In 2019, Grant Hopfenspirger, son of the restaurateurs who created the local retro-diner chain Gunther Toody’s, opened Teocalli Cocina in Lafayette. In 2022, he debuted a second location of the Mexican eatery in Olde Town Arvada, in a space that had not been occupied since the closing of Griff’s Hamburgers in 2015. The addition has […]
Mexican in Denver
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The highly anticipated Xiquita opened in August 2024, helmed by the team from Park Hill favorite Lucina. Its menu features familiar Mexican classics like ceviche and carne asada, but the kitchen dives deeper with its focus on the nixtamalized corn used to make masa, one of the foundational ingredients of the country’s cuisine. Xiquita’s tetelas, […]
Chef-owner Johnny Curiel’s first solo venture, the highly anticipated Alma Fonda Fina, opened in December 2023, and less than a year later, it earned one Michelin star. The menu is a love letter to the home-cooked traditions of the chef’s childhood and the comfort food found at traditional fondas across Mexico. Snag a spot at […]
After years spent working for other people in the hospitality industry, Ayax Silva and his longtime friends, sisters Sandra and Fernanda Calderon, made the jump to becoming restaurant owners when they opened Mi Tierra Caliente in 2023. The menu pays homage to food from the Mexican state of Michoacán, from where all three hail, and […]
The OG 20th Street Cafe served classic diner food for 74 years before shuttering in April 2020, but exactly three years later, the space reopened as 20th Street Cafe Mexican. The new owners previously ran the now-closed Mexican eatery Tarahumara; while they kept the moniker 20th Street Cafe at the request of the previous owners […]
Named for family patriarch Enrique Silva Figueroa (aka Kiké), who spent much of his life working in restaurants and managing kitchens in Jalisco, Mexico, this business started as a food truck in 2021, just as birria tacos were taking hold all over social media and restaurant menus. In 2023, it moved into a brick-and-mortar location, […]
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Longtime Broadway eatery 4G’s rebranded and changed its name to Chula in early 2023 — only to promptly close after a car accident resulted in severe damage to the building. After a number of permitting delays and the addition of our outside patio, the spot reopened just in time for Cinco de Mayo, with the […]
Originally from California, brothers Joshua and Ryan Carrera launched a catering company-turned-food truck in 2019 with the goal of bringing the type of Mexican food they’d grown up eating to the Mile High – and their business was a hit. In 2022, it moved into a permanent home, making the Denver Tech Center an unlikely […]
After a head-on motorcycle accident derailed his career in finance, Blaine Baggao re-evaluated his professional path, ultimately launching Adobo in 2016 as a food truck that combines his New Mexican and Filipino roots. Its first brick-and-mortar is an expansive space that hosts live music and serves food into the late-night hours, with a menu of […]
Chef Jose Avila’s La Diabla has been heaped with praise since opening in 2021 for everything from its namesake pozole to its tacos and stellar house margs, and rightfully so: It does a lot of things well, but we also love the fact that it offers guests a lot of deals on those things. In […]
El Borrego Negro isn’t your typical hole-in-the-wall taqueria. In fact, it’s little more than a hole in the ground. Chef Jose Avila founded the sheep barbacoa operation in late 2020 to bring the taste of real Mexican barbacoa de borrego to Denver. He acquired a flock of sheep that roam a farm in northern Colorado, […]
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If there is one food item besides green chile that Coloradans are passionate about, it’s breakfast burritos. Most people are fiercely loyal to their favorites, but Pablito’s is worth mixing up your routine for. This trailer, started by the team at Abrusci’s Fire & Vine, operates in the restaurant’s parking lot. Pablito’s offers four standard […]
Mezcal mecca Palenque originally opened in 2018 as a second location of Adelitas but took the Palenque name after former co-owners Silvia Andaya (who still runs the original on Broadway) and Brian Rossi cut ties in 2020. Two years into its new iteration, there’s no better place south of the city to learn about – […]
Troy Guard made the 2400 block of Larimer Street the taco the town with Los Chingones, a stylish taqueria he opened there at the end of 2013, ten blocks and a world away from his flagship restaurant, TAG. He now has four locations of his “bad-ass” eatery, all offering similar menus of tacos — little […]
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The sibling of the fancier, French-ier Famille in Westminster’s Origin Hotel, Nomad occupies appeals more to outdoorsy concert-goers than the white-tablecloth crowd. The menu is heavy on tacos – in addition to the usual suspects, you’ll find tortillas stuffed with venison and chapulines (roasted, salted grasshoppers) – margaritas and local beer. Nomad’s proximity to Red […]