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2500 E. 1st Ave. Denver, CO 80206

303-399-5353

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Critics'
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Best French Fries
Award Winner 2012

Cuisine(s): New American, Steakhouse

Hours: Daily 11am-2pm, Sun 5pm-9pm, Mon-Thu 5pm-10pm, Fri-Sat 5pm-11pm

Price: $$$, $$$$

Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards, cash
Features: Banquet Facilities, Business Dining, Catering, Kid Friendly, Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Private Party, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible

Serving: Brunch, Dinner, Lunch

Entertainment: Live Entertainment

Alcohol: Full bar
Reservations: Accepted, Highly Recommended

Parking: Lot Available, Valet

Description

Every neighborhood needs a neighborhood restaurant, and in Cherry Creek, that neighborhood restaurant is Elway's. Chef Tyler Wiard and his crew cook from a menu that speaks to the primal needs of Cherry Creekers: all steaks and swank and smarts. The room is sumptuous--not so much clubby as sleek and classy and the service is warm and professional. A meal here isn't cheap, but for both the quality of the food and the company, it's well worth the price.

2012 | Best French Fries

There are several strict rules of thumb when it comes to making french fries: First, the tubers -- blanched, of course -- must be hand-cut, with the skins left on for texture. Second, the potatoes shouldn't be cut too thin or, God forbid, too thick. Third, if the resulting fries aren't crisp, golden and hotter than a sidewalk sale in the heart of a Palm Springs summer, then the kitchen deserves a cold night in hell. And finally, they had better be liberally dusted with salt. The... More »
2011 | Best Chili

Considering the absurdly high number of chili cookoffs that take place in Denver, it doesn't make sense that it's next to impossible to find a butt-kicking bowl of the stuff at a restaurant. What's even more wacky is that the one chili that does bowl us over comes from the kitchen of Elway's Cherry Creek, a white-tablecloth steer palace that slings a $48 porterhouse, Japanese sea bass for $39, and a half-dozen oysters for just under twenty bucks. And yet for less than a tenner, you can swell... More »
2011 | Best Steakhouse

Elway's Cherry Creek is a lot of things, including a meat market -- meeting a potential mate, meeting up for a drink, meeting a moneyed sugar daddy or meeting a pair of enhanced breasts that make you slap-happy. But that's just foreplay, because at the meat of the matter is the real beef: majestic slabs of seasoned steer weeping with bloody juices; ruddy prime rib seeping with the same; classic beef tartare; a steak chili that deserves its own monument. Although the cow is king here,... More »
2010 | Best Red Chile

Who would have thought, in a town flush with cantinas, taquerías, carnicerías and Mexican markets, that Denver's best red chile would come from the kitchen of a full-blooded steakhouse While the Cherry Creek Elway's is best known for its slabs of steer, chef Tyler Wiard's New Mexican-style red chile, which he drapes over his steak enchiladas, is worthy of worship. We can't get enough of this smooth, slightly bitter purée, which is sharply punctuated with the savory,... More »
2010 | Best High-End Steakhouse

The Cherry Creek Elway's is a bastion of big spenders, big deals and big steaks. While the hormone-charged bar is a meat market for pin-up cougars with head-turning cleavage and the young, moneyed cads who want to take them home, and the dining room is a swell of starched shirts, pressed pants, high heels and more cleavage, the real showpieces here are the wet-aged, primal cuts of Prime beef. They're judiciously seasoned, grilled to your exact specifications and percolating with juices, the... More »
2009 | Best Steakhouse Menu

Everyone in this town serves steaks. Most restaurants serve pretty good ones. But no other steakhouse in the city has a menu like that at the original Elway's, which covers all the traditional steakhouse basics (big whacks of beef, lobster tails, shrimp cocktails and creamed spinach), then turns the whole concept on its ear, fooling with the formalized, high-rolling boys' club feel of the traditional beefery by serving shrimp cocktails over smoking dry ice, offering lamb lollipops, excellent... More »
2009 | Best Meet Market -- Aged

On Wednesdays all through the summer, the scene at Elway's is hot! Aged, but hot. While bands play in the courtyard, cougars prowl through the bar and the patio, looking for fresh prey. And sugar daddies are doing the same, looking for the next sweet young thing. Should they strike out, there's always a consolation prize: real red meat in the dining room. More »
2008 | Best Expense-Account Lunch

