jams · Best of Denver
- Westword 2023 · Best Indoor-Outdoor Venue · Best of Denver
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Tucked below Larimer Square, this standup club has the kind of acoustics that make a room feel like it's laughing with one throat. Dave Attell recorded a live album here, and Dave Chappelle has a habit of showing up unannounced. New Talent Nights have been launching local comics toward television for years, which keeps the room feeling like something might actually happen on any given night.
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- Westword 2024 · Best Comedy Club for Local and National Talent · Best of Denver
- Westword 2023 · Best Comedy Night: New Talent Night · Best of Denver
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The low-slung stage here puts you close enough to the band that you'll question whether you're supposed to be back there. Larimer Lounge is a dive-ish live music venue in RiNo that has hosted acts like Arcade Fire and Bat for Lashes before they stopped fitting in rooms this size. The bar up front runs on beer, shots, and what appears to be structural duct tape. Westword named it Denver's top venue for both rock bands and DJs in 2024.
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- Westword 2024 · Best Venue for Both Rock Bands and DJs · Best of Denver
- Westword 2023 · Best Indie-Rock Venue · Best of Denver
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- Westword 2024 · Best Artist Residency · Best of Denver
- Westword 2023 · Best Nonprofit Gallery · Best of Denver
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The sushi menu here is organized by skill level, from "Beginner Rolls" up through "Intermediate" and into house specials, most of which are named after something you wouldn't say at a work lunch. Hapa is a casual fusion sushi bar that also does sliders, nachos, and a Fuji apple salad for anyone dragged there under protest. The kitchen is more capable than the cheeky menu suggests, and somehow a DJ fits into the whole equation too.
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Tucked under the historic Daniels & Fisher Clock Tower, this variety nightclub runs the full spectrum from burlesque and drag to stand-up and live music, sometimes in the same week. The European-style room is dim and intimate enough for a date, loud and loose enough for a bachelorette party, which about covers the range of people you'll find there. A full bar keeps things moving. Shows run Wednesday through Saturday.
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