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1 month ago | 
diningout.com | Ethan Pan
Philadelphia, once the first capital of the United States, is now one of its top tourist destinations, and the food here is a major reason why. Shrewd foodies will already know that Philly isn’t just a place for whiz-covered cheese steaks, old-school red sauce joints, and soft pretzels salted to hell. The fine dining scene here has exploded in recent years, as demonstrated by the city’s three James Beard Award wins in 2023.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
phillymag.com | Ethan Pan
Guides Everything You Need to Know About Grocery Shopping in Chinatown Stocking up for Lunar New Year? Here's where to go for the freshest fish, hard-to-find fruits and vegetables, and every Asian snack you can think of. Devoted foodies and restaurant newbies love Foobooz. Sign up now for our twice weekly newsletter.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
5280.com | Ethan Pan
The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Sign up today! Before they opened Paborito seven months ago, Jayson Leaño and Geraldine Gan weren’t confident their ghost kitchen would succeed in Denver.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
5280.com | Ethan Pan
The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Sign up today! A steady pace of new restaurants is the true signal of a healthy dining scene. It means that there’s creativity within the community that’s translating to realized businesses that feed into shifting consumer desires.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
5280.com | Ethan Pan |Michelle Shortall
For many, Thanksgiving is all about keeping it classic: the same place, the same faces, and, of course, the same flavors. But if you’re like us at 5280, a fresh spin on the holiday feast is totally welcome—especially if the family’s coming to your place this year and you haven’t quite nailed that roast turkey recipe (to be fair, you only cook it once a year). Make Thanksgiving a lot easier—and a lot more interesting—with these eight tips from local foodie establishments.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
5280.com | Alyssa Chutka |Ethan Pan
Usually, the word “luchador” conjures the boldly masked athletes who participate in a Mexican style of pro wrestling. In Denver, though, the term has taken on a much more delicious connotation. Ever since chef Zuri Resendiz, who came up in local fine-dining restaurants like Cattivella, launched the Luchador Food Truck by Chef Z in 2022, he has dazzled Front Rangers with his casual yet expertly executed dishes that draw on his native Mexico’s street cuisine.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
5280.com | Jessica Giles |Ethan Pan
There is a common denominator behind every good dumpling: a human hand, stuffing and pleating and twisting with care. By this definition, though, many foods can be considered dumplings. Ravioli. Samosas. Tamales. Empanadas. Each of these fussy labors of love requires some hands-on hard work, and the people who pour their hearts into these little pockets deserve their flowers, too.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
5280.com | Ethan Pan |Lisa Blake
There’s an energetic pull—the same kind of magnetic allure that beckons us down darkened paths and into thick forests—drawing the hungry and curious through the Grand Hyatt’s posh, polished lobby and into Makoto Vail. The sexy, shadowy restaurant opened in February with a powerful Japanese aesthetic built around clean geometric lines, natural wood, and a soft soundtrack composed by the rushing Gore Creek linking arms with pulsating beats from the restaurant’s speakers.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
5280.com | Ethan Pan |Allyson Reedy
Mediterranean cuisine is kind of broad—that glorious body of water covers nearly a million square miles and borders 22 diverse countries, after all—but for our purposes, we’re focusing on the oh-so-craveable Middle Eastern–style foods that often exist under the “Lebanese” or “Levantine” moniker. Here’s your guide to Denver’s best baba ghanoush, shawarma, kabobs, and falafel, because in our world, it’s always meze-o’clock. Golden FalafelGolden Falafel’s house mushrooms and falafel plate.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
5280.com | Ethan Pan |Patricia Kaowthumrong |Alyssa Chutka
Over the past few years, new restaurants and tried-and-true eateries are crafting menus that are more reflective of Colorado’s vibrant seasons and multicultural population than ever before. Since the start of 2024, we dined at more than 70 restaurants to seek out the best flavors of the Front Range and painstakingly narrowed down to this list. From crave-worthy birria tacos to elevated borscht, these are the restaurants dishing the best bites in Denver and beyond right now.
