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- Westword 2026 · Best Pickle Pizza · Best of Denver
- Westword 2024 · Best Pizza on Wheels · 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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Rank 276. TOKIO
Japanese Noodle Shop
The broths here spend serious time extracting collagen and fat from pork and chicken, and you can taste the commitment. Tokio is a ramen shop that also does sushi and small plates, but the noodle bowls are the main event. The chef trained in Japan specifically for this, and the menu runs from traditional to a cream-and-cheese Cremoso Diablo that sounds dubious until it doesn't. Westword has named it Denver's top ramen two years running.
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- Westword 2026 · Best Ramen · Best of Denver
- Westword 2023 · Best Japanese Restaurant · Best of Denver
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Rank 318. Burrito Express
Mexican
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Rank 318. Fortune Nong Jia Le
Shanghainese
The full bar sets Fortune Nong Jia Le apart from its Wash Park sibling, though the kitchen stays on the same page: dumplings, Shanghainese noodles, and fried rice alongside heartier plates like crispy half duck in soy reduction and pork belly with potatoes. It's a casual Chinese restaurant that trends slightly more polished than most in its orbit, the kind of place where the menu reads like someone's grandmother is actually cooking.
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A portrait of an imperial bulldog greets you at the door, which is a fair warning. Pony Up is a cocktail bar in LoDo that earns its personality through drinks like a tequila-shochu-sherry situation spiked with Korean chili paste, and shots of George Dickel chased with roast-beef jus. That jus comes from the kitchen, which runs French dips as its signature, an odd pairing that somehow makes complete sense by the second round.
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Rank 318. Reunion Bread Co
Portuguese Bakery
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- Bon Appétit America's Best New Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Ismael de Sousa
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Rank 318. Shanghai Kitchen
Shanghainese
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Rank 318. Sunflower Asian Cafe
Shanghainese
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Rank 318. Uncle Henry
Hong Kong-style Cantonese Barbecue
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- 5280 Top New Restaurant · Top of the Town
- 5280 The 25 Best Restaurants in Denver
- Westword 2025 · Best Happy Hour Bite · Best of Denver
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Rank 367. Maci Cafe
Italian Café
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Rank 367. Osaka Ramen
Ramen Shop
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Rank 367. Señor Bear
Latin American
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- Westword 2025 · Best Brewery to Bike To · Best of Denver
- Westword 2023 · Best Brewery por (y para) la Raza · Best of Denver
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- Westword 2025 · Best New Neighborhood Bar · Best of Denver
- Westword The Top 50 Bars in Denver Right Now
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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.
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- 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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- Westword 2024 · Best New Bakery · Best of Denver
- Westword The Top 50 Restaurants in Denver Right Now
- Westword 2025 · Best New Takeout Pizza · Best of Denver
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- Westword 2025 · Best Place to Get a Warm Beer on Purpose · Best of Denver
- Westword The Top 50 Bars in Denver Right Now
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- Westword 2025 · Best New Bar Where Everything Is $5 · Best of Denver
- Westword The Top 50 Bars in Denver Right Now
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- Westword 2025 · Best Distillery for Cocktails, With or Without Booze · Best of Denver
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- Westword The Top 50 Restaurants in Denver Right Now
- Westword 2025 · Best New Taco Joint · Best of Denver
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