The 9th Door

The 9th Door is the premier Spanish tapas bar and restaurant located in LoDo, the heart of Denver, Colorado. On the Costa Del Sol of Spain, Located between Malaga and Marbella, sits a quiet little mountain village called Mijas. During the summer of 1969, after having been made famous by James Mitchner in his novel, The Drifters, Mijas had become an expatriate community of international writers and poets. Late afternoon, these expats would gather at their favorite bar--One without a name, distiguishable only by the number nine that was carved in the nondescript door. Behind The Ninth Door, They would imbibe on the local wine and brandy and share the tapas of the house, trading stories and wooing the local women with poetry until the early hours of the morning.