The Fort Restaurant

An award winning and nationally acclaimed truly Colorado restaurant, The Fort is located in Southwest Denvers Red Rocks Territory. Specializing in regional game, such as bison, elk and quail, as well as seasonal fish and hearty vegetarian fare influenced by American Indian and Mountain Man cuisine, The Forts creation of New Foods of the Old West, brings back popular recipes from the 19th century, prepared with a twist. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, The Fort is a full-scale adobe replica of Bents Fort, an important fur-trading fort originally in Southeastern Colorado (1833-1849). Paying homage to the propertys historic inspiration, The Forts cuisine is modeled after the diets of pioneers along the Santa Fe Trail, mountain men and native Indian tribes, as well as the culinary influences of the Mexican and Spanish traders who once occupied the border of Old Mexico and the U.S. Territory where the original Bents Fort sat. Kinney leads The Forts creation of New Foo...