Stanley Marketplace Reviews

We visited twice during our trip to Denver. Once for weekend brunch with friends, and once for a dinner date. Denver Biscuit Co, Glazed & Confused doughnuts and Cheluna Brewing were all great stops for brunch time. BBQ, Misaki and Infinite Monkey Theorom were great for an evening visit! Hours vary per place. I would return.

Saturday, March 25th, 2023
Free private parking lot and easy to get to

Stanley Marketplace an indoor venue to grab some Mexican fare at Comida, a pint at Cheluna Brewing Company, an ice cream cone at Sweet Cow, an empanada at Maria Empanadas, or a bowl of ramen at Qi-Lin (seriously, their ramen is legit!).

Although we only walked, shopped and ate on the first level, there’s an entirely whole 2nd floor of greatness. We loved this marketplace, all sorts of people enjoying their time, live musicians, children enjoying ice cream, others gathered around musician enjoying their food/drink. We got our half dozen empanadas and headed out to the airport.

We highly recommended this marketplace for any and all. We will be back to try more food and to shop.

Verity of shops, eateries, and workout spots (yoga, kickboxing, etc). This place is very family friendly and there is plenty of parking. I think it's a fun place to check out.

Nice place but I wish the shops would have been open past 8pm on a Saturday. This must be a place to go to during the day time, but at night not so much. I recommend the Ice Cream shop, good prices.

There is a combination of interesting boutiques, shops and restaurants in a converted industrial building. There is plenty of free parking available.

This old industrial complex now houses all local (non-franchise) Restaurants, Shops etc. The food cuisines range from Asian, Italian, Spanish, American just to name a few. Decadent chocolates and aged Italian meats only yards apart. Baked goods they have it all. And a spacious common area for waiting, resting and socializing with your company in comfortable and plentiful seating. There are all kinds of shops too. Reasonable prices as well. Definitely will return several times and try more restaurants. Denver Biscuit Company was our choice this time (although we had to try a pastry shop while waiting for a table). Being Mother’s Day the wait wasn’t too bad.

Turns out this shopping area was once a factory that made ejector seats for airplanes. It is now a venue with stores, restaurants, yoga and workout places upstairs it was a great idea and be loved visiting it! Great Covid precautions in place.

We enjoyed this , great and relaxing multipurpose mall. We enjoyed the eclectic shops and great food. We had been waiting for a year to return to shop and have sushi at Masaki @ Stanley. This place is simply the best sushi we have ever had. We are natives of Hawaii and we know great, fresh sushi. Our Friends invited us on a ski trip with them, last year when we stumbled upon this little gem. We took the opportunity to meet the wonderful owners, Charlene and Robert. They are business owners committed to serving great sushi, at a great price point. We learned some things about the care they take to ensure that we got the freshest fish to our table. Our experience this year topped the one from last year and we will be looking forward to coming back next year and every year after. Maybe they will consider opening one in Nashville,wink wink. So until we meet again, see you next year Charlene & Robert!!!

I love Stanley Marketplace! If I lived near it, I would be there every weekend. Not only is it a really cool place, most of the stores and restaurants are really cool also. There is just such a unique mixture of food and shops that you can't find anywhere else. I highly recommend checking it out.

This place is cool. Great concept. Modern day food court. Only cooler. Lots of food options. Plus some cool shops, a liquor store and an ice cream shop. We had dinner at Annette's followed by ice cream at Sweet Cow. Amazing.

I stumbled on to this place while searching for Maria Empanada. I end up walking around the whole place and wish I had found it sooner. Many very different restaurants and shops there, and the place was packed. Parking on a Friday at 6 PM was difficult.

This is the place with a big history related to aviation. The whole building used to be a factory of ejecting seats for military jets. They were produced there for years. The whole area had also its own airport!
Over the years it has become a small shopping center.
Overall it looks very interesting, all these businesses have been adopted to the original structure of the former plant. There is quite few spots where you can eat, drink, buy the food or other things. It's worth to visit this place.

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We stopped at this place after a nice visit to the nearby Air and Space Museum. The shops are very odd but the dining experience is very good. I picked up some BBQ tips with baked beans and it was very good. My wife opted for a breakfast chorizo empanada and Dulce de leche churro and she said they were excellent. Our time there occurred just as a power failure knocked out the power to the entire complex.

