Korean in Denver

This hopping spot filled with people speaking both Korean and English is just plain fun. While it’s often filled with families digging into meals during the early evening hours, as the night grows later they’re supplanted by groups of all ages focused on knocking back tiny glasses of soju and enjoying everything from steamed sea […]

The Porklet, with its adorable porcupine logo, is so named because pork cutlets are the specialty, jacketed in an almost painfully crunchy breadcrumb shell and dripping juice with each bite. But you’ll also find two kinds of fried chicken on the menu at this little joint, which is small on space but big on flavor. […]

Even in Aurora, where Korean restaurants are more common than a Fourteener in Colorado, DMZ is a well-kept secret, offering a menu of drinking food in the “hof” (or beer hall) tradition. After you’ve had a chance to order a round of beers, peruse the menu for something fun like tteok-bokki (fat rice cakes in […]

If Dae Gee chef/owner Joseph Kim has his way, Denver diners will soon develop a nuanced appreciation for bulgogi, kimchi and gochugaru, the red-chile powder that stains everything from soups to side dishes at his four restaurants. “We’re letting them know what Korean food is about,” says Kim. “We’re reaching the masses.” The first place […]

Soban is an offshoot of an acclaimed Los Angeles restaurant, noted for its seafood and praised by critic Jonathan Gold for its raw crab. Raw crab was on the Aurora menu when the restaurant opened last year, but it seems to have rolled off sometime in the interim, perhaps because it was priced at $35. […]

This spot is one of the best beer halls – Korean or otherwise – in town. You won’t find the words “Funny Plus” in English anywhere on the exterior of the restaurant, though the word “Hof” – a standard word used in Korea to designate drinking establishments – glows prominently on the eatery’s sign, and […]

Don’t let the fact that Tofu House is a franchise put you off: This string of restaurants stretches to central Seoul, where multiple locations of a restaurant are an indicator of excellence. True to its name, Tofu House specializes in tofu, cooked into a dozen or so stews bobbing with seafood, brightened with kimchi or […]

Seoul BBQ is a labyrinth of rooms, all filled with grill-inlaid tables beneath boxy exhaust hoods. The kitchen provides standards like bulgogi beef and galbi short ribs, along with more specialized cuts including pork jowl, beef tongue and pork collar with octopus, all arriving with an onslaught of banchan sides. Good as the meat is, […]