Denver Restaurant Week top picks, reserve now

This your chance to try Richard Sandoval's newest Denver restaurant al Lado. It's a Spanish gem with small plates and big cocktails. Denver Restaurant Week's menu includes traditional patatas bravas (pictured); croquetas de jamon y hongos, lamb meatballs with tomato, zucchini, goat cheese; and flatbreads, like mushrooms, truffle Oil, spinach and gruyere.Coohills menu for Denver Restaurant week is a lesson in culinary elegance including (but not limited to) beef carpaccio, French bean salad, horseradish crema, toast; hot smoked Norwegian salmon: wild mushrooms, ginger, scallions and soy and brioche bread pudding with dark caramel sauce, whipped cream, toasted almonds.View the list »
Try Ace Eat Serve for Denver Restaurant Week. It's Asian fun and games with a great menu and ping pong. The $52.80 menu includes bao buns (pictured), chive and pork shu mai, steamed sea bass with kim chi and kung pao chicken.

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Denver Restaurant Week is a little more than two weeks away. If you haven't made reservations, now is the time to commit. This year, the price is the same, $52.80 for dinner for two (or $26.40 for one) plus tip and tax. For that price you get a multi-course meal and some restaurants have added bonuses like a cocktail pr glass of wine. If you want a free meal, test drive a Lexus during Denver Restaurant Week and receive a gift card for a favorite restaurant. And, if you want to make a night of it, Denver hotels are offering discounts. For the complete list of restaurants for Denver Restaurant Week, link here.

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Visit Denver adds new restaurants throughout Denver Restaurant Week, but even so, it's best to make reservations early and check back often for cancellations. To help you narrow down your top picks, here are some that I can recommend. Link through to the menus and reservation information.

1. Colt and Gray: American cusine, great cocktails

2. Root Down: Casual atmosphere, serious food

3. Steubens Food Service: Americana with a twist

4. Ace Eat Serve: Asian-fun, with cocktails and ping pong

5. Bones: Noodle bar with polish

6. ChoLon Bistro: Small plates, big flavor

7. Kevin Taylor's at the Opera House: Haute-cuisine at a $52.80 price

8. Bistro Vendome: When Paris calls

9. Coohills: Sexy decor, chic cuisine

10. Jill's: Inviting French-American farm-to-fork

11. True Food Kitchen: Clean, green and lean

12. Barolo Grill: Luxurious northern Italian

13. Il Posto: Boutique Italian

14. Osteria Marco: Elegant trattoria

15. Panzano: Inspired Italian

16. Pasta Vino: Milano in Boulder

17. al Lado: Spanish tapas and cocktails

18. Rioja: Better than a private chef at a villa

19. Lola: Only thing missing is the sand between your toes

20. TAG: Seaside-fresh raw bar with cocktails to match

21. Cafe Aion: Intimate Spanish hideaway

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  • Try Ace Eat Serve for Denver Restaurant Week. It's Asian fun and games with a great menu and ping pong. The $52.80 menu includes bao buns (pictured), chive and pork shu mai, steamed sea bass with kim chi and kung pao chicken.
  • Coohills menu for Denver Restaurant week is a lesson in culinary elegance including (but not limited to) beef carpaccio, French bean salad, horseradish crema, toast; hot smoked Norwegian salmon: wild mushrooms, ginger, scallions and soy and brioche bread pudding with dark caramel sauce, whipped cream, toasted almonds.
  • This your chance to try Richard Sandoval's newest Denver restaurant al Lado. It's a Spanish gem with small plates and big cocktails. Denver Restaurant Week's menu includes traditional patatas bravas (pictured); croquetas de jamon y hongos, lamb meatballs with tomato, zucchini, goat cheese; and flatbreads, like mushrooms, truffle Oil, spinach and gruyere.
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Kimberly Lord Stewart is a Colorado-based food journalist and author. Since 1994, she worked as an editor for publications dedicated to the business of organic food. Her first book, Eating Between the Lines (St Martins Press, 2007), tells readers about organic and conventional food labeling....

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