33 Best Restaurants in Denver

"Can you operate on autopilot here with your usual order of satay, tom yum, and pad Thai? Yes. Should you? Heck, no: There’s a reason one section of the menu is labeled “Must Try.” Here you’ll find vibrant seasonal salads, intensely aromatic stews, and other specialties you’re not likely to see anywhere else on the Front Range: yen ta fo, for instance, brimming with plump shrimp, calamari, fish balls, and rice noodles as well as bok choy and scallions in a red bean broth that’s at once lightly sweet, markedly sour, and electrifyingly spicy.  All that said, the kitchen prepares everything with aplomb, vegans and celiacs can find plenty to eat, and so can diners with low spice thresholds." - Ruth Tobias