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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in Westword, 5280 Magazine, and Denver Westword. Updated August 2026.
The Post Colorado - Rosedale
Part of The Post's Colorado group since 2017, this South Broadway location serves fried hot chicken and well-regarded house beer out of a longtime Rosedale building, with vegetarian and seafood options rounding out Southern comfort plates, from cast-iron cornbread to sides that carry the same from-scratch attention as the birds.
Welton Street Cafe · Five Points
Denver's oldest Black-owned restaurant, run by the Dickerson family and reopened at a new Five Points home on Welton in late 2024. Crispy fried chicken, traditional and jerk-spiced, anchors a soul food menu with Caribbean touches like fried bread and patés.
duo Restaurant · LoHi
A LoHi mainstay named to Westword's January 2026 list of the top 50 restaurants in Denver right now. Order the fried chicken.
Pig and Tiger · Five Points
A Five Points Taiwanese kitchen that opened in 2025 and landed on Westword's January 2026 top-50 list, with the same paper's year-end retrospective calling it one of the year's notable openings. Order the fried chicken.