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Overall • CRITICS: Frasca, Downtown What can you say about Frasca that hasn’t been said already? We’ll try this: Fantastic service (they have computer records of customers so waitstaff can greet regulars appropriately), exceptional food (chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson has been…

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Best Drink — Boulder

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Bar • CRITICS: Catacombs Bar, Downtown There’s just something intoxicating about this bar below the Hotel Boulderado that features a labyrinth of rooms, affordable drinks and one of the most unpretentious nightlife scenes in town. You’ll find high-falootin’ hotel guests…

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Best Food — Denver

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Overall • CRITICS: Rioja, Larimer Square Picking the best of Denver is really a state of mind. With so many great options offered by the Kevin Taylors and Frank Bonannos of the world, it can be darn right difficult to…

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Best Drink — Denver

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Bar • CRITICS: Tavern Uptown, Uptown There is now a Tavern Downtown, in Lowry and the Tech Center. None of them pass muster when measured against the original (that’s not a knock on the others as much as it is…

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Best Health and Body

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Body Treatment • CRITICS: St. Julien Hotel Spa, Boulder With more than 10,000 square feet of spa space appointed inside Boulder’s toniest hotel, you can find any treatment imaginable. The body adventures are a must. Try a St. Julien Scrub…

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Best Shopping

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Bargain • CRITICS: Front Range Mercantile, Longmont Even when you travel to one of those gigantic furniture warehouses, you still end up spending a pretty penny for goods of questionable quality. So why not spend less and get more? Front…

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Best Recreation

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Feel Like a Kid • CRITICS: Jump Street, Thornton As if the reasoning behind naming a 30,000-square-foot warehouse full of trampolines a great place to feel like a kid again needs any explanation, we’ll give it to you anyway: There’s…

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Best A&E

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Best Service

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Auto Repair • CRITICS: Stang Auto Tech, Broomfield We pretty much trust that most auto shops can fix your car or truck or SUV. It’s doing so quickly and without, ahem, finding other “problems” that makes a shop great. Stang…

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Best People

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Artist • CRITICS: Dwayne Wolff, Longmont Working out of a studio just above the Old Firehouse Art Gallery in the heart of Longmont’s burgeoning arts district, Wolff has created a dynamic series of oil paintings that range from fruit stills…