Annette sits inside Stanley Marketplace in Aurora, a wood-fired American restaurant and cocktail bar built around an open kitchen. Chef Caroline Glover founded the restaurant on a scratch-to-table approach shaped by years spent working the land, cooking over live fire with seasonal ingredients.
The menu moves through snacks, shared plates, and dinner. Caviar and potato with chive and onion cream, deviled eggs with green tomato chow chow, and chicken liver pâté with cherry jam and mostarda open the meal, while grilled beef tongue with pickled beets and bone marrow toast, house linguine with sungold tomatoes and bottarga, roasted half chicken with bitter greens and PX sherry vinegar, and a grilled pork shoulder steak with mayocoba beans and Alabama white barbecue sauce anchor dinner.
Upstairs, Traveling Mercies operates as an intimate neighborhood oyster and cocktail bar, giving the building a second, more casual layer alongside Annette's dining room.
Glover won the James Beard Award for Best Chef in 2022, after appearing as a finalist in 2020 and a semifinalist in 2019 and 2018; Annette was also a semifinalist for Best New Restaurant in 2018. The restaurant holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and 5280 Magazine named it among the city's best restaurants in 2025.
The menu moves through snacks, shared plates, and dinner. Caviar and potato with chive and onion cream, deviled eggs with green tomato chow chow, and chicken liver pâté with cherry jam and mostarda open the meal, while grilled beef tongue with pickled beets and bone marrow toast, house linguine with sungold tomatoes and bottarga, roasted half chicken with bitter greens and PX sherry vinegar, and a grilled pork shoulder steak with mayocoba beans and Alabama white barbecue sauce anchor dinner.
Upstairs, Traveling Mercies operates as an intimate neighborhood oyster and cocktail bar, giving the building a second, more casual layer alongside Annette's dining room.
Glover won the James Beard Award for Best Chef in 2022, after appearing as a finalist in 2020 and a semifinalist in 2019 and 2018; Annette was also a semifinalist for Best New Restaurant in 2018. The restaurant holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and 5280 Magazine named it among the city's best restaurants in 2025.