Royal Drug

Best liquor store in the area. Great prices, friendly and knowledgable staff, and eclectic abeyance!

This is one run down ghetto liquor store…
There is no nice way to put it
I have never seen so much malt liquor and cheap wine in a liquor store there are a ton of pan handlers and shady characters in the parking lot
The only reason I give it 2 stars is the staff is friendly and service is fast. a lot of people may take offense to these comments but it is what is…

The guys that run the place are great. Nice as can be.
Their prices and selection are top notch.
Are there some shady characters there? Yes. If you don’t like it, move back to Highlands Ranch.

I know many of my neighbors lament the existence of Royal Drug, but I am not one of them.
While its not the most glamorous store around, Royal Drug has the best prices and selection in this neighborhood. If there is every a certain beer I am looking for that Hallie (the owner) doesn’t have stocked he orders it specially for me and will call me when its in. Hallie goes above and beyond to make sure ALL of his customers — not just the affluent ones — have what they are looking for.
Two side notes about how awesome Hallie is:
1) I had a monstrous cold one weekend and I had some guy friends coming into town and needed to pick up brews for them. When checking out Hallie noticed I wasn’t feeling well and closed his register, walked me across the street to this unassuming little shop where one of his friends works to buy me an herbal tea that he swore would make me better.
2) Hallie donated (from his own pocket) close to $ 1,000 to fund the official «Welcome to Cole Neighborhood» signs that are being put up around the Cole Neighborhood. He values this neighborhood and the people that live in it. This is the kind of gentlemen you want running a business in your community.
Which brings me to my next point and really why this place deserves 5 stars… Hallie and his team at Royal Drug do a huge service to this community. First and foremost they treat what some people in our neighborhood deem as «vagrants,» «troublemakers» and «delinquents» with respect and kind service. I appreciate that Hallie and his staff keep any actual trouble in line as best they can and know most of their customers by name and do what they can to mitigate any kind of trouble in their store by addressing these people one on one.
I will forever be a patron of Royal Drug — and you should too! :) :)

If I could give it minus stars I would. I am 6 ft weigh 200lbs and never once have had any trouble in my life with attempted robbery. Ok I am a bad ass I know but I pulled into this fine establishment and guess what some drunk ass tried to rob me? Tried to rob me? He tried? He failed? I will leave it at that. You have to be pretty hard up to go into that place? Royal Drug? What drugs do they sell? They only sell stuff that will give you a headache and no where can you find aspirin? Should change name to Royal Thug.

Royal Drug. Well, being that there was a double-​homicide outside the liquor store last week. That there was another shooting three weeks prior to that at the grocery store across the street. And the line of drunkards that stand along the side of the store drinking out of their tall boys in paper bags… oh, not to mention the on-​going drug deals in the parking lot, in front of the store. and who knows where else. Not sure I really care to be harassed by everyone every time I want to get some wine. I will continue to spend my money elsewhere until the store begins to show its community respect by getting a security guard, and prevents the continual loitering outside its doors. Which is too bad because the men that work there are nice, despite selling to blatantly drunk people all the live long day. Serious. Quit asking me for money for your liquor.

Anyone that laments the gentrification of this area should stop in to the Royal Drug a few times. This place’s sole reason for existence is to provide a convenient place for locals to convert their foodstamps into malt liquor and Kentucky Deluxe.
I don’t feel unsafe in my neighborhood – Except at the Royal Drug. There have been more robberies, assaults, and shootings there than anywhere else in my neighborhood the last 5 years or so.
I believe they call it the Royal DRUG because of the commerce that goes on in the parking lot, not in the store.
Don’t, don’t, don’t make the mistake of going to the Royal Drug. Unless you want to see what Chevy Chase felt like when he got off the wrong exit and asked for directions in the original Vacation movie.

I believe Prince and Sheila E. once sang of the Royal Drug, «We can Night Train until the dawn, drinkin’ malts ’til liver’s gone.» I’ll definitely shop there again thanks to their bountiful bumwine selection (one side could pass the whole store as a Mad Dog factory outlet). Plus, their low prices make all the difference when you’re trying to get to a particular state of being, and doing so on a budget.
Free safety tips: Don’t be a knucklehead. Go early to mid-​afternoon, walk with purpose, get in and get out. And don’t mind androgynous vagrants talking to anyone who’ll listen while they stand in line. Them folks need to drink, same as us.

If you’re looking for a tallboy of beer or malt liquor you’ve come to the right place. They have no less than SEVENTEEN different coolers right there in front of the counter, each with a different brand of tallboy nested on ice within. Steel City? St. Ides? 8-​Ball? A straight-​up PBR or Coors Light? Look no further… they’re all right here. Don’t forget your brown paper road bag!