The Fort Review

The Fort is a full-scale adobe replica of Bent’s Fort, the 1830s Colorado trading post, built in 1963 in the foothills near Red Rocks — and it’s become the most celebrated game restaurant in the state, serving more bison than any independent restaurant in the country. The menu is a deep dive into the food of the frontier: buffalo steaks and bison marrow bones, elk, quail, and the “Rocky Mountain oysters” done properly, all in a candlelit adobe compound with the lights of Denver spread out below. It’s a special-occasion room that actually earns the occasion, and it’s minutes from a Red Rocks show.