The Wolf's Tailor

Beckon

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.

Hotel Clio

A luxury property at the edge of Cherry Creek that feels more like a well-connected friend's penthouse than a hotel. The rooftop pool has unobstructed mountain views, the rooms are clean-lined and warm, and the service walks the line between attentive and invisible. It's the kind of place that makes you wonder why you ever stayed downtown.

Red Rocks Amphitheatre

You already know about Red Rocks. But knowing about it and standing inside it at dusk while the sky turns violet behind the stage are two completely different things. This 9,525-seat amphitheatre carved into 300-million-year-old sandstone is not just Denver's greatest venue — it might be the greatest outdoor music venue on Earth. No hyperbole.