Rooftop Tavern

The waitress was really sweet, but it was her first day so she didn’t have a lot of answers to our questions. I don’t eat meat, other than fish, so when I asked if I could get the quesadilla without the sausage but with the peppers and onions I was told — «No substitutions.» The only vegetarian options they have on their menu is salad and cheese pizza. Is that all you think that vegetarians eat? They eventually agreed to just a cheese quesadilla and then served it with marinara sauce? What?! My two friends ordered another round of drinks and she brought the wrong drink altogether. Granted, I understand it’s your first day, but we should of gotten a discount of some kind. They made me pay full price for a quesadilla that didn’t even have ¾ of the ingredients in it. Very disappointed. Next time I’m in Morrison, I’ll make sure that this place is not on my list.

Really good street tacos, and excellent service. And it’s about the cutest bar I’ve ever seen. If you want a killer view of the mountains, while enjoying lovely craft brews… come here :)

What a disaster! Literally just walked out of this place after waiting for an hour for our food, only to watch it be handed to the WRONG table. While waiting and waiting and waiting, we witnessed at LEAST 30 people come in, sit down, realize they didn’t have a PRAYER of getting served, then LEAVE! Is this a joke? Can’t rate the food because we never saw any! Staff up if you’re going to ATTEMPT to be a restaurant owner!!! We’re now happy as clams, at the MORRISON INN. 5 minutes here, got our margaritas, chips and salsa, and our burritos are cookin’! Thank god for REAL RESTAURANT OWNERS!

My friend and I stopped in Morrison for lunch while we did the Red Rocks thing. The rooftop was small but lovely, they were very busy but the staff was friendly, fast, and accommodating, the food was fresh and delicious. We had the Mediterranean salad and the street tacos w carnitas on corn tortillas. I’ve had my fair share of street tacos since I live in Texas but these were BY FAR the best I’ve had in quite awhile. The sangria was a little sour/​bitter for my Texas palate (texans know a good sangria) but I still downed that thing anyway because it was good (and expensive). I will definitely come back when I’m in the area.

SHANDY is the best! You must come to this beautiful rooftop patio and enjoy the sunshine, great food, and drinks. Thank you Shandy for making this place so fun!

Horrible service! Waitress was sweet, but our salads took 45 minutes & when we asked for a status, some food runner (working in yoga pants) basically blamed us for ordering protein for our salads b/​c that’s only for the downstairs menu. Then we got charged for 3 salads because somehow they got confused about that too. Sweet waitress was slammed & the managers just stood around while the customers received slow & sometimes rude service! Yet another Morrison restaurant to disappoint :-(

If you are looking for a place to have a few drinks this place is great. Has a nice rooftop patio and you can find tvs in the bar area. if you’re wanting to watch a game. BUT if you’re looking to grab some dinner DON’T waste your time. Food isn’t worth the cost and there are far better places to eat nearby.

It sucks when you hear he comments of the server regarding taking trash off your table. If I’m still working on a beverage, why would it be a problem for me to keep it on the table? Throwing out rude opinions about how I don’t drink fast enough is childish. Also, terrible margarita. But the location and look of this place is epic and worth just sitting on the roof top

The service can be a little slow at times, but the ambiance is wonderful. I ordered the Morrison Mule very refreshing and delicious. For eats try the street tacos! Amaze!!! You can’t go wrong chicken or pork both so good. For a side we ordered guacamole and chips. The rooftop view is so relaxing great for a lunch stop with friends or a little happy hour.

What a great roof top patio. Too bad the service sucks. We’ve been here twice. The first time service was bad. This time there was NO SERVICE for the entire time we were on the patio. We left. We’ll take our dining dollars elsewhere. There’s a lot of bars that want your business in Morrison. I suggest going elsewhere. Too bad. What a great venue.

I want to love this place, I really do. I keep coming back but the service here is AWFUL. At least acknowledge my existence please. It’s not that big and there is not a huge menu. Please get staffed appropriately for the summer or its gonna be a tough one for your customers. Anytime it’s over 70degrees be prepared for it.