Fun foodie hall to hang out and explore. We arrived at 8:30pm so a lot of the shops were closed but plenty of really good food options. We had a late dinner at the sushi restaurant called "Masaki". We're really picky about our sushi and we were not disappointed. Spoke to the fish buyer (and owner's wife) and she travels to Japan to get to know her vendors - she is bringing some of the best fish in the world to her restaurant.
Can't wait to go back the next time I'm in Denver.

Great place to go when you can't decide what to eat or have multiple people who want different things. Lots of food choices from BBQ to Asian Food to Pizza. Lots of small boutique shops as well that offer unique items. And any trip to Stanley Marketplace wouldn't be complete without a stop at the Ice Cream shop. The Only negative is parking is very limited especially at night or on the weekends.

Excellent place to hang out with friends family...amazing food and drinks...fun activities...play areas..shopping...great quintessential feel...simply difficult to put in words...just go and experience

We went to the Sistine Chapel exhibit, which was very nice. But the market is in a sketchy area, would only go in daylight.

We stumbled on this place seeking the Glazed and Confused donuts but were blown away by the unique shops and restaurants offering such great food and products. An old factory turned into a shopping complex with fantastic offerings. Not your run of the mill place. We will return next time we are in Denver!

We came here for dinner as it was near our hotel - it was a fun, lively place with something for everybody (food wise). We all ended up settling on Chi Lin, but there were lots of choices for both dinner and dessert.

The shops appear to close early as most of them were closed, although we weren't there for shopping. Mostly they appeared to be various specialty/eclectic types of shops.

We were staying in Stapleton and our hosts recommended this place. We stayed
at their place for three weeks and we dropped by every day for coffee. Lots of shops to visit and it is an interesting place just to hang out and observe people.

We recommend you stop by and support this great local business.

Great place to try lots of variety food, drink and small shops. Have always liked to go there for the special events in the Hanger.

Cool place if you have lots of money to buy a $2.50 can soda or a $29.00 haircut or $4.00 for a empanada i bought a hat with three letters for $40.00

Loved this place. Cute shops with some local goods, great coffee and space to work/relax. The atmosphere is relaxed and casual.

We had never been to Stanley Marketplace before, but we decided to check it out after seeing a TikTok video highlighting Rosenberg’s Deli. The deli is delicious, first of all, but the whole marketplace is really cool. We got “in line” at Denver Biscuit Company and spent our wait time walking around. We ate and then got dessert and got bagels and soup to-go from Rosenberg’s.

I definitely advise if you want to do Denver Biscuit Company to get in line asap. We got to the marketplace about 10:30am and we didn’t get seated until almost noon. Also check out Sweet Cow’s patio area if it’s a nice day.
Stanley is also very LGBTQ+ friendly.

Super cool market concept with multiple interesting retailers and restaurants all under one roof. You could spend quite a bit of time here if you were to tour each individual small business.

I loved this market so much! It was such a big selection of restaurants and food stalls. Since the weather was nice we sat outside, which was lovely. We ate at the beer hall and it was so delicious, especially the tater tots plate with meat and the large salad with avocados. Plenty of beer to choose from as well, which was fantastic. The atmosphere was on point, so we will be back. I also loved the different shops with so many unique finds. June Ruby is a charming shop on the 2nd floor I would recommend.

Fun bunch of shops!! It’s worth a walk through many options for food. I would recommend spending a few hours walking around.

Free WiFi and lots of food and interesting shops. I walk over any time of day and try something new. Great neighborhood atmosphere.

The donut shop Glazed and Confused probably has the best tasting donuts in Denver. The variety is over whelming, but you have to get there early. When you order donuts with a filling, they then put in the filling.

I have been to this Marketplace several times now. It hosts some of the places that I know well with second locations there. Also, there is a large event space that hosts an event I have been to the past couple of years also.

That said, the place has a distinctive local flare with local places/businesses there too. Lots of free parking surround the place also. There are local restaurants, bars, the event space, and some clothing places and general variety stores also. There is a robust gymnastics studio there for little kids, the day I was there recently it was bustling for sure.

I now can compare this place to Central Market downtown and the Dairy Block also downtown. This place has a more suburban feel and the free parking helps a ton. I do like have a mixture of retail thrown into the mix that this place has but other do not except just outside of the Dairy Block there is a little retail in close proximity.

