Winner: Best Burger Bar 2008
March 27, 2008
Westword
The are great burgers and then there are great burgers. And the best of these is the Cherry Cricket. The kitchen not only turns out a mean green-chile cheeseburger, but also offers a plethora of variations for those poor, deluded souls who like to top their party of grilled cow with something other than a strong hit of green chiles. And the bar itself not only provides appropriate beverages for those devouring the kitchen’s best product—appropriate in this case being a bottle of Rochester’s Pride or Genesee Cream Ale and a shot of Bushmills Irish whiskey—but also pours just about anything else you could need from a good neighborhood. True, the Cricket experience has changed since the institution of the smoking ban (because the only thing better than a burger, a beer and a shot is a burger, a beer, a shot and a cigarette), but this bar remains Denver’s best burger-centric watering hole, and a true treasure in rapidly changing Cherry Creek.
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