“Street food at its swinest,” boasts the website of the Porker Cart. Owner Chad Clevenger spent years in classic kitchens, but when he hit the streets as a mobile vendor, he went hog wild, serving up a rotating menu of pig products, everything from ribs slathered in tequila-habanero barbecue sauce to braised belly loaded into […]
Barbecue in Denver
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In 2019, Fort Worth native Nick Prince opened Post Oak Barbecue after years of mastering his smoking skills at backyard cookouts and barbecue contests. This joint uses only post oak delivered from Austin and 100 percent wood-fire cooking to nail the flavor of Texas-style ’cue. The prime Angus brisket is a must, but you can […]
While many local barbecue joints specialize in Texas-style ’cue, Roaming Buffalo’s is based firmly in Colorado culinary history, with pulled lamb, huge bison ribs and venison sausage. It also serves more traditional meats such as pork ribs and brisket, which are available by the pound, heaped onto sandwiches or on plates, with sides such as […]
Visitors to Stanley Marketplace may drive up expecting to shop for housewares or trinkets, but one whiff of the smoke coming from Terry Walsh’s smokers is enough to quickly derail those plans. The brick-and-mortar offshoot of Walsh’s Rolling Smoke food truck opened in 2017, offering all the classics (brisket, pulled pork, burnt ends, ribs and […]
One whiff of the smoke coming from Terry Walsh’s smokers is enough to capture the attention of anyone driving past the second outpost of Rolling Smoke Bar-B-Que. This strip-mall location offers all the classics (brisket, pulled pork, burnt ends, ribs and sausage) and lures diners with what is one of the best marketing schemes known […]
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Sae Jong Kwan doesn’t look promising from the parking lot. The windows are covered with paper that’s lettered in Korean, and the lights behind those windows are dim. Once inside, you may not feel much more welcome: A hostess won’t immediately greet you, and the space is sparsely decorated, if crammed with tables (those with […]
Sam Taylor’s does its barbecue wet — slathered in a thick, sticky, gloss-black sauce, a Tennessee-meets-Kansas City riff that packs both heat and sweet. The gigantic, slow-smoked pork ribs are excellent, as is the pork sandwich (or “poke sammich”); the homemade potato chips actually taste like potatoes, the brisket sandwich is decent, and the steam-table […]
Great strip-mall barbecue is a rare thing, but Shead’s has once again accomplished it with this new location open inside the multi-ethnic strip mall on Iliff Avenue. Small ends, good ribs, fine sides and a peach cobbler so wet with sauce it has to be served in a cup — that’s what makes up the […]
Drawing from his childhood memories growing up in Kansas City and Austin, and adding his experience as a professional chef at high-end restaurants, Smok owner Bill Espiricueta turns out deeply smoked brisket, rich pork belly and spare ribs good enough to suck the bones dry, along with a wide array of other smoky options such […]
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At Smokin Yard’s BBQ, the Yard family (which also runs the original Smokin Yard’s in Idaho Springs) cranks up the Ole Hickory smoker for a taste of Southern goodness that doesn’t necessarily conform to any one region. The Carolina-style pulled-pork sandwich is mounded with juicy hunks of pork, spicy coleslaw and mustard-based sauce, while the […]
This raucous bar boasts typical saloon food — think quesadillas, potato skins, and cheese sticks — and even a weekend brunch, but the real reason to head up here (other than the raucous bar thing) is the succulent BBQ: St. Louis-cut pork ribs and baby backs, all with a deep, smoky taste and a molasses-sweet, […]
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Head to the foothills for this creekside barbecue joint. Your jaunt will be rewarded with specialties like Switchback’s Montreal-style brisket, which is cured with spices before being smoked. Other surprises await on the menu, too, like rich duck breast, housemade bacon, chicken legs and smoked salmon. Buy them by the pound, butcher shop-style, or try […]
Tin Star is a small storefront cafe mixed in among all the other small storefront cafes, bars, art galleries and purveyors of knickknackery that shoulder up along Evergreen’s high street. It’s a nondescript space — but it happens to house the perfect restaurant concept. Because Tin Star serves only two things: barbecue and doughnuts, both […]
Tin Star Smokehouse started smoking outside a Golden storefront in March 2013. The match was lit by Paul Schutt, a thirty-year industry veteran who decided it was time for a spot of his own. But that’s a relative concept: His brother, Andrew Schutt, had founded Tin Star Cafe & Donut Haus in Evergreen years earlier, […]
Cruise along Littleton Boulevard until you see the Pyramid Liquors sign, then pull into the parking lot for a smoky surprise. TRU owner and pit master James Diaz fires up the mesquite and hits ribs, chicken thighs, pork loin, brisket and beef tri-tip with a powerful dose of smoke, as is appropriate for his Tex-Mex […]