Fellow Traveler

Fellow Traveler opened in January 2022 at 3487 South Broadway in Englewood, on the stretch of the Broadway corridor that runs south out of Denver proper, from a team that includes former Sputnik bartender Joe Phillips. Everything on the food menu is vegan, and the restaurant has built enough credibility on that front that Westword named it Best You'd-Never-Know-It's-Vegan Restaurant in 2025, while 5280's review of the place argued that the beverage programme outshone even the plant-based cooking. The bar's reputation among drinkers rests on a collection of roughly forty amari and bitter liqueurs, with an Amaro Wednesday discount, and on a house Malort. It is open from noon most days and from 10am at weekends, which makes it a daytime as well as an evening room.

For non-drinkers, the useful fact is that the zero-proof list is a printed section of the menu with its own named drinks, and that the same bitter, savoury sensibility runs through it. Nectar of the Gods combines grapefruit and lemon with pickle brine, simple syrup and soda. Billows & Thieves runs grapefruit and lemon against cold brew and a cardamom-cinnamon syrup. The N/agroni is built on Sanbitter with tart cherry and juniper syrup, and the N/alort exists, in the menu's own words, because they can: a zero-proof answer to the house Malort. Lighter options fill out the section, including a Rosemary Peach Bellini of peach nectar, lemon, soda and rosemary, an Agua de Jamaica of sweetened hibiscus tea, and Limone e Sale, a Sicilian lemon-and-salt serve. A health shot of tart cherry, lemon and ginger and a happy-hour watermelon and fresno chilli shot round it out, and non-alcoholic beer and wine are stocked alongside. Westword's January 2026 Dry January round-up pointed readers here for the Bellini, the grapefruit and pickle brine build, and the zero-proof Malort. Happy-hour versions of the same idea appear as a health mocktail of ginger, tart cherry and lemon and a watermelon and fresno chilli hot shot, so the alcohol-free list extends into the discounted hours rather than stopping at the door.