I would probably not drive to this place to seek it out but enjoy going there when I am there for an event or a meeting.

Great place to spend time, grab food/coffee/dessert.. relax or work with wifi. Ended up visiting numerous times in a short period

Cute little new mall with a slightly trendy vibe, Denver style. Being from Portland I was't terribly impressed but the food choices are pretty good. After two visits I realized I'd seen it all and didn't feel compelled to return. Besides restaurants and a few cool clothing boutiques, the other shops weren't the kind of places you'd return to again and again, like say the Oxbow Market in Napa which I look forward to going every couple years when I'm there even though it's small and I've seen it all.

Great spot for drinks with friends, bar hopping & eating, the restaurants are the draw. There's an open seating area mod living room style and enough art sculptures to keep it interesting. It can get crowded but even then it wasn't bad. The donuts and ice cream places were great, and I really liked the food and menu at Yellowbelly. Since we had kids with us we didn't get to try any sit down restaurants or bars, which looked really tempting and a good range of choices, including an Asian place with skinny tables built on a bicycles which was cool.

If they had a few more shops upstairs it might draw people up there but the empty spaces make it seem like this mall needs something, there's a cool looking salon and Pilates studio upstairs, but the place lacks oomph.

Stanley Marketplace is in a refurbished aviation hanger near the site of the original Denver airport's main runway. Its a unique, eclectic space that houses places to eat, a variety of shops, shared workspace, even a gym! There are also community events scheduled throughout the year such as beer festivals, farmers markets, concerts, and seasonal events. Great place to shop and support local and independently owned businesses and a great place to eat. The Sweet Cow has some of the best ice cream around!

It appeared that this would be an excellent place to go for lunch, dinner, or a place to just chill over coffee or drink(s). However, we weren't there for any of these, but just to check out the shops. For that, it was a bit underwhelming-- to us. We were seriously looking for clothes but did not find good opportunities. There was a good variety of shops-- mostly hair salons, fitness (e.g., yoga, kick-boxing training), children's books, tee shirts, etc. Eclectic describes it.

This delightful small mall is a nice mix of specialized boutique offerings and varied ethnic food vendors such as a noodle & dumpling restaurant, Mexican churro shop, a Jewish style deli, and a biscuit company. There also is a liquor store and cooking and sewing schools in this complex. Oh, I just remembered that there is a great beer hall and dining venue.

This is a fun place to be for a portion of the day and the beer hall with an outdoor covered patio is the place to be at night. If you are out in the East Denver suburbs, you must go to this eclectic little mall.

Fun, modern place to hangout with friends or grab a coffee or grab some food. Busier than your local mall!

I wanted to come here while in town since it was highly spoken of and offered an authentic local shopping and dining experience.

Even on a Sunday morning plenty of the places were open. It was nice to leisurely walk around and there are plenty of places to sit and people watch.

The Stanley Marketplace is a community treasure. It has great food options, shopping, and services. In addition, it hosts special events that are amazing.

Lots of great food options, all looked good. Shops owners were very friendly and had great items to choose from.

This is a cool community center/food hall with a few unique shops -- most of which were closed when we visited on a Weds. evening, but the food -- WOW. Definitely worth a visit for lunch/dinner.

just thought we would stop and check it out. a bunch of shops and places to grab something to eat. it was clean and neat looking but if you go and want to buy something expect a high price

This is built in an old 50"s Aviation Accessory manufacturing plant. There are many small and very special local restaurants, many small local arts and crafts stores, a deli, and various other shops. Lot's of wide aisles and seating places. Very open and inviting.

Interesting and nice mixed use area with a large food hall in it. This food hall has plenty of shopping and dining options. There’s a nice mix of everything from BBQ to fine cuisine to beer bites.
Plenty of parking outside and nicely arranged too. I liked my visit.

In town for work this week and decided to stop at Stanley Marketplace to check it out! Someone had a great idea of taking the space and converting it to little shops and eateries! It’s so well done and fun to visit!

Great place to walk around and buy local gifts, crafts, food, etc. We had coffee, some filled churros, and pastries. I purchased a book and some craft beer as a gift.

