The Top 78 Restaurants Near Hotel Polaris
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- 5280 Top Chinese · Top of the Town
- Westword 2024 · Best Non-Traditional Hamburger · Best of Denver
- Eater The Best Chinese Restaurants in Denver
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Rank 7. Kizaki
Omakase Japanese
Toshi Kizaki built Denver's Japanese dining scene over four decades, and this intimate counter omakase is where he's raising his own bar. Around twenty courses move between small plates and nigiri he shapes himself, with Michelin's one-star stamp confirming what regulars already knew. The room is spare and dramatically lit, the pacing unhurried, and the sake pairings handled with care. This is a full-commitment dinner, not a drop-in.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Esquire The Best New Restaurants in America
- Westword 2026 · Best Omakase Restaurant · Best of Denver
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Rank 8. Margot
Contemporary New American
Eight seats at a counter tucked inside a shared space, which tells you almost everything about the vibe before the bread arrives. Margot is a multicourse tasting menu restaurant earning a Michelin star on the strength of cooking that reads as both Colorado and everywhere at once. Each guest gets their own individual loaf of olive oil brioche, freshly baked, which sets the tone for hospitality that somehow manages not to feel performative.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Westword 2026 · Best New Tasting Menu Restaurant · Best of Denver
- Westword The Top 50 Restaurants in Denver Right Now
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Rank 9. Hong Kong Station
Cantonese
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- Eater The Best New Restaurants in Denver
- Westword The Top 50 Restaurants in Denver Right Now
- Westword 2026 · Best New Barbecue Joint · Best of Denver
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Rank 12. Tofu Story
Korean
- 5280 The 25 Best Restaurants in Denver
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Denver
- Westword The Top 50 Restaurants in Denver Right Now
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- 5280 The 25 Best Restaurants in Denver
- Westword 2026 · Best Sushi Restaurant · Best of Denver
- Eater Banana cream pie · Denver’s 20 Most Iconic Dishes
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Rank 17. Com Nha Kitchen & Bar
Vietnamese
The move here is mon nhau, Vietnamese bar food that runs to pork-stuffed chicken wings, snails in salted egg yolk, and fries drowning in brisket and garlic butter. The pho shots, vodka and beef broth, set the tone for everything else. This Harvey Park kitchen and bar keeps the pho and bánh mì around for the cautious, but the menu's whole subtext is that caution is overrated. Bring people you like enough to share a three-liter soju tower with.
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- Westword 2026 · Best Cafe That’s Also a Bakery · Best of Denver
- Westword 2025 · Best Pastries at a Coffee Shop · Best of Denver
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Rank 19. Bosphorus
Turkish
A strip-mall Turkish restaurant in Englewood with four tables and portions that could feed a small village. The menu runs through lamb shish kebabs, börek, pita-wrapped gyros, and the layered iskender, all at prices that make you feel briefly guilty. The team runs the room with the kind of warmth that makes strangers feel like regulars. Finish with baklava and strong Turkish coffee, then figure out how to button your coat.
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Denver
- Westword 2023 · Best Mediterranean Restaurant · Best of Denver
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- Westword The Top 50 Restaurants in Denver Right Now
- Westword 2025 · Best Custom Cake Shop Serving Hong Kong Eats · Best of Denver
- Eater The Best Chinese Restaurants in Denver
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- Westword 2024 · Best Noodles in a Tea Shop · Best of Denver
- Eater The Best Chinese Restaurants in Denver
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Rank 31. Ochag Bar & Grill
Armenian Middle Eastern
An Armenian and Caucasian grill tucked into an Aurora strip mall, where the khachapuri arrives topped with egg and cheese and the beef dumplings, called khinkali, are large enough to require a small plan of attack. The menu runs from hearty stews and hand-pulled noodles to eggplant rolls stuffed with garlic-walnut spread. Georgian wine, from a region that considers itself the cradle of viticulture, is the right call alongside any of it.
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Rank 33. Golden Falafel Restaurant
Middle Eastern
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- Westword 2023 · Best Bar Decor · Best of Denver
- Westword 2025 · Best Neighborhood Bar That Feels Older Than It Is · Best of Denver
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- Westword 2026 · Best Hot Pot · Best of Denver
- Westword 2023 · Best Korean Restaurant · Best of Denver
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- 5280 Top New Restaurant · Top of the Town
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- Westword 2025 · Best Happy Hour Bite · Best of Denver
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A Sicilian family splits the room between a bakery counter stacked with lobster tail pastries and sweet cannoli and a full sit-down dining area with a bar, so you can eat chicken parm and lasagna, then carry dessert home. The savory cannoli, stuffed with sausage, jalapeños, and oozing mozzarella, has earned its own following. Finish with the house limoncello, made cream-style in the Sicilian way, which lands somewhere between a digestif and a milkshake.
- Westword 2025 · Best Sicilian Bakery · Best of Denver
- Westword 2023 · Best Old-School Italian Restaurant · Best of Denver
- Westword 2024 · Best Savory Cannoli · Best of Denver
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Outdoor grilling stations let you cook your own marinated meats al fresco, which is either a dream or a chore depending on your relationship with fire. This Indian grill in the Park Meadows mall takes familiar dishes, butter chicken, dal, coconut curry, and runs them through a French culinary lens. Everything arrives at one spice level, with the chef's hot sauce on the side to dial up the heat yourself.
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Rank 74. Carrera's Tacos
Mexican
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Rank 75. Pho Broadway
Noodles
The broth simmers for twelve hours, which tells you everything about how seriously this Vietnamese noodle shop takes its pho. Sixteen variations run from the classic stacked beef bowl to seafood versions with shrimp and fish balls. The room is no-frills and the portions are generous, the kind of place where the soup does the talking and nobody feels the need to narrate it.
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Rank 76. Golden Saigon
Vietnamese
The curry is the reason regulars keep coming back, which surprises people who think of Vietnam and curry in the same sentence as a typo. This strip-mall Vietnamese spot in Aurora has been serving pho and homey staples forever, but the house curry, built on madras powder, coconut milk, and a heavy hand with lemongrass, lands somewhere all its own. Nothing Thai about it, nothing Indian, just a dish that makes the menu feel longer than most.
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Rank 77. El Tejado
Mexican
The green chile here is a gravy-thick, pork-studded Colorado classic that regulars order straight up with tortillas, no plate required. El Tejado is an old-school Mexican diner on South Broadway, and the room does look a bit like a cartoon cave, which somehow suits it. The hot version of that chile is a separate proposition entirely, built in layers rather than just spiked, and it will find your limits.
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A Thai cafe tucked into a strip mall on South Colorado, Thai Pot Cafe is the kind of neighborhood spot that fills up fast on weeknights. The drunken noodles are the draw, charred thick and loaded with eggplant, green beans, and tomatoes. Heat runs on a scale where ten counts as "Thai mild," so the numbers above that are not decorative. Westword named them Denver's best drunken noodles in 2023, which the regulars already knew.