As annoying as the phrase "Let's do lunch" has become, we love hearing it when the destination of choice is Elway's, a Cherry Creek mainstay that defines the power lunch -- as well as the power brunch, the power dinner, the power nightcap, the power getting-smashed-at-the-bar-and-hitting-on-the-cocktail-waitresses. But this nexus of new money and old-fashioned indulgence also happens to be a really good restaurant, where Tyler Wiard's kitchen, with its lamb lollipops, lobster cocktails... More »
2008 | Best Beef Steak

Elway's is a beautiful restaurant. The service rides the perfect edge between businesslike decorum and occasionally goofy informality -- and so does the menu, which offers both innovative dishes (a handmade spread of s'mores) and more standard steakhouse fare. But there's nothing standard about Elway's massive, 22-ounce, USDA Prime bone-in rib-eye, cut so as to preserve the most fat, the best marble and the bone, which lends both moisture during the cooking process and a sense of... More »
2007 | Best Taste of Denver

If you wanted to give people a true taste of Denver, where would you send them For us, Elway's -- Big John's eponymous temple of meat -- comes out on top every time. For the scene, the service, the staff and the sly humor implicit in the menu's design, Elway's is that single restaurant that defines what it is to eat in Denver today. There's money here, but there are also plenty of people in blue jeans. Although the restaurant is in Cherry Creek, it could be picked up whole and successfully... More »
2007 | Best Expense-Account Dinner

This isn't to say that we wouldn't eat at Elway's on our own dime. We would, and have, more times than our credit limit can bear. But what we are saying is, if you've got the chance to stick The Man with the bill, then go ring up a whopper at Elway's. Start with a couple of classic martinis at the bar, then retire to the dining room and take a tour through the top end of the menu: the 22-ounce prime bone-in ribeye with cremini mushrooms; one of those food-as-art shrimp cocktails served over... More »
2006 | BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE

While planning for his swanky new steakhouse and saloon in Cherry Creek, Broncos icon John Elway called just one play out to the interior design team: Do whatever you like, but one of the bar stools has to be upholstered in gold leather. Why Gold was the favorite color of the famous quarterback's late father and mentor, Jack Elway, and John made the request in tribute to him. And so it is that while most of the chairs in Elway's ever-teeming bar are a gorgeous dark maroon, there's one --... More »
2006 | BEST NEW WEST RESTAURANT

Big John doesn't cook at Elway's. Although this Cherry Creek steakhouse boasts Elway's larger-than-life name over its larger-than-life doors, John isn't flipping your burgers, grilling your steaks, assembling your s'mores or bringing your order to the table. Those tasks fall to the excellent kitchen crew and floor staff overseen by manager extraordinaire Tom Moxcey, who works hard to translate Elway's vision for the masses. And while Elway may sign a few autographs when he stops in for a... More »
2005 | Best New West Steakhouse

No, Big John isn't flipping tenderloins on the grills in the back, but he does show up every now and then -- and he's nothing but gracious when he does. And, no, the dining room isn't filled with fat guys in Broncos jerseys and sweatpants. Actually, Elway's draws the kind of crowd you see at every other high-tone address in Cherry Creek, as well as a good number of steakhouse converts who've been wooed away from some of the more established temples of meat. And while the place does have John... More »
2005 | Best Way to Piss Off the Dishwasher

For a serious steakhouse, Elway's has a goofy streak a mile wide running through it. Milk and cookies for dessert, shrimp cocktail mounted over smoking dry ice and, for a real hit of comfort-food nostalgia, do-it-yourself s'mores. This plate is served as a warmed bowl of homemade, melted chocolate ganache, a half-dozen marshmallows, some graham crackers, a long fork and one of those Sterno-fired mini-grills that we've only seen used before as the centerpiece of Chinese-restaurant pu-pu... More »

Looking at the world through rose-colored glasses at Elway's

By Cafe Society | Wed, May 23, 2012

Size does matter. We learned that as we sampled thirty different bottles of rose at the annual Pink Patio party at Elway's Cherry Creek last night, and decided that we still loved last year's winner, ... More »
Wine events pour out the fun tonight

By Patrick Langlois | Tue, May 22, 2012

If you were hoping to attend tonight's vintage wine dinner at Le Central, 112 East Eighth Avenue, and don't have a reservation, you're too late: That event is sold out (but the restaurant does have a ... More »
It's all about wine on this week's calendar

By Patrick Langlois | Mon, May 21, 2012

There are a handful of wine events on the calender this week, including three on Tuesday alone. While craft beer may be stealing the spotlight lately, you can never go wrong with the classics. Here's... More »
Guess where you're eating? At an EatDenver restaurant, if you're Dave H.

