At all four of Tap & Burger’s locations, the team sticks with a tried-and-true formula—juicy burgers, a massive stable of rotating beers on tap, and sports on plenty of well-positioned TVs. In recent months, the specials have been getting increasingly creative, with burgers rarely sticking to the straight and narrow. There’s also bubbling plates of fully customizable mac and beer cheese, and a surprisingly show-stealing set of salads.
read moreThe building that houses Forget Me Not references its former life as a flower shop with sophisticated flourishes inside and out: The picket-fence-protected patio sits under a mural of the bar’s eponymous flower by local artist Jeremiah Clark, while black-and-white-striped awnings cover the accordion windows like eyelashes. Inside, oversize purple bar stools and maroon velvet banquettes flank a U-shaped bar, and ivory walls are accented with gold shelves that showcase trinkets and potted plants.
read moreThis LoHi Italian haunt from chef-owner Max MacKissock (ex The Squeaky Bean) boasts creative pizzas fired in a showpiece, hand-tiled imported oven, plus handcrafted pastas, small plates and entrees. Lined with a tufted burgundy banquette, the long and narrow space features an open kitchen and a marble-topped bar turning out clever cocktails, housemade sodas and an all-Italian wine list, all of which can also be sipped on the roomy patio.
read moreYou might mistakenly think that if you’ve dined in one greenhouse, you’ve dined in them all. Not so at Bar Dough, which has taken over the large parking lot adjacent to its West 32nd Avenue restaurant and transformed it into a greenhouse hamlet, where each structure is lined with string lights and oscillating heaters to keep the insides toasty, no matter what Colorado’s weather is up to.
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