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For the Denver spot, Lamagna plans to mesh his Portland restaurant's modern Filipino style, with another concept's (opening soon, though details aren't available yet) rotisserie meat focus. Think different types of Filipino staples such as pancit, lumpia, adobo, and sinigang, plus his mom's crab fat noodles, inspired by how she cooked blue crab during his childhood in Detroit. Overall, the chef wants to explore the breadth and depths of Filipino food, as well as showcase the flavors he grew up with.

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The All Inn Hotel at 3015 East Colfax Avenue, a landmark property with a history dating back to the 1950s, is poised for a new lease on life.

Originally opened as The Fountain Inn, the building later transitioned to the Gold Room restaurant in the 1960s and, by 2006, became RockBar, a popular 1970s-themed venue. Now, with its place on the National Register of Historic Places, the All Inn Hotel is set to embrace a fresh identity as a boutique hotel in Denver’s dynamic East Colfax neighborhood.

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Now the CCG team is ready to introduce the revamped space, which is smartly divided into several sections and was designed by local agency Maximalist. There's a room at the front that's ideal for private parties, along with a main dining area with several comfy booths and a sushi counter. Past that is the lounge, where cloud-like lights hang from the ceiling, a nod to the restaurant's name, which "combines two Japanese characters: 'kumo,' representing 'cloud,' and 'ya,' signifying 'house' or 'shop,'" according to a press release.

The lounge will function as an extension of the dining room from 5 to 10 p.m. After that, it will transform into a late-night party complete with DJs, live music and a separate menu of what Baker calls "craveable" items like curries, udon noodles and egg salad sandwiches.

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We have finished our annual search for America’s best restaurants.

Over the last 12 months, reporters and editors traveled to nearly every state scouting restaurants for our annual list. This year, it was about spaces as much as places. We ate hyperlocal dishes served out of a trailer in a rural Virginia field, experienced one of America’s most refined seasonal tasting menus in one of San Francisco’s most refined rooms, dined on Creole fare in a strip mall down the road from NASA in Texas and joined a party behind a tattered ranch house in Johns Island, S.C.

Of our choices, 32 are new, opened since the 2023 list was assembled. But we also made space for longstanding restaurants still in top form, including one that opened in 1976. As always, there were no-brainers and tough choices — the United States has a vast, diverse spread of great restaurants these days — but these are our 50 favorites for 2024. BRIAN GALLAGHER

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Abigail Plantier, founder of Maximalist interior design studio, is the creative eye behind some of Colorado’s most eye-catching restaurants (Bar Dough, Kumoya) — so it’s no surprise she took a hospitality approach to designing her own home. The 2,868-square-foot Denver Square at 1348 Madison Street, currently on the market, was built in 1912 but meticulously renovated over the past few years as Abigail infused each room with modern yet timeless updates.

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Inspire Investment Group began its redevelopment of the former Fountain Inn, located on a 0.85-acre site at 3015 E. Colfax Ave., which officially closed in 2022. The motel has undergone multiple changes over its 65-year history and was best known for the Rockbar, a popular ground- floor night club. Inspire Investment Group plans to complete the 29,000-square-foot, 54-room hotel, which has been renamed The All Inn Hotel, by fourth-quarter 2025. The project is expected to cost a total of $22 million, with the renovation costing about $11 million.

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9NEWS (KUSA) Features Maximalist founder, Principal Designer, Abigail Plantier talking about the All Inn Hotel design and renovation plans. Abigail is an investor in the hotel in addition to leading the interior design and branding.

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Located on the ground floor, Magna Kainan seats just over 100 guests in its dining room, bar, lounge area and a private dining room that can accommodate large parties. The design is a tribute to the Philippines, with a mix of traditional and contemporary accents plus the Filipino flag hanging proudly in the dining room. "We want to bring a fun experience to you without compromising our culture," Lamagna notes. Designed by local design firm, Maximalist.

