Pete's Kitchen is a classic diner, family-owned and operated, open since 1989, and the menu runs from breakfast burritos to gyros, according to the Pete's Restaurants site . The diner sits at 1962 E Colfax Ave and serves breakfast, brunch, coffee and dessert, with outdoor seating for a sunny morning. Monday through Thursday it opens at 7 a.m. and closes at 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday it stays open 24 hours, which makes it the answer to a very late night or a very early start. Sunday it is open from midnight until 9 p.m. It is an inexpensive diner, rated 4.5 of 5 on Google. Show up at 7 on a weekday for a table before the rest of the avenue is awake, or on a weekend when nothing else is open.
Start at Pete's Kitchen if the morning begins early: it opens at 7 a.m. Monday to Thursday and never closes on Friday or Saturday, while Amethyst Coffee and Denver Biscuit Company both open at 8. Three Colfax breakfast stops, three different clocks, and one of them is closed on Tuesday. Every stop below serves breakfast and coffee, so the choice comes down to the hour, the day and the room.
Amethyst Coffee, a café with house-roasted beans
Amethyst Coffee is the stop for a slow cup in a room that calls itself inclusive: an LGBTQ+-affirming café at 2936 E Colfax Ave, known for specialty drinks, an inclusive community atmosphere and house-roasted beans, as its site describes. Order coffee, breakfast or dessert, then take it to the outdoor seating, where dogs are allowed. Doors open at 8 a.m. Monday and Wednesday through Sunday, and the café closes at 3 p.m. each day it is open. Tuesday it is closed. The price runs moderate, and Google rates it 4.8 of 5, the highest rating among the places on this page. Go before noon on a Wednesday or a weekend and plan the rest of the day after 3.
Pete's Kitchen, a family-owned diner since 1989
Denver Biscuit Company inside the Atomic Cowboy bar
Denver Biscuit Company is a biscuit-based breakfast and sandwich shop set up inside the warehouse-like Atomic Cowboy bar at 3237 E Colfax Ave, as Atomic Cowboy describes its own building. It is the one stop here that keeps bar hours: according to the Atomic Cowboy Colfax location page , it runs 8 a.m. to midnight Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday, and 8 a.m. to midnight Sunday. Breakfast and brunch are served alongside coffee, with outdoor seating, and dogs are allowed. Delivery runs daily from 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., the only delivery among the places on this page. Prices are moderate, and Google rates it 4.6 of 5. Because it opens at 8 every day, including Tuesday, it works as a first stop on any morning of the week and as a late stop on a weekend.
Getting there and parking
Amethyst Coffee has free street parking. Pete's Kitchen has both free and paid street parking, so read the signs on the block before leaving the car.
The mornings sort themselves by the clock. On a weekday, Pete's Kitchen at 7 a.m. gets the day started, with Amethyst Coffee or Denver Biscuit Company from 8. Amethyst is closed Tuesday, so Pete's Kitchen or the biscuit shop is the Tuesday choice. On a Friday or Saturday night that runs long, Pete's Kitchen never closes and the biscuit shop stays open until 2 a.m.
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