Exploring Denver’s shops and restaurants, neighborhoods and people (including myself)
Wen Chocolates
1541 Platte Street, Denver
303-477-5765 (store)
www.wenchocolates.com
Closed Mondays, see website for hours
Bus directions: the 10, 44, 28, and 32 go by on 15th
I’ve had extraordinary chocolate in my time—Vosges from Chicago, Belvedere from this area, Chuao in San Diego, Neuhaus—but I think Wen Chocolates has them all beat. Of the three, I think [...]
A little girl foots her scooter across the Platte River bridge. “Don’t get too far ahead,” her mother calls, as the scooter swings toward the edge of the sidewalk. The girl’s driving leg beats a steady rhythm as trucks rumble by, the river flows below, bottle-brown over white shreds of trash. There are no fish.
Two [...]
Roberta’s Chocolates, Candies, and Nuts
(the website is pretty slow)
4840 W 29th Avenue
(take Speer to 29th and then drive 18 blocks or so)
303-824-2069 (call for hours)
Bus directions: the 51 (from Westminster) stops at 29th and Sheridan; the 28 and 32 also stop nearby
Chocolatier: “A maker or seller of chocolate candy” (from Webster’s Collegiate [...]