DENVER, COLO. - JULY 13, 2005 - The restaurant at the newly-remodeled Downtown Aquarium, Wednesday afternoon, 7/13/2005. The aquarium, formerly known as Colorado's Ocean Journey, reopens to the public Thursday, 7/14/2005 with a new restaurant and other features. (Jerry Cleveland | The Denver Post)  (Photo By Jerry Cleveland/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

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Downtown Aquarium

Denver


Denver’s old Ocean Journey Aquarium was sold in 2003 to a business that specializes in aquarium-themed restaurants. So it is that Downtown Aquarium is both a novelty restaurant and a public aquarium complete with a daily mermaid show. Tanks mostly have creatures from mountain rivers and coral reefs, though there's a desert exhibit with spiders and snakes and even a tiger den. Kids love it…plus it's a novel place to have a meal. Try the fish burger.


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