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Great atmosphere
Posted by LiaHealdsburg on 06/03/2009
I had one of my most memorable dining experiences at the Cork House years ago. We slogged our way there during a major thunderstorm/flood and the power went out as soon as we walked through the door. But the staff just lit candles, put together a decadent cheese and pate plate and pulled corks on some serious wines. It was a magical, memorable evening.
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Great neighborhood find
Posted by SumDude on 04/20/2009
Great place to enjoy the happy hour specials. Not sure its worth it all the other times. Bathroom was small and food takes a while but is usually worth it. Menu is expansive and the fare is high quality. We'll be back soon!
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Best Wine Spot
Posted by caphillgirl on 01/14/2009
This is hands down my favorite restaurant in Denver. The atmosphere is wonderful whether you are in the mood to eat by one of the fireplaces inside, have brunch on the patio, or have drinks in the bar. This restaurant is extremely cozy, the staff is genuinely friendly and helpful, and the food and wine make the experience complete. Try everything on the happy hour food menu at least once; my favorites are the sweet potato fries, both sets of sliders, the cheese flights, and the spinach artichoke dip. The entrees and salads are also fantastic and reasonably priced.
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The food is just not good
Posted by krisabrams on 04/26/2008
The Cork House is great if you want a good glass of wine and a cheese flight; but anything beyond that is not good. All the food was over cooked. The muscles were rubbery and the salmon was tastless and so done! The specials were terrible and we finished nothing. Even dessert, which I think can't really be that bad, just add chocolate, was bad tasteless, wanting.
Don't waste your time or money. Denver has too many really good restaurants to waste a meal here.
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Longest dinner of my life!!
Posted by 5280diner on 02/27/2008
I was so excited to try the Cork House - the 5280 deal was wonderful and the food sounded great. I was mistaken. While the server was friendly, it took nearly 20 min. to get our wine order (just 2 glasses of wine!) The cheese plate was decent, but nothing extraordinary. The wedge salads were thrown on the plate with boxed croutons and bits of tomato - again, not bad. The wine, cheese and salads took about an hour to be served - when the salad plates were cleared we waited for the entree, and waited and waited and waited. When the steaks arrived another hour later, they were rare - not medium as ordered. After the long wait, we decided not to send them back, just asked for a box and the desert that came with the 5280 meal. Guess what? We waited again - the coffee that was supposed to be with desert was gone and we were still waiting. This is not the place to go if you would like to eat your dinner in less than 3 hours.
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Stay away, stay very far away...
Posted by gerardf1957 on 12/19/2007
Last night a friend and I dropped by the Cork House for dinner. We had no reservations but did not need any and were seated at a lovely table by the fireplace. The ambiance is incredible but that is the last nice thing that I can say about this eatery. We started with a scallop appetizer which sounded lovely. However, it was tough and horrible. The waiter was shocked when we told him. They took it off the bill. We then had the martini salad which was passable. For entrees we had the flatiron steak which came out as ordered but was only tolerable if dipped in the gravy. The potatoes and mushrooms that came with steak were left on plate after tasting. The crab stuffed shrimp was okay but no better than a cheap frozen entree. The shrimp dinner came with lemon rice and prosciutto ham wrapped around dry lettuce. I cannot emphasize dry enough. Both were dry and the ham was rubbery. I cannot complain enough. The service and bar is another horror story. Stay away, stay very far away.
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Greatness
Posted by jwatso43 on 10/08/2007
We had the time of our lives on the patio at the Cork House. We've found our new happy hour spot. We sat on the patio Thursday night for half price bottles of wine. The service was WONDERFUL, they were friendly, could answer our wine questions and made great pairing recommendation for their appetizers. We had the seared tuna (perfect) and a great Australian white that was crisp and complemented the food. I would recommend this restaurant to anyone.
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Don't Order the Food
Posted by edcortez on 09/27/2007
Pretty space, friendly people, nice patio, and miserable food. There's no nice way to put this, but aside from the cheese course, there wasn't a single presentable course served to me or my party on our visit. The seared tuna was of very low quality and extremely stringy. The wedge salads were poorly constructed (and if you can screw up a wedge salad, something is terribly wrong). The salmon entree I was served was of poor quality (fishy smelling), and the presentation was appalling (drizzled with brown sugar and bbq sauce from a bottle). A flatiron steak was served medium rare as ordered, yet was tasteless and chewy. Desserts capped the experience--an icy creme brule', and an assortment of sorbets (one of which tasted of Lysol). I rarely complain about restaurants--let alone publicly, but this was a miserable dining experience. I have a pit in my stomach--both from the food, and the fact that I paid for it. If you go--order a cheese course, and then leave.
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way overpriced. incompetent chef?
Posted by maddisam on 09/21/2007
I got kind of excited to try this place one night so we stopped in. the cabernet's they had were way way over priced. The food, quite frankly, for the price, was miserable. I was excited to see that i could order a side of seared tuna with my salad. With a little balsamic vinegarette, that would have been delicious, but alas, they had no balsamic vinegarette (um. what?) and instead of tuna they brought me the salad with two large, uncut
and tough steaks of SALMON. seared. what? im not the kind of guy to send things back, but this time, i really should have. i mean, how was i supposed to cut that? also, you shouldn't sear salmon like that. it makes it even tougher. the raspberry vinegarette they sent me was terrible and sweet. i could hardly touch it.
very disapointing. I could have gotten sick. I ordered a salmon steak, which was also very over priced. I think it was 19 or 20. My girlfriend had the filet mingnon, which was around 34. What we got was the same quality, if not less, than something we get at lonestar steakhouse, or TGIFridays. My GLAZED salmon, also had what appeared to be KC masterpiece barbeque sauce slathered all over the plate.. why? why? it was not a very good filet anyway. it had clearly been frozen. paying so much, i thought for sure they might have a better hookup. I thought the staff was rather rude as though they work at a four star resturaunt, which they do not. Our waitress however, was very polite and sweet, and attentive. Don't let the corona umbrellas on the patio fool you. This place is not layed back. The music seemed to be the same as the waiting music i get when i have to sit on hold with a Dell Computer tech agent. revolting.. Basically, what you'll get here is chain-resturaunt quality food and service, at four-star price, and a nice view out the window at an east colfax 15 line bus stop.. scary..*sigh* just go to outback steakhouse or something for a better experience with real music, at a fraction of the cost
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No more happy hour :(
Posted by apples41 on 07/31/2007
We used to love the Cork House for their fabulous happy hours and would go almost every weekend. We were incredibily disappointed to learn that this weekend, they changed their happy hour. Appetizers are now 7 dollars (happy hour price, not normal price) and you can only choose from a list of about 10 wines that are "only" 6 dollars. I'm sorry, but 6 dollars is NOT a happy hour value. To top it off, our chips and bread were so stale we left the spinach adn artichoke dip sitting there.
We won't be returning anymore. The new happy hour is pitiful. I guess all good things must come to an end.