Stopped by this location when doing the tourist drive. The potential view from the restaurant pulled me in. The view was great and the sitting area looked very nice and accommodating with a little fire at this bar and the trees close by. Sat at the bar and wait far to long to be even acknowledged. After about 15 minutes we got a drink order in. Both drinks were well made. White sitting at the bar top with the fire I found that the fire was making it enumerable due to the heat. It was already a 75 degree day. I asked our waiter if it could be turned down or off. He replied it wasn’t possible. At this time my buddy and I were the only ones sitting at this bar top with the mini fire. We ordered our food and found the wait for the food to be consistent with ordering our drinks. When we got our food I found it to look very appetizing. When I bit into my taco I was greeted with cold food. Not luke warm, COLD. No big deal, mistakes happen and i’m generally a patient person. I informed our waiter and was greeted with a shitty (I apologies for profanity, but I really have no better way to describe other than such an ugly word) attitude. This cold food that I had reported had just become an issue to him because I informed him of it. This was the attitude given off based on voice inflection and body language.
Due to his response I really had no reason to ask for it to be remade. I just asked it be taken off the bill and I would just enjoy my drink. My buddies food was of proper temperature and tasted good.
At this point I had sweat dripping down my head from the unnecessary fire on a 75 degree day with the sun beating on me. I found the off valve for the fire and turned it off myself. A couple that had 5 minutes earlier sat down at the opposite end looked at me and gave me a genuine, «Thank You».
When the bill came out our waiter had flipped a switch and now seemed to be the nicest guy in the world. It was almost a joke because he was pouring on the nice to an almost comical level.
I think I might skip this location if I am even in Denver again, which is hard because the place was really perfect in terms of location, view and top deck (I was there in Oct. 14).

The atmosphere here is GREAT!!! Especially when the weather is nice and you can sit outside on the deck. The food is good and reasonably priced. I love the fire-​top table, but it’s too high for the chairs. I’ve been here at least a dozen times and the service has been great half of the time and mediocre the other times.

Cool rooftop with fireplace tables and a great atmosphere! Haven’t tried food but beer prices are reasonable for a fun place

Wow. Great setting, amazing location. All they need is servers who check in on you more than every 30 – 45 minutes, have a smile on their face, and make you believe that they value you as a customer! Oh, and pineapple to put on pizza.
In other words, the service is HORRIBLE. HORRIBLE. HORRIBLE.

I’ve been to the Rooftop Tavern 2 more times since my first review and wanted to provide a little update because of the negative reviews this place got on Unilocal by what I felt were some pretty demanding sounding people. In the 3 times I’ve been here this summer, I have had nothing but friendly service, great food and beer and the staff were fun. Maybe they had a rough start, some people were having a bad day, I don’t know but I’ve had nothing but a great experience at this place so far. I need to break away from my rutt of fish taco’s though, try something else. Those taco’s are SO friggin’ good though, that I keep thinking about them when I’m not there. I’ll really miss that outdoor seating on the roof when it gets uh… not warm anymore. Sorry, I just couldn’t use the «C» word this early. :)

Great rooftop patio situation! Lots of shade to chill for hours under with a couple drinks to enjoy the outdoors! Must try the cucumber giblet, refreshing cocktail to for a summer patio situation. While it’s connected to the restaurant downstairs I do not believe they are connected as the food menu is a typical bar menu an very limited. I had the tacos which were good, nothing that blew my mind but they worked. The guac was a bit on the bland side and they served them with corn chips which I wasn’t really into. Check it out, great spot for a drink after ur hike or bike in the hills!

Was looking forward to enjoying a meal and a drink after a long day. After waiting 5 minutes while the servers talked amongst themselves we were told to seat ourselves.
We attempted to do so on the outside patio since all tables inside were full.
Upon which time the owner or manager began to yell at my husband in front of other guests that we needed to wait for them to prep the patio.
Being scolded like a child when we were «seating ourselves» like the unhelpful employee told us was not the experience we expected. Needless to say, we chose to spend our money elsewhere.

Dropped in on a Sunday around 4. Was looking forward to check the place out. Went up stairs and before a greeting or hello the host walked up and simply said, «Sorry, 18 and older only. You’ll have to go downstairs.» We had our 2 yr old daughter with us! I don’t think she was planning on drinking! Anyways the place was less than half full and guess they didn’t want any business.
Needless to say, went down to Toni Rigatoni instead and enjoyed their shaded patio.

One of the bartenders /​owners is mental!
I brought my friends from out of town to Morrison to show them the sites outside of Denver. Big mistake!!!
I should preface this all by saying we ate at Toni Rigatoni’s first and it was fantastic! It’s in the same building as the rooftop tavern.
After dinner we went to the rooftop tavern to have some drinks and relax. We went to one of the rooftop seating areas and my friend decided to have a smoke (tobacco). What he didn’t realize is smoking is not allowed on one of the two rooftop patios. There are no posted signs and its impossible to know its prohibited, but as soon as a bartender notified us, he stopped since it was an innocent mistake.
Then all hell broke loose.
After he had ceased smoking, one of the bartenders (he claimed to be a part owner and he’s the one who looks like a pirate) began to physically confront my friend. It became so uncomfortable for our group that we decided to all leave. This made this guy so angry that he began yelling at us and followed us out of the bar and to our car, all while screaming at us and making a scene. If was so awkward and weird. While we were trying to get away from this crazy, at one point he threw a beer glass against the wall, which shattered all over people. It was insane!!!
Basically there are a thousand great bars in greater Denver and this is not one of them. Don’t waste your time here. Just go to Evergreen or stay in Denver. Skip Morrison. It’s not worth bringing your friends here to see how freaked out they get.