This is the old hanger at the old Stapleton Airport. In 2007 it closed and was converted
Into retail and restaurants. A really great place to go. We walked there from our friend’s
Home. A really nice park with a paved road and nice greenery. Do go if in Aurora just north of Denver.

Great, fun place either way plenty of food voices. Lots of seating. Lots of places to park. Some small shops but mostly good food!

I went here last night and this is such a neat spot out in Aurora! They have everything from trendy clothing boutiques, liquor store, gym. gymnastics studio for kids, sushi bar and Infinite Monkey Theorem. I don't know how I haven't been here before.

The parking lot is huge too. Try and come here with your girlfriends or for a date night! It has something for everyone.

We went to the Sistine Chapel exhibit and thought we would stay afterward for lunch for my husband‘s birthday. As we wandered around, we could not find anything that appealed to us for a vegan lunch. We left and went to Northfield.

This has a little of everything. Denver biscuit company is the cornerstone. But they have multiple food options, chocolate, shopping and brewery. Will come back again. Great location. Will try other food options.

We live down the street and visit quit a bit. We love all the dining options. There is also a nice collection of shops.

Lots of shops, restaurants, fitness venues, maybe a preschool. Cheluna is a great local brewery on site--many choices in a casual atmosphere. Not a restaurant, but food can be delivered to your table from any of the eateries--Mexican, pizza, sushi, biscuits and more. Great place to relax and mingle with the locals.

Nice shops inside, great place to eat and visit. I would come again.I only stayed a short time. It was windy when I came, I believe that they need more places to sit inside when its windy or snowing.

Amazing variety of food. There is something for everyone! Tons of seating , cute little shops! All the workers were super nice!! Highly highly recommend!!!!

A fun Food Hall and more in Aurora. Not as many food options (fast and sit down) as other food halls in the Denver area but many other boutiques, liquor store, and a cooking school.

They wanted my chicken biscuit sandwich but became powerless against my pose. What a fun place Restaurants, a event area and specialty stores, we even ran into a old friend who has a family business there.

The STANLEY MARKETPLACE.
We WOULD GO BACK.

I pranced here to visit the Denver Biscuit Company, but stayed for a bit of a wander afterward. It has a brewery and many cool restaurants and other activities for the entire family. Great little spot if you have an afternoon or mid morning to kill. Close to the airport hotels too! If you've got a car, give this a shot!

My sister-in-law suggested this place, and I'm so glad she did! We'd dropped the guys at the Air and Space Museum, we live on opposite sides of the country, and I generally hate shopping. It was a way to spend some sister-time, and the complex was SO creatively diverse and unusual that I was delighted. I got some great gifts in Steel Angel. I'm so happy I found it, along with several other unique shops.
The complex has a wide range of items that wouldn't translate on a computer screen, even if it had smell-o-vision. Staffers were lovely in each place, and happy that things were starting to (safely) open up a bit. Hope that things will allow for more of that soon. It felt very safe in terms of health precautions. And the actual building is wild!
We'd already eaten at the Lowry Beer Garden next to the museum but, on our next trip up to Denver, we'll definitely come here with empty stomachs.

We went to the Sistine Chapel Exhibit which was great. We had been to the actual Sistine Chapel in February and found this to be very informative and would have been nice to see before seeing the actual chapel. A great explanation of the the various frescoes within the chapel. The amazing thing was how quiet this exhibit was as compared to the actual chapel where people were constantly having to be told to be quiet. Also here you can stop and spend time looking at the pictures as compared to the chapel where you have a limited amount of time based upon your tour schedule. This exhibit will only be there for a few more days.
As for the market place, it is like most of the new ones that you see around town in redeveloped areas. Not real fancy but functional and pricey. The market place I would rate as average. If in the area you may go there but I would not go out of my way to go there for the marketplace itself.

Took some out of town relatives for lunch at the Denver Biscuit Company. Huge selections on menu. Food was great. Some unique shops in the marketplace. Will have to go back in spring, summer.

very boutique shopping experience. several restaurants / bars. this is a converted industrial building so it has a particular feel to it. parking can be tough

Just a great neighborhood feel! Friendly vendors and a variety of food outlets, as well as a lot of nooks to sit and relax or work (saw a lot of casual business meetings going on). I love the concept.

CoViD is functionally over. TURN UOUR WATER FOUNTAINS BACK ON!!
or are you afraid someone unworthy will steal a drink?

