breakfast · $$
Snooze, an A.M. Eatery
Pancake flights and a queue, right where the trains come in
The Union Station branch of the Denver-born breakfast chain, on the Wynkoop side of the building. Pineapple upside-down pancakes, benedicts with more going on than a benedict strictly needs, and a wait that on weekends becomes the defining feature of the visit. Weekends run to four in the afternoon, weekdays stop at two thirty. Put your name in from your phone before you walk over, sit on the plaza while you wait, and treat it as the price of a very reliable breakfast in the most convenient spot downtown.
Why go. Breakfast fifty steps from the train hall, with weekend service that runs until four.
Join the waitlist on the app before you leave your hotel; the Saturday queue at nine can run an hour.
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