Tacos Tequila Whiskey
EatSouth Broadway#31 of 50

Tacos Tequila Whiskey

Denver, Colorado

Photo: Tacos Tequila Whiskey

A taqueria that treats every tortilla like it matters, because it does. The corn is nixtamalized in-house, the fillings are creative but grounded, and the mezcal selection is quietly one of the best in the state. The South Broadway location has a patio that fills up fast for good reason — this is the taco spot Denver's restaurant people eat at on their nights off.

Insider tip

The birria tacos with the consomme for dipping. Add a smoky mezcal and you've got the best $20 dinner in town.

Get Directions
See all 50 picks in Denver

More in Denver

You might also like

The Wolf's Tailor
EatRiNo

The Wolf's Tailor

A grain-forward restaurant from a former Frasca chef that mills its own flour and bakes some of the most extraordinary bread in Colorado. The pasta is hand-pulled and the whole operation runs on a quiet obsession with ancient grains and fermentation. It's ambitious without being fussy, and every plate has a story rooted in the dirt it came from.

Beckon
EatRiNo

Beckon

A hidden tasting-menu restaurant tucked behind Call, its casual sibling. You walk through what looks like a normal restaurant and end up in a 22-seat room where chef Duncan Holmes serves one of the most inventive prix fixe meals between the coasts. It feels like a secret because it basically is one. Denver's most ambitious kitchen, operating in near-silence.

Hotel Clio
StayHighland

Hotel Clio

A luxury property at the edge of Cherry Creek that feels more like a well-connected friend's penthouse than a hotel. The rooftop pool has unobstructed mountain views, the rooms are clean-lined and warm, and the service walks the line between attentive and invisible. It's the kind of place that makes you wonder why you ever stayed downtown.

Eat picks elsewhere

More eat we love

EatEast Austin · Austin, Texas

Suerte

Elevated Mexican fare in a space that feels like a gallery crossed with a hacienda. Chef Fermin Nunez cooks with the reverence of a grandmother and the ambition of a modernist. The masa is nixtamalized in-house, the mole is a multi-day project, and every plate arrives looking like something you should photograph but will eat too fast to bother.

EatWest Village · New York, New York

Joe's Pizza

A slice shop on Carmine Street that has been serving the platonic ideal of a New York cheese slice since 1975. Thin, foldable, properly greasy, with a char on the bottom that crackles. No gimmicks, no artisanal toppings, no precious sourdough crust. Just pizza the way this city invented it, executed perfectly for fifty years.