There are tons of noteworthy places here and something for everyone. There is Bounce, a great gym-like place where my son has attended some fun birthday parties, there are multiple quasi-famous restaurants, and there are lots of shops. I've been to Cheluna Brewing Co, with lots of fun choices, sushi, Mondo Market where there are lots of yummy things you can take things out, and fine dining at Annette. There is delicious Rosenberg's Bagels, Sweet Cow Ice Cream that has won best ice cream in Colorado titles, and Maria Empanada, Denver Biscuit Co., and Comida that have been featured on The Food Network. Comida is kind of amazing.

We visit Colorado pretty regularly and were trying to get together with a few different groups of friends- some with kids, some singles, some without. Stanley market was suggested and it had something for everyone. There is a full spectrum of serve yourself beers in the taproom and food was tasty too. Older kids could wander around and check out the rest of the marketplace and the tap room was accommodating for the younger ones. Long communal tables were great for our large group. Wish we had something like this back home in Ohio.

Stopped in for Christmas market and to check the place out. Lots of places to eat, quite a variety plus some stores. But spendy but interesting none the less.

Glad we sought this place out after reading about it. Getting here was through some questionable neighborhoods but then all of a sudden there it was, in all its freshness. Come with an appetite. There is a wide range of food types to select from. It appears to be an old warehouse that has been turned into smaller shops/restaurants inside. Free parking was easy to find in the designated parking lot. The shops were uniquely personal and not chain store shops. Would go back there again next time we are in CO to try some of the other food options.

So fun! Great shopping and eating, and such a fun vibe. The decor is so interesting, and you really have every option you could want. Indoor and outdoor seating are available. Can't wait to return.

I had a casual business lunch at the Marketplace and decided to walk around with my business partner before that started. It is a wonderful facility and I love the variety of options. I’m always a fan of mixed use spaces like this wherever they are located.

At first I had to dismiss the best story... you have to look that up in your own. It is apparently true and frankly makes this a much better use of the space.

Pros: lots of food, retail and service options. Coworking space upstairs (though not well advertised). Cool industrial architecture. Very much worth the visit and easy to get to the airport. In fact if they were on it they’d add a shuttle too and from and put a car rental somewhere in this area... I’ll take of the action on that if it happens.

Cons: it is in an old industrial area so there isn’t a lot around it at the moment. But like the Marketplace this is changing.

This was a lot of fun! Very cool vibe with lots of unique dining and shopping options. Even if you just want to wander a bit, its a good place for that. There was plenty of parking when we were here.

Love this place, it has lots of different restaurants, bakeries and small mom and pop businesses. We especially loved Miette et Chocolate, it has great chocolate and wonderful desserts.

My family stopped in at this marketplace after arriving to Colorado. It’s a short drive from the airport and provided many different food options. My husband and son enjoyed the BBQ and my daughter and I enjoyed a gyro and French bread pizza from the marketplace. We had fun popping into the shops after- a bought a great bottle of wine, we bought the kids some Colorado stickers and they had fun taking some pictures in a super cute Photo Booth. I recommend this eatery for families on their way in and out of the Denver airport. It’s clean, cute and fun to walk around. We didn’t check it out but there’s a super cute and expensive play scape area in the back for the littles to run around!

Great food and fun to drop in the various shops. Kids bookstore. Clothing. Workout places. Denver Biscuit Company! Kids like it too!

Yup, just what I like to do - walk thru an old re-hab factory with a selection of eateries. I'd rather go to a Food Cart Park.

Got info about this converted airplane factory from an Aurora magazine at rental car counter. Did not disappoint. Loved the first package free store-mom plans to return with family and friends ASAP. Biscuit place was packed, a tribute to locals supporting mom & pop businesses.

I really like this place! It is a reconverted space, like a small mall. Lots of unique shops and restaurants, no chain stores. There is a brewery, salons, great restaurants as well. They also have gym! It is all very open and family friendly! In the summer there is outdoor seating and a open space park right next to it!

I came to check out the ZERO Market (a waste-free, environment-focused shop) which was fabulous, and also enjoyed the Denver Biscuit Co. Great energy in the Marketplace and busy on a Saturday morning.

Lots of different things to see and do at this place. Many different types of restaurants. If you are in search for something special, the shops in this place just might have it for you.