Inventing Room Dessert Shop - Tickets Required

It was our first time here and absolutely loved it! Kids and adults had a blast! We were visiting from CA, and our family had brought us here! My absolute favorite was some buttered dessert. It has to be eaten right away so that’s why unfortunately we could not buy it to take home. But we did stock up on freeze dried candy and edible wall paper! They had a cool glow in the dark room where you could play with neon powder! Awesome decor and wonderful service!

This was such an amazing experience! The owner and presenter is so engaging and funny! He is so efficient with his organization of how everything runs as well! We highly recommend this to anyone! Kids, adults, etc. You get a lot of sugar and it’s all so delicious and fun to learn about!!! 10/10 would recommend! We will be back!◡̈

Absolutely loved this place! We were visiting from CA and I had never heard of a place like this. What an experience! Not just for kids but adults too! Our favorite was some kind of freeze dried butter popcorn I think? It was so delicious! Unfortunately, they don’t sell it, only sample it. It’s by appointment only. It was our family of 8 and 2 other families. They do have stuff you can buy, like edible wall paper, jars or bags of freeze dried candy and cool lollipops. A really cool part was when he made neon powder with cotton candy and we go into the dark room! Super fun! Highly recommend this place!

THIS WAS SO FUN! We brought our twin boys for their Birthday! So many cool twists on dessert AND science! Our boys are 7 they were fully connected and so were we! HIGHLY recommend! So yummy too!

Any way you can get a six year old interested in science AND great candy is a win!! The experiments were a great length to learn and keep interest and great stories for us “oldies.” Highly recommend!! We went for a tour and I think it would be fantastic for parties!

We had a phenomenal time here- we loved the science aspect and the demonstration was lively and exciting. Our six year old was entranced by the entire thing. The Duran Duran Sunday was excellent, as was the cotton candy. Seriously worth the ticket price- we will be back again soon!

We really enjoyed our experience here last night! We learned about the 80s, which was super fun and we got to try a whole bunch of different treats. The night ended with a Duran Duran sundae that was fabulous!

Had so much fun! If you wanna do something different and try all kinds of crazy and unique candies and desserts, you gotta come to The Inventing Room! The owner is really nice, and you will learn so much not just about how to make the sweets and candy but about whatever is the theme of the month! 100% recommended for adults and kids alike!!

Came for a Halloween themed private event and it was a blast! So much information and a ton of cool demonstrations, not to mention ALL the treats!!! We will be back!

I rarely write low reviews but my family just had an icky experience here, and once I came on to read other reviews, I did feel validated and agreed with the lower ones. We were excited to try the Inventing Room and joined for a friend's birthday. From the moment we arrived (10 minutes late - as we looked for parking with three young kids), we felt the tenseness and irritability of the chef. The chef had already started his presentation (which was fine by us) but he was very unfriendly, even as he tried to make some jokes that didn't deliver well in between him yelling at us. Repeatedly, our children were yelled at for not standing against the wall and he kept glaring at them for laughing/talking with each other (5 year olds). The whole experience was very rushed, only for us to stand around for 20 minutes at the end. Of all the samples, we enjoyed the dip and dots. Everything else was so so sweet that even our kids didn't want to eat it. This included the sundaes at the end that were covered in sugary toppings that we mostly threw away. After the presentation, we bought some lollipops and candies to support the business. When we left, my husband repeatedly said his stomach was hurting from all the sugar, and yep, sure enough, he had a full-on stomachache that evening. We wish them well as this is such a unique and ingenuous concept. Just far from the fun and kid-friendly Willy Wonka vibes of a dessert/candy shop.

I recently came here with my parents for my birthday and I truly can not recommend it enough! The food was fabulous, Nicole (the chef) was so friendly and helpful, and the decor was out of this world! I don't want to spoil too much so this will be a bit of a short review but I truly loved this experience, all the food was amazing and I appreciated that Nicole asked multiple times if anyone had any allergies. The decor was very Willy Wonka, space, steam punk vibes which I loved and suited the place perfectly. I have to admit going into this I was worried that I was going to be greeted by some kinda creepy dude in a Willy Wonka costume and act like a bad escape room, but I was beyond pleasantly surprised that Nicole was a very cool woman who took more to the science side of the experience. She explained everything in detail and I found it absolutely fascinating how the nitrogen worked with the different textures of food to create even more interesting flavors and textures. She also gave me a little extra treat when she found out it was my birthday which was very generous of her! I 100% recommend the inventing room to anyone of any age who loves science and food, and I say that as a very picky eater with not a big sweet tooth who enjoyed absolutely everything there was to offer! Food: 5/5 | Service: 5/5 | Atmosphere: 5/5

Very cool and whimsical experience trying some unique treats! Our favorite dessert sampled was the dippin dots! The cotton candy we got to sample was also very good. Bought a few lollipops and the smores marshmallow at the end to support the business, weren't huge fans of either but still a 5/5 time!

