Denver, Colorado eating. Of the several distinct restaurant districts, the Larimer Square area is the most easily accessible on foot and has a wide selection. Several of the city's famed brewpubs serve good quality meals, too

Dener, Colorado restaurants
Of the several distinct restaurant districts, the Larimer Square area is the most easily accessible on foot and has a wide selection. Several of the city's famed brewpubs sere good quality meals, too

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As well as plenty of Western-themed steak and barbecue places, Dener has a cosmopolitan selection of international restaurants. Of the several distinct restaurant districts, the Larimer Square area is the most easily accessible on foot and has a wide selection. Several of the city's famed brewpubs sere good quality meals, too.

Casa Bonita 6715 W Colfax Ae phone 303/232-5115. Absolutely wild Mexican place, seating 1200 diners, a long way out on Colfax. Gunfights, cliff diers, abandoned mines to explore ? the only weak link is the food itself, but it's all a lot of fun (especially for kids) and far from expensie.

Cherry Cricket 2641 E 2nd Ae phone 303/322-7666. Excellent burgers and Mexican food sered up in a generally dingy sports-bar ambience make this a great place (near Cherry Creek Mall) to nurse a hangover - or even work on getting one (120 different bevers on offer) while watching teleised sports. Open 11am-2am.

Delhi Darbar 1514 Blake St phone 303/595-0680. Relaxed haunt with decent Indian food and a well-priced lunch buffet.

Fourth Story Restaurant & Bar 2955 E 1st Ae phone 303/322-1824. Relaxed American restaurant gracing the top floor of the Tattered Cover Bookstore, with overstuffed couches and chairs. Sunday brunch sered with lie music.

Kapre Lounge 2729 Welton St phone 303/295-9207. Exceptionally good Southern-fried chicken in an old, established Fie Points soul-food restaurant.

Mercury Café 2199 California St phone 303/294-9281. A lot of healthy choices, manyvegetarian , but with some meat options as well. A good alue.

The Palace Arms 321 17th St phone 303/297-3111. This small and classy restaurant tucked in the Brown Palace Hotel is the ultimate splurge in town, with a menu of mostly seasonal game specialties, and decorated mostly in antiques from the Napoleonic period - including a pair of Napoleon's dueling pistols.

Racine's 850 Bannock St phone 303/595-0418. Just south of downtown, this large, laid-back place is a Dener institution. Housed in a former auto showroom, the inexpensie restaurant seres excellent egg-based breakfasts, with imaginatie pastas, reliably good sandwiches and spicy Mexican entrees later in the day.

Rocky Mountain Diner 1800 Stout St phone 303/293-8383. Continental food sered up in a festie Western-style atmosphere.

St Mark's Coffeehouse 1416 Market St phone 303/446-2925. The small frontage of this trendy café hides a huge, art-filled room where regulars play chess and hang out day and night - from 7am to midnight. Brews excellent espresso.

Tom's Diner 601 E Colfax Ae (and Pearl). Wonderfully gritty and authentic 24hr diner, proiding cheap deals on big portions of stock diner food at the seedy end of town.

esta Dipping Grill 1822 Blake St phone 303/296-1970. Attractie restaurant in a renoated LoDo warehouse sering tasty food in unusual combinations, based around the "art" of dipping. You can personalize each entrée - including a range of kebab-style meat or eggives - in a spectrum of flaors (Mediterranean, Asian, Mexican).

Wazee Supper Club 1600 15th St phone 303/623-9518. Well-established LoDo dining room, sering good cheap burgers, deli sandwiches and superb pizzas, plus a full range of bevers, in a retro, art-deco atmosphere. One of the few places open really late (1.30am most nights).

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