8 Rivers Restaurant

Here's a surprise: Spectacular Jamaican flavor and island atmosphere in Denver's hip Highlands neighborhood. The Jamaican jerk wings will be your new game day addiction, unless you're stubborn and from Buffalo, and the rest of the menu gets truly adventurous: Try the spicy smoked jerk pork loin, curried chicken, stewed oxtails with butter beans, or Prince Edward Island mussels in curry sauce. Not a lot in the way of vegetarian options, but damn if the jerk tofu and callaloo with red peppers and onions isn't one of the best veggie entrees in town, you're not just a vegetarian, you're picky. As if to prove that everything is better smoked Jamaican jerk style, 8 Rivers even offers up Jamaican-style Alaskan king crab legs.

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