Exploring Denver’s shops and restaurants, neighborhoods and people (including myself)
D Bar Desserts
1475 East 17th Avenue, Uptown, Denver
303-861-4710
Bus directions: from Market Street Station, the 20 goes down 17th Avenue
I’ve never eaten at a place quite like D Bar. It’s a tiny restaurant located right next to Strings on Restaurant Row in Denver’s Uptown neighborhood. The interior is modern, with light blue walls contrasting with counters [...]
The Uptown neighborhood in Denver offers several pairings of similar restaurants: Thai, Mexican, diners, wine bars, and dessert places. I fantasized about doing them all, but I want to lay the Uptown theme to rest this week, so I had to settle for Mexican and dessert.
I’ve been to each of the three Mexican joints listed [...]
Vain Salon
1890 Pennsylvania Street, Uptown, Denver
720-596-4511
across the street from Fluid Coffee Bar and Las Delicias
Bus directions: the 28 goes down 19th Avenue; the 12 and 20 go down 17th
A couple of weekends ago I tried to get a walk-in appointment at Vain Salon, but they were booked. I liked the look and feel of the [...]
It was a weird weekend.
Todd was at a sci-fi convention in Denver and stayed at the hotel, so I had the house to myself. I had lots of plans for Saturday, but none for the rest of the weekend.
Until I walked to the bus to Denver Saturday morning, I still hadn’t decided what aspect of [...]
Fluid Coffee Bar
501 East 19th Avenue
Uptown, Denver
720-519-4681
Bus directions: take the 12 or 20 up 17th or the 28 up 19th from Market Street Station
On Sunday, Todd and I visited what I took to be the “new” part of Uptown, bounded by 19th Avenue, Logan, 20th Avenue, and Washington.
Reminded me of a [...]
Dazbog
Baer Simon Photography
Talulah Jones
Ahimsa Footwear
On 17th Avenue, from Downing to Lafayette
Bus directions: Take the 12 or 20 down 17th Avenue from Market Street Station, or take the 15 up Colfax to Downing and walk to 17th Avenue
I used to think Downing was the edge of the known world, the kind of place you might go [...]
I first ventured into Uptown on one of Phil Goodstein’s tours of Swallow Hill, back in April. It used to be one of Denver’s swankest areas in the 1870s, and although many of the houses are on what we would now say is the small side, they are striking.
As we walked down from [...]
Illegal Grounds
925 East 17th Avenue, Uptown
303-860-7166
open 7 days a week
Bus directions: take the 12 or 20 from Market Street Station
This is a post about getting to know people and places. When I first met Mickki Langston, co-founder and executive director of the Mile High Business Alliance, I thought she was the business-marketing type, by which [...]
Bump and Grind
439 East 17th Avenue, Denver
303-861-4841
Bus directions: take the 12 or 20 from Market Street Station
I’ve been to Bump and Grind in Uptown Denver several times, starting in the spring of 2008, but Sunday was my first time at Petticoat Bruncheon, which happens on weekends from 10 to 2. The servers dress in drag, [...]
I started this blog a little over a month ago, on the first day of the Democratic National Convention and the day after my forty-sixth birthday. So far it’s been exhilarating and scary by turns. I’m so grateful to everyone who has stopped by and commented.
I’ve found other bloggers, like Writer Dad and In Other [...]