By Lori Midson | Mon, March 26, 2012

Last week, Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests, ranging from a bowl of guacamole from Las Margaritas that had tongues wagging while fingers were pointing to a flute of bubbles at Crimson... More »
Foodography: A food porn voyage of Chefs Up Front

By Lori Midson | Mon, March 26, 2012

Colorado chefs cook their asses off -- not just in their respective restaurants but at culinary events all over the city, and last night was no exception, as thirty chefs from Denver, Boulder and Colo... More »
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streetsignartist | Denver, CO | 193 Reviews

| Tue, June 29, 2010

number 7 still makin money in Denver check out the live music and events here
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westwordbestof | Denver, CO | 102 Reviews

| Wed, May 6, 2009

Everyone in this town serves steaks. Most restaurants serve pretty good ones. But no other steakhouse in the city has a menu like that at the original Elway's, which covers all the traditional steakhouse basics (big whacks of beef, lobster tails, shrimp cocktails and creamed spinach), then turns the whole concept on its ear, fooling with the formalized, high-rolling boys' club feel of the traditional beefery by serving shrimp cocktails over smoking dry ice, offering lamb lollipops, excellent steak tacos and tuna tartare, and even serving Ding Dongs for dessert. A meal here is just plain fun. With chef Tyler Wiard in the kitchen, Elway's continues to score.
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tannaruzicka | Denver, CO | 307 Reviews

| Thu, May 27, 2010

Get the prime rib medium rare!
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Dinner Menu

Starters

$12.00

Grilled Artichoke
garlic aioli, drawn butter, lemon

$18.50

Dungeness Crabcakes
granny smith appli slaw, grain mustard butter

$12.00

Rhobe Island Style Calamate
pepperoncini and cherry peppers, tempura battered baby corn and bleu cheese stuffed olives

$11.00

Steak Tacos
usda prime beef, flour tortillas, guacamole, ancho salsa

$8.00

Beer - Battered Onion Rings
creole aioli, ketchup

$17.50

Lamb Chop Fondue
lamb chops, green chile cheese fondue, chimayo tortillas, roasted sweet potatoes

$17.50

Tuna Tartare
ahi tuna, scallion avocado, creamy spicy aioli, yuzu ponzu, wasabi crema

$17.50

Crab Cocktail
jumbo lump crab meat, cocktail sauce, iceberg lettuce

Shrimp Cocktail
three large mexican white shrimp, cocktail sauce, remoulade, joe's mustard sauc

$18.50

Lobster Cocktail
three south african lobster tails, cocktail sauce, remoulade, joe's mustard sauce

$16.00

Coconut Battered Shrimp
three crispy mexican white shrimp, pineapple‐cucu mber slaw

½ Dozen $18.00

Freshoysters
fresh‐from‐the‐coast oysters, cocktail sauce, mignonette

$49.00

Cold Shellfish Tower
oysters on the half shell, lobster cocktail, shrimp cocktail

$39.00

Hot Appetizer Tower
lamb chop fondue, coc onut battered shrimp, rhode islan d style calamari

Soups & Salads

$9.00

Asparagus Soup
shaved asparagus, parmesan, sun ‐ dried tomatoes , grilled sourdough

$7.50

Charred Red Pepper Soup
basil pesto crostini

$7.50

Roasted Corn & Chicken Chowder
bacon, green chile, potatoes, cream

Black Bean Soup
smooth avocado, cotija cheese, scallions, chimayo tortilla chips

Spicy Steak Chili
cheddar cheese, sour cream, red onion, tortilla strips

Elway’s Fresh Fish & Cold Water Crustaceans

$38.00

Roasted Alaskan Halibut “niÇoise”
potato salad, olive tapenade, roasted tomto vinaigrette, sauteed haricot verts

