Ali Baba Grill

Ali Baba is a Lebanese restaurant, a Persian restaurant, a Mediterranean restaurant with hints of Syrian and Saudi Arabian modernity and haute cuisine. It’s also a mini-chain with locations in Denver, Golden and Boulder, all of which offer the same comfortable, slightly foreign setting, the same attentive service, the same expansive menu. Our favorites include […]

Ali Baba Grill

Ali Baba is a Lebanese restaurant, a Persian restaurant, a Mediterranean restaurant with hints of Syrian and Saudi Arabian modernity and haute cuisine. It’s also a mini-chain with locations in Denver, Golden and Boulder, all of which offer the same comfortable, slightly foreign setting, the same attentive service, the same expansive menu. Our favorites include […]

Ali Baba Grill

Ali Baba is a Lebanese restaurant, a Persian restaurant, a Mediterranean restaurant with hints of Syrian and Saudi Arabian modernity and haute cuisine. It’s also a mini-chain with locations in Denver, Golden and Boulder, all of which offer the same comfortable, slightly foreign setting, the same attentive service, the same expansive menu. Our favorites include […]

Babajoon’s Kabobs

Babajoon’s opened in April 2014, serving flame-grilled kabobs in the traditional Persian style and house-made flatbreads called taftoon baked in a custom-made oven. The place is bright and modern and filled with the aroma of spices, baking bread and charbroiled meats. While Denver has its share of tasty Middle Eastern eateries, this Westminster gem stands […]

Cafe Paprika

Come for the bastilla, stay for the tea, and what you find in between depends on how adventurous you’re feeling. Paprika covers all the bases of Middle Eastern cuisine, with tajines, couscous, gyros and kebabs, all done simply and well. Finish off the meal with something different from the ubiquitous baklava – try the m’hencha, […]

Falafel King

You’re probably familiar with Falafel King’s line of dips and pitas, which are ubiquitous in grocery stores around town. This outpost of the Boulder-based business serves up a reliable and tasty lunch for workers, buskers, students, aging hippies and other denizens of the Pearl Street Mall. For less than ten bucks, you can stuff yourself […]

Falafel King

You’re probably familiar with Falafel King’s line of dips and pitas, which are ubiquitous in grocery stores around town. This outpost of the Boulder-based business serves up a reliable and tasty lunch for workers, students and weary wanderers braving Colorado Boulevard’s traffic. For less than ten bucks, you can stuff yourself silly with Middle Eastern […]

House of Kabob

House of Kabob is a diminutive Persian restaurant located in a South Colorado Boulevard strip mall and surrounded by other Middle Eastern restaurants and markets. For nearly thirty years, House of Kabob has been serving customers marinated fava beans, lamb tongue, gyros and the house-special Lebnee pita bread dip: Lebanese cream yogurt, sprinkled with olive […]

Jerusalem Restaurant

Jerusalem has been many a Denverite’s first introduction to the world of baba ghanouj, fatoush, tabbouleh and stuffed grape leaves. The little shack near the University of Denver has been satisfying late-night munchies and mid-day cravings near since 1978. A steady stream of college students and bar patrons from around the neighborhood keep the place […]

Mango House

In 2019, this refugee resource center founded by Dr. PJ Parmar moved to a new, bigger location. Now home to several nonprofits and other services that include health care and a family lawyer, the facility houses a food court with international offerings, providing aspiring restaurateurs a place to share their cuisine. With stops ranging from […]

Mataam Fez Moroccan Restaurant

Leave your shoes at the entryway but bring your sense of adventure to Mataam Fez, a traditional Moroccan-style restaurant that’s given East Colfax some exotic culinary flair for decades. Diners sit on pillows and use their fingers to eat their way through five extravagant courses, which can include everything from game hen and rabbit to […]

Mecca Grill

The service is peculiar and the droning music even weirder at Mecca Grill, a mini-mall storefront with a saffron-stained dining room. But the food — herby falafel, hummus, gyros, lemony fattoush, shawarma, kabobs and grape leaves — is undeniably good. The best dish: the bold-flavored lamb shank, an extravagantly huge hunk of meat that arrives […]

Safta

Inside the Source Hotel in RiNo, chef/restaurateur Alon Shaya has created a destination for Mediterranean cuisine inspired by his grandmother’s recipes and the cuisine of Israel, where he was born. The wood-fired pita is unbeatable, and the hummus is impossibly smooth; start there, but order liberally, as it’s nearly impossible to make a bad choice. […]

Sahara Restaurant

Morocco isn’t technically within the geographical region we call the Middle East, but there’s a culinary continuum that links the food of northwest Africa with the Levant and points farther east. That continuum encompasses hummus, baba ghanouj, falafel and pita stuffed with grilled meats, all of which Sahara Restaurant on East Arapahoe Road handles with […]

Sudan Cafe & Khairat Injera Bakery

The designation “Middle Eastern” is a vague and shifting notion that doesn’t exactly encapsulate the spectrum of cuisine cooked from Morocco to Pakistan, from Turkey to eastern Africa. So forgive us if Sudan Cafe doesn’t fit neatly into standard notions of where the Middle East begins and ends; you’ll understand once you try the kitchen’s […]