Catch a Limousine to the Hottest Restaurants in Denver, Colorado

Denver is an incredibly hospitable town, especially for any hedonists out there. If you're coming to Denver and not familiar with the downtown area, there are several restaurants that must be experienced. While you’re at it, treat yourself to real luxury and have a limousine take you in style.

Table Six just might be the hottest restaurant in Denver as of this writing. It's a relatively small neighborhood restaurant that's just a few minutes from the 16th St. Mall at 609 Corona. Its menu focuses on fresh, seasonal ingredients prepared in unusual ways. For example, you can get seafood sausage on white cabbage and broiled chicken, rabbit and Colorado lamb.

If you're in the mood for contemporary French cuisine, give Aix a try. It's menu mixes the tried and true with the newer, nouvelle dishes such as pomegranate risotto and mushroom-stuffed quail with cardamom lentils and orange gastrique. Aix also serves a variety of to-die-for game dishes.

Restaurant Kevin Taylor is definitely one of Denver's most upscale and luxurious restaurants with a bumptious menu that ranges from bay scallop and squid ink ravioli to desert list that includes Hawaiian pineapple Charlotte. The wine list is 900 wines long.

The Vesta Dipping Grill is phenomenal. This very contemporary restaurant sports curvy walls and a curvy bar and sports a menu that serves up a few curves. It's basically a fondue restaurant where you order an entree and then choose three or more sauces from a long list of possibilities for your dipping pleasure. Featured entrees include ginger-seared Ahi tuna, pork tenderloin cubano, achiote-grilled Altantic salmon, madras coconut milk grilled venison and green chile masa gnocchi. If the idea of a customized meal fits you fancy, the Vesta Dipping Grill is your kind of place.

Denver's restaurants, like the city itself, matured long ago, though the period of awkward adolescence seemed to drag on. Situated in the high Colorado plains without much in the way of indigenous ingredients to shape the local cuisine, restaurants experimented with new identities, reaching ambitiously toward Europe, Asia and Latin America. Yet they moved cautiously as well, not wishing to outpace an essentially conservative clientele. The result was a certain oscillation between enthusiastic striving and regression.

Denver is a city full of energy and life. It is no coincidence that many writers use childlike qualities to describe the city. The atmosphere is one of vitality and youth. Even by American standards, Denver is a young city. The gold strike that launched it occurred just 140 years ago. Denver and Colorado didn't join the Union until 1876, the same year Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone and baseball's National League held its first pennant race. By the time the local population reached a million, NASA was on the brink of putting men on the moon. Enjoy your stay in Denver and live life to the fullest. You may not be on your way to the prom but you can still feel like a teenager again in Denver.