Exploring East Highland, Denver’s Least Predictable Neighborhood

Denver has long struggled with a cow town inferiority complex. Upscale restaurants feel out of place alongside taquerias, and it’s tough to tell if neon beer signs signify dive-bar irony or square-state interior design. But in East Highland, Colorado’s capital Brooklyn, Mission District, Silver Lake, Wicker Park, or what have you. Overlooking the downtown skyline, E-Hi’s brick brownstones, row houses, and modern condominium complexes are bringing in single professionals who party like grown-ups, couples who aren’t quite ready to settle down, and young families who are looking for a little more color than they might find in the increasingly beige neighborhoods of Cherry Creek or Washington Park…