8 very Denver spots where you can eat and drink near Meow Wolf

Pairing a travel to the caller Meow Wolf Denver with a adjacent portion oregon repast isn’t arsenic casual arsenic you’d think, possibly due to the fact that nutrient is not the archetypal edible you mightiness see earlier taking a travel here. But astatine immoderate constituent on (or earlier oregon after) the hours-long Convergence Station adventure, you volition request a refreshment. So present are 8 options for eating and drinking — snacks, a sit-down meal, beers, mocktails and much — each located astir the Sun Valley neighborhood. None of them is much than a 5- to 10-minute thrust away.

Raíces Brewing

Your closest nutrient and beverage enactment — astatine conscionable a 5-minute locomotion — is Raíces, a brewery that shows its proud Latino roots by hosting vicinity nutrient trucks and taste assemblage events. Go for refreshing ales, lagers and saisons earlier oregon aft Meow Wolf. Find a patio spot by the stream to relax.

2060 W. Colfax Ave., raicesbrewing.com

Andy Cross, The Denver Post

Raíces Brewing Company connected Jan. 31, 2020.

Strange Craft Beer Company

This award-winning brewery is besides conveniently located little than fractional a mile from Meow Wolf Denver. Go for the biergarten and brews similar the 2021 GABF silver-medaled Silverbrick Norwegian Farmhouse.

1330 Zuni St., strangecraft.com

Domo Japanese Country Food Restaurant

Domo is simply a 25-year Denver instauration with a peaceful plot successful which to unwind aft Meow Wolf and contemplate life. The long-standing Japanese nutrient edifice besides enjoyed a surge of occurrence implicit the summertime erstwhile a TikTok video of it went viral. You’ll find Domo a mile from Convergence Station, successful Lincoln Park.

1365 Osage St., domorestaurant.com

Brennan Linsley, The Associated Press

In this March 21, 2014 photo, a accepted Japanese repast sits connected a tray aft being served to a lawsuit astatine Domo, successful Denver.

Buckhorn Exchange

Denver’s newest tourer attraction, conscionable Denver’s oldest restaurant, which dates backmost to 1893. These days the Buckhorn Exchange is known arsenic an obligatory (if once-in-a-lifetime) destination for taxidermy connected the partition and Rocky Mountain Oysters connected the sheet (which are not oysters astatine all, for the uninitiated retired there).

1000 Osage St., buckhorn.com

Provided by the Buckhorn Exchange

Rocky Mountain Oysters astatine the Buckhorn Exchange. (Provided by the Buckhorn Exchange)

El Noa Noa

The patio astatine El Noa Noa volition beryllium a bully small oasis aft Meow Wolf, and you’ll privation to instrumentality the accidental portion visiting this portion of Denver to cheque retired a 30-plus-year Mexican destination successful Denver’s Art District connected Santa Fe, which is conscionable astir 2 miles and a 5-minute thrust away.

722 Santa Fe Drive, denvermexicanrestaurants.net

Awake

Not partaking successful immoderate ineligible substances portion visiting Meow Wolf? You mightiness besides privation to effort retired Awake, Denver’s archetypal sober bar. The Jefferson Park spot is astir 5  minutes distant by car and features a afloat java and mocktail bar, portion besides selling bottles of galore of the champion non-alcoholic spirits today.

2240 Clay St., awakedenver.com

Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post

Some crystal pick cones and sprinkles astatine Little Man Ice Cream Factory connected July 3, 2019, successful Denver.

Little Man Ice Cream Factory

I’m not definite if kids — oregon adults, for that substance — tin grip a time astatine Meow Wolf followed by a travel to Denver’s ain Wonka factory. But for anyone brave capable to instrumentality connected both, Little Man’s West Colfax accumulation installation is simply a sugar-fueled gem.

4411 W. Colfax Ave., littlemanicecreamfactory.com

HELLOFOOD

Finally, Convergence Station does person its ain nutrient antagonistic inside, implicit with a small patio for outdoor eating and fresh, post-exhibit air. And Meow Wolf is moving with 13 section nutrient and portion vendors to banal the shelves of HELLOFOOD with trade beers and to-go luncheon bowls. Just don’t expect thing similar a nutrient tribunal erstwhile you go.

1338 1st St., meowwolf.com/visit/denver

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