Chef John Broening scores again with another beautiful little neighborhood place in another neighborhood badly in need of just his kind of cuisine. Here it’s Spanish/Italian/Mediterranean food with a little bit of French thrown in for good measure — a restaurant that does small plates with huge flavors and big plates with a restraint and […]
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Pricey? Yes. Worth it? Absolutely. Chef Michael Long and company have taken fine dining up a notch in Littleton with their ever-changing menu and artistic presentations. And while the space itself seems strangely stilted and overly pretentious, you can easily forget all that when the food starts arriving. Brilliantly conceptualized dishes share the menu with […]
Julian Cordova is the grandson of Stella Cordova, who bought what had been the Chubby Burger Drive Inn in 1969, added her Mexican specials to the menu and turned the place into Chubby’s, a national legend. Several of Stella’s grandchildren have gone into the family business, including Julian. In 1987, he opened the first Original […]
A quintessential red-sauce joint that’s been serving northwest Denver for more than fifty years. The bottomless pot of minestrone comes with the meal, the bread is the kind of thick, spongy Italian that’s ideal for sopping up the gravylike red sauce, the pastas are made in-house, and the zabaglione-custard-topped tiramisu is a wonder.
Eat it again, Sam. And again, and again. The exotic Moroccan fare at Casablanca is so stellar that you’ll keep coming back for more. The best way to sample it is by ordering a four-course, fixed-price dinner. But fair warning: The kitchen and staff are often overloaded.
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The former Bump & Grind space has been beautifully rehabbed, with now-exposed brick mounted with long mirrors and ebony banquettes, a small lounge area with a drink rail, and an L-shaped bar featuring a community high-top table. A.J. Lafond, the former chef of North (and briefly, the Cherry Cricket), commands the kitchen, and although the […]
Once the home of Brendan’s Pub blues club, Pat’s Cheesesteaks now occupies this subterranean spot. In addition to serving up some of the best cheesesteaks in town, the spot also brings in DJs on the weekends and hosts beer pong and the Denver Poker Tour during the week.
Cesar, Roberto and Ignacio Leon, the brothers behind the beloved Los Carboncitos, opened the more upscale Paxia in August 2011. The name is Nahuatl for “peace,” and the space is light and breezy, with a pleasant patio outside and a sunny, peaceful dining area inside. While its more rowdy sibling lists a full page of […]
Starting at 6 a.m., the faithful elbow their way through the doors of Pico de Gallo, a comradely strip-mall Mexican joint, looking for the town’s best breakfast burrito. Stuffed like a sumo wrestler before his next throwdown, the griddled tortilla is packed with scrambled eggs, crumbles of housemade chorizo that drip with just the right […]
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This vibrantly decorated, fern-draped eatery boasts the town’s top baba ghanouj, as well as killer kabobs and heavenly hummus.
At Prima, uber-chef Kevin Taylor’s restaurant in the Hotel Teatro, the menu showcases many of the best tricks in Taylor’s repertoire. The menu balances brilliant modern paraphrases on traditional Italian cuisine with more plainspoken hotel dishes, offering plates like soft, egg-filled ravioli. The room is chic, somewhat more laid-back than Restaurant Kevin Taylor across the […]
Chef/owner John Platt creates eclectic dishes full of clever ingredient combinations that not only taste great but are visually stunning. The eatery sits in the historic Hotel Boulderado, and the service is suberb. Pay attention to the side dishes — Platt does.
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Matt Jansen, owner of Mateo, opened Radda in the midst of north Boulder’s low-rise sprawl, and it’s a welcome addition. This is an Italian restaurant, a small-plates restaurant, a comfortable and casual restaurant where the food serves as hearty sustenance, stimulus for conversation and an excuse to gather together with friends. Everything here, from the […]
