The Cruise Room

My last night in Denver I went out with a friend and his advisor to this super neat art-deco styled bar called The Cruise Room. His advisor did her post-doc in Denver, during which she was a frequent patron of this awesome bar. It opened the day after Prohibition was repealed in 1933. If I lived in Denver I'd go here all the time if the drinks weren't $10-15 each, or perhaps if I had a bad ass job that paid me lots.

The coloring on these photos is pretty true. The lighting was super red, much redder than when they took the picture on the website.


The website says that everything in the bar is original, however our bartender told us otherwise. Apparently the panel in the photo below is the only one that is not original. Each of the panels on the wall are more or less "Cheers/To Your Health," etc in various languages, with representative imagery from that country. While it is now Irish, originally it was the German panel, paying tribute to none other than Hitler, and was torn out (understandably) by angry GIs during WWII.


A very, very cool bar, with fun (although super expensive for this grad student) and potent mixed drinks.