The term “legendary” is overused these days. But the Cherry Cricket lives up to the lofty classification and the revered reputation it holds as a bastion of classic neighborhood-bar culture. Mary Zimmerman opened the original Cherry Cricket as “Mary Zimmerman’s Bar” in 1945. The bar was actually the living room of her home, which sat where the Sears Auto Center is today. Her customers were mainly garbage truck drivers working at the Denver trash dump, now buried beneath the Cherry Creek Mall site. (Yep, this was one of Denver’s first successful “recycling” endeavors.) Around 1950, Zimmerman purchased the property at 2nd and Clayton where she built what is now the Cricket’s main dining room. Over the years she added to the structure, increasing its size to accommodate a growing clientele. After Zimmerman’s death in the early Sixties, the Cricket changed proprietors a couple times before ending up in the capable hands of Bernard Duffy. Duffy gained local bar-culture fame as the owner of the equally legendary (and now shuttered, sniff-sniff) Duffy’s Tavern in downtown Denver. Duffy installed the classic neon sign that now graces the front of the building and carried out a number of improvements at the Cricket. One of the most notable was a hugely popular $2.50 prime rib lunch buffet. (History says Duffy was a thrifty ‘tender who rarely offered a round on the house.) Duffy retired in 1972 and sold the bar. Over the following years, The Cricket was decked out in much sports memorabilia, making it one of Denver’s first sports bars. Sadly, the Cricket also gained a reputation for bringing a “dump” back to Cherry Creek. (Along with some of Denver’s surliest waitresses and a contingent of six-legged visitors.) But Eli McGuire and her husband bought the bar in 1990 and returned the Cherry Cricket to its former glory. Under her watch, the Cricket took on more customers and more space for those craving a cold beer and a great burger in a friendly, unpretentious setting. Today, the Cherry Cricket’s clientele includes working stiffs, old schoolers and shoppers taking a break from chic hunting. It also welcomes a younger crowd, business lunchers, and familes who savor the aforementioned “legendary” status of the Cricket. After Eli’s passing in 2000, Wynkoop Holdings purchased the long-lived landmark. Today, the Holdings team and Cricket staff are honoring Eli’s dream of making the Cherry Cricket “the best damn bar around.” Kitchen open from 11 am to Midnight daily.
Margs Taco Bistro is a unique Denver bar and restaurant, where a casual patio bar meets modern and upscale global cuisine. In keeping with our philosophy of simplicity, Margs Taco Bistro offers basically everything found in our name - a bevy of tasty Margaritas, an assortment of international tacos and a casually modern bistro with a bar. Our garage door patio bar creates a breezy, relaxed atmosphere and is lined with fresh mint and basil for our infusions, signature Margaritas and specialty cocktails. If you’re looking for an energetic, eclectic experience in the heart of Denver, Margs Taco Bistro is the perfect option. The ambiance at Margs is unlike anywhere else, with intriguing lighting, modern art and a great contemporary feel. Sit down at one of our comfortable seating areas to enjoy your meal, or gather with drinks around one of our stand-up tables. We’re known for our fun and unique fusion tacos, with options such as Caprese, Banh Mi, Caribbean Jerk and Chicken Vindaloo. Our fresh tortillas are hand-pressed in house, and we use only the best