Kevin Taylor’s at the Opera House

The lower floor of the old Auditorium Theatre has been turned into the elegant Chambers Grant Salon, a beautiful space with romantic lighting — no small feat in such a big room — and stone-lined walls filled with colorful artwork and historic costumes. And on days when there are shows in the Buell or at […]

The Kitchen American Bistro

The original outpost of the Kitchen opened in Boulder in 2004; a second was added on the corner of Wazee Street and the 16th Street Mall in Denver in 2012. Now, the Denver outpost is one of the few remaining locally owned options on the Mall, and it continues to serve an impressive menu of […]

La Casa De Manuel

It’s not easy being green. When Manuel Silva was forced to close down his original Casa de Manuel at 20th and Larimer streets — an address he’d occupied for forty years — the town worried that we’d never see his green chile again. But then he found another spot eleven blocks to the north, in […]

La Diabla Pozole y Mezcal

Chef Jose Avila’s La Diabla has been heaped with praise since opening in 2021 for everything from its namesake pozole to its tacos and stellar house margs, and rightfully so: It does a lot of things well, but we also love the fact that it offers guests a lot of deals on those things. In […]

La Fiesta

La Fiesta celebrated sixty years in business in 2023, making it one of Denver’s oldest restaurants that’s still operating in the same location and run by the same family that founded it. Located in a former Safeway, it doles out Denver’s unique style of Mexican food done right. While the late-night dance parties of decades […]

La Loma

In the ’80s, the Brinkerhoff family created a Den-Mex institution in north Denver, so fans despaired when they sold its original digs in Jefferson Park. But it quickly reopened in a new space in 2016 in another iconic spot – the moody former home of Trinity Grille – and the owners have worked hard to […]

La Popular

Down in Texas, right on the border between El Paso and Juarez, there’s a stand – actually, a shack – that sells the best tamales in the known universe. But they’re only slightly better than the green-chile tamales sold every day at La Popular. These fat rolls of masa, pork and whole chunks of fiery […]

Larimer Lounge

The Larimer Lounge does one thing better than anyone else in the area: It brings the rock. Sure, the venue has brought in indie-rock progenitors like Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Sebadoh, but it’s also seen acts like Arcade Fire and Bat for Lashes, which have since outgrown the venue. You’ll feel like a member […]

Larkburger

Back in 2006, Thomas Salamunovich started a little stand-alone restaurant designed to feature the burger that, through experimentation and long practice, he’d come up with at the Larkspur Restaurant in Vail and had proved wildly popular at that fancy-pants place. In his words, it was “my vision for the perfect burger experience.” And Larkburger comes […]

Latigo

Latigo is the latest eatery from chef Ignacio Leon, who also operates three outposts of the well-loved Los Carboncitos with his brothers Cesar and Roberto. An alumnus of the Instituto Culinario Mexicano in Mexico City, Leon peppers Latigo’s menu with regional Mexican dishes that can be hard to find elsewhere in town: there’s cochinita pibil […]