La Cantina doesn’t exactly feel like a restaurant. Sandwiched into a public foyer and hallway, next to a locker room and below Vail’s West Lionshead Plaza bus stop, it feels like the guys piecing together your massive burrito and plate of nachos are squatters, ready to pack up their grill at a moment’s notice when […]
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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 […]
This breezy, fast-casual Middle Eastern joint inhabits a prominent corner of the Streets at SouthGlenn, serving up shawarma, kabobs and hummus to patrons passing through its line. Those diners then fill wooden tables in the dining room or, in the warm months, crowd the patio, spilling onto the streets. The spot’s name comes from a […]
Fresh, pungent herbs, pronounced spices, big plates and lovely service are the hallmarks of Vietnam Grill, a busy strip-mall scene-stealer on Federal Boulevard that, like its neighboring competition, is all bright lights and no-frills decor. But this isn’t a see-and-be-seen joint: You come here for the dazzling, adventurous food – and you keep returning because […]
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China Jade occupies a little space in a forgettable east Aurora strip mall, surrounded by French bakeries, barbecue restaurants, Eastern European groceries, nail salons and coffee shops. From the outside, it isn’t much to look at. Inside, it’s small, with ten tables, a register, a Buddha here, a good luck cat there, and one of […]
Great strip-mall barbecue is a rare thing, but Shead’s has once again accomplished it with this new location open inside the multi-ethnic strip mall on Iliff Avenue. Small ends, good ribs, fine sides and a peach cobbler so wet with sauce it has to be served in a cup — that’s what makes up the […]
This local chain got its start in 1981, and the menu has gotten huge over the years, with offerings ranging from shrimp cocktail to Mexican egg rolls as well as a long list of burritos and tacos. But the real draw is the tamales, corn-wrapped packets filled with a classic blend of pork and green […]
This casual deli chain got its start in the Vail Valley in 2003 and now has locations in six states, with two in downtown Denver as well as stores in Westminster and Arvada. While Smiling Moose is a blossoming chain, the company runs each location as a local restaurant, staffed by employees who live in […]
Colorado is lucky to have many homegrown Mexican chains — but none have been as successful as Santiago’s. And with good reason: This chain, which has twenty locations (and counting), doesn’t just offer great to-go breakfast burritos; it also serves up an absolutely addictive green chile. In mild, medium and hot, it’s tasty enough at […]
Colorado is lucky to have many homegrown Mexican chains — but none have been as successful as Santiago’s. And with good reason: This chain, which has twenty locations (and counting), doesn’t just offer great to-go breakfast burritos; it also serves up an absolutely addictive green chile. In mild, medium and hot, it’s tasty enough at […]
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Mad Greens was planted in 2004 in the south Denver suburbs, and has since sprouted into eleven locations along the Front Range, each of them ready to serve up some leafy greens as a respite from all those burgers, fries and burritos. Mad Greens’ concept is simple: Quick-fast-in-a-hurry healthy meals offered in a clean but […]
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. […]
Temporarily closed: Part market, part sandwich shop, Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli almost always has a line of people in front of the counter. In 1974, Rosa Lonardo and her husband, Nick, bought this place from Dominic Carbone, who taught the pair how to make sausages and meatballs the old-fashioned way before turning over the keys […]
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 […]
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 […]
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The formula that works for Santa Fe Cookie Co., a hole-in-the-wall off the 16th Street Mall, probably isn’t one that would work for any other bakery in the middle of downtown Denver: Customers enter at one end of a shop, drop a dollar into a giant plastic jug, retrieve a small paper bag filled with […]
Another good, if sometimes uneven, place from Dave Query’s Big Red F restaurant group, Happy Noodle House is Boulder’s entry into the noodle-shop fad — a place where classical noodle dishes are given a light-handed fusion treatment, prettied up for company and served by a liveried staff in a room that is among the most […]
In a world where trends dictate the format and content of menus – small plates, kale salads, sliders, etc. – the menu at the Old Spaghetti Factory is reassuringly the same. Though two or three dishes are added with every menu update, which happens twice a year, the core rarely changes. These are dishes that […]
There’s a lot to love about Boba and Crepes, the independent shop in southeast Denver that specializes in crepes filled with everything from fresh fruit to green tea ice cream to “slices of beef pastrami, corn, lettuce, cucumber, cheese, ketchup, and topped with mayanoise.” What to wash it down? Fruit teas, milk teas, slushies and […]