Radha Govinda’s

Vegans, rejoice: Radha Govinda’s serves up an all-you-can-eat buffet that’s now entirely plant-based. The restaurant is only open four days a week, but it’s worth the wait to get yourself in the door. The menu changes daily; check the website for the current choices. The prices at Govinda’s make eating well extremely reasonable, and on […]

Cork House Broker Restaurant

After three decades of good work, Tante Louise finally faded from the Denver restaurant scene a few years ago. Enter uncle Ed Novak (from the Broker restaurants group), who renamed the place the Cork House after longtime owner Corky Douglass and turned the former classical Euro-French palace of haute into a comfortable, casual wine bar […]

Ling & Louie’s Asian Bar and Grill

The Denver outpost in this small chain aims squarely at the middle range of foodies, relatively adventurous eaters who want something better than Happy Meals and cheeseburgers when the family eats out. And Ling & Louie’s delivers with a hip dining room and decent food that includes Americanized versions of Thai, Japanese, Cantonese, Shanghainese and […]

Hangar Bar

It’s hard to miss the Beer Can Bomber hanging over the bar when you enter this East Colfax dive. The massive airplane sculpture was made from beer cans of yesteryear, like Blatz, Hamm’s, Schmidt and a host of others you may have forgotten about if you’ve been around since World War II. The Hangar has […]

Northfield Stapleton

When Denver decided to build a new airport 25 miles northeast of downtown on what was then almost-untouched prairie, people wondered what would happen to Stapleton, the city’s original airport, and the largely industrial area around it. Well, wonder no more. Stapleton has become one of the most successful new urbanism projects in the country, […]

Etai’s Bakery Cafe

The Udi’s Bakery Cafes scattered around town underwent a somewhat confusing name change in 2014, becoming Etai’s Bakery Cafes. What hasn’t changed is the comfortable neighborhood vibe and the great food. The Stapleton location is one of only a couple that are open all day, serving up sandwiches for both breakfast, lunch and dinner, bowls […]

Soiled Dove Underground

A huge improvement over its previous location in LoDo, the newer, classier Soiled Dove in Lowry, which opened in 2006, was built from the ground up, with music as its focal point. The crescent-shaped seating area was designed so that anyone seated in the 300-person-plus room would have a good line of sight, with each […]