quality ingredients available. Visit us at our multiple locations! Downtown/LoDo 1519 Wynkoop St, Denver, CO 303.534.MARG (6274) Sun & Mon: 11a-10p | Tues-Sat: 11a-11p Cherry Creek 200 Fillmore St, Denver, CO 303.321.MARG (6274) Mon: 11am-9pm | Tues-Fri: 11am-10pm | Sat: 8am-10p | Sun: 8am-9p Uptown 500 East 19th Ave, Denver, CO 303.832.MARG (6274) Mon-Wed: 11a-11p | Thurs-Fri: 11a-12a | Sat: 10a-12a | Sun: 10a-10p We're now open in Truckee, CA! 10164 Donner Pass Rd., Truckee, CA. 96161 530.587.MARG (6274) Follow us on Instagram @MargsTacoBistro Tweet with us! @MargsTacoBistro
Chopper’s Sports Grill was named after Robert “ Chopper “ Traviglini (1932-1999) who was the former trainer of the Denver Nuggets. His character and style, as well as his big heart, made him legendary in Denver, and across the country. (See “Robert Chopper Travaglini” for more on this special guy.) In October of 1996 Chopper and his partners opened Chopper’s Sports Grill in the Cherry Creek area of Denver CO. They renovated the old Rick’s Café building at 80 South Madison Street and envisioned a casual neighborhood watering hole where you could get a fine meal and enjoy a drink with friends. It has evolved into “The Place” to watch a local sporting event with that “at the game” feel complete with all the bells, lights, and whistles. The place comes alive with energy and excitement when the home teams score. The Denver Post, The Rocky Mountain News, ESPN, Citysearch.com, Westword, 5280 Magazine and Insite Magazine have all recognized Chopper’s as “Best Sports Bar” and “Best Patio”. The restaurant has become famous for its Homemade Pizzas, Mile High Nachos, Premium Burgers that are made fresh daily from Angus Chuck, Short Rib, and Brisket(The richest cuts on the steer) and Spicy Buffalo Wings. Chopper’s has a wide variety of house-made, high quality items not typically seen on sports bar menus. The kitchen staff is specially trained to handle all your party needs for up to 300 people. Contact the manager to see Chopper’s party menus or to inquire about booking our private room. The Beer list includes 19 Colorado Brewed Draft Beers, including many handcrafted microbrews . Chopper’s also offers 40 Bottles, Cans, and Bombers to insure you’ll be enjoying your favorite ice-cold brew. The bar is fully stocked with “top shelf” spirits, 10 wines by the glass and “the best” margaritas. For your viewing pleasure Chopper’s has over 50 “High Def” televisions. (Including 18-73'' Big screens, and the rest 35-52'' inch Sonys and Mitsubishis, even TVs in the rest rooms and on the patios) Chopper’s also has multiple satellites and receivers and subscribes to all the top sports packages and services to insure “if it’s televised we’ll show it” However, it’s always best to call ahead to make sure it’s on. In the warmer months Chopper’s has two award winning covered patios, beautifully landscaped and intimate, providing a great urban escape in the afternoon or on a warm summer evening. Happy Hour is Monday through Friday 3pm to 6:00pm. There are many great deals: Half Price on ALL Draft Beer, House Wines by the glass, or Well Drinks. $5 Crown Royal and $4 Washington Apples $4 Jagers and Bombs $5 Happy Hour Menu 3-6:00 M-F: All Homemade 12" Stone Baked Margherita Pizza Sweet n Spicy Thai Shrimp Premium Bacon Cheese Burger Sliders Chopper's Classic Buffalo Wings Mexican Fiesta Dip We at Chopper’s hope to see you soon for the next televised event, lunch, dinner, or just a drink with friends. Remember to come early for the best seating on game days.
