Cherry Creek/Denver Spots

Expect tons of cougars. Other than that idk Cherry Cricket has some ok selections and good burgers.

 

Cherry Cricket good burgers but fair beer selection. Worth a visit for the food.

Isn't World of Beers around Cherry Creek?

 

World of Beer is fairly close, but is still at least a mile or two from that hotel. Ditto with the Bull & Bush.
The Cherry Cricket is right there. Great burgers and pretty decent beers. 5-10 local taps (and stuff like Stone and Sam Adams) plus another dozen or so bottles. No rarities, but still plenty of good beers.
Choppers up the street is similar. The food isn't as good, but the beer selection is a hair better.

 

There's also Harman's Eat and Drink. It's tap list is small but good.. One Nut Brown last time I was in there and a couple of others I hadn't seen around before. The food is also awesome, but pricey.

 

I like that you're staying at a $400 a night hotel looking for cheap places to eat.

 

should have stayed at a motel 6 and had 350 dollars to spend on beer

 

Lucky for you that Crooked Stave just moved to a place called The Source that has 2 good restaurants in it.

Great Divide has plenty of good spots to eat that are very close. Biker Jim's and Marco's are just a couple.

 

Great Divide also has food trucks often, cheap and good food too! Hop across the street and check out Star Bar while your at it, a BYOF spot as well!

 

I would second Harmon's, one of my favorite new places in this whole cowtown, not a million taps but they tend to choose well. Also I think there are some decent selections at Second Home, the restaurant actually IN the Marriott.

I do not love the Cricket as much as, evidently by the expansions over the years and the lines every time I drive by, everybody else does. I liked it better before the Hickenlooper folks bought it, and some of mty first exposure to craft back in the late 80s was there...but it's like the Yogi Berra line, "Nobody goes there any more, it's always too crowded."

Grab a B-Cycle at the Cherry Creek Mall and pedal over to World of Beer via the Cherry Creek bike path, you won't even need to hardly be on the road. (There's a pedestrian/bike bridge over the creek a little bit past the turn into City Set, the development where World of Beer and a bunch of other restaurants plus 2 hotels, sits. Actually I think one of them is a Marriott, there might even be a shuttle between the OPs hotel and that one.) Grab a seat at the bar and ask for a Cuba Cuba menu; order a pescado or a lechon asada by cell phone, and walk over to pick it up about halfway thru your first beer. bring back to WOB and enjoy w something good, and there will be something good at WOB.