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road. the space... more >> best sometime italian tonti's tonti's is an enigma. it's a tiny strip-mall joint, almost always empty except for a couple of employees hanging disconsolately around the counter. and while about half the time what we get off the short, predictable menu (pizzas, calzones, stromboli, meatball sandwiches) is completely... more >> best taste of denver elway's if you wanted to give people a true taste of denver, where would you send them? for us, elway's -- big john's eponymous temple of meat -- comes out on top every time. for the scene, the service, the staff and the sly humor implicit in the menu's design, elway's is that single restaurant that... more >> best taste of denver on the cheap brewery bar ii legislators and local union leaders, cowboys and cooks. you never know who'll end up at brewery bar ii on any given day, because everyone who knows and loves denver for its less cosmopolitan charms passes through here eventually, looking for cold beer, hot chile, gloriously sloppy meximerican... more >> best taste of the new west (2 comments) cafe star cafe star isn't a french restaurant -- though some of the preparations (like the duck confit) are certainly continental in origin -- and given the worldliness of its cuisine, it isn't a completely american restaurant. it isn't a fine-dining restaurant -- it's too fun for that -- but neither is it... more >> best old west restaurant buckhorn exchange at the buckhorn exchange, every square inch of space that isn't being used for the butchering, cooking and plating of meat is covered with something meat-related. hundreds of dead animals are mounted on every available bit of wall; every nook and cranny is jammed with gewgaws and antique... more >> best way out west restaurant vesta dipping grill ten years ago, vesta broke new ground when it introduced the notion of a hip, sharp and trendy dipping grill to denver. amazingly, ten years later, the place remains the absolute definition of a hip, sharp, trendy and groundbreaking restaurant. in the interim, others have tried to copy the... more >> best american restaurant (1 comments) mel's funny that it would take two brits with french wine pretensions and a long history of globe-trotting culinary excess to come up with denver's premier american restaurant. owners mel and janie master have helped define denver's place in american food history for decades, the last twelve of them at... more >> best new american restaurant (1 comments) deluxe it seems impossible, but deluxe has managed to get better over the past few years. that's saying something, because it was pretty damn good to begin with and has always been one of our favorite spots for kicking back and treating ourselves. the menu -- a kind of bizarro world take on the... more >> best old american restaurant bastien's when your grandfather thought about a nice dinner out, bastien's may have been the spot he had in mind. big fat steaks, ageless cocktails and a tacky, shmaltzy, absolutely dead-on swinger's swank put this place high on our list of favorite restaurants. forget fusion, forget classicism or... more >> best taste of the past zengo there was a moment there, right around 2004, when it seemed like latino-asian fusion would be the next big thing. and denver was on the cutting edge, because international restaurateur richard sandoval introduced it first at zengo. but just as zengo was hitting its stride, the rest of the... more >> best taste of the 21st century tula one meal at tula should be enough to make almost any denver diner reconsider just what it means to eat mexican food. the menu here is deep and simple, elegant and approachable all at the same time. chef/owner chris douglas brings french training, a sushi chef's eye for detail and a no-bullshit... more >> best taste of the future potager every decade, every era, every movement in modern cuisine seems attended by a requisite affectation. a few years ago, every serious kitchen needed a sous-vide setup. before that, it was a compressed co2 gun for making foams. before that, it was squeeze bottles and specialty tools like fish... more >> best tasting menu sushi sasa at sushi sasa, chef wayne conwell and his crew make great sushi. since conwell served a very old-style apprenticeship among some of the modern masters of the craft, that's a given. but it's with his omakase menus -- personalized, multi-course tastings -- that he truly shows the depth and... more >> best small-plates menu the 9th door the small-plate fads may be dying, but the 9th door deserves to stick around. rather than compromise in the face of changing tastes, it remains dedicated to traditional spanish flavors: anchovies, a handful of olives and almonds, some sour goat cheese laced with honey, pan-fried artichokes and... more >> best fusion menu l'atelier frozen oils, liquid potatoes, horseradish foam -- chef radek cerny's latest run of menus at l'atelier haven't even been fusion so much as venusian, heavily influenced by the work of ferran adria at el bulli and running the ragged outer edge between border-jumping french/ spanish/american/asian... more >> best fusion restaurant opus over the years, michael long has played many roles. he's been an employee and an owner, a wild-eyed genius and a flake, a scientist whose kitchen was a laboratory where he experimented with molecular gastronomy, and a chef whose primary goal was feeding people what they wanted to eat -- not... more >> best late-night menu sketch food & wine sketch serves late, but more important, sketch really comes alive late at night -- when restaurant crews, homeward-bound creekers, the hammered, the shattered, those whose nights are coming to an end and those whose nights are just getting started all seem to converge on the subterranean wine... more >> best 24-hour menu (3 comments) breakfast king breakfast king is great for breakfast, and it's a good spot to wolf down a burger for lunch or a chicken-fried steak on a lazy sunday evening. but if, like us, you sometimes find yourself desperately in need of a gigantic burrito, a ham steak, some corned beef hash or maybe just thirty cups of... more >> best breakfast toast toast serves everything you've dreamed about in your wildest, most gluttonous dreams. for starters, there are pancakes: beautiful, brilliant, wicked messes of chocolate and peanut butter, blueberry and lemon zest, bananas and ice cream. then there are plates of greasy bacon, decadent benedicts,... more >> best cheap breakfast the bagel store the bagel store sits in a quiet strip mall in the heart of little russia, but it's staffed by young guys who really know their jewish doughnut. you can smell the place doing it right, and if you show up early (the shop closes at 2 p.m. on the dot), you can even look through the doors to the huge... more >> best breakfast in bed les delices de paris there's no better way to start the day than with breakfast in bed, and there's no better place to stock up than les delices de paris. walking into the warm, bright, well-scrubbed interior of the little pastry shop -- which is decorated almost exclusively with the diplômes and certificats de... more >> best