Carrera’s Tacos

Originally from California, brothers Joshua and Ryan Carrera launched a catering company-turned-food truck in 2019 with the goal of bringing the type of Mexican food they’d grown up eating to the Mile High – and their business was a hit. In 2022, it moved into a permanent home, making the Denver Tech Center an unlikely […]

Spice Trade Brewery & Kitchen

Spice Trade Brewery has unusual roots: It was born inside Arvada’s Yak & Yeti Restaurant, brewing beers made with herbs and spices to complement the Indian and Nepalese food. So it made sense that when the brewery opened its own distinct location in May 2020, it would push these flavors even further. The new Spice […]

Shanghai Kitchen

This southeast suburban eatery’s exterior is strip-mall boring, but it belies a recently remodeled dining room that evokes 1920s Shanghai with its dark wood and brickwork. The menu covers a range of American Chinese favorites, but there’s also a Chinese menu (with English translations) that features other dishes less familiar to typical takeout customers. Traditional […]

Pho Lee

Pho Lee opened in Greenwood Village in 2012 and brought authentic Vietnamese cuisine to the Denver suburb. The restaurant space may be small, but the food is always fresh and the staff friendly and helpful. The founder had worked at the original Pho 95 with his brother before deciding to open his own restaurant; the […]

Jabo’s Bar-Be-Q

When Jabo Lawson found a permanent address for his once-mobile barbecue operation, he did a quick makeover, cramming overstuffed booths into the former home of a Heavenly Hams. Now blessed with an actual kitchen, he traded in his little outdoor barbecue pit — the same type that masters in southern Texas and Louisiana use — […]

Sazza

It’s a well-established fact (among a certain subset of pizza lovers, that is) that the best pizza in the world is New York-style thin crust, dripping with orange grease, topped with nothing but double cheese and pepperoni. But if you’re one of those people who simply must have pineapple or Peruvian mountain potatoes on your […]

Yanni’s Greek Restaurant

When the wind is right, when owner Yanni Stavropoulos has the outdoor rotisserie grill fired up, the odor of roasting meat and garlic and wine will draw you from a mile away. Outside Yanni’s, you’ll see Stavropoulos standing over that grill like a minor laughing spirit from an expurgated chapter of the Iliad – the […]

Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse

Del Frisco’s exists for one reason and one reason only: to bring huge whacks of 100 percent American corn-fed beef to diners with big appetites and bigger wallets. A swank joint tinged with candlelight and cigar smoke (amid an air of DTC deal-making), Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse is thick with fat-cat atmosphere. Abundant dark […]

Sahara Restaurant

Morocco isn’t technically within the geographical region we call the Middle East, but there’s a culinary continuum that links the food of northwest Africa with the Levant and points farther east. That continuum encompasses hummus, baba ghanouj, falafel and pita stuffed with grilled meats, all of which Sahara Restaurant on East Arapahoe Road handles with […]