Before the end of the year, two restaurants that have been dishing out casual Mexican food for decades will close as their owners focus on their suburban businesses. The owners of Taco House, a Tex-Mex diner that has served customers from its original location at 581 S. Federal Blvd., since 1958, gave their news at … Read more
Denver native Tony Garcia remembers filling up on enchiladas at Chubby’s when he was a college student in the early 1970s. “It was fast food — but it was good food,” he recalled of the original location of the legendary Mexican restaurant, 1231 W. 38th Ave., which still draws crowds hankering for burritos, hamburgers and … Read more
What do barbecue breakfast burritos, hot stone pho, and croissants all have in common? Each of these dishes has gone viral in Denver in the last year. At Smok, a barbecue restaurant in The Source Hotel & Market Hall, an enormous breakfast burrito featuring chorizo, brisket, tater tots, eggs, queso and green chile unexpectedly took … Read more
Surrounded by a swirl of dried corn stalks, hay bales and black-and-orange Halloween festoonery, the Café at Nick’s Garden Center would be easy to miss — except for the line. Read more: Denver’s green chile roadside roasters a cultural, culinary gift Hungry shoppers and Halloween revelers stood for 10 minutes or more on a recent weekend … Read more
Chipotle Mexican Grill announced this week that it will open two new Colorado locations before the end of July. The Denver-born brand, now based in Newport Beach, Calif., is opening its 11th Denver and second Boulder outlets, each with an innovative twist. The new Denver store at 5560 N. Tower Road, in Green Valley Ranch, … Read more
One of the Front Range’s most well-known full-service Mexican food restaurants is preparing to serve diners in Denver for the first time in its 22-year history. Los Dos Potrillos announced plans for its seventh location at 4100 E. Mexico Ave., Suite G in south Denver. It’s expected to debut early next year. The family-owned company, … Read more
After two years in business, Bodega has been slapped with a cease-and-desist. The cult-favorite brunch spot in Denver’s neighborhood Sunnyside has changed its name to Odie B’s, after a Kansas City restaurant called La Bodega sent it a legal notice, according to a message that the restaurant, at 2651 W. 38th Ave., posted on Instagram … Read more
Bonfire Burritos has held a steady blaze in Golden for decades. And for the first time ever, the owners are expanding that flame out of the western city. Co-owner Ian Lanier said Bonfire is opening its second and third locations in Arvada and Wheat Ridge, pending city and municipality approvals. The company’s cult following can … Read more
Two years after watching Bodega bloom with a loyal following in the Sunnyside neighborhood, Cliff Blauvelt says he “knew we had something special, and I wanted to keep growing this.” His wife and co-owner, Cara, was apprehensive at first about a second location, but as he tells the story, “I said, ‘Do you want to … Read more
Il porcellino salumi will be closing its deli doors at the end of the month, but owner Bill Miner has left the shop in trusted hands. Blackbelly Market is opening its first Denver location in the space at 4324 W. 41st Ave., just off Tennyson Street, in late February. Il porcellino salumi’s smoked turkey sandwich … Read more