international breakfast british bulldog it might be seven in the morning, but across the pond in merry olde england, the lads are already tying on their spikes and getting ready to have a bit of a kick-around. if you're one of that growing number of americans with a taste for english premier league soccer and are willing to get up and... more >> best really international breakfast pho 79 some people are willing to take a chance on unfamiliar cuisines at dinner, some will risk it at midday. but for denver's true gastronauts, breakfast is when you earn your stripes. and there's no better (or more delicious) international wake-up call than pho 79. at any time of the day, the only... more >> best breakfast burrito santiago's although burritos are the breakfast of champions in denver, there are two camps on what constitutes a proper breakfast burrito. one side likes theirs on a plate, served huge and messy, slopped up with chile and requiring a fork. then there are those who like them thin, manageable and ready to go.... more >> best breakfast burrito at 2 a.m. (1 comments) viva burrito company it's late, you're hungry and you've got a car full of dumb-ass buddies who are already too fucked up to drive and far too irresponsible to be trusted with choosing an appropriate spot for a late-night burrito fix. it's at moments like these that you should be thankful for viva burrito company.... more >> best taste of the d.f. los carboncitos free chips and salsa, a night-and-day crush of crowds that would send any demographer running home in tears, and huaraches -- the greatest food ever named after a shoe. these are just some of the attributes that make los carboncitos a true taste of the distrito federal. this is the mexican... more >> best burrito vendor milagro burrito let's face it: any burrito vendor is going to look pretty good when you're leaving a club at 2 a.m. -- or when you arrive at the office at 8 a.m. (after having left the club at 2 a.m.) with a hangover, jonesing for the fix that only green chile can provide. and as long as we're being honest, we... more >> best taste of hong kong (2 comments) mee yee lin this year, the longtime dim sum favorite mee yee lin left west alameda for aurora -- but it might as well be hong kong, if you're ordering the hong kong shrimp dumpling soup. the powerful, salty clear broth is filled with whole-leaf greens and about a dozen wispy, shrimp-packed dumplings that... more >> best dim sum super star asian when it opened early in 2006, super star asian didn't just raise the bar on chinese cuisine. it took the bar, broke it over its knee, threw the pieces away and then made an entirely new bar that's held so high you can't even see it from the kitchens of most of the chinese joints in this town. the... more >> best dim sum for beginners palace chinese restaurant dim sum can be daunting for those who haven't learned how to pick through the chicken feet and curried cuttlefish to find the exotic morsels more suited to american tastes. but at the palace, blessed are the meek. dim sum dining in this attractive restaurant is pleasant and unhurried, without the... more >> best brunch bistro vendôme when the crew from rioja took over bistro vendôme last year, fans wondered what would happen to the classically french menu. sure, the restaurant would continue to occupy one of the choicest bits of hidden real estate in the city -- with a stunning patio for warm-weather meals -- but rioja's... more >> best brunch with grandma brown palace for decades, the brown palace has served its signature afternoon tea to legions of denver's blue-haired bluebloods. but while perfectly brewed darjeeling, tea cakes, finger sandwiches and scones with devonshire cream may not be your cup of tea, so to speak, take a look around the brown palace's... more >> best afternoon tea dushanbe teahouse boulder's dushanbe teahouse is the ideal place to escape the daily grind. from the trellised gardens out front to the fountain inside, every inch of this building (broken down and shipped in pieces all the way from tajikistan) is designed to comfort the spirit and transport the body. the dress... more >> best taste of nola lucile's the cajun/creole fad ebbs and flows faster than the tides. up in boulder, however, one place has not only held on, but it's flourished over three decades of service: lucile's. this new orleans-style breakfast joint has been serving huge plates of biscuits and gravy, sugar-dusted beignets,... more >> best chain (1 comments) tokyo joe's chain restaurants are creatures of convenience: they're the places where you eat when you don't want to think about where you want to eat. the best of them insinuate themselves seamlessly into your world and your lifestyle -- and tokyo joe's is definitely one of the best, not just for denver, but... more >> best free lunch (or dinner) (1 comments) same cafe owners brad and libby birky started same cafe (so all may eat) with a simple philosophy: everyone ought to be able to eat well and affordably in their neighborhood. with that in mind, they decided not to demand money from anyone who comes to eat at their small cafe -- which features an... more >> best quick lunch famous pizza famous pizza was an institution in this town thirty years ago, and this outpost is still a must-stop for anyone in need of a quick lunch. for five bucks, you can get two slices of whatever's in the box -- which is bound to start with a classic new york thin crust, no matter what's on top -- and a... more >> best cheap lunch ba le sandwich banh mi -- vietnamese sandwiches with a distinctively french twist -- are the plats du jour here, every jour of the week. there are a dozen or so varieties available at the counter, from classic pork pâté with pork and more pork to spicy pork and barbecued pork and even all-vegetable offerings,... more >> best sandwiches (1 comments) pat's #1 the best way to judge a sandwich joint is how you order there. at a decent sandwich joint, you'll order lunch. at a good one, you'll order lunch and maybe a little something extra for dinner. but at the best sandwich joint, you'll empty bank accounts and max out credit cards in order to buy... more >> best sandwiches from a gas station (1 comments) south philly cheesesteak jerry? the guy who owns this franchise-but-not-a-franchise of the south philly cheesesteak company that's located in a conoco? yeah, he's nuts, and he'll talk your ear clean off if you let him. but he's also some kind of sandwich-making genius -- a savant, or just one of those guys with a direct... more >> best cuban (1 comments) buenos aires pizzeria the best cuban sandwich in town -- a miracle of pork, pork and pork, swiss cheese, sharp mustard and pickles on lardy grilled and pressed bread -- just happens to be made at buenos aires pizzeria, an argentine joint best known for its pizza, empanadas and gnocchi. weird? maybe in any other city,... more >> best cheap dinner cowbobas corn dogs, gravy fries, grilled cheese sandwiches, t-bone steaks and boba tea. of all the freaky fusions created by denver's odd patchwork of ethnic neighborhoods, cowbobas -- a vietnamese cowboy steakhouse built, stocked and staffed without a hint of retro irony -- may feature