When we were putting together our 2011 Best of Denver issue, there were many spirited discussions about which chile made us the greenest with envy — and while there were several viable contenders, none was more worthy than Los Farolitos, where the green chile, tarted up with tomatillos and gobsmacked with heat, is simply terrific.
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Ron Brooks and his wife, Louella, run a Louisiana barbecue restaurant out of their home in suburban Aurora from Friday through Sunday, where they serve up twelve-hour smoked meats, some of the best sides in town – like a kicked-up creamed corn called maque choux – and a sampling of Cajun specialties, from gumbo to […]
While its name is a reference to Caddyshack caddy Danny Noonan, this tavern at the Club at Heather Ridge isn’t necessarily themed after the film. Yes, the joint’s house drink is the Danny Noonan, but that’s about as far as it goes. Since Noonan’s is right on the gold course, it has a built-in customer […]
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 […]
“Do you like whole fish?” “How about fatty pork?” These are the questions you’ll get when you start asking your server about the non-translated menu at Chef Liu’s; ultimately, it might just be easier to ask that server to put together a feast for you and not to skimp on the Szechuan specialties. Liu Zeng […]
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The women who work at the Athenian are not there just to serve patrons; they want to get to know patrons. And so those servers see fit to get involved with every dinner decision, sometimes with persuasive forcefulness. They rarely err in their recommendations, though, smiling knowingly while delivering platters of gyros, hummus and saganaki, […]
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 […]
Like a fresh beer poured quickly, Dry Dock’s tap room has foamed up and over the sides in the past few years, attracting a regular clientele from Aurora as well as a steady stream of beer pilgrims who make the journey from the city to the suburbs. The brewery and tap room now feature 170 […]
Some Ethiopian restaurants in Denver are intimate and cozy – great for getting to know a cuisine without distraction. Then there’s the Nile, which is so raucous on weekends, you almost feel like you stumbled into a family wedding. But with big sampler platters that arrive as a mosaic of colorful stews atop spongy injera […]
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Paradise Asian Cafe is an austere, simple place, tucked away in an Aurora strip mall that caters to a mixed bag of Asian families, American families, Asian-American families and anyone else who happens to stumble across this restaurant amid all the big-box hardware and grocery stores, insurance offices, beauty parlors and liquor stores way down […]
Smashburger has all the affectations of a standard QSR operation: counter-ordering and tableside delivery, a fast and easily navigable menu, a simple and easily duplicatable decor. But it also has a far-from-standard burger: the namesake “smashburger,” a half-pound of ground, nicely fatty Angus beef that’s whacked onto the hot steel, producing a flood of meat […]
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 […]
Denver / Boulder diners with an appetite for unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks and faux-Tuscan decor head to Olive Garden, where servers clad in white button-downs and ties pour glasses of chianti and pinot grigio alongside cheese-smothered dishes of bruschetta, Sicilian meatballs, chicken marsala, and parmesan-crusted steak. With more than 750 locations across the globe, […]
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Known for its clean, minimalist atmosphere and hefty foil-wrapped burritos the size (and weight) of a small infant, Chipotle pioneered the fast-casual, assembly line Mexican food genre that’s since grown to encompass chains like Qdoba and Baja Fresh. The protocol in Denver / Boulder and elsewhere? Diners proceed single-file down the line and orchestrate the […]
There ain’t no brie on the menu at Old School Burgers. They offer exactly one kind of cheese: gooey and yellow. And the menus list no specialty burgers, no guacamole burgers, no fifty-dollar burgers with kobe and truffles, only the basics: burger, cheeseburger, then doubles and triples (yeah, triples) of both. The name says it […]
This small, family-friendly neighborhood cafe is warm and crowded during the day and loud and crowded after dark. The big kitchen is constantly at work banging out food that may not yet be ubiquitous in Denver, but certainly should be. The house specialty is huaraches: long, open-faced slabs of corn masa topped with whatever is […]
“Authentic” is the word at Solomon’s Grocery and European Deli, where the proprietors — Bukharan immigrant Solomon Gurzhiev and his family — are bend-over-backwards friendly, the coolers are stuffed with a dozen varieties of kefir and farmer’s cheese, and mom Gurzhiev whips up homemade pelmeni on request. It might be a long way from Uzbekistan […]