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Tom's Home Cookin' - Closed

800 E. 26th Ave.
Denver, CO 80205

Downtown Denver

303-388-8035

http://https://www.facebook.com/pages/Toms-Home-Cookin/190025544342434?sk=timeline

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Hours:Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.-ish
Price:$
Features: Wheelchair accessible, Catering, Kid Friendly, Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout
Serving: Lunch
Alcohol: No Alcohol
Parking: Parking Lot Available, Street Parking
Reservations: Reservations Not Accepted

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For more than a decade, Tom's Home Cookin' has been a stick-to-your-ribs, lunch-only respite for soul-food seekers and Southerners, blue-collar workers and chefs, chatterers and chicken-chasers. The fried chicken, profoundly moist with skin crusted the color of copper, flies right every single time. It's a sign of more goodness to come: peach cobbler, macaroni and cheese (it's the Velveeta, people), cornbread stuffing and whatever else owners Steve Jankousky and Tom Unterwagner have on the day's chalkboard. Get in line early, because Tom's sells out fast.

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Reader: It's Fat Tuesday...Where's Tom's Home Cookin' When You Need It?
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 6:47 a.m. by Westword Staff

It's Fat Tuesday, and diners will be letting the good times roll all over town. But Tom's Home Cookin', a longtime Southern cooking mainstay in Five Points that was a regular on our list of the Best Southern Food Restaurants in Denv...
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 5:52 a.m. by Mark Antonation

After the initial sadness of saying goodbye to Tom’s Home Cookin’ when the celebrated Southern lunch counter closed abruptly in December, curiosity took hold: Who would be the next tenant to bring something new to the Five Points ne...
Reader: With the Sale of Tom's, I Officially Hate the Gentrification of Five Points
Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 7:22 a.m. by Westword Staff

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Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 7:33 a.m. by Patricia Calhoun

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