the best. you can... more >> best taste of your childhood (1 comments) p.b. loco p.b. loco speaks directly to those soft and gushy, sacked-out-in-front-of-the-tv-watching- transformers memories of a particularly peanut-butter-obsessed slice of the denver dining demographic. if you don't like peanut butter...no, if you don't love peanut butter, don't come here, because... more >> best taste of someone else's childhood steuben's steuben's, brought to us this past year by the same people who brought us vesta dipping grill ten years ago, opened huge with a full board of american classics from around the country. over the following months, it only got huger -- and today it shows no signs of slowing down. but steuben's does... more >> best green-chile cheeseburger the cherry cricket we love green-chile cheeseburgers. we've eaten a lot of them in this city, and although none has been the green-chile cheeseburger of our dreams -- that exists only at the owl in new mexico -- the cherry cricket's green chile cheeseburger is darn good. part of that can be attributed to the... more >> best hamburger bud's bar bud's bar served the best bar burger last year, and ten years before that. odds are pretty good that this small, insanely popular, biker-friendly roadhouse will serve the best bar burgers ten years from now, too. for decades, it has served nothing but burgers, and that single-minded focus has... more >> best taste of what might've been (1 comments) griff's burger bar the exact history of the griff's burger bar chain is somewhat sketchy, but had the fast-food industry gone a little differently, we like to think that griff's might have been a victor in the drive-thru burger war. we can imagine a time when griff's -- not burger king, not mcdonald's -- would have... more >> best hot dog old fashioned italian deli in genetics, it's known that environmental stress breeds both diversity and specialization. same thing goes for food. and since there's almost no environment in the lower 48 more harsh than that of buffalo, new york, in the winter, it shouldn't come as any surprise that buffalo boasts a wide... more >> best hot dog cart biker jim's gourmet dogs we love hot dog carts. seriously, a couple of dirty-water dogs, something salty out of a foil bag and a cold coke is often the only thing that carries us through the day. but sometimes even the traditional charms of a street-corner vendor are not enough, and that's when we make the trek to the... more >> best taste of the windy city chicago stepping into chicago the restaurant is like stepping into chicago the city, thanks to decor dominated by case after case of colorful memorabilia devoted to the bears, white sox, black hawks and, yes, even the cubs. indeed, placards on the tables list significant events that have taken place... more >> best happy-hour menu dazzle although dazzle is best known as a dazzling jazz bar, it offers a great riff on happy hour. first, we like its idea of a happy "hour" being a hundred and fifty minutes long on weekdays (it's an hour shorter on weekends). second, we like how happiness comes at a flat rate: $5 a plate. third, we... more >> best expense-account dinner elway's this isn't to say that we wouldn't eat at elway's on our own dime. we would, and have, more times than our credit limit can bear. but what we are saying is, if you've got the chance to stick the man with the bill, then go ring up a whopper at elway's. start with a couple of classic martinis at... more >> best dinner for $2,000 (for one) palace arms to begin, a few ounces of the palace arms' diminishing stock of real, pre-embargo caviar, which will run you anywhere from $500 to $1,000. then order a shot -- but sip it! -- of very well-aged 1870s cognac ($575). after that the prices become somewhat more terrestrial for a beautiful bowl of... more >> best special-occasion dinner duo it's funny how duo's dining room -- a simple space with pale wood, exposed brick, white tablecloths -- initially seems underwhelming. at first blush, it looks like any one of a hundred other neighborhood joints going for casual bistro elegance. but duo begins to reveal itself as soon as the menus... more >> best dinner on a monday night frasca monday nights at frasca are community night -- a time for owners lachlan mac-kinnon-patterson and bobby stuckey, as well as their front- and back-of-the-house crews, to give a little something back to the community that's been so good to them. and how better for this chef and master sommelier to... more >> best dinner, period mizuna frank bonanno, owner of mizuna and luca d'italia, has had a pretty wild run recently. there was the complicated publication of his first cookbook and the flurry of promotion that followed. there was the dissolution of his partnership at the floundering milagro taco bar and harry's up on 17th... more >> best cheese course fruition like mod haircuts and hot pants, the cheese course seems to wax and wane in popularity year by year. there are seasons when it seems that every restaurateur in town is dumping bucketloads of money into the acquisition of increasingly strange and powerful cheeses from around the globe, others when... more >> best desserts duo pastry chef yasmin lozada-hissom is just one of the many reasons that duo has taken off. but she's a big reason. her desserts -- rustic apple-cranberry tarts, completely addictive sticky toffee puddings and frozen pistachio nougat, to name just a few -- are the stuff dreams are made of (you know:... more >> best free dessert palace arms unless you order very, very carefully, dinner at the palace arms may cost you the price of a decent used car -- but at least the macaroons brought with the bill are free. they also happen to be among the most delicious little cookies we've ever tasted, with a delicate texture and hints of honey,... more >> best moments restaurant kevin taylor restaurant kevin taylor is not only the finest expression of the classical talents of denver's most prolific big name chef, but it's provided some of our most surpassing moments of culinary bliss this past year. not every one of the seasonal menus is perfect, but when this kitchen is on, it's... more >> best place to be a regular chama there are places around town where one visit is enough. one meal off the menu and you know everything there is to know about the place. but there are other restaurants, other menus, that reveal themselves only over time. chama is one of those restaurants, and the menu, designed by chef sean... more >> best place to be irregular (8 comments) brix on the best nights at the original brix, it's hard to tell who's an employee, who's a customer and who's a friend. everyone just seems to wander around carrying drinks and plates, jumping from table to table doing shots and carrying on conversations about everything under the sun. though located... more >> best lemonade bourbon grill ah, the yin and yang, the sweet and sour of colfax, denver's most diverse and delicious street. at bourbon grill, you'll find everyone from hipsters to hookers, yuppies to immigrants, cops to east high students all congregating outside the little storefront to quench their common thirst with a... more >> best coffeehouse