Is The Cherry Cricket Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 3, Episode 5

"The Best Thing I Ever Ate" (episode "Burgers") featured The Cherry Cricket's build-your-own burger, topped with green chile among other options, served at this longtime, no-frills Denver bar known for its walls of decades of patrons' name-tag buttons. The featured location is the downtown Blake Street bar in Denver's Ballpark neighborhood, one of several metro-Denver locations. According to Cherry Cricket's own website, checked 2026-09-08, the Blake Street location was promoting a September 2026 Burger of the Month special and a golf tournament fundraiser scheduled for September 22, 2026, and cited a 2026 Westword award for best burger, its third consecutive year. A Yelp listing for the Blake Street location, updated August 2026, shows continued customer reviews and posted hours for the address.

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The episode featured Duffy's Cherry Cricket's signature bar burger, piled high with cheese and toppings at the original Cherry Creek location. The Cherry Cricket is a longtime neighborhood burger bar in Denver, Colorado. According to the restaurant's own website, checked 2026-09-08 with a last-modified date of 2026-09-08, the business currently operates four Denver-area locations -- Cherry Creek, Downtown, Littleton, and Broomfield -- and offers online ordering. The site listed current hours for the Littleton location as Thursday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to midnight. The site's September 2026 promotion featured a burger of the month styled as a play on a classic tropical cocktail. Google Places listed the business as operational as of the same check.