Guadalajara

Ignore the nowhere location: Guadalajara’s dining rooms are full of families — Mexican and otherwise — that enjoy this restaurant’s casual vibe, unbelievably friendly service and delicious, authentic south-of-the-border cuisine. Dishes on the menu sell for half what you’d pay for a gussied-up, white tablecloth version downtown. Most of the menu will be familiar to […]

Guadalajara Authentic Mexican Buffet

At Guadalajara Authentic Mexican Buffet on Colfax Avenue in Aurora, you’ll find barbacoa de borrego chivo — a compelling dish of slow-roasted goat meat — among the enormous selection of Mexican dishes including menudo, posole, ceviche, and chicken, pork and beef tacos and enchiladas smothered in red and green chile. Guadalajara is no stranger to […]

Han Kang

The service at Han Kang is laughingly friendly, the room casual, the menu authentically Korean, and the food an absolute treat for anyone looking to move beyond the sweet-and-sour cardboard and dull noodles of more Americanized Asian fare. The menu is large and the portions overwhelming, but the very best dishes are the small plates […]

Haykin Family Cider

In 2018, Daniel and Talia Haykin opened Haykin Family Cider, complete with a simple tasting room, in an industrial part of Aurora. Here, Haykin produces single-variety ciders from apples (many of them grown in Colorado) that are picked, pressed and fermented in season, allowing the distinct flavor of each to shine through. Crisp, clean, complex […]

Helga’s German Restaurant & Deli

Helga’s German Restaurant & Deli offers customers many tastes of Deutschland, with a selection of meats, cheese, breads and baked goods, as well as European chocolates, candy, music and magazines. Helga’s opened its doors in 1989 as a four-table restaurant, and over the past twenty years has grown into a combo deli, bakery and restaurant […]

Jai Ho Indian Kitchen, Bar & Lounge

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 […]

Johnny’s Diner

No one does breakfast quite like this quasi-cafeteria-style diner where the bacon-and-egg sandwiches are always greasy, the coffee’s always hot, and the waitstaff is non-existent because of the order-wait-and-pick-up style of service. Johnny’s has been a fixture in Aurora’s Korea-town for years, its popularity buoyed by cheap blue-plate specials, generous portions, decent food, better company […]