El Coyotito #3 is a cross-cultural strip-mall collision of American and Mexican tastes melded into one culinary whole. It offers shrimp soup and fish soup and soup with shrimp and octopus, big shrimp in the shell laid over sliced tomatoes and cucumbers, Mexican pastries, tacos made from lips, killer fried pork chops over rice, unbelievable […]
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The devil’s in the details. After two years of planning, Jesse Morreale opened his new restaurant, El Diablo, in the corner of the old First Avenue Hotel, a place that looked like hell when Morreale bought it but has now been transformed into a fantasy cantina, with stunning murals, vintage conquistador-style light fixtures, a big […]
El Jakalito Taqueria y Panaderia is a diminutive but bright restaurant and bakery space on South Quebec Street serving Mexican food and all manner of baked goods, with a full menu featuring tacos, gorditas, tostadas, tamales and tortas, and a salsa cart – where fiery red- and green-chile sauces sit alongside hot pickled radishes, carrots, […]
An unexpected Mexican gem in a strip mall, El Lucero makes a mean green, and the daily specials are always interesting. But it also puts together the best tacos al carbon we’ve found, with beef so soft and salty it’s like eating buttery popcorn. No one speaks much English, but “yum” is universal.
El Noa Noa opened in is a longtime neighborhood favorite — it opened way back in 1980 — that’s survived not only the encroaching trade of the Santa Fe Arts District, but a location next door to El Taco de Mexico, Denver’s most authentic Mexican lunch-counter taqueria. El Noa Noa has charms of its own, […]
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Although El Paraiso offers more than 100 dishes, this restaurant’s regulars never seem to crack open a menu. They’ll spend five minutes agonizing over whether they should spring for a margarita, agua fresca or cerveza, but they never have any trouble deciding what to order for their meal. That’s because they know to go with […]
The Pulido family has been keeping El Rancherito clean and busy for the past 25 years, serving simple and honest versions of Denver-style Mexican dishes. With an emphasis on breakfast that keeps the place abuzz with customers from the 6 a.m. opening time, the menu delivers chilaquiles with the sharp heat of fresh jalapeños, combo […]
This native Colorado Mexican chain restaurant, which boasts eight locations, six of them along the Front Range, has been serving up freshly prepared tortilla chips and salsa, enchiladas, burritos and Mexican seafood dishes for the past fifteen years. El Se
This native Colorado Mexican chain restaurant, which boasts eight locations, six of them along the Front Range, has been serving up freshly prepared tortilla chips and salsa, enchiladas, burritos and Mexican seafood dishes for the past fifteen years. El Se
Perhaps no Mexican spot in the Mile High is as beloved as El Taco de Mexico, a no-frills joint that offers little in the way of ambience and even less in the way of service. But that hasn’t deterred the crowds that have been coming here since 1985 for tasty tacos and anything smothered in […]
Why is Federal Boulevard Denver’s best stretch of asphalt for feeding your spare tire? Because of joints like El Taco Veloz, where a meager $1.75 gets you a steaming corn tortilla abundantly mounted with whatever animal flesh rocks your world, plus onions and cilantro and access to the bar of Mexican condiments, a startling reservoir […]
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New owners took over El Tejado in 2015, giving the space a facelift that makes it look like something out of The Flintstones. And that’s appropriate, because El Tejado’s green chile remains rock solid. This is a classic Colorado green chile, gravy-like and studded with pork, sometimes tinged a little more orange than green. While […]
No bull here, just cheap drinks, great food and friendly regulars who appreciate the Garcia family, which also founded the beloved Mexico City Lounge and is now on a third generation at El Toro. The decor boasts velvet paintings, paneling and an enormous TV in the corner; the menu is slightly less elaborate, featuring basics […]
If you’re craving authentic Mexican street food, you can’t go wrong with El Trompito Taqueria, a wonderland of Mexican street favorites. Step inside, and you’ll hear the thud of cleavers in the open kitchen, where workers assemble tacos, huaraches, alambres, skyscraping tortas and aguas frescas made with fresh fruit. Photographs on the menu posted on […]
The boxy, dimly lit dining room of El Zarape features distinctly coastal decor, despite exterior signs advertising specialties typical of Chihuahua, including Juarez-style burritos, tacos de barbacoa, and a general inclination toward flour tortillas and various preparations of beef. You’ll do best to stick with items from the handwritten signs offering tortas de pierna (pork […]
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Situated in a strip mall on the corner of Jewell Avenue and Kipling Parkway, Fiddlesticks is a no-frills sports dive with plenty of TVs, a couple of pool tables, fairly cheap drinks, and a menu that includes a decent selection of bar food like burgers, wings and appetizers. Although Fiddlesticks gets its share of regulars […]
Commerce City is hardly a restaurant utopia, and Gala Gardens isn’t exactly the first joint that floats into your head when you’re lusting after a brick of beef. But it should be, because the steaks — of which there are several, including a hefty 25-ounce porterhouse, a 22-ounce T-bone, a couple of New York strips […]