Almost everyone at DJ’s seems to be a friend, a regular — making the Sunday morning or afternoon pilgrimage for eggs and coffee and slabs of French toast stuffed with peanut butter and jelly. They wave to each other, gossip with their waitresses, with the owners — brothers Jason and Devin Stallings — who are […]
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Entertainment and dining complex with public aquarium featuring more than one million gallons of underwater exhibits and more than 500 animal species.
A lot of buzzy new places have opened in LoHi in recent years, but Duo, one of the city’s pioneering farm-to-table restaurants, has been holding down its corner of the neighborhood for nearly two decades. In 2023, longtime owners Keith Arnold and Stephanie Bonin passed the reins to longtime chef Tyler Skrivanek, who is excited […]
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The atmosphere at El Camino is fun and welcoming, and so is the food. While the board is too heavy on things like molten cheese and too light on things like intestines to really sate a craving for authentic Mexican food, it’s also not hip like the menu at one of Rick Bayless’s upscale Chicago […]
The late Gloria Nunez and her grandson, David Lopez, opened the original El Chingon in a strip mall in Arvada in 2010 before moving to a small space in Berkeley. In 2022, Gloria’s son, Lorenzo Nunez Jr., closed the restaurant in order to better accommodate the many fans of its Mexico City-inspired fare. A year […]
Chef/owner Justin Cucci didn’t build El Five just as a restaurant, but as an experience. It debuted in 2017 atop a five-story building in LoHi, with breathtaking views of downtown and the mountains. But the food – a variation on Mediterranean tapas – is dramatic enough on its own, making dinner a fascinating journey through […]
Although El Paraiso offers more than 100 dishes, this restaurant’s regulars never seem to crack open a menu. They’ll spend five minutes agonizing over whether they should spring for a margarita, agua fresca or cerveza, but they never have any trouble deciding what to order for their meal. That’s because they know to go with […]
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If you’re looking for a classic bowling alley with an old-school flavor, you’ll score with Elitch Lanes, an old-time spot in northwest Denver. With good prices and a friendly staff, this is a great spot for birthday parties, banquets and reunions, or just hanging out with a bunch of friends.
This cozy corner of Venezuelan cuisine features the namesake empanadas, plus fat arepas made from white-corn flour and a few hard-to-find appetizers like tequeños (fried dough sticks), cachapas (corn-flour pancakes) and mashed yucca. Additional treats include South American soft drinks and fried plantain — both the sweet, ripe slices and the starchier chips made from […]
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The original Ernie’s, which opened in this spot in 1943, served pizza. So does the Ernie’s opened by Larimer Associates in 2009. But this East Coast pie palace also pimps an impressive antipasto board featuring sweet and sour figs, Gorgonzola-stuffed queen olives, cherry peppers stuffed with provolone and prosciutto, and balsamic cippolini onions. And that’s […]