$37.00

Dean’s Parmes An Crusted P Acific G Rouper
louisiana creole sauce, andouille sausage, applewood bacon, baby shrimp, crawfish, lump crab

$32.00

Ahi Tuna
wasabi pea crust, miso beurre blanc

$29.00

Elw Ay’s Salmon
roasted baby shrimp and lump crab, miso beurre blanc

$24.00

Suatainable Farm Raised Salmon

$39.00

Dashi Braised Chilean Sea Bass

10 Oz $58.00
16 Oz $75.00

Maine Lobster Tail
drawn butter, lemon

8 Oz $36.00
16 Oz $58.00

Alaskan Crab Legs
garlic butter, lemon

With

$8.00

Vegetable Succotash
smoked tomato sauce

$8.50

Brussels Sprout Hash
toasted pistachios

$8.50

Sauteed Asparagus

$7.50
Add Cheese Sauce $2.00

Sauteed Broccoli

$8.50

Sauteed Sugar Snap Peas

$12.00

Elway' Fried Rice
king crab or duck confit

$8.50

Roasted Cauliflower

$7.50

Twice Baked Potato

$10.00

7’s Hashbrown
plain or caramelized shallots garlic aioli, ketchup

$7.50

Baked Potato

$5.00

French Fries

$8.50

Macaroni & Cheese

$8.00

Au Gratin Potatoes

$7.50

Yukon Gold Mashed Potatoes

$9.00

Sautéed Cremini Mushrooms

$9.50

Creamed Spinach

$7.50

Creamed Corn

U.s.d.a. Prime Hand-cut Steaks

8 Oz $34.00
16 Oz $44.00

New York Strip

8 Oz $37.00
12 Oz $44.00

Filet

13 Oz $46.00

Bone - In Filet

22 Oz $46.00

Bone - In Rib - Eye

18 Oz $46.00

Bone - In New York

14 Oz $34.00
20 Oz $41.00

Prime Rib

10 Oz $26.00

Sirloin

28 Oz $49.00

Porterhouse

$28.00

All Steaks Can Surf
add maine lobster tail to any steak

$13.00

Steak & Cake
add a crabcake & sauce louie to any steak

Elway’s Classics

$46.00

Colorado Rack Of Lamb
grain mustard, rosemary crust

$26.00

Short Rib “off The Bone”
mashed potatoes

$33.00

White Marble Farms Two Chop Pork Chop
black mission fig marmalade, warm bacon vinaigrette

$21.50

Prime Beef Enchiladas
shredded beef, menonita cheese, red chile, green chile or "christmas"

1/2 Chicken $23.00

Roasted

$13.50

Smash Burger

Desserts

$13.50

Chocolate And Port
pair any of our chocolate desserts with a glass of gr aham’s six grapes port

$8.50

Cranberry‐applebread Pudding
b rown butter walnut ice cream, cranberry sauce

$8.50

Cinnamon Apple Crumble
oatmeal crumble, vanilla ice cream

$8.50

Do‐it‐yourself S’mores
marshmallows, graham cr ackers, chocolate gan ache . complete with hibachi

$7.00

Classic Ding Dong
devils food cake, vanilla cre am, dark chocolate gan ac he

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Elway's Cherry Creek

2500 E. 1st Ave. Denver, CO 80206

303-399-5353

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7:00 p.m. every Fri., Sat.

6:30 p.m. June 20

6:30 p.m. June 27

6:30 p.m. July 11

6:30 p.m. July 18

2012 | Best French Fries

2011 | Best Chili

2011 | Best Steakhouse

2010 | Best Red Chile

2010 | Best High-End Steakhouse

2009 | Best Steakhouse Menu

2009 | Best Meet Market -- Aged

2008 | Best Expense-Account Lunch

2008 | Best Beef Steak

2007 | Best Taste of Denver

2007 | Best Expense-Account Dinner

2006 | BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE

2006 | BEST NEW WEST RESTAURANT

2005 | Best New West Steakhouse

2005 | Best Way to Piss Off the Dishwasher

By Cafe Society | Wed, May 23, 2012

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