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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There are very few dishes on El Camaron Loco’s menu that don’t include shrimp. You’ll find the pudgy pink specimens in the enchiladas and chiles rellenos; plunged into soups sharpened with lime; sauced with poblano chiles; tangling with jalapenos and folded into housemade corn tortillas; paved with melted cheese; or sharing space on a huge […]
The atmosphere at El Camino is fun and welcoming, and so is the food. While the board is too heavy on things like molten cheese and too light on things like intestines to really sate a craving for authentic Mexican food, it’s also not hip like the menu at one of Rick Bayless’s upscale Chicago […]
At El Chalate, a stripped-down Mexican and Salvadorean pit stop on East Colfax, you’ll often be welcomed by a young girl who likes to practice her English. She flits around the dining room, stopping to chat with patrons, while the attentive waitstaff hustles from table to table dropping off heaping plates of pupusas, stuffed with […]
The late Gloria Nunez and her grandson, David Lopez, opened the original El Chingon in a strip mall in Arvada in 2010 before moving to a small space in Berkeley. In 2022, Gloria’s son, Lorenzo Nunez Jr., closed the restaurant in order to better accommodate the many fans of its Mexico City-inspired fare. A year […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Chef/owner Justin Cucci didn’t build El Five just as a restaurant, but as an experience. It debuted in 2017 atop a five-story building in LoHi, with breathtaking views of downtown and the mountains. But the food – a variation on Mediterranean tapas – is dramatic enough on its own, making dinner a fascinating journey through […]
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.
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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, […]
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 […]
El Rancho got its start in 1948, when the owners built a rustic log building by the side of U.S. Route 40, put a restaurant on the first floor and moved in upstairs. It went through many owners and even more ups and downs before Bonanno Concepts (which owns Mizuna and numerous other restaurants in […]
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
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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 […]
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 […]