Pete Ryan's long-running New American in Whittier, near City Park — a chef-owner cooking in Denver since the '90s, running a seasonal menu grounded in French and Italian technique and Colorado ingredients (no shared plates, by design). Quietly excellent and a perennial local best-of pick, with a rustic brick patio. Less buzzy than the RiNo set, more about a dependable, grown-up dinner. Come for an unhurried, technique-driven New American meal.