2024 the best restaurants in denver review
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Denver’s Best Dive Bars offers a shots eye view of the deliciously seedy underside of bar life in the Mile High City. Join Drew Bixby, Denver’s lowlife nightlife king, as he gets to the bottom of more Frozen Belly Busters, Tinys, and Bionic Beavers than any self-respecting drunk ought to consume. Along and way (and way off the beaten path of Colfax and South Broadway), you’ll discover which joints offer free food and let you light up legally; who makes the best Moscow Mules and pours the deepest shots; and where to find the latest last call. Want to know which dives open at 7 a.m. and whether you’ll need to bring cash? Who serves quality grub, has the best patio or offers free shuffleboard? Where to plan your next dive bar crawl? Whether you’re likely to encounter a hoard of hipsters? Denver’s Best Dive Bars will give you the lowdown on all that and much, much more, straight, no chaser.
Whenhe is not writing the “Drunk of the Week” column for Westword, Drew Bixby teaches writing for the Department of English and the Writing Center at the University of Colorado Denver. Most of his close friends are drinkers, smokers and gamblers, which explains why he feels so at home on a torn and tattered bar stool with a half-full beer and a shot of tequila.
Publisher : Gamble Guides; Illustrated edition (November 1, 2009)
Language : English
Paperback : 160 pages
ISBN-10 : 0981504094
ISBN-13 : 978-0981504094
Item Weight : 4.8 ounces
Dimensions : 5.1 x 0.4 x 7.1 inches
Reviewer: the truth, please
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Five Stars
Review: Would love an updated version but this'll do. 🙂
Reviewer: The Dude
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good Read for us Drunks
Review: Good book, points out some fun bars, wish it provided a little more info. Don't like the hipster rating except for the fact that it tells me which to avoid.
Reviewer: H. F. Gibbard
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Author Knows His Stuff
Review: This is the real deal, an invaluable guide to the low spots of the Mile High City. It's also very, very funny. (The author ranks the bars, for example, from one bottle--"Your mother would be proud" to five--"Your mother might be propositioned by a meth head.") The listings cover just about anywhere a dive bar afficionado would want to go in Denver, even (and especially) its more obscure haunts. I mean, Drew Bixby climbed the stairs up to M&M's up in Five Points, not a place where everybody has been or would want to go, though it's a nice little hole to hang out in if the show at Cervantes isn't quite up to snuff.Some of the listings tell you more about the patrons and their stories than the bar itself. That was a bit of a disappointment. But there's some cool pictures to accompany the text, including one of the beer can airplane at the Hangar Bar. I just wish every one of these places got a photo.Enjoy checking these fine places out, and remember to drink responsibly.