city, o' city when city, o' city opened in the former home of watercourse, it quickly became the talk of the town because it reminded everyone of that one really great coffeehouse/bar in williamsburg...or was it in the mission? no, amsterdam! it's easy to see why a space where espresso drinkers can mingle with... more >> best one-two punch paris on the platte/paris wine bar paris on the platte has long been one of denver's finest jolt joints -- and now it's among the few that can legally allow cigarettes, too, due to the platte's designation as a tobacconist. as a result, paris is a sturdy, smoky spot for the laptop set, with a menu full of caffeinated creations... more >> best barista (1 comments) doug naiman this is a town teeming with baristas: tattooed, spike-haired baristas; convenience-store baristas; baristas entombed in drive-up booths; smarmy starbucks baristas; barely breathing baristas. but once in a while you come across someone who just understands the art of making espresso, and doug... more >> best beer list falling rock tap house falling rock tap house could be the best beer joint not just in denver, but in the entire beer-drinking world. every fall, folks in town for the great american beer festival make a pilgrimage to this lodo institution to partake of a few of the more than seventy beers on tap -- all craft brewed,... more >> best microbrew list great divide brewing company great minds drink alike: that's the slogan of the great divide brewing company. we'll tap into that sentiment -- and there's no better place to do so than in the great divide tap room, a cool new space carved into the ballpark neighborhood brewery. sitting and swilling in this cozy, clubby nook,... more >> best colorado distillery (1 comments) stranahan's colorado distillery we've been waiting a long time to toast stranahan's colorado whiskey. but creating a brand-new whiskey takes time, and it wasn't until last spring that the very first barrel of stranahan's was tapped at this micro-distillery in the ballpark neighborhood. that initial taste was well worth the... more >> best brewpub wynkoop brewing co. when the wynkoop brewing co. opened almost twenty years ago in lodo, there was no coors field, no sports bar every few steps, no brewpub every few steps past that. the wynkoop was a pioneer not just in the microbrew industry, but also in this neighborhood, and for too many years, it's been taken... more >> best taste of tomorrow's brews (4 comments) north star restaurant & brewery a longtime resident of highland, former wynkoop brewer kyle carstens thought the area was perfect for a brewpub -- but it took him years to finally get his north star brewpub up and running. still, there's no denying that this place was worth the wait. not surprisingly, the home brews are great... more >> best wine list palace arms the regular wine list offered to diners at the palace arms is as dense and heavy as a leon uris novel, containing both the house's most easily moved everyday bottles and a selection of the treasures kept buried in the basement. the full list is more like the bible, written in large print on... more >> best wine list for mortals z cuisine if you know almost nothing about wine, can't speak french and couldn't care less about growing region, age, legs, microclimatology or varietals but still don't want to make a fool out of yourself by accidentally ordering the french equivalent of a bottle of mad dog to go with your cassoulet, z... more >> best wine list for tasting frasca it's the tajut -- the sample, the half-glass of vin ordinaire -- that makes frasca a must-stop destination for those still trying to find their way in the wine world. but frasca takes a good idea several steps better. the impressively long list of tajuts -- organized by certified master... more >> best tequila/mezcal list mezcal on the island in the middle of mezcal's wraparound bar are dozens and dozens of bottles of tequila and mezcal -- from the cheapest, greasy-yellow-death variety up through the finest, most artisanal small-batch liquors ever to come out of mexico. then there's the small fridge mounted in the back... more >> best margarita mezcal we tried. while our tequila-snob friends sipped at their coin-style marg, we knocked back every house margarita we could find. we sucked down so many that our teeth started squeaking from all the sweet and sour. and again and again, we kept coming back to those palate-cleansing house margs mixed... more >> best cocktail menu vita vita is proof that there's life after death -- because this new italian restaurant in part of the old olinger mortuary space is very lively indeed. part of that is due to the interesting menu, part to the chic interior -- and a lot to the very impressive cocktail menu that specializes in mixing... more >> best classic cocktails gaetano's though now a member of the wynkoop family of bars and restaurants, this old-time neighborhood italian joint and former mob bar still has a couple things going for it. first, the atmosphere (bulletproof front door, basement vault, frank-and-dino-at-the-copa decor) and fifty-odd years of history at... more >> best contemporary cocktails parallel 17 at parallel 17, there are many good things to eat. there are always pretty things to look at. and there are several fine things to drink. but the one that counts is the vietnamese coffee martini. of course, this is not a true martini (that can only be one thing -- gin, gin, gin and an olive), but... more >> best steakhouse (1 comments) capital grille since the day it opened in a brand-new building tucked into a very revitalized larimer square, the capital grille has been the idealized steakhouse in a town that is very, very serious about its steaks. everything about this restaurant -- from the dark and clubby decor to the white tablecloths... more >> best steakhouse for democrats club 404 even though this broadway landmark now sports a renovated dining room, it hasn't lost an inch of history or an ounce of soul. club 404 is the kind of joint that attracts everyone from local construction workers to the guys from antique row, broadway street creatures, daytime drinkers, broke... more >> best steakhouse for republicans (4 comments) northwoods inn the steaks are big, the sides are big, the tables are big -- everything about the northwoods inn is big except the prices, which are reasonable if you consider that the meals are all-inclusive and portions can be measured by the pound. this is a family spot, owned by the same family for... more >> best steakhouse for tourists buckhorn exchange if you have friends coming in from out of state, a passel of carnivorous german tourists to impress, family in town expecting a "real western experience" or just a pressing need to find a menu with balls (literally) late on a thursday night, head on over to the buckhorn. the staff is one of the... more >> best bbq (8 comments) cabin creek smokehouse bbq the standard barbecue offerings at cabin creek are excellent: the ribs stiff and smoked all the way to the bone with a surface like shellacked hardwood; the pork juicy, fatty, tender and woody-sweet, turned electric with the addition of a great carolina mustard-and-vinegar