We had an awesome experience. All of the candy we tried was delicious . We wish it would have been slightly longer. That would be the only downside. After reading some of the reviews I don't get why people were mad. It says where to park if you read their website and yes you get placed depending on how you arrive-which is fair. There are only 16 slots. Tickets usually sell out!

The absolute coolest experience! If you're like me and always wondering if it's worth it, YES IT SURE IS! The chef and the shop are one of a kind. Trust me- Book it

Great private event, every detail was amazing. Food was delicious and overall environment was so welcoming!

What a fun and tasty experience. Loved the science as well as the yummy treats we got to sample. The treats were planned so there was a lot of Colorado connections which I thought was a nice idea. Nicole was an excellent chef. Actually we did try several items. Started with Colorado beet sugar caramel popcorn covered in sugar beet syrup. Other treats were the root beer float space foam, donut bread pudding, jolly rancher flavored dipping dots, peach marshmallow. Oh I can't forget to mention the cosmic cotton candy! It was really fun. We went into a glow room and were given glow in the dark cotton candy. So fun. We finished with our choice of 3 different sundaes made with ice cream - made with liquid nitrogen of course! None of the treats were especially large but given that we were trying several items that is a good thing. I highly recommend this event.

Wow! You can't find a better more inquire experience. It's like the meow wolf of culinary experiences. You can't just walk in, you get to purchase tickets for this experience! It's a mix of science, art, and food. There is something for everyone here, even the picky eater grandpa we brought with us. He got poofed in the face with the glow in the dark cranberry flavored cotton candy. He loved the vanilla ice cream made with cream eggs, etc and doused in liquid nitrogen. I can't wait to come back, themes change so it's worth coming back multiple times!

Outstanding! We had such a fun time here. It was great way to sneak some science in with some sugar. We're definitely coming back!

Super fun and interesting place! Learn all about liquid nitrogen, with yummy food, and get to try things right there! It's about 30ish mins in total, and the end you get to pick what sundae you want (3 options). The taste testing was my favorite part, the sundae was decent, and the class overall was fun! I'd recommend someone checking them out if in the Denver area.

Such a fun experience! Brought the family here for our 3 years olds bday bc he loves sugar. Loved that we got to sample 5-6 items and make some great family memories. The ice cream sundaes and the peach marshmallows were my favorite!

This place is amazing!! Fun for kids and adults. Super creative and yummy treats!!! It's like a trip to Wonka's Factory!

Outstanding science-meets-food experience! We ate delicious treats and learned about the rad 80s while we watched and learned about nitrogen and its intersection with food candy! 10/10 recommend!

What a fun place for special occasions or just for some science, dessert and fun! You do have to reserve tickets online and quickly sell out, so don't miss out. It is quite experience with a show, fun candy, and an ice cream dessert at the end for everyone. The vibe is very Willy Wonka-esk with a mix of science. It is great for adults and children.

Everything from the presentation, to the service, to the confections, was absolutely incredible. If you're looking for something unique and fun and different for any age, please come and enjoy yourself!

So we returned to this shop recently. It is now no longer a drop in and order shop. Now you buy tickets for a science demo involving the use of liquid nitrogen to prepare ice cream and several other items. Today it included freezing caramel popcorn, a cake piece, whipped cream and two other items. Now these were not big portions but more like small bites to demonstrate the science of quick freezing certain foods. It included a narration by the host/food preparer. At our presentation there were roughly 15 people that had tickets. It was a fun experience but don't go expecting a big meal or a big dessert. It's a unique food show and was very enjoyable. Do we plan to go again? You betcha!

So much fun! Been here multiple times and always bring out of town guests for an extra treat. Does not disappoint!!

This is a great place to take kids, or if you're taking any science class, very educational & worth the 15$ for the show & sweet small treats. I wish science classes were more hands on &had yummy snacks like this. If you're anti- kids, I'd recommend bringing 15 friends to book out the seats.

Really cool dessert experience! Highly recommend signing up for their emails and buying tickets to the Sugar Science experience! We loved the "Mexican" and the "Banana" ice creams at the end. Super interesting place as they made the edible paper for Willy Wonka! I will say though it did seem very very rushed and just like normal treats but dipped in liquid nitrogen nothing too fancy. We thought there would be more to it honestly.

Great staff, loved making funny jokes. The experience was amazing overall, my kids loved it.

Everything was so fun. We went there for my sister's birthday party because she loves candy. She literally has candy wrappers all around her. The service was really great. They helped us with things you know stuff like that. The atmosphere of the place was so cool. It was really fun thank you guys for the cool experience.