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With a name like Sorry Gorgeous, it would be illegal to have an interior design scheme that’s anything less than chic. Luckily local design firm Maximalist was up for the task. They outfitted the new rooftop bar, which opened on the 12th floor of the NOVEL RiNo apartment building in October, with cobalt blue hues, plentiful plant life, and ethereal lighting to make it feel like “a sky garden in the clouds, a floating oasis,” says Abigail Plantier, founder and principal designer at Maximalist. Studio Adelia, a Denver-based architectural lighting design company, chose a series of hanging globelike pendants to emit a warm, moonlit glow throughout the space, while an ombre metal bar face was constructed by local Ironbound Metal Works. A jade-velvet banquette snakes throughout the space, and foliage selected by Denver’s Plant Riot is tucked into its curves. Guests can pull up a plush armchair or patterned stool to one of the many cocktail tables inside or head to the patio to take in unobstructed sunset and mountain views—either way, this swanky spot sets the scene for date night. 1350 Walnut St. 

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It’s been in the works for about three years. We started construction about nine months ago. We have a partnership with Abigail Plantier [founder of House of Plantier and principal designer at Maximalist, an interior design and branding studio]. I wanted the space to feel like you are in a different world, that you’re up in the clouds.

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“Our goals were to highlight the gorgeous skylight and also give the space a sense of comfort and make people feel at home,” said interior designer Abigail Plantier, of Maximalist. “Bar Dough is not only a destination restaurant, but beloved by the neighbors, so grounding the space with plants was really important to the overall feel of the design.”

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Negroni fountain. Kendra Anderson, the glamorous owner of Bar Helix in RiNo, knows how to throw one hell of a party. Collaborating with Abigail Plonkey (MaximalistXD, Thrice) and Bar Helix compatriot Victoria Errio, the trio created a subterranean homage to all things Negroni in honor of the cocktail’s 100th anniversary and the upcoming Negroni Week (June 24–30). Myriad Denver chefs and bartenders drank and danced, and—best yet—the merriment was fueled by a flowing Negroni fountain (that we wanted to steal for ourselves).

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Abigail Plantier, founder of Denver-based design company Maximalist, is the interior designer on the project. She said the current designs pay homage to the buildings' histories. "We studied the building at length to really better understand what SOM's vision was," Plantier said. "All of it was centered around this square, this plaza full of groves of trees. But the buildings' themselves, the architecture and the materials that they used were based around these two buildings reflecting each other."

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The new Denver headquarters for Shinesty, a party clothing company, was designed to match the brand’s fun image with an iconic array of colors, textures, and prints curated by the design agency, Maximalist. Shinesty’s mission, to challenge the world to live more freely and “take itself less seriously,” is embodied throughout the office interior.

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“The Shinesty brand is all about forcing the world to take itself less seriously,” says Abigail Plantier, founder of local experiential creative agency Maximalist, who helmed the design. “Chris wanted the employees to feel like this was their house; a place where they can bring friends after hours.”

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Shinesty, the Denver-based apparel brand known for quirky undies and cheeky party wear, wants the world to take itself less seriously. Its CEO, Chris White, brought that same ethos to the company’s new Highland headquarters, an industrial space with 360-degree city views. Instead of drab cubicles and stuffy conference rooms, he wanted fun spaces for staff members and guests to gather, collaborate, and get inspired—and he wanted Abigail Plantier, founder of local design firm Maximalist, to dream them up. “I wanted to create a space that felt residential but with a fun twist that takes us back to when 1970s party mansions had their moment,” says Plantier,

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When it came time to design a headquarters for Shinesty’s growing employee base, founder and CEO Chris White reached out to local creative agency Maximalist. The aptly named firm, helmed by experiential designer Abigail Plantier, blends storytelling, insatiable curiosity, and bespoke aesthetics to amplify a client’s vision. For Shinesty, this meant transforming a traditional office into a destination, full of groovy art, functional spaces, and quirky objects to serve as living inspiration for employees working on new campaigns and product lines.

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With COVID-19 cases on the rise and winter right around the corner, fueling up with whole, nutritious foods — along with adequate sleep, exercise and stress management — is one of the best ways to support your immune system today.

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