Chopper’s Sports Grill was named after Robert “ Chopper “ Traviglini (1932-1999) who was the former trainer of the Denver Nuggets. His character and style, as well as his big heart, made him legendary in Denver, and across the country. (See “Robert Chopper Travaglini” for more on this special guy.) In October of 1996 Chopper and his partners opened Chopper’s Sports Grill in the Cherry Creek area of Denver CO. They renovated the old Rick’s Café building at 80 South Madison Street and envisioned a casual neighborhood watering hole where you could get a fine meal and enjoy a drink with friends. It has evolved into “The Place” to watch a local sporting event with that “at the game” feel complete with all the bells, lights, and whistles. The place comes alive with energy and excitement when the home teams score. The Denver Post, The Rocky Mountain News, ESPN, Citysearch.com, Westword, 5280 Magazine and Insite Magazine have all recognized Chopper’s as “Best Sports Bar” and “Best Patio”. The restaurant has become famous for its Homemade Pizzas, Mile High Nachos, Premium Burgers that are made fresh daily from Angus Chuck, Short Rib, and Brisket(The richest cuts on the steer) and Spicy Buffalo Wings. Chopper’s has a wide variety of house-made, high quality items not typically seen on sports bar menus. The kitchen staff is specially trained to handle all your party needs for up to 300 people. Contact the manager to see Chopper’s party menus or to inquire about booking our private room. The Beer list includes 19 Colorado Brewed Draft Beers, including many handcrafted microbrews . Chopper’s also offers 40 Bottles, Cans, and Bombers to insure you’ll be enjoying your favorite ice-cold brew. The bar is fully stocked with “top shelf” spirits, 10 wines by the glass and “the best” margaritas. For your viewing pleasure Chopper’s has over 50 “High Def” televisions. (Including 18-73'' Big screens, and the rest 35-52'' inch Sonys and Mitsubishis, even TVs in the rest rooms and on the patios) Chopper’s also has multiple satellites and receivers and subscribes to all the top sports packages and services to insure “if it’s televised we’ll show it” However, it’s always best to call ahead to make sure it’s on. In the warmer months Chopper’s has two award winning covered patios, beautifully landscaped and intimate, providing a great urban escape in the afternoon or on a warm summer evening. Happy Hour is Monday through Friday 3pm to 6:00pm. There are many great deals: Half Price on ALL Draft Beer, House Wines by the glass, or Well Drinks. $5 Crown Royal and $4 Washington Apples $4 Jagers and Bombs $5 Happy Hour Menu 3-6:00 M-F: All Homemade 12" Stone Baked Margherita Pizza Sweet n Spicy Thai Shrimp Premium Bacon Cheese Burger Sliders Chopper's Classic Buffalo Wings Mexican Fiesta Dip We at Chopper’s hope to see you soon for the next televised event, lunch, dinner, or just a drink with friends. Remember to come early for the best seating on game days.
Part diner, part hangout for college-aged roustabouts, the CI has been a central Denver fixture for decades. Everyone has been to the CI, its a landmark for-goodness-sakes! But if you haven't been there recently, you haven't seen the remodel - back to its roots! The CI offers affordable meals (of the pub fare variety) and a swell place to indulge in a few cocktails after work or class. The drinks are cheap and heavy, and their excellent daily specials are just the icing on the gravy.
Cucina Colore's menu focuses on the true flavors of its food, rendering dishes that are both creative and fresh. The emphasis is on freshness with seasonal ingredients delivered daily. The restaurant's design reflects its innovative Italian food and award-winning wine selections. Whether for lunch or dinner, Cucina Colore offers a contemporary Italian experience.
Eighty years. It is the time between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Barack Obama, the distance between a dirt road and a digital highway, the difference between a World War and a War on Terror. For four generations of our family, it is time spent cultivating what was once a weed lot into a small, cherished business. Three quarters of a century we have been here, yet we seem hardly changed for it. While the world is a different place indeed, we at Bonnie Brae Tavern are still awash in our whitewash and turquoise vinyl, much the way we were when we opened our doors in 1934. It was the year of a great migration west to escape the Dust Bowl, the year in which Babe Ruth would become the first man to hit 700 home runs in the still innocent game of professional baseball. Far from all that, a Yankees’ fan named Carl Dire had his own small dream. He surveyed the empty land next to the gas station he owned at University Boulevard and Ohio Avenue. To the east lay sagebrush as far as the eye could see, interrupted by a dairy farm here and there. To the west were the modest bungalows of a proper, young neighborhood named Washington Park, whose upstanding residents were steadfast in their support of Prohibition. But times were changing, Prohibition was over, and Mr. Dire was not a man to be told no. Only a stubborn man, a son of Italian immigrants, orphaned by a flu epidemic and raised by his North Denver relations, would have had the moxie, the outright gall, to open a bar caddy corner from the residence of local Temperance leaders. Carl and wife, Sue, named their