sauce. but what... more >> best bbq sandwich sam taylor's bar-b-que the worst thing about barbecue is waiting for it. and the worst thing about wet barbecue is that it can't be eaten while driving. well, not without seriously compromising the resale value of your ride. thus, the very worst thing about sam taylor's barbecue -- which comes slathered in a thick,... more >> best bbq pork yazoo bbq company when yazoo owner don hines says he's doing deep south barbecue, he's not kidding. he's from mississippi, and it shows when he smokes. his meat cooks low and slow -- twelve hours -- over a combination of hickory and pecan wood, with only a strong dry rub to keep it company. as his website advises,... more >> best asian bbq pacific ocean international market barbecue isn't an exclusively american passion. far beyond the traditions of this country's pit masters, there's a world full of ropa vieja, churrasco and smoky roasted pig head that drives us just as wild as that perfect shredded pork butt redolent of hickory and slapped with a brush of... more >> best bbq from a drive-thru (3 comments) jim 'n nick's what's better than barbecue? that's right: fast barbecue. while jim 'n nick's has all the trappings of a traditional barbecue restaurant -- tables, menus, waiters and such -- what makes it special is the drive-thru. not only can you order off the entire menu here, but service is lightning-quick,... more >> best potato chips govnr's park in thirty years, you learn to do some things right. and govnr's park, which marked its thirtieth anniversary last summer, does potato chips very, very right: sliced thin, freshly fried, salted and served on greasy waxed paper. more >> best french fries via since chef james mazzio took over the kitchen at via, a lot of things have improved. the biggest improvement? definitely the fries, which are now so good they'd be impossible to improve on. served in a tall paper cone stuck inside a cool wrought-iron holder, in both presentation and taste these... more >> best fried chicken castle cafe this is great chicken, slow-cooked chicken, tender and greasy chicken sheathed in a crisp armor of salt-and-peppered batter, a one-off of the incomparable kansas city style practiced by places like stroud's and a hundred and one less well-known fry joints and chicken shacks. it's also chicken... more >> best taste of southern hospitality joseph's southern food fried chicken is not really meant to be eaten in a dining room. it's meant to be eaten around the family dinner table, or sitting on a splintery picnic bench in the sun, or standing on the front porch watching the sun go down. at joseph's southern food, you have no real choice but to take your... more >> best chicken-fried steak reiver's a makeover, a change of staff, and suddenly this old watering hole has become a real restaurant, where you'll find the best chicken-fried steak in the city. over the years, the kitchen crew at reiver's has gone through some serious ups and downs, but the joint is definitely back on top now, with... more >> best chicken wings wingman for decades, the guys working the fryers at wingman have been perfecting their craft. and it's a credit to the deep appreciation of regional and international cuisines possessed by so many denverites (natives and transplants alike) that this local chain has been so successful, because wingman's... more >> best taste of buffalo luciano's pizza and wings luciano's does wings. luciano's does pizza. and that's pretty much all luciano's does. at any rate, that's all that matters to anyone who cares about the archetypal flavors of buffalo, where pizza and wings are the alpha and omega. here the wings are fried hard, sauced with frank's redhot and... more >> best fried cheese fruition of all the things for a chef to be good at, alex seidel may be best at making fritters. while still on the line at mizuna, he did apple fritters to go alongside the autumn presentations of foie gras. now that he has his own place with fruition, he starts off the menu with an amazing carpaccio of... more >> best fried dumplings szechuan chinese szechuan chinese holds down one of the worst imaginable locations in all of restaurantdom, in a nearly inaccessible strip mall off sixth avenue. still, for close to thirty years, the customers have kept coming. and most of them are coming for the dumplings: heavy and huge, as big across as a... more >> best shrimp cocktail (1 comments) el coyotito #3 el coyotito #3, a little storefront on leetsdale (we have no idea where #1 and #2 may be) gets a lot of things right. service is fast and friendly. there's a great spanish-only jukebox in the corner. and while the standard mexican fare (tacos, burritos, etc.) is only good, the seafood is great .... more >> best shrimp-and-beer cocktail tula one can of pacífico and one poached shrimp with lots of salt and just a touch of spice: that's all it takes to make a chelada . conveniently enough, that's also all it takes to win yourself an award for finding two great tastes that taste great together. more >> best green chile (6 comments) jack-n-grill over the years, patriarch jack martinez has tried a lot of things to build his business at jack-n-grill. he's expanded the menu, he's expanded the building, gotten a liquor license, franchised his concept and done everything short of handing out dollar bills to get people in the door. but in... more >> best colorado-style green chile reiver's if you're going for colorado-style green chile, you need to forget everything that makes a classic new mexican verde or the tamal sauces you find at some of the more authentic norteńo mexican lunch counters around town. a colorado green should be definitive in its own way, a thick stew full of... more >> best burrito (2 comments) seńor burrito you can tell how good the food is at seńor burrito by the way all the customers lean forward each time an order is laid out on the counter and the way all but one lucky someone fall back into their chairs, disappointed when they discover that the food coming out of the kitchen isn't for them.... more >> best tamales amaizing corn tamales the easiest way to find these guys is to go to the vendors' area of the boulder county farmers' market and look for the longest line. then get in it, wait, and several minutes and a few bucks later, you'll walk away with the best corn tamal in colorado. the masa is soft and sweet, rich with... more >> best taco tacos d.f. simplicity. in the food world, this is an often overlooked attribute. but not at tacos d.f. when you order an asada taco here, you get a generous pile of chopped, marinated carne asada taken fresh off the grill (along with whatever grilled onions were stuck to it) and wrapped in a fresh tortilla.... more >> best taste of mexico city (1 comments) el taco de méxico all day, every day, whenever you need it and whatever you want: that's the defining joy of having a joint in town like el taco de méxico. though the crowds ebb and flow, the work in the open kitchen is constant, with the women there always chopping, stirring, slicing and cleaning to stay on top... more >> best taste of michoacán (1 comments) taquería patzcuaro taquería patzcuaro is almost three decades