Beckon
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Beckon

Denver, Colorado

Photo: Liv R

A hidden tasting-menu restaurant tucked behind Call, its casual sibling. You walk through what looks like a normal restaurant and end up in a 22-seat room where chef Duncan Holmes serves one of the most inventive prix fixe meals between the coasts. It feels like a secret because it basically is one. Denver's most ambitious kitchen, operating in near-silence.

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Book weeks in advance. Sit at the counter if you can — watching the plating is half the experience.

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