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Malinche Audiobar
Nikkei
The concept here is a Japanese jazz kissa, a vinyl-focused listening bar, filtered through a chef who thinks huitlacoche and yuzu belong on the same plate. The food runs "Nikkei-Mexa," meaning Mexican and Japanese ingredients trading places freely, and the cocktails follow the same logic: sotol meets sake, charanda meets shochu. A taco cart parks out front most nights. Small room, big sonic ambitions, and a crowd that showed up for all of it.
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- Eater The Best New Restaurants in Denver
- Westword 2026 · Best Dessert With Salmon Roe · Best of Denver
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One number, weighted & current 81
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Braised rabbit tamalito
“including early favorites in the braised rabbit tamalito with sweet potato, fig, and peanut-togarashi crumble and the roasted octopus glazed in black miso and chilmole alongside pickled black radish and mezcal seaweed”
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Roasted octopus
“including early favorites in the braised rabbit tamalito with sweet potato, fig, and peanut-togarashi crumble and the roasted octopus glazed in black miso and chilmole alongside pickled black radish and mezcal seaweed”
Eater
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