Revival Denver Public House debuted in the former Avenue Grill space on East 17th in 2021. Despite a name that sounds a bit generic, this spot owned by chef Dan Vizzard and his wife, Emily, is bursting with personality, from the hodgepodge of art and knickknacks to the Southern-inspired menu and the killer happy hour […]
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In 2021, the former Pour House space (that bar moved across the street) became a little slice of New Orleans in Denver with the debut of Nola Jane. This lively spot serves Cajun and Creole favorites like po’boys, jambalaya, gumbo and crawfish étouffée, as well as Hurricanes on draft, all with a side of Southern […]
As anyone who’s gone out for breakfast lately knows, Denverites love their morning meal: Hours-long waits at joints that serve up a mean pancake aren’t uncommon. Sassafras opened its first location on West 26th Avenue in 2012 to immediate success, but relocated to the Highland neighborhood in 2019. Not one to mess with a good […]
At Low Country Kitchen, where walls bear faux plantation shutters and a pitcher of sweet tea sits on the bar, each bite of Southern fare takes you to a place far, far away – a place where breezes blow in through moss-hung live oaks and afternoons are spent on covered porches sipping mint juleps with […]
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Four Friends Kitchen, a family-friendly breakfast-and-lunch spot that opened in early 2015 in what is now Central Park (formerly Stapleton), isn’t a place to see and be seen. It isn’t around the corner from the art museum or Union Station or anyplace you’re going to spend the rest of your day, unless you’re headed to […]
Jay Berry opened Kirk’s Soul Kitchen in 2012, adding another option in the area’s slim soul-food scene. The restaurant is dedicated to his stepfather, Kirk, who told him, “Stay focused because you could do anything you put your mind to.” What Berry does at Kirk’s is serve great homemade food, including fried chicken, collard greens […]
You know you’ve become an American icon when you make regular appearances in Larry the Cable Guy’s standup routine, and by that standard, Waffle House is the Elvis Presley of Interstate dining. With more than 1,400 franchises in 25 states (including Denver / Boulder), this Georgia-based breakfast joint, founded in 1955, is among a handful […]
Cracker Barrel is a massive chain of combination restaurant/country-store locations that feature a surprisingly well-prepared menu of Southern comfort foods served in gigantic portions at ridiculously low prices. Don’t look for originality or anything outside of the American canon, but if you want hot coffee by the gallon, real buttermilk pancakes served with maple syrup […]
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Henry Coleman knows from Detroit soul food, Detroit comfort food, Detroit’s streetside, slapdash, eat-while-walking cuisine. From behind the rail of his kitchen at Coleman’s (in the former home of Ethel’s House of Soul), he knocks up specials (roasted barbecued chicken breast with greens and rice and gravy, if you’re lucky), bakes the cornbread, slow-cooks his […]
For more than a decade, Tom’s Home Cookin’ has been a stick-to-your-ribs, lunch-only respite for soul-food seekers and Southerners, blue-collar workers and chefs, chatterers and chicken-chasers. The fried chicken, profoundly moist with skin crusted the color of copper, flies right every single time. It’s a sign of more goodness to come: peach cobbler, macaroni and […]
Better wear the elastic-waistband jeans to NoNo’s Cafe, a Southern-style eatery that serves comfort food in the extreme. NoNo’s features food so bad (for you) it’s good, from big, bacony breakfasts to an outrageous stacked macaroni and cheese that’s served as a heaping accompaniment to many entrees. NoNo’s also satisfies a New Orleans jones with […]
This South Pearl landmark looks like a cross between Cheers and a location for Friends, but it serves swell bar burgers, nachos and other grill standards. The international beer list is overwhelming, the atmosphere unassuming and friendly, and the secluded patio a great summer hideaway.
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