La Forêt, which opened in March 2024 inside the former home of iconic Denver spot Beatrice & Woodsley, honors the previous tenant in a way that’s part homage and part fresh start – and 100 percent gorgeous. Dining here is like entering a real-life enchanted forest, complete with (yes, they’re real) aspen tree trunks. The […]
French in Denver
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In September 2023, Brasserie Brixton co-founder chef Nick Dalton and friends William Steck and Simon Rochez debuted their take on a neighborhood French bistro in LoHi. The space is decked out with luxurious deep-green booths, marble-topped tables and plenty of gold accents. While Jacques feels upscale enough for a special occasion, any reason is a […]
Pastry chef Thoa Nguyen dreamed of running her own Parisian-style Asian-fusion bakery for years. One of the daughters of the former owners of New Saigon, she grew up in the restaurant business. Now she’s running the show at this spot, which excels not only in sweets such as crepe cakes and croissants, but savory options […]
Noisette opened in 2022 in a revamped restaurant space that’s distractingly elegant – though not in a stiff, white-tablecloth kind of way. The white decor with pops of pastel and a mix of modern and vintage is inviting and transportive. Small vases of flowers on each table add a romantic touch, as do the mismatched […]
“Lots of French butter” and “a kickass burger you’ll have to eat with a knife and fork”: That’s what celebrity chef Ludo Lefebrve promised would appear at his first restaurant outside Southern California. And Chez Maggy, which opened inside the Thompson Denver hotel in February 2022, has delivered. The butter is so fancy that it […]
French-ish and 100 percent fun, Brasserie Brixton could be your neighborhood hang, but it’s also the kind of place where going big comes with big rewards. Housed in a building that’s over 130 years old and once held a neighborhood market, it’s got an innate charm that’s matched by a menu full of familiar temptations, […]
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For a chef who’s been in the restaurant business as long as he has, Radek Cerny still manages to bring a sense of fun and whimsy to some seriously French cuisine. At Atelier, you can luxuriate in rotating classics like rillettes, escargot, foie gras and lobster, but Cerny also has a way with Western favorites […]
Jefferson Park is an up-and-coming part of Denver — but has it arrived as a dining destination? Amass was opened in the fall of 2014 by chef-owner Joe Troupe, formerly of Lucky Pie Pizza & Tap House, who took over the space in a new residential development that Corner House had vacated following an eighteen-month […]
Jon Robbins combined his experience as Mizuna’s chef de cuisine and his time in Michelin-starred French kitchens to launch Bistro Barbès in Park Hill in 2014. The tiny eatery transcends neighborhood-joint status with a menu that touts exacting French technique while experimenting with ingredients introduced to Parisian fare by North African immigrants. Over the past […]
Epernay opened in early 2013 right in front of the Denver Performing Arts Complex, a place that can certainly use spots that serve stylish, quick snacks before and after shows. And Epernay definitely has the stylish down: The dining room features frosted glass, a bamboo divider and a wall-sized underwater photo that makes you feel […]
In June 2012, Opus left its original home in Littleton and moved to Cherry Creek, where it joined forces with Aria to become Opus Restaurant & Wine bar. Since then, renovations have merged the two entities and expanded the bar area. The menu at Opus emphasizes elegant preparations of local produce (some from the restaurant’s […]
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Although it opens relatively early every morning – and 7 a.m. is reasonable for a bakery — Pierre Michel Organic French Bakery Cafe doesn’t always close at the same hour, and that’s because there are days when hordes of locals and clued-in out-of-towners who are addicted to the pastries, croissants, quiches and French baguettes churned […]
La Merise is aptly named for the neighborhood that surrounds it. “Merise” means “wild cherry,” and while you may not find anything even vaguely outlandish in the Cherry Creek ’hood these days, you will find classic French fare at this garden-level restaurant. Menu items include the foie gras and escargots to start; follow up with […]
The first thing you’re likely to notice upon entering Coohills, the French restaurant that opened at the edge of LoDo in November 2011, is the show-stopping chandelier, a six-foot-tall contortion of twirls and spirals, twists and tangles, twigs and roots laced with white lights. They’re grape vines. Tom Coohill, the chef at his namesake restaurant, […]
Robert Thompson opened Le Grand in mid-2011, taking over a big, historic spot downtown that most recently had held Baur’s. And with this restaurant, he resurrected some more recent history: that of his first major restaurant effort in town, the still-revered Brasserie Rouge, which was located in the IceHouse. Like the board at Brasserie Rouge, […]
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Since 1992, Daniel’s of Paris has turned authentic French pastries and a host of other European bakery favorites in a modestly sized shop in a fairly obscure Aurora strip mall. The croissants here are flaky, light and baked fresh with or without a dark-chocolate-filled center for a pain au chocolat, and the signature cinnamon rolls […]
Indulge is a warm, happy house, with a curtained dining room, a marble-topped dwarf bar and what look like furnishings from a Normandy farmhouse restaurant unloaded into an abandoned Italian trattoria – which this space used to be. Chef/owner William Wahl’s family runs a restaurant in France, Au Vrai Normand, and after a stint with […]
Let them eat cake – for breakfast. Sure, the French call it pastry, but Katherine’s takes the yen for cake seriously, as evidenced by the crowds that gather here early in the day, enjoying huge almond croissants dusted with powdered sugar and big spiky things made of meringue, as well as coffee and even real […]
Walking into Les Delices de Paris is like walking into another world: one of pure sensation, of cream and sugar, fine flour, yeast and butter and salt. The little pastry shop occupies what could be the most inconvenient location on Leetsdale, but on its best days, this is the best-smelling spot in the entire city […]