Weird eats & drinks in Denver

Looking for weird eats & drinks in Denver? These 12 are the genuinely strange ones — Wynkoop Brewing Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, Welton Street Cafe, Denver Story Trek — Five Points Phone Audio Tour and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Denver they'd never find on their own.

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Wynkoop Brewing Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout Denver's oldest brewpub keeps a stout on the board brewed with 25 pounds of hand-sliced, roasted bull testicl… LoDo
Welton Street Cafe The Dickerson family has been feeding Five Points since 1986, and Welton Street Cafe is the last Black-owned… Five Points
Denver Story Trek — Five Points Phone Audio Tour Free and almost invisible: you dial up audio recordings tied to spots in Five Points that look like nothing a… Five Points
Potager Denver's original farm-to-table restaurant, running quietly out of a brick Cap Hill rowhouse since 1997, year… Capitol Hill
The Cherry Tomato An old-school, friends-run Italian room that's barely changed since 1997, hidden in a little retail pocket am… Park Hill / Mayfair
Rebel Bread A naturally fermented, small-batch bakery tucked into the gray stone buildings of the Denver Design District,… Baker / Denver Design District (South Broadway)
Diebolt Brewing Company A father-and-son team (Dan and Jack Diebolt) quietly brews French-style ales out of a former meat-packing war… Sunnyside
Little Bodega A true NYC-style corner bodega dropped into one of Denver's historic Black neighborhoods: laundry detergent,… Five Points
Piggin' Out Smokehouse From the road it's just a small red house on Morrison, which is exactly why people drive past quality brisket… Lakewood
The Bardo Coffee House A coffee shop open until midnight is rare enough; one that also pours beer and wine and feels like a mid-cent… Wheat Ridge
Garibaldi Mexican Bistro Yes, the good Mexico City street food is inside the Conoco station next to an automated car wash on South Bro… Englewood
Urban Burma Tucked in a corner of the Mango House — a shared food hall built for resettled refugees on East Colfax — Urba… Aurora (East Colfax corridor)