It was great! Fun for kids! We flew in from out of town and it was nice addition to our visit

So much fun and super informative! Came with my kids & learned all about liquid nitrogen. Really enjoyed the Mexican Fried and Spaghettini & Meatball ice cream!

Celebrated two birthdays here, we loved it! The food was delicious and wonka fabulous and exciting! Safe for a peanut allergy and has dairy free ice cream option as well. Service was magical and everyone felt attended to. Definitely coming back!

We were lucky to score a reservation for their Halloween treats event with the kids to end their fall break. It was such an exciting & fun experience being able to learn how to make & enjoy a bunch of delicious treats. Their favorite was the glow in the dark cotton candy & their nitrogen ice cream sundaes. Definitely recommend bringing the whole family. Can't wait to come back for one of their monthly gobblefunk dinners.

Amazing time! Our hostess was fantastic, funny and very knowledgeable! Totally recommend you visit them!

We had such a fun time and the treats were delicious! It was so worth the ticket price!

I honestly feel bad writing such a low review for this place, given the hype around it and how much we were looking forward to it. I put considerable effort into making sure I signed up for email alerts when tickets went on sale, and then immediately stopped what I was doing and bought the tickets the moment they went on sale. I had to switch from my phone, where the times weren't showing up correctly, to my computer to buy the tickets. But I didn't think twice about putting the effort in because I thought my family would be thrilled. The experience was overall very quick, with poor tasting desserts, poor visibility, and high prices. I believe tickets were about $17 pp. The whole experience lasted 40 minutes. There is no designated surface lot parking for the shop, and instructions on where to park are hard to find on the website. You end up starting the evening by driving around looking for street parking and praying your car doesn't get towed as this is a largely residential area and parking signs are ambiguous if you are not familiar with the area. It's a stressful start. Then they line everyone up in the order they arrived, and if you are at the end/back then that is where you remain for all the demonstrations. Doesn't matter if you have kids under 4 feet tall, they will be at the end/back unable to see and no one will change that or rotate for the duration of the show. The demonstrations are very quick and sometimes hard to follow. There is a powerpoint presentation but again, flashed quickly and sometimes hard to follow "imagine it's the year 2150 and we can only grow 10 crops, so now that you imagine that.....". The demonstrations each end with a small single bite dessert. These uniformly tasted bad to me. There wasn't a single one that I would elect to eat for "fun" or pay for outside of the novelty that most were flash frozen with liquid nitrogen. If you didn't see the demonstrations and blind taste tested them in a grocery store you'd never buy the product. The glow room with glowing cotton candy was fun for us and I did appreciate the basically unlimited time in that room. We were left alone with instructions to come out "when you are done" and that was great. I got great pictures of my kids and goofy husband all glowed up. Fun fact, the cotton candy does not just glow under a black light--my husband smeared it all over his eye brows telling me "no one will be able to see it under the regular light". And then had to walk back to the car with bright orange eyebrows. The sundaes at the end were just too many competing flavors and textures. I would have honestly appreciated an option to have just plain ice cream or a few toppings rather than the 8 toppings of various textures in each of three options: edible paper, freeze dried fruit, chocolate balls, cinnamon, pineapple cream, freeze dried laffy taffy, etc. None of us ate our sundaes. I ended up eating a few bites of my kids in order to not offend the worker/presenter but honestly they made me sick to my stomach. My kids took one bite and left them. These are kids...refusing to eat ice cream. Overall, it was a night that started stressful, lasted 40 minutes, and included demonstrations we could not see well that ended in treats that did not taste good. If I could go back in time and save that vacation time for something else I would.

Amazing everything tasted so good it was such a neat experience my kiddo loved it we tried so many different items

Super fun atmosphere, chef Nicole was friendly and knowledgeable and put on an entertaining demo! Fun for kids and grownups. They also have candy you can buy to take home.

This was a nice thing. Their food was cool and they have a lot of different candy. Honestly this was good and she was really nice and asked if anyone had a birthday which my friend did so she lit a candle on his desert for him.

Wonderful, whimsical, and delicious! A must-do for anyone in Denver. Would be fun for a date, is also fun with kids.

Super Fun and tasty experience; very engaging and entertaining Chef presenter. Would recommend having Nicole to share your experience .

AMAZING FOOD & EVEN MORE AMAZING SERVICE! Highly recommend, the use of liquid nitrogen is absolutely breathtaking!

Was excited for this experience! My friend's flight got delayed and we called ahead of time to tell them we would be late. They said they can't transfer our time which is understandable and said we would miss some parts of it. That I understand but when we came in the lady running the demonstrations announced to everyone that we had missed it all because we were late. While we got to try the cotton candy and the ice-cream sundae we missed the other two treats! I would've hoped that we could at least get the other two treats even though we couldn't see the demonstration. It was also embarrassing to have her announce it to everyone that we were late even though we called ahead! The plane situation was out of our control!! In this case I felt a bit ripped off for the price. I was after excited to go after I had seen it on Instagram for a while I am very disappointed in the experience.

we had a lot of fun at the inventing room demonstration. we enjoyed all of it-- our fav was the root beer space foam. We also really liked the cotton candy with bioluminescence.

