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For those who mourned the loss of Denver’s 30-plus-year-old restaurant Marlowe’s last year, news of its replacement should be a welcome relief. Another throwback restaurant and saloon will open in early fall inside the 128-year-old Kittredge Building in the old heart of Denver at 16th Street and Glenarm Place. It’s called West of Surrender, and the name is a romanticized picture of Denver’s frontier past. “When you got this far West, you could reinvent yourself; you didn’t have to surrender to the old life,” Gary Mantelli, West of Surrender’s co-owner, said of the name’s significance. RELATED: These new Denver restaurants — coming soon — are worth getting excited about Mantelli says he spent the summer binge-watching the new Netflix Western “Hell on Wheels,” and he was particularly moved that “when people let down from a hard day’s work, they found a lot of satisfaction in a good meal.” Now, he wants to capture that feeling at West of Surrender. Related Articles New winery, bar and bistro coming to the old Govnr’s Park Tavern space Chook will open a second rotisserie chicken restaurant — and bar — in Denver this fall These new Denver restaurants — coming soon — are worth getting excited about The biggest Denver restaurant openings of 2019 to date Little Man Ice Cream named the best ice cream parlor in Colorado The new restaurant will keep much of the original feel of Marlowe’s — from the imposing wood bar to the raised mezzanine seating — while tweaking fixtures and adding in couches and other decorative additions that Mantelli calls “new West.” Some of the menu’s highlights will be smoked bacon “frontier flatbread,” pepper steak (au poivre) and sides like biscuits and cornbread.