old, and with its recently acquired liquor license, it should last at least another thirty. just about everything at this time-honored sit-down spot comes steeped in the flavors of michoacán. from the mar y tierra plates and camarón al mojo de ajo in its... more >> best taste of oaxaca del maguey mezcal there are only two ingredients in a good, unblended mezcal: water and the hearts of agave cactus. and yet with just this, the village palanqueros who make del maguey mezcal -- working in a style and with equipment unchanged since the sixteenth century -- manage to come up with more than a... more >> best taste of the new world senor ric's papier-mâché-parrot mexican. carnival mexican. meximerican. we're still struggling to come up with a simple descriptor that describes the kind of mexican food being done at places like ric's -- the carefully considered fusion of mexican flavors, texan innovation, borderlands heat and american... more >> best free chips and salsa (7 comments) los carboncitos los carboncitos is one of the best free-chips-and-salsa joints in town, and we're amazed that they're still just giving this stuff away. every meal here begins with a basket of fresh chips and a caddy of four free salsas running the gamut from merely hot to truly punishing. honestly, we've... more >> best cactus rosa linda's mexican cafe there are spots where you can get a great beef-cheek taco; places where the asada burritos are as big as your head. but there's only one mexican restaurant in town where our favorite plate is, technically, a vegetarian one. that restaurant is rosa linda's, where the cactus tacos keep us coming... more >> best carnitas taquería patzcuaro with all the high-end mexican and nouvelle mexican and fake chain mexican restaurants coming and going in denver, it's easy to forget places like taquería patzcuaro. it's easy to forget how friendly owner francisco almanza and the guys who work the floor are, how forgiving they are of our abysmal... more >> best taste of federal (1 comments) avanza market this is international street. it's not mexico, not vietnam, not korea or china or costa rica or any of those places in their entirety, but neither is it entirely the united states. it's an american smash map where things like borders and capitals and national languages have ceased to matter.... more >> best taste of old south federal new saigon back in the day, this stretch of federal was called little saigon because it was the neighborhood most densely populated by the recently arrived wave of post-war vietnamese immigrants. not surprisingly, these newcomers to the rocky mountain west brought some of the flavors of their old home with... more >> best taste of old north denver three sons for generations, three sons served as the defining taste of italian cuisine in north denver -- but a few years ago, the place was almost moribund. then came changes in ownership, in kitchen staff, in menu, even in style, and three sons has gone from bad to very, very good. it still looks like a... more >> best italian restaurant (2 comments) venice ristorante five years ago, owner alessandro carollo had just one small storefront restaurant. then there were two. then there were name changes and alterations in concept. and then, completely out of the blue, carollo moved into an enormous space recently vacated by one of the hottest, most talked-about... more >> best neighborhood italian restaurant frasca yes, pearl street is a neighborhood. just because it isn't your neighborhood doesn't mean it doesn't count. and though chef lachlan mackinnon-patterson has a tendency to go off-book with wide-ranging plates influenced by countries all over the map, at heart and in spirit, frasca is still an... more >> best return to form luca d'italia frank bonanno's been dealing with a lot, and his load was starting to show at luca d'italia. it's not that dinners here were ever bad; they were just less amazing than they'd once been, less effortlessly blissful. but over the past year, bonanno has put his legendarily obsessive focus back on... more >> best ciabatta dolce sicilia italian bakery dolce sicilia has authentic italian cookies, tasty sandwiches and serious tiramisu, but we're most partial to its remarkably inexpensive scratch-baked breads, including semolina, baguettes and heavenly ciabatta: a powdery crust, not too tough or too flaky, wrapped around a wonderfully textured,... more >> best pizza the oven there's something to be said for a place that does pizza and nothing but pizza. no pastas, no hoagies, no chicken parm sandwiches or slices of up-from-frozen cheesecake. although the oven doesn't quite rise to that level of obsessive focus -- you can get apps of olives and fresh mozzarella,... more >> best gourmet pizza d note get past the naming conventions (every specialty pie here is named after a song, a band, a musician, whatever), get past the open-mike nights and the d note's double life as a live-music venue. get past the location -- smack in the middle of cutesy olde town arvada -- and the overt... more >> best rocky mountain pie wazee supper club decades before "rocky mountain high" became colorado's second official state song, diners were singing the praises of the wazee supper club. in fact, the karagas brothers opened their restaurant bar in 1974, just two years after john denver wrote that song, and today the wazee is just as much an... more >> best place to reminisce about peter frampton before he felt like we do oblio's pizzeria the pizza is tasty, but it's the ambience that really draws people to oblio's -- that and the liquor license that so many park hill nimbys fought against. today ex- naysayers tie their drooling golden retrievers to the fence and join the queue of folks waiting for a seat in the jammin' joint.... more >> best taste of naples via two things saved via from slipping into that great, yawning pit of mediocrity above which so many restaurants hang. first, there was last fall's hiring of chef james mazzio and his decision to stand his post right on the line. and second, there were the pizza ovens -- real wood-fired ovens of the... more >> best international pizza buenos aires pizzeria buenos aires has long been a magnet for immigrants. successive waves of wanderers from italy, africa, asia and elsewhere have washed up in that cosmopolitan city, and each group has brought a little taste of their homeland with them. and now we have all those tastes here in denver at buenos aires... more >> best taste of buenos aires buenos aires grill buenos aires pizzeria features the full spectrum of argentine immigration in pizza form, but francis carrera's buenos aires grill goes much deeper, offering perfect renditions of many of the international plates that have fed generations of buenos aires residents and shaped the cuisine of that... more >> best taste of latin america sabor latino denver has always had plenty of mexican restaurants -- old mexican, new mexican, regional mexican, mexican done both fancy and plain. but it wasn't until recently that we started tasting the true potential of internationally influenced latin american cuisine. that potential is best realized at... more >> best central/south american