Had a fun date here this afternoon! It was a science display and you got to sample lots of yummy treats. Highly recommend checking them out and supporting this small business! The highlight was a liquid nitrogen Cheeto to sample

In the words of the owner (or paraphrasing) "When you spend your hard earned money you want to taste something different and experience something different." I was on the bandwagon immediately. The Inventing Room brought a different and cool experience I had never seen in food before. The experiments with food are pretty darn cool and the treats are pretty tasty as well. You can easily get sugar wasted. You can bring the family or take a date for dessert after a nice dinner. And the price in this day in age is stealing. I don't want to give any spoilers but believe you'll like it. Book your experience early though, I wanted to bring another person and it was hard to do a last minute deal just to find a spot for myself.

I was SO excited about this experience ahead of time, and I was so excited to bring my twin toddlers! Unfortunately, I was not happy with the experience. The whole activity felt extremely rushed as the performer/chef spoke extremely fast, made us feel on an extreme time crunch, and kept reminding us she only had 10 minutes to "reset" the experience for the next group. The candy/food was very mediocre. I was expecting a high quality ingredient gastronomy experience rather than just highly processed snack food they purchased from the grocery store (cheetos/oreos/skittles) dipped in liquid nitrogen. It doesn't seem to take a lot of effort to purchase pre-packaged snacks and dip them in liquid nitrogen. I was honestly quite nauseated and sick after that experience, and I was very embarrassed and ashamed to serve those ingredients to my kids along with paying for it. I was hoping for more "homemade" foods. If you're going to serve cheetos or oreos, why not make them yourself and then dip in liquid nitrogen? The whole thing felt very uncomfortable at the end too, where they offered a free bag of freeze dried skittles if you gave them a 5 star yelp review. That is not an authentic way to obtain reviews or business. I think the idea of a "Willy Wonka" chocolate factory is great, but it needs some help with execution and cooking/baking their own treats. Also, paying for reviews with free "treats" is not ok.

Went here on 10/15/21. Found this place after searching on Google 'best desserts in denver'. You have to make a reservation. It's about 15 person and then you can buy additional gifts. They do awesome stuff here. Freeze dried candy. Just an experience on its own. Then they make their ice cream with liquid nitrogen. I would def bring other people here. Right now they are doing a Halloween theme. Def want to see their other themes. Fantastic!

Great find and shocked that it's been around for 5 years! Interesting and unique thing to do, plus constant snacking and ending with dessert. The guy did talk a little fast and it was a bit harder to hear him for my mom when he was at the other end of the kitchen. The freezing Cheeto was a highlight! Their full meal menus look really cool and I think we will be back sometime to try one of those.

Chef Nicole was wonderful! The food was so creative and a fun afternoon experience. We all had a great time.

Hidden gem for adults and families with children!!! My girlfriend's Coworkers recommended coming here. We did not know what to expect but we purchased tickets in advance online for $18 each. The website looks really bare-bones and not modern but it is totally fine. We did not know what to expect when we arrived around 8 PM on a Saturday. We waited in the hallway as they finished up the group ahead of us. The whole experience was about 45 minutes where the chef walks you through a presentation as well as a sampling menu of about five different types of candy. The chef talks about how it is cooked and the science behind the meal. We also got to play around with glow in the dark cotton candy as well as you get to leave with a liquid nitrogen ice cream sundae. The sampling menu of the different types of candy is a surprise so you will just have to find out to see!! This was extremely great value for the price and I would definitely recommend friends to go and visit

Super tasty treats, great time! The glow in the dark cotton candy was my favorite! Thanks

What a fun experience! My youngest daughters' attention span was not so great, but it was a good thing our guide was quick to explain the science behind the desserts, and quicker about passing out the samples! The youngest two girls did not want to try certain samples, but it was such a fun and super cool experience. I'm from Chicago and love taking baking classes that explain the science behind what's happening to make everything so tasty, so I truly appreciated this experience! I would highly recommend to anyone who loves sweets and science!

Such a fun full family experience. We did the sugar science for Christmas and it was a hit even for our most cynical teenagers.

great and different, In enjoy the time then we had a pretty good size group and he was able to answer everyone question. great place and definitely will go back. good for a group event overall a cool spot for a date night it family fun outing. owner super cool and nice

Pretentious snooty expensive and mediocre. This place tries to be cool, but requiring prepaid tickets takes choice away from their customers. Part of going out to get ice cream is looking, sampling, and deciding. It's part of a tradition. I don't recommend.