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Named for the L trains of Chicago and the L subway route in New York City, this Baker neighborhood cocktail den is a popular hang for barflies haunting the bright lights of our own Broadway.

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Bonus: There’s a beautifully curated zero-proof catalog of cocktails for designated drivers and anyone else who’s eschewing alcohol. And follow the rules: Be patient, be adventurous, be kind, dress smartly and if you must use our cellphone, please do so in the designated phone booth. Sit back, enjoy the show and behold the hand-carved ice, which is worth the price of admission. Green Russellīelow Larimer Square’s arch of white lights is a staircase that leads to the entrance of a pie shop the door beyond gives way to a swanky, rock-walled Prohibition-style speakeasy that’s almost always filled with well-heeled patrons who come for the clever cocktails and easy banter with the bartender superheroes, all of whom are assertively talented when it comes to making the drink of your dreams.

There’s a hybrid bar/kitchen - the team calls it “bitchen” - that dispenses innovative small plates offset by a superb cocktail scroll that favors botanicals and housemade spirits and liqueurs.

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The tasting room, glorified with purple-surfaced stools, plush old glory blue banquettes, concrete block walls mounted with pots flush with juniper, soaring windows and a sunken bar, is perched the below the mezzanine, which showcases a skylight-illuminated copper still. Family Jones Spirit HouseĪ collaborative project from some of the biggest names in the city’s culinary landscape-including restaurateur Justin Cucci-this Lower Downtown(LoHi) distillery, tasting room and restaurant is a bombshell of beautification. For all of that and more, there’s probably nowhere better to be an adult than at this sensual, crimson-hued time capsule fashioned after one of the lounges on the 'Queen Mary.' Hop aboard a stool for a pre-dinner libation and converse with bartenders, old-timers, hipsters and overnight travelers of the historic Oxford Hotel, in which the Cruise Room resides, and tap your foot to the vintage jukebox playing blues and jazz tunes from the 1930s and ‘40s. For a romantic rendezvous away from the maddening crowds. For flickering candles, moody lighting, nostalgic glamor and a rush of history darting back to the late nineteenth century. Cruise Roomįor bygone-era gimlets and gin martinis, sidecars and whiskey sours. Go early with a date to cozy up on one of the leather sofas and whisper the night away.

It’s a contender for one of the best places to take a tourist, but we locals love it, too, especially when we’re sipping a boulevardier at the bar and peering through the windows to admire the moonlight casting its glow on 17 th Street below.

This liquid asset paradise, overlooking the Great Hall of Denver Union Station, radiates elegance, opulence and grandeur, its throwback ambiance an homage to the golden age of train travel, glamour and enchanting bars. There's a main bar, an intimate lounge and an outdoor fire pit, so you're welcome to have a good time year-round. Located on the ground level of the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel on the 16th Street Mall, the opulent BEZEL Denver delivers inventive drinks and small plates.

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