What do you do when it’s a major holiday weekend, which is also the kick-off to Summer, but you still need to keep your distance from others? We’ll tell you! (Don’t worry, it’s not going to be a drag, promise.)

Picnic this Memorial Day enjoying great food in Colorado.
Enjoy great Colorado food and a picnic this Memorial Day Weekend. Photo courtesy Pixabay.

Where to eat and drink

5280 Burger Bar has 5280 Grill Packs with your choice of 4 Angus beef burgers, marinated and seasoned chicken breasts, or black bean & quinoa patties. Sides include corn on the cob, wrapped in foil and ready to throw on the grill, potato buns, cheese, lettuce, tomato, sliced onions, coleslaw for the group and homemade 5280 Sauce. Packs serve 4 and are $29.95 each. Call 720-887-5970 for more information or to order your Grill Pack.

Annette has Memorial Day Burger Kits are available Sunday, but quantities are limited. The Kit gives you four 7X Wagyu beef patties and four house-made English muffins, along with cheddar cheese, butter lettuce, sour pickles and chow chow sauce (their special blend of ketchup, aioli and pickled fennel) for $45. Add on dessert and booze.  Click here to order on Toast before noon Saturday and select a pickup time of anytime between 10am and 6pm Sunday.

Get Annette's Burger Kits with everything you need for a primo meal. Photo courtesy Annette.
Get y our Burger Kit from Annette. Photo from Annette.

bar helix has Memorial Day Picnic Boxes. Choose from two boxes packed with everything you need for parties of two, four, or six. Box #1: Deviled Fried Chicken with a biscuit and whipped honey butter. Box #2: Creole Catfish Po’ Boys. Both come with slaw, mac and cheese and a salted chocolate chip cookie from Moon Raccoon Baking Company. They’ll sell out fast, so hurry.

Cherry Cricket has you eating good and doing good. Buy an award-winning burger and give one to someone deserving with The Cricket’s Extra Helpings program. With every order, the restaurant lets you nominate a friend, neighbor, or frontline worker in your life who could use a little burger love. 

Pasta Pasta Pasta is featuring a Patriotic Pizza Bundle which includes a 24 by 8 inch pizza margherita with either a 4 pack of Peroni or soda for $42.

Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse will set you up for successful grilling with a variety of fresh, uncooked cuts of meat to grill to your liking. Options include an 8 ounce Prime Ground Beef Patty, 22 ounce Prime Bone in NY Strip, and Del’s 24 ounce Prime Porterhouse plus seafood. To place your cuts of meat order for Memorial Day, call (303) 796-0100.  

True Food Kitchen has Memorial Day Sangria Kits (white and red) for $40 and new limited spring menu, including a seasonal avocado toast with asparagus and shrimp tacos with smashed avocado.

Image courtesy of Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art

Where to get artsy

Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art presents its fourth virtual exhibition, Buongiorno! Vance Kirkland in Italy, and invites guests to vicariously explore Vance Kirkland’s various travels in Italy and the resulting works of art. Buongiorno! can be accessed online beginning Friday, May 22.

Where to head to the great outdoors

AROA (Arkansas River Outfitters) are officially open for business this Memorial Day Weekend. Both counties have been granted variances from Colorado’s “Safer at Home” order and are approved to operate. Physical distancing comes naturally by grouping families and small groups to single boats.

Go rafting in a naturally socially distant way.
Photo courtesy AROA.

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