Food & Drink

Comments (0) Best Colorado-Style Mexican Restaurant - 2008

La Fiesta

La Fiesta

2340 Champa St.

Denver, CO 80205

303-292-2800

Map & Details>>

There was a time when our favorite Korean restaurant was in a huge, ex-McDonald's space. There's a Chinese restaurant we really like that grew in a space vacated by a Taco Bell. And our favorite outpost for Colorado-style Mexican grub is a joint that opened forty years ago in a former Safeway: La Fiesta. Here, the fine and traditional cuisine of Mexico gets a norteamericano makeover that puts Colorado's Mexican food in a class by itself. The burritos come smothered under a green chile that's a medium-thick, medium-hot mess of roasted chiles, pork and thickening agents that sticks like napalm to anything it touches. The rellenos are done egg-roll style — wrapped in wonton skins and stuffed with bright-yellow cheese product. But hands down, the best thing on the menu is the Thursday special (La Fiesta is only open for weekday lunches) of chile caribe — a stone-simple conglomeration of pork, potatoes, red chile and nothing else.

Download our Free Best Of App

My Voice Nation Help
2 comments
funseeker
funseeker

LaFiesta is gross. It's dark and dingy in there, and smells bad,. Food portions are chintzy while prices are high. We tried the Monday special (won-ton rolled chile relleno) and got a plate with a teeny, limp relleno (crispy NOT) floating in a grease bath of nondescript cheese. If you're "lucky", you might see Hickenlooper hanging around the bar.

Jo
Jo

I love the comment about the cheese; it tastes like the five-pound chunk of Commodities cheese my grandma got in the 80's. Like Cheez-Whiz!

©2013 Denver Westword, LLC, All rights reserved.
Browse Voice Nation
  • Voice Places Denver / Boulder

    Voice Places

    Find everything you're looking for in your city

  • Happy Hour App

    Happy Hour App

    Find the best happy hour deals in your city

  • Daily Deals

    Daily Deals

    Get today's exclusive deals at savings of anywhere from 50-90%

  • Best Of

    Best Of...

    Check out the hottest list of places and things to do around your city