fledgling if not wholly unwelcome tavern after the empty housing development surrounding it. It would be a while before “Bonnie Brae,” Gaelic for “Pleasant Hill,” grew into its name as well. Far from the gold standard of Denver real estate that it is today, the disgraced development had gone bankrupt a few years earlier and would stand idle for a few more. The Dires hardly noticed time pass as they worked, day and night, through a long, long Depression. They would put their young sons to sleep on a mattress in the back of a Model A parked behind the restaurant, then drive home to North Denver in the wee hours of the night, only to turn around a few hours later and do it all over again, day after day, until they could afford to build a modest apartment upstairs from the bar. The end of World War II finally came, and with it, prosperity at last. Now the couple could afford a house, not an apartment, across the parking lot from the restaurant. They sent both sons, Mike and Hank, to college before both young men took their own places in the family business. The Bonnie Brae Tavern doubled the size of its dining room and added an extravagant new item: Pizza. As new roads and street signs sprouted in the neighborhood, you became our customers and friends. You were a student at the University of Denver, or a gas station attendant next door, or a Polo Club millionaire from down the street. We looked for you once a month, once a week, once a day. You were the hen-pecked husband who would mow his lawn and keep on pushing, all the way to our door, abandoning the mower outside for a seat at the bar and a cold beer. Or the cable television magnate who would “tip the girl” $100 for prompt service and a pizza cooked just right. Or the construction worker who ordered the same sausage and cheese sandwich so often we finally named it after him: The Don Wright. May its namesake rest in peace. Three quarters of a century has passed, and you’re still coming, not just for the food, the food is a small part of it now. You come to propose marriage, wait out power outages, let your kids burn off steam after their soccer games, to grouse about the Broncos, celebrate a job promotion, mark a birthday, a birth, a death. You have been there for us as much as we’ve been there for you. After Carl Dire died in 1982 you were there, drinking a shot of whiskey at the bar in his honor. You paid your respects to Sue in 2002, showering flowers and cards on the booth where she took her meals twice a day, almost until the day she died. Your loyal patronage has allowed Carl Dire’s grandchildren, Michael and Ricky, and now his great-grandchildren, Teresa, Pat and Chris, to have a part in his dream. And for that, we thank you. So please, sit down and put up your feet. Tell your waitress if you need us to turn up the volume on the game. Have some cheese sticks or a beer. Don’t worry if the kids climb on the seats or slide under the table, as countless children have, and will. Most of all, take time to enjoy yourself in a place where time is not nearly as significant as the memories that inhabit it. Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. -Marcel Proust Story By Angela Dire
O Bar is the hottest little bar and lounge in Cherry Creek
Chef Preston Phillips draws from his Alabama roots, offering a southern style New American menu and bar fare.
Since 1916, Kay Jewelers has grown from one store to more than 900 from coast to coast. As the #1 specialty jewelry brand in the United States, we know that offering fine jewelry at a great price is only part of the story. We are fully committed to providing a superior shopping experience - both in our stores and online. Our sales staff is empowered with the knowledge to assist each customer. Shop our selection of engagement rings, wedding rings, diamonds, gemstones, metals, watches and more. Kay Jewelers carries a wide selection of looks, from the Leo Diamond, Neil Lane Bridal diamond engagement rings, Tolkowsky diamonds, Le Vian chocolate diamond engagement rings, and Artistry diamond rings. Come visit your Kay Jewelers in Denver today.
ALDO specializes in the creation of high-quality fashion footwear, leather goods and accessories. This sought-after brand pays close attention to detail and to fine craftsmanship.
California Pizza Kitchen is a casual-dining restaurant serving up California creativity through its innovative menu items. CPK provides a range of California-inspired dishes, from signature hand-tossed and hearth-baked pizzas, to imaginative salads, pastas, entrees, soups, sandwiches and cocktails. Offering dine-in, take-out, catering, online ordering and an award-winning CPKids Menu. Guests are invited to join the Pizza Dough Rewards program with delicious perks and seasonal sneak peeks. To join, go to cpk.com, download the Pizza Dough Rewards App or sign up with a server at your local CPK in Denver.
True Religion stores offer the best selection of our iconic jeans/denim, apparel/clothing/sportswear and accessories in an unmatched branded shopping experience for men, women and youth.
For over a century, Neiman Marcus has stayed focused on serving the unique needs of the luxury market. Today, that commitment is stronger than ever. We have stayed true to the principles of our founders – to be recognized as the premier luxury retailer dedicated to providing our customers with distinctive merchandise and superior service.