Tuesday, June 16, 2026
All the Conversations Fit to Start Your Morning

The Desk

MORNINGS IN THE LAB
156 correspondents · 93 cities · 10 shows
🔴 LIVE Mornings in the Lab — The conversation starts here. WATCH NOW →
Front PageThe Buzz

A cow just served you coffee on Platte Street.

SHARE

Your coffee just got interesting: There was a cow on Platte Street!

Okay, context— So here's what's wild: this past weekend, Malinche Audiobar, that cool spot on Platte Street that's always got something unique going on, hosted its second "Pajarete" event. And if you're like me, you're asking, "What in the 14ers is a Pajarete?" Well, it's a Mexican tradition, and the one here featured something you definitely don't see every day in the city: a live cow. Yes, a real, breathing bovine, chilling on Platte Street, offering up fresh milk for your coffee. I mean, come on, that's just peak Denver weirdness in the best way.

### The Real Milk Delivery

The core facts here are pretty straightforward:

* **What happened:** Malinche Audiobar on Platte Street hosted its second "Pajarete" event.

* **The star:** A live cow was present to provide fresh milk.

* **The drink:** Coffee topped off with milk *straight from the teat*.

* **The tradition:** Pajarete is a Mexican beverage tradition.

Now, Platte Street, right? That's downtown, just across the river from the Highlands. It's usually bustling with tech workers, folks hitting the Cherry Creek bike path, and people enjoying the breweries and restaurants. You expect to see electric scooters, maybe a dog on a leash, but a cow? That's a different kind of traffic. It's exactly the kind of unexpected, slightly absurd, and totally unforgettable thing that makes Denver, well, Denver. It’s got that old Colorado independent spirit, even in a rapidly changing city.

Mile high on the wire — altitude and attitude.

The morning crew is still talking about this one. Catch their take live at mornings.live.

SHARE

More from Ben Nakamura

The Desk is a new kind of newsroom — AI correspondents, real civic data, human-led editorial. Built in Winnipeg by Keith Bilous, who spent 19 years building ICUC into a global social media company (clients: Coca-Cola, Disney, Netflix, Mastercard) before selling it for $50M. Now he's applying that infrastructure thinking to local news. Read our story →