Denver travel guide

A Denver Food Crawl: Thin-Crust Pizza, Korean Fried Chicken, and Two Bucket List Stops

Denver turned into a full day of eating around our stop on the NBA Arena Quest: thin-crust pizza, a proper steak frites, a Korean fried chicken spot we were excited to support, and a couple of bucket list items along the way that we're saving for the video itself.

8 Food stops in one day
2 (no spoilers) Bucket list items ticked off
Smith + Canon & Daboba Dessert stops

Where we ate.

Charlie Boy Pizza

Gorland, Denver, CO

Thin-crust pizza

Get: A thin-crust pie

Genuinely thin and tasty, the kind of crust that lets the toppings do the talking instead of getting buried under a thick base.

22 Provisions

Denver, CO

Steak frites

Get: Steak frites with chimichurri

A genuinely beautiful plate: a well-cooked steak and crisp frites, with the chimichurri doing a lot of the heavy lifting on flavor.

Corvus

Denver, CO

Coffee

Get: A Kyoto cold brew and a sesame cookie

The Kyoto-style cold brew was excellent, slow-dripped and smooth, and the sesame cookie on the side made for a great pairing.

Atomic Cowboy / Denver Biscuit Company

Denver, CO

Biscuits, hot sauce bar

Get: Biscuits with a rotating lineup of hot sauces

One of Denver's most popular biscuit spots, known as much for its lineup of unique hot sauces on the table as the biscuits themselves.

Tokyo Premium Bakery

Denver, CO

Japanese bakery

Get: Matcha pastries

Scrumptious matcha pastries, worth the stop on their own if you're a matcha person.

Smith + Canon

Denver, CO

Ice cream

Get: Award-winning ice cream

A genuinely great way to cool down mid-crawl; this ice cream has real award pedigree behind it.

Mono Mono

Denver, CO

Korean fried chicken

Get: Korean fried chicken

Legit Korean fried chicken, and a Korean-owned spot we were glad to support while we were in town.

Daboba

Denver, CO

Boba

Get: Boba

A sweet way to close out a full day of eating.

Good to know before you go

  • This trip also checked off two bucket list items for us; we're saving those for the video itself instead of spoiling them here.

Questions people ask us about Denver.

Where can I get good pizza in Denver?
Charlie Boy Pizza, a thin-crust spot in Gorland, was our pick on this trip.
Where can I find Korean fried chicken in Denver?
Mono Mono. It's Korean-owned, and the fried chicken is legit.
What's a good food crawl itinerary in Denver?
Ours ran eight stops in one day: Charlie Boy Pizza, 22 Provisions for steak frites, Corvus for coffee, Atomic Cowboy / Denver Biscuit Company, Tokyo Premium Bakery, Smith + Canon for ice cream, Mono Mono for Korean fried chicken, and Daboba for boba to close it out.

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