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ner one night at Ultreia, which was tucked into a a drink at the Terminal Bar, which offers dozens of
corner of the depot off the Great Hall and is the microbrews and where travelers once bought tick-
creation of award-winning chef Jennifer Jasinski. ets to far-flung corners of the country, or tasted
An intimate setting, Ultreia has an Iberian seafood at the Stoic & Genuine oyster bar, or the
theme and takes its name from the word people offerings of acclaimed chef Seidel at Mercantile
shout at pilgrims (Ultreia translates as “onward”) Dining and Provision.
for hikers on the Camino de Santiago, the 1,000 As for my next Amtrak trip, I'm thinking of head-
year old pilgrimage to the cathedral in Santiago de ing south on the City of New Orleans to the Big
Compostela in northern Spain. We shared deli- Easy.
cious pintxos (pronounced “peen chos”) and tapas For more information on Denver’s Union Sta-
prepared by executive chef Adam Branz. My fa- tion, see unionstationdenver.com. For things to
vorite was the Escalivada, made from roasted egg- see and do in LoDo, go to denver.org. And for tick-
plant, pepper and onion stew, shishito crema, torn ets on the California Zephyr, which continues on
herbs and pan de cristal. from Denver to the San Francisco Bay Area, see
For the last night of our stay, we had cocktails at amtrak.com/california-zephyr-train. In addition,
the Cooper Lounge. Perched on the second floor the Crawford Hotel is linking up with Ultreia this
of the depot on almost the same level as several summer to offer a Crawford Picnic in the Park
enormous, inverted dome-shaped chandeliers, we package that starts at $294 per night and inlcudes
could look out the massive hall below and imagine a picnic basket stocked with Spanish-inspired cui-
all the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of railroad sine & a bottle of wine, along with luxury trans-
passengers who’d traipsed through the building portation to the local park of your choice in The
during the past century. Crawford’s Tesla. See thecrawfordhotel.com/of-
I have a feeling we’ll be back. In a sense, we only fers/picnic-at-the-park.
scraped the surface during our stay. We never had
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