restaurant (1 comments) los cabos ii los cabos ii picks up extra points for authenticity. well, authenticity -- and the giant stuffed llama. when the dining room is quiet, this restaurant can (and does) double as a sort of peruvian cultural museum -- but it's best during the lunch and dinner rushes, when everyone's ordering and then... more >> best taste of lima (1 comments) limón chef/owner alex gurevich had some sort of epiphany during a trip to peru a couple of years back. he saw the blooming of an entirely new cuisine based on the borderless, international flavors of traditional south american cooking and came back to denver with the desire to open one of the first... more >> best fried plantains and ceviche red tango fried plantains and ceviche aren't the only dishes that red tango does well, but they're the dishes that red tango does better than anyone else in town. strange combination plates of enchiladas and tortas, ceviches, italian ravioli stuffed with crushed black beans and topped with butterflied... more >> best raw fish (3 comments) sushi den the worst fights we've ever seen at sushi den haven't been over the last piece of o-toro, but over the last seat at the sushi bar on a friday night. and that's odd, because we'd punch a nun if she was standing between us and some of the brilliant, beautiful, achingly fresh fish brought in by the... more >> best sushi restaurant (1 comments) sushi sasa at sushi sasa, a meal isn't just about the food, it's about the whole experience of dining. with its white-on-white decor, attentive servers, jewel-box space (with an overflow bar and lounge downstairs) and a menu that stretches the idea of nouvelle japanese beyond just the over-played tricks of... more >> best taste of tokyo oshima ramen finding a mcdonald's in downtown tokyo is easy; finding a real ramen noodle house in the united states is much more challenging. so how lucky are we to have oshima ramen, a link in a chain of ramen noodle shops that is to japan what mickey d's is to this country? very lucky. as a matter of fact,... more >> best japanese restaurant domo not only is domo denver's best japanese restaurant, it's one of the best and most interesting restaurants that denver has ever produced. part restaurant, part zen garden, part aikido dojo, part japanese cultural center, domo is all japanese -- fiercely original, fiercely regional and fiercely... more >> best vietnamese restaurant (1 comments) kim ba denver is heaven for fans of vietnamese food. we've got the good stuff and the bad stuff, the authentic and the fake. we've got more pho restaurants than you can shake a stick at, and dozens of good noodle-bowl joints. but when we're really craving all that vietnamese cooking can be, we head for... more >> best taste of hanoi ha noi pho if you're from vietnam, this is comfort food. if you're not, it's a fantastic education in the less common flavors of southeast asia. gelatinized duck's blood, fishscale mint, sawgrass and other, even less recognizable ingredients are pretty much par for the course at ha noi pho, but you'll be... more >> best nouvelle vietnamese parallel 17 at parallel 17, executive chef and owner mary nguyen has resurrected a branch of vietnamese cuisine that had been largely ignored for years. her menu is composed primarily of vietnamese small plates, a style once prized by the royal family in hue and practiced by generations of vietnamese home... more >> best taste of saigon pho saigon pho saigon's space -- a box with some tables -- is forgettable, and the menu a seemingly simple board of southeast asian classics. but what sets pho saigon apart is the cosmopolitan sense of otherness that comes from cramming in a mixed-demographic crowd and feeding them, in rapid-fire... more >> best american chinese restaurant (2 comments) chopsticks china bistro the "american chinese" restaurant is just about extinct, now that everyone is eating stir-fry noodles and lettuce wraps and even grandma has the occasional yen for gingered pork dumplings. but melting-pot chinese food has its place, too, and that place is chopsticks, a restaurant that serves... more >> best authentic chinese restaurant (4 comments) super star asian if we could go to only one restaurant for the rest of our lives, super star would rank high on the list. although there are probably better restaurants in denver, sitting in that blank, almost anonymous space (just a restaurant-shaped hole in alameda square, next to the place that offers herbal... more >> best chinese takeout east china there are few pleasures in life more satisfying than laying out a huge spread of chinese takeout on the coffee table and settling in for a late-night barney miller marathon on cable. maybe it's the notion of eating straight from those waxy cardboard cartons. maybe it's the freedom of gorging... more >> best korean restaurant (6 comments) han kang at many korean restaurants, the food seems like an endless repetition of grilled beef, rice, onions and the occasional egg. but at han kang, that's just where the food begins. the best dishes on this menu are those that are nearly unpronounceable -- deeply flavored soups, spicy seafoods, mounds... more >> best thai restaurant (2 comments) us thai us thai is so delicious, so friendly, so addictive that we had to make a half-dozen visits over the course of a couple of weeks just to make absolutely sure that the restaurant was as good as we thought it was. and it was, every single time. this is authentic thai food done in a simple,... more >> best indian restaurant (1 comments) royal peacock for decades, royal peacock's shanti awatramani has been serving some of the best indian food in the united states. before that, he worked in some of the best indian restaurants, hotels and resorts in bombay. he grew up in the hotel-and-restaurant business (as did his niece, laxmi lalchandani, who... more >> best indian buffet little india at this point, indian buffets are almost ubiquitous. which is handy, because that means you never have to go very far in denver for an inexpensive hit of saag paneer or tandoori chicken. but with the profusion of options, it's also more and more difficult to tell the good from the bad. there's an... more >> best taste of history (1 comments) jewel of india anyone can invent some freaky, prawn-and-jackfruit asian fusion plate with chrysanthemum flowers and pierogi. some people might even think it inspired. but for us, true talent lies in the ability to cook the favorite plate of your great-great-great-grandfather and make it just the way he liked it... more >> best vegetarian indian (1 comments) masalaa creamed spinach can be great, but the best friend that creamed spinach ever had was a steak. make that the best american friend that creamed spinach ever had was a steak, because there are plenty of ethnic restaurants where vegetarianism is not about the denial of pleasure (read: meat), but the... more >> best vegetarian restaurant d note the d note's menu isn't entirely vegetarian, but the parts that are -- better than half of the offerings, with many of them completely vegan -- are so good that you'll barely notice the lack of pepperoni and hot italian sausage. and if you do, there's always the