Bixa

2008 | Best New Store on Colfax Avenue

The personable partners of Bixa -- Charles Pitchford and Darrel Dewitt -- returned to Denver after a long stint in Aspen to open their tiny new storefront on Colfax. It's named for Bixa Orellana (an Amazonian plant identified by its red-orange stones, better known as Annatto seeds), and for their so-monikered cat. But the front is painted purple, and that paradox is just one of the many rare delights this retail anomaly brings to the street. What's in Bixa It's a... More »