Suburban Mexican food restaurant group will open first Denver location

One of many Entrance Vary’s most well-known full-service Mexican meals eating places is getting ready to serve diners in Denver for the primary time in its 22-year historical past.

Los Dos Potrillos introduced plans for its seventh location at 4100 E. Mexico Ave., Suite G in south Denver. It’s anticipated to debut early subsequent 12 months.

The family-owned firm, which opened its first eatery in Centennial in 2002, focuses on dishes like fajitas, burritos and tacos, and it’s grow to be a neighborhood favourite. In 2022, readers of The Denver Submit voted it one of many high 4 taco retailers within the metro space.

Meals isn’t the one draw. Los Dos Potrillos additionally brews its personal beer onsite at its Fort Rock and Parker areas. The ever-popular Mexican Lager was one among 5 recipes to attain a medal on the 2023 U.S. Open Beer Championship.

Regardless of the accolades, Los Dos Potrillos has by no means operated a restaurant inside Denver’s metropolis limits. Daniel Ramirez, CEO of mother or father firm Ramirez Hospitality Group, mentioned the time was proper to make a transfer past the ‘burbs.

“We began creating such a very good neighborhood sense of the south in Centennial, Littleton, Highlands Ranch, Parker, Fort Rock. We dipped our toes somewhat bit north with Cocina y Cantina in Northglenn, and we felt we had been fairly prepared to begin serving the neighborhood in Denver,” he mentioned.

The Denver restaurant will inhabit an 8,000-square-foot house close to the intersection of I-25 and Colorado Boulevard the place diners will discover breakfast, lunch and dinner served seven days per week. Anticipate “the identical actual menu and heat emotions of Mexican consolation meals” as the opposite areas, Ramirez mentioned.

The Denver opening follows Los Dos Potrillos’ latest locale in Fort Rock, opened in January, which homes a brand new brewery. Final 12 months, the corporate experimented with its first counter-service idea – deemed Los Dos Potrillos Cocina y Cantina – in Northglenn. However after about eight months, Ramirez modified the format to a full-service, sit-down restaurant in response to patrons’ suggestions.

Apparently, standing in a line to order wasn’t a fascinating expertise for many. Ramirez isn’t afraid to name it a failed experiment, even when the spot has cultivated a novel identification with its stylish neon indicators and partitions of pretend foliage.