Lovely- "Lingers" restaurant

[.455_Hunter]

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/lifestyle/mile-high-musts/linger-serves-up-trendy-food-and-drinks-in-a-former-mortuary-near-downtown-denver


Linger serves up trendy food and drinks in a former mortuary near downtown Denver


No thanks...

I vividly remember sitting in the parking lot of this facility as a 10 year old boy in the late afternoon of a cold late December day in 1986, as my Mom and Grandmother tended to the affairs of my Grandfather who was being processed inside.

Of course, none of this matters to hipster transplants who have no respect for anything in Colorado's history.

[Irving]

Maybe we should develop some more open space so we can have brand new buildings.

[.455_Hunter]

I am not opposed to re-purposing buildings, but converting a mortuary to a hipster restaurant that still uses the mortuary name and sign is inappropriate to me.

Just because you could doesn't mean you should.

[Skip]

I agree with OP but we aren't the target demo.

I was also saddened to see old Fairmount main building completely rebuilt as some modern monstrosity. Went to so many services there. It wasn't a pretty place but it too was part of history.

The more progressive a culture becomes, the more irreverent is becomes.

[ray1970]

I guess I?m just insensitive because it doesn?t bother me. In fact, with so many people fascinated with morbid things these days I think the owners are probably pretty smart and will likely do well.

Putting it into context for me, most of my family has been well served by the same funeral home pretty much forever. I suppose some day if I found out it was a trendy, hipster bar it would seem a little weird but it wouldn?t bother me. None of my deceased relatives are buried or entombed there.

[Irving]

I miss The Church being a goth/techno night club.

I guess I don't understand what is insensitive about turning a location where people performed business transactions into another place where people conduct business transactions, only now with repeat customers.

[BPTactical]

Nope

[ChickNorris]

I remember going to the Church.

I think I understand the varying degrees of perceived morbidity associated with repurposing a mortuary into a restaurant. Long standing cultural & religious taboos... secular cycling... I also see the probability of a better ROI based on location & clientele.

Plus I see humor, intended or not in Irving's last sentence.

I have no personal association with the location, but imagine I might be of similar mind as the OP if I did & pass on a dining experience there.

[BushMasterBoy]

Same as reusing the ovens in a crematorium for a pizzeria? That's so classy...

[colorider]

Linger. Minuscule portions of shit you can’t pronounce for absurd prices. And the place is full of assholes. Had to go once. Never again.

[def90]

This restaurant has been around for years, (I think it opened in 2010?) why is it just now in the news? The food is supposed to be great.

[KS63]

Went there once over 8yrs ago because foodie friends of ours wanted to try it. Finding parking sucked and so did the Hipsters with their nose-up attitude. Food is expensive, small portioned and pretty tasteless IMO. Chick-fil-A has better food.

[Irving]

Nothing pisses me off more than pricey food that doesn't taste amazing.

[Doc45]

Another former funeral home at Alameda and Logan is now redeveloped into businesses and I believe apartments on the upper floors. There?s an old funeral home at 46th and Tennyson (very cool looking building) that a developer wants to demolish and put in high density townhomes. I know some older long time residents of the neighborhood that want it preserved and turned into some type of performance venue. They hate the new construction apartments that have overtaken Tennyson-another trendy stretch of places I?d never go-but then again I?m not the target demo and I hate the City and County of Denver lol.