Noodles Express

While there’s a section on the Noodles Express menu called “America’s Popular,” that’s the least interesting part of this counter-service joint, which opened in February 2020. The bulk of the menu is a long list of Szechuan selections, and that’s where your focus should be. Many of these dishes are heavy on mouth-numbing Szechuan peppercorns […]

Oshima Ramen Of America

We’re very lucky. As a matter of fact, we’re the luckiest people in the whole USA, because this small, unprepossessing spot squashed into Tiffany Plaza is the only Oshima Ramen in America. Brought from Tokyo to the Rocky Mountain West by local noodle magnate Todd Imamura, this marks the beginning (and the end) of the […]

Palace Chinese Restaurant

The Palace is like a veiled citadel hidden in plain sight, a secret fortress protecting a big secret. And that secret is great food, including dim sum on the weekends and prix fixe lunch and dinner specials every day — along with a large regular menu that’s heavy on all the standards done much better […]

Pantaleone’s New York Pizza

During its nearly three decades in business, Pantaleone’s has survived boom and bust cycles — but when the southeast Denver pizzeria failed to really bounce back from the last recession, owners Pete and Paulette Fafalios contacted Kitchen Nightmares — and in summer 2013, show host Gordon Ramsay came to town to turn the restaurant inside […]

Park Burger

The homegrown Park Burger is growing into a mini-chain; it’s turning into the grill next door. The original was opened in Platt Park by Frank Bonanno’s one-time right-hand guy, Jean-Philippe Failyau, who stuck with a simple formula that proved so winning, he’s opened several more locations in neighborhoods around town. Park Burger doesn’t keep a […]

The Penthouse Club

The Penthouse Club has literally raised the bar for Gentlemen’s Clubs in Denver: they have one of the tallest dance poles in the US! Located only minutes from downtown Denver, the two-story club brandishes over 10,000 square feet of scintillating fun in every corner. Everything in the Penthouse is high-polished; up-to-date and classy, with a […]

Peppers

Peppers is best known for its pancakes — a flagship staple at this restaurant, light and fluffy, but still substantial enough that a stack of two makes a full meal. Trust us: These slightly sweet, slightly malty hotcakes are the diner pancakes of your dreams. But don’t be fooled into thinking that all Peppers has […]

Pho Fusion

Pho Fusion covers four countries with a thirty-dish menu that includes pho, hot-and-sour and wonton soups, simple shrimp-lettuce-and-noodle spring rolls and deep-fried Vietnamese pork egg rolls. The food is fast, filling and good. Owner Tom Bird is deeply rooted in Denver’s Vietnamese community, and he’s onto something here — maybe the formula for a fast-food […]

Piper Inn

The Piper Inn looks like a biker bar – and it is. But it’s also an everyone-else bar. You can find your mom, your co-worker and dudes who ride Harleys all enjoying cold brews and house specialties like Chinese-style wings, burgers and carne asada fries. The bar, which opened in 1968, was named for the […]

Poppies Restaurant

A red awning over a strip mall space in south Denver marks the entrance to Poppie’s, where those in the know have been heading for classic American favorites and high-quality bar banter since 1985. Step inside and let the staff – many of whom have worked there for years – do what they do best: […]

Protein Bar

Protein Bar is actually a fast-casual import from Chicago. The first opened in spring of 2014 in Boulder, but several others have cropped up in Denver since then. The healthy menu focuses on grilled “bar-ritos” stuffed with quinoa, chicken or tofu and a variety of veggies and sauces that trade in processed ingredients and fat […]

Regal Continental Stadium 10 & RPX

Located off I-25 near Hampden and Monaco, this ten-screen theater features concessions, stadium seating, a video arcade, a party room for special events, and select features presented in an RPX large-format auditorium.