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Denver trendy restaurants and neighborhoods continue to evolve
If you live in the City of Denver you know there are lots of neighborhoods with trendy restaurants. Denver lists 79 official neighborhoods, many with their own bars, restaurants, shops, services and merchants. Within recent years neighborhoods have developed into fashionable locations, with trendy restaurants and innovative menus. Traditional restaurants districts change as restaurant competition gets stronger. Cherry Creek North sees a turnover with new trendy restaurants every couple of years. And while the core of Old South Gaylord and South Pearl has kept many of their traditional restaurants, we see trendy restaurants squeezing in and the restaurant area expanding northward, adding restaurants along Logan and Alameda. Uptown, once known as restaurant row, has seen many changes as its commerce has relocated.
Once abandon commercial areas are reborn
Twenty years ago, sidewalks in downtown were empty at night. LoDo, Larimer, Riverfront were a bunch of shuttered buildings, warehouses and parking lots. With Coors Field we added the Ballpark District with trendy bars, breweries and restaurants. Five Points saw a heyday, years ago and is booming again. (RiNo) River North was a tired industrial neighborhood just 5-10 years ago.
Local neighborhood re-establish themselves
(LoHi) Lower Highland and Central Platte Valley is comprised of a variety of unique ethic neighborhoods. The Highland Area, considered to be 32nd and Lowell, is within blocks of other scattered trendy restaurants. Ten blocks west, Tennyson is bustling again while holding on to many of its older shops and merchants.
Scattered through Denver you find many neighborhoods which for years served the local neighbors, areas such as Bonnie Brea, Hilltop, Sunnyside, now with trendy restaurants. Other commercial neighborhoods serving more than just the locals include the Golden Triangle, Capitol Hill, Congress Park, East Colfax, South Broadway and what is now referred to as the Art District On Santa Fe. Colorado and University Boulevards along with Lincoln have always been commerce locations. The neighborhoods around the University of Denver have their unique restaurants. All these neighborhoods have added trendy restaurants.
If I’ve missed your neighborhood my apologies. Old timers have different names and memories. I’m sure that I’ve missed areas that I don’t know and missed their names. Areas such as 6th Avenue with its shops. Other areas that have evolved include Osage, Jefferson Park, Park Hill, and Berkeley. The ethnic diversity along Federal can be seen as you drive along it, with numerous ethnic restaurants and shops.
New trendy restaurants popped up this past year in Glendale’s “City Set.” Stapleton and Lowry have become new neighborhoods with their own shops, restaurants and developments. All-in-all Denver has a great diversity in trendy restaurants with many more outside the city boundaries.
Go out and try something new this week.
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