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Reader: Range has almost all the requisite hallmarks of a new restaurant in Denver

Range opens today in the stunning former Colorado National Bank building, a circa 1915 structure that's been transformed into the Renaissance Denver Downtown City Center Hotel. The restaurant, designed to mimic a modern-day whiskey saloon, features executive chef Paul Nagan's "modern interpretation of Colorado cuisine built around live wood-fired cooking,...
By Patricia Calhoun
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Range opens today in the stunning former Colorado National Bank building, a circa 1915 structure that’s been transformed into the Renaissance Denver Downtown City Center Hotel. The restaurant, designed to mimic a modern-day whiskey saloon, features executive chef Paul Nagan’s “modern interpretation of Colorado cuisine built around live wood-fired cooking, a charcoal grill and smoker.”

It also boasts several features common to Denver’s newest restaurants, notes one reader, who provides a handy list.

See also: Range opens in the new Renaissance Denver Downtown hotel

Says Snafunk:

Reclaimed Barn Wood: Check
Wood-fired cooking: Check
Local: Check
Seasonal: Check
Craft Cocktails: Check
Ampersand: FAIL
Almost has all the hallmarks of a new restaurant in Denver.

In a wonderful old building. Have you seen the renovation project? What do you think of Range?

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12’s public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

patricia.calhoun@westword.com

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