Here’s the short answer, time-tested and mamaleh-approved: pancake houses and Chinese restaurants. For the longer answer, read on—unless you keep kosher. Then the answer is "ask your rabbi already."
Everybody knows this old favorite for chicken-fried steak, corned-beef hash and other downhome diner grub is open 24/7—except when it’s not. If you’re gunning for your usual swivel stool along the counter, you’d better get here before noon.
There’s a plaque on the wall of this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it south Denver cafe honoring the owners for their contributions to the local Russian-Jewish community. They’re earning those credentials by staying open today to dish up such comforts as borscht, stuffed cabbage and the namesake shish kebabs, best washed down with Baltika porter and capped off by tea cakes.