other half of the menu on which... more >> best greens mercury cafe who is this city's most fierce, forward-forging green advocate? the answer is blowing in the wind. this year, marilyn megenity -- who infuses her mercury cafe with good, organic food and intelligent entertainment and fuels her own car with vegetable-oil fuel -- took out a loan on her home so she... more >> best garden in a restaurant gaia bistro gaia is the goddess of the earth and everything that comes from the earth, including all of the wonderful dishes -- the buttery quiches and buckwheat crepes wrapped around peppered lamb loin with wild mushrooms and fragrant pots of french-pressed, organic kaladi brothers coffee -- served by... more >> best flowers in a restaurant (1 comments) flower wraps platt park residents val and carolyn erpelding combined their talents -- he's a chef (and an accomplished ice sculptor), she's a florist -- to create the multi-purpose flower wraps, a restaurant/coffeehouse/flower shop that gets people coming and going. situated adjacent to the louisiana and... more >> best picnic on the patio rioja chef/co-owner jen jasinski has put up many impressive menus at rioja. but with all her housemade pastas, salads, colorado lamb dishes and an ever-changing pork-heavy, mediterranean board, there's always been one delicious constant: the rioja "picnic." combining spanish chorizo, air-dried duck... more >> best middle eastern restaurant (4 comments) ya hala the space is small and more than a little ragged. the service runs at a pace somewhere between slow-but-friendly and glacial. and the menu seems oddly foreshortened. but at ya hala, all that matters is the food -- and the food is absolutely fabulous. the kitchen must be imbued with some kind of... more >> best taste of persia house of kabob for twenty years, house of kabob has been jammed into this strip mall, tangled up with other middle eastern markets and restaurants. that's twenty years of persian cuisine, twenty years of kabobs and lamb tongue and herbed yogurt and pita. and while the room -- done in regal purple, with pale... more >> best taste of greece (1 comments) yanni's greek taverna at yanni's greek taverna, no meal can start without ouzo, no meal can proceed without a big spread of mezedes (greek tapas), and no meal is complete without somebody ordering the lamb. when the wind is right, when owner yanni stavropoulos has the gigantic outdoor rotisserie grill fired up in this... more >> best african restaurant (1 comments) arada ethiopian cafe last year, arada moved out of its home on east colfax and into a small, comfortable space on santa fe surrounded by taquerías and art galleries, in just the right area for catching hungry adventurers looking for an interesting dinner on a saturday night. it's a nice place with scratchy... more >> best taste of north africa cafe paprika bastilla and sweetened black coffee at cafe paprika: that's the one order that captures the essence of morocco in particular and north africa as a whole. ginger and cumin and saffron, cinnamon and powdered sugar, a billion layers of phyllo dough with shreds of herbed chicken stuck in between, the... more >> best taste of provence restaurant aix tuna nicoise; grilled andouille sausage with charred peppers, olives, almonds and pumpkin seeds; a cheese plate with poached pears and lavender honey; mushroom tarts in cognac sauce. these are just a few of the unique tastes of aix-en-provence featured at restaurant aix. feeling a bit more... more >> best taste of paris on the cheap (3 comments) le central we go to le central like catholics go to confession -- as a way to clear the head and save the soul after a week spent doing wrong. for serious fans of french food, le central is a required stop. but even if you just dream of spending a lazy sunday afternoon hanging around a parisian cafe reading... more >> best french restaurant z cuisine one of the best, most recognizable dishes in the epic french canon is cassoulet. and at z cuisine, one of the best, most recognizable dishes on chef/owner patrick dupays's chalkboard menu is a cassoulet maison that does proud every french cook ever tasked with carrying on the cassoulet tradition.... more >> best opening limón when limón opened last july, it did so without the opening-night fireworks that have become rather customary for denver's big addresses. but this was by design. what looked like one of those open-the-doors-and-pray scenarios was actually orchestrated inside and out by kate lacroix from dish... more >> best move lola there was no doubt that lola had outgrown its original location. it had outgrown the space within a few weeks of dave query and chef jamey fader opening their little coastal mexican seafood shack on south pearl. what was never a sure thing, however, was whether the loyal crowd of regulars,... more >> best comeback (2 comments) solera goose sorensen, owner of solera, has been through a rough couple of years. strategic errors, an attempted (and ultimately abortive) expansion into the breakfast market, the dissolution of a bad partnership -- all of these things (combined with sorensen's forays into the national food scene that... more >> best taste of denver when coming home jack-n-grill home is where the heat is. no matter how long you've been away from denver -- a month, a week, a day -- as you head back into town from dia, you can feel yourself jonesing for great mexican food. and now you can get a fast fix just off peńa boulevard, at this second outpost of jack-n-grill, a... more >> best neighborhood restaurant (1 comments) tables even without lunch (which tables recently stopped serving), even without those lines that once stretched out the door and past the patio, even without the walk-in traffic and the look of surprise on the faces of everyone discovering the place for the first time, tables stands as denver's best... more >> best restaurant neighborhood highland seventeenth avenue is coming along. lodo has a lot of great restaurants. larimer square has more good restaurants in one block than other parts of town have restaurants. but the real culinary explosion is on the edge of highland, which is suddenly bursting with phenomenal restaurants. from small... more >> best new restaurant neighborhood sixth avenue how long have we been saying that sixth avenue is going to be the next hot restaurant neighborhood? for years. but this year, we may finally be right. with table 6 mounting a second-wind resurgence, the master family consolidating their new american/california influence at montecito, fruition... more >> best new restaurant (since march 2006) fruition fruition is not yet as good as it will one day be. but since chef alex seidel and paul attardi, both ex of mizuna, opened their restaurant just a couple of months ago, it's already proven itself more than good enough to deserve top honors as denver's best new restaurant. and as it grows into its... more >> about us | work for westword | esubscribe | privacy policy | problem with the site? | rss | site map Š2007 village voice media all rights reserved. search advanced archive search >> community (684) automotive (1,107) buy, 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