Garibaldi Mexican Bistro

This little eatery is wedged between a Conoco and an automated car wash, but don’t let the location fool you: This is one of the top spots in town for tacos as well as specials like lamb barbacoa and quesadillas with huitlacoche and squash blossoms. Other hard-to-find regional dishes include pambazos (smothered tortas), nopales rellenos […]

Guadalajara

Ignore the nowhere location: Guadalajara’s dining rooms are full of families — Mexican and otherwise — that enjoy this restaurant’s casual vibe, unbelievably friendly service and delicious, authentic south-of-the-border cuisine. Dishes on the menu sell for half what you’d pay for a gussied-up, white tablecloth version downtown. Most of the menu will be familiar to […]

Guadalajara Authentic Mexican Buffet

At Guadalajara Authentic Mexican Buffet on Colfax Avenue in Aurora, you’ll find barbacoa de borrego chivo — a compelling dish of slow-roasted goat meat — among the enormous selection of Mexican dishes including menudo, posole, ceviche, and chicken, pork and beef tacos and enchiladas smothered in red and green chile. Guadalajara is no stranger to […]

Hacienda Colorado

Hacienda Colorado is a homegrown chain, one that’s coined the term “Mountain Mex” for its food. So while you’ll find traditional Mexican dishes on the menu, they’ve all been given a local twist – and you may find that your tacos and burritos have been stuffed with local ingredients, from marinated meats to fresh produce. […]

Hacienda Colorado

Hacienda Colorado is a homegrown chain, one that’s coined the term “Mountain Mex” for its food. So while you’ll find traditional Mexican dishes on the menu, they’ve all been given a local twist – and you may find that your tacos and burritos have been stuffed with local ingredients, from marinated meats to fresh produce. […]

Hacienda Colorado

Hacienda Colorado is a homegrown chain, one that’s coined the term “Mountain Mex” for its food. So while you’ll find traditional Mexican dishes on the menu, they’ve all been given a local twist – and you may find that your tacos and burritos have been stuffed with local ingredients, from marinated meats to fresh produce. […]

Illegal Pete’s

Colorado is known for its homegrown big-burrito chains. Illegal Pete’s isn’t the largest, but it’s big on flavor, with a wide-ranging menu that includes everything from the standard chicken- and carnitas-based burritos to versions with fish or potatoes as the main event. The ingredients are all carefully balanced before the burrito is wrapped, ensuring that […]

Illegal Pete’s

Colorado is known for its homegrown big-burrito chains. Illegal Pete’s isn’t the largest, but it’s big on flavor, with a wide-ranging menu that includes everything from standard chicken- and carnitas-based burritos to versions with fish or potatoes as the main event. The ingredients are all carefully balanced before the burrito is wrapped, ensuring that you […]

Illegal Pete’s

Colorado is known for its homegrown big-burrito chains. Illegal Pete’s isn’t the largest, but it’s big on flavor, with a wide-ranging menu that includes everything from standard chicken- and carnitas-based burritos to versions with fish or potatoes as the main event. The ingredients are all carefully balanced before the burrito is wrapped, ensuring that you […]

Illegal Pete’s

Colorado is known for its homegrown big-burrito chains. Illegal Pete’s isn’t the largest, but it’s big on flavor, with a wide-ranging menu that includes everything from standard chicken- and carnitas-based burritos to versions with fish or potatoes as the main event. The ingredients are all carefully balanced before the burrito is wrapped, ensuring that you […]

Illegal Pete’s

Colorado is known for its homegrown big-burrito chains. Illegal Pete’s isn’t the largest, but it’s big on flavor, with a wide-ranging menu that includes everything from the standard chicken- and carnitas-based burritos to versions with fish or potatoes as the main event. The ingredients are all carefully balanced before the burrito is wrapped, ensuring that […]

Illegal Pete’s

Colorado is known for its homegrown big-burrito chains. Illegal Pete’s isn’t the largest, but it’s big on flavor, with a wide-ranging menu that includes everything from the standard chicken- and carnitas-based burritos to versions with fish or potatoes as the main event. The ingredients are all carefully balanced before the burrito is wrapped, ensuring that […]

Illegal Pete’s

Colorado is known for its homegrown big-burrito chains. Illegal Pete’s isn’t the largest, but it’s big on flavor, with a wide-ranging menu that includes everything from the standard chicken- and carnitas-based burritos to versions with fish or potatoes as the main event. The ingredients are all carefully balanced before the burrito is wrapped, ensuring that […]

Illegal Pete’s

Colorado is known for its homegrown big-burrito chains. Illegal Pete’s isn’t the largest, but it’s big on flavor, with a wide-ranging menu that includes everything from standard chicken- and carnitas-based burritos to versions with fish or potatoes as the main event. The ingredients are all carefully balanced before the burrito is wrapped, ensuring that you […]

Jalapenos Mexican Food

Jalapeno’s is on a roll with its breakfast burritos, the very best in town. Denverites take their breakfast burritos as seriously as they do their bicycle laps around Washington Park, so you can find these eye-openers at hundreds of burrito trucks, burrito carts and burrito shacks sprinkled throughout the city. But none of them compare […]

Kahlo’s

Chef/owner Noe Bermudez grew up watching his mom, a professional chef, cook in restaurants in his home town of Uruapan, Michoacán. Much of the food at Kahlo’s, as well as at Bermudez’s first restaurant, Tarasco’s, is meatless simply because of tradition – but he’s also a proponent of healthy eating, as evidenced by his restaurants’ […]

Kiké’s Red Tacos

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, […]