5280 Magazine | Ethan Pan & Patricia Kaowthumrong | October 2023

Instead of adding to the long list of farm-to-table venues in Denver and Boulder, hospitality veterans and friends Brandon Kerr and Jordan Alley decided to set up shop in Olde Town Arvada in summer 2022.

“We were trying to bring more elevated cuisine to the area, where it didn’t seem like we’d be competing with anybody,” says Kerr, who met Alley cooking French fare at LoHi’s now-shuttered Z Cuisine. Their strategy paid off: Patrons fill the restaurant’s contemporary dining room to linger over beautifully composed plates built around the seasonal bounty of local purveyors.

Start dinner with the audibly crispy, hot-honey-laced fried chicken or the foie gras parfait encased in lemon curd and adorned with basil, strawberries, and honey-roasted peanuts. Then move on to an entrée such as the roasted halibut, which is smothered in a lemony sauce with juicy confit tomatoes, cucumbers, and herbs. A friendly waitstaff (led by maître d’ and Fruition alum Jenne Harris) complements the polished lineup of food and drink, for which suburbanites and city dwellers are flocking to Arvada.

$$$, 2605 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 720-630-7908

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