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BIKER HOT DOG GAME PLUS
When he first launched his cart, it featured a more traditional array of hot dogs, Italian sausage and bratwurst, plus the notable exception of an Alaskan Reindeer sausage. The food: “I knew when I started I wanted to do something a little different from your regular street food,” Pittenger told a video interviewer. Reason to visit: Alaskan Reindeer, Wild Boar and Rattlesnake/Pheasant sausage amazing toppings fried macaroni & cheese logs There is also a stand in Coors Field open during all Rockies home games. There are two other carts stationed regularly around the city and two more that roam.
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It took about five years to get to the current brick and mortar establishment, which opened in 2011, though the original cart is still in use at the corner of Arapahoe & 16th, by the popular downtown pedestrianized 16th Street Mall. After a vacation trip back to Alaska he was inspired by meeting up with an old friend who had become Anchorage’s beloved hot dog guy, and brought the concept back to Denver, initially in the form of a cart in that became wildly popular. He previously worked in Denver as car repo man, as the look of his place suggests (he says he repossessed around 1200 cars in his career). “Biker” Jim Pittenger grew up in Alaska and is indeed a motorcycle enthusiast as the restaurant’s name suggests. The majority of the seating is at basic wooden tables and elevated rails in the front half, and there’s not a whole lot more to the décor other than few flat screen TVs, a self-serve condiment station, stuffed Jackalope head, and a lot of Johnny Cash playing in the background. Biker Jim’s has a garage aesthetic, complete with an actual garage door in the front wall, high industrial ceilings, a brick interior wall covered with the eatery’s graffiti-style skull and crossed-hot dog logo, and a concrete floor. Both are close to the eatery, along with several new hotels, museums and tourist attractions. The restaurant is located in Lower Downtown Denver, better known as LoDo, an amazing comeback story of urban revival largely driven by the construction of Coors Field and the later restoration of Union Station into a wildly popular hotel/bar/food court/gathering place. But looks can be deceiving, and in this, case, they are. The scene: At first glance, there is nothing “gourmet” looking about Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs. View Gallery: Sausage oddities at Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs in Denver