Denver · Since 2014
A fire, a room, and dinner
Everything comes off one wood-fired grill. The menu changes when the growers change it, the wine list is short on purpose, and nobody will rush you out for the second seating.
Tonight
5:30 – 10 pm
Where
1180 Larimer Street
Reservations
(303) 555-0148
Walk-ins
Always, at the bar
The room
Thirty-four seats, one fire, and a pass you can see from every one of them
We took the wall out between the kitchen and the room in 2019 and have never regretted it. The grill is the loudest thing in here and the second loudest is the conversation.
There is no dress code and no tasting menu. There is a bar you can eat at without booking, a corner table that is worth asking for, and a playlist that stops being polite at about nine.
How we got here
On tonight
A short menu, changed often
Six starters, six mains, four puddings. If something ran out it ran out because it was good.
The best fire cooking in the city, in a room that has no interest in being the most expensive one you have ever sat in.
Westword · Restaurant of the Year
The list
Sixty bottles, and somebody here has drunk all of them
Mostly from growers working small plots, mostly under sixty dollars, and all of it chosen because it goes with smoke.
Ask for the pairing if you want to stop thinking about it. Eight glasses, poured as the courses land, and nobody will describe anything as having notes of anything.
Wine and cocktails
Private dining
The back room holds eighteen
Its own door, its own fire, and a menu you agree with us beforehand rather than choose on the night.
We do about sixty of these a year — birthdays, wakes, one wedding, and a great many company dinners that went on longer than intended.
Ask about the back room