This storefront on the 16th Street Mall makes no bones about its mission: Freshii is a lunch spot for the working crowd who want their food fast, casual — and fresh. Wraps, salads, rice bowls, soup, yogurt — you’ll find all of them here. (Freshii also offers breakfast in the morning with choices like eggs […]
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The first Mona’s helped energize the Confluence Park area. The second Mona’s was one of the leaders in the redevelopment of SoBo. Now Mona’s has opened a third spot, in Uptown, which offers many of the dishes you find at its siblings. The difference, though, is that this Mona’s Cafe is designed to cater to […]
If you want a slice of Chicago-style deep-dish pizza but don’t feel like trekking all the way to the Windy City to get it, Nicolo’s Chicago-Style Pizza has six Colorado locations, including the Capitol Hill store, which boasts a full bar and fountain sodas. Nicolo’s offers customers a choice of thin-crust or its signature hand-rolled […]
Tony Terrones and his family have had a Mexican restaurant in Pueblo for years, and now they’ve brought the authentic taste of that city to Denver. Diego’s Mexican Food and Cantina is located in the lower level of a building right off the 16th Street Mall, but it does its best to create an island […]
The inspiration behind Cafe 180 is apparent the moment you walk into Cathy Matthews’s lunch-only spot: The restaurant’s mission, posted above its service counter, acknowledges SAME Cafe founders Brad and Libby Birky. The couple brought the pay-what-you-can model to Denver, and Matthews adopted it for the pleasant place she opened in the summer of 2010. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
The line can be long at Amore Gelato, which opened on the 16th Street Mall in summer 2010. But for those who prefer Italian-style gelato and sorbet to ice cream, its more calorie-rich American counterpart, the wait is well worth it. Styled as a modern European sweet shop, Amore Gelato draws tourists walking off big […]
The pristine white facade and nautical blue logo of Vietnam Bay, an unassuming joint on South Federal, don’t begin to hint at the collision of cuisines within. Like its predecessor Red Claw, Vietnam Bay specializes in Cajun-tinged seafood platters, odd mash-ups of Louisiana flavors with Vietnamese ingredients, and straight-up drinking food accented with delta spirit […]
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Before they opened Jai Ho in the spring of 2010, Sathya and Sujatha Narayan, an architect and a realtor, respectively, had never owned a restaurant. But when they moved to Denver eight years ago from Vancouver, they noticed a gap in the Indian offerings on the local dining scene. Since they’d always dreamed of owning […]
Snarf’s Sub Shop, the beloved sandwich spot with a hippie vibe, got its start when Jim Seidel opened his first sub shack in Boulder in 1996. Then, as now, Snarf’s knew to do a few things really right: It has a good filling-to-bread ratio, uses high-quality meats and vegetables, and relies on a broiler to […]
Araujo’s occupies a modest storefront across from a Safeway and smack in the middle of the Best Breakfast Burrito Neighborhood; Araujo helped the area win that title with its 99-cent to-go burritos. But Araujo offers so much more: There’s the daily Mexican buffet, filled with the greatest hits of Den-Mex cuisine: good green chile, excellent […]
While it’s squashed into a small mall overlooking a parking lot, the interior feel of Arugula is gracious, modern and warm – and the Northern Italian food turned out by chef/owner Alec Schuler has the same contemporary hominess. The seasonal menu features farm-to-table ingredients, many of them locally sourced; the roster is rich with such […]
Hot dogs are high art at Billy’s Gourmet Hot Dogs, which brings a taste of Chicago to the Ballpark neighborhood. Billy’s serves all-beef Vienna dogs, homemade sausage, veggie and even salmon dogs spruced up with an array of fixings, from traditional kraut, onions and mustard to hot peppers, cheeses and chili. One of many house […]
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You can slum it with a slice and a drink for $5 at just about every pizza joint in town, but when you want to slum it in style, either location of the Walnut Room feels your vibe. At lunchtime, a fresh-faced server, usually of the hipster sort, will trot out an eight-inch, thin-crusted pizza […]
There’s no grizzled old papa at Big Papa’s standing watch over a hickory fire in the parking lot, but rather one giant Southern Pride smoker in the back. This little storefront outfit works fast — and with barbecue, speed is made possible only by the intelligent application of technology and mass-production methods. The ribs, the […]
From his wholesale bakery building in north Denver, Michael Bortz supplies many of Denver’s best restaurants with bread and desserts. He gets up early and works long hours to keep rolling in the dough. But you don’t have to own an eatery to enjoy these treats: The public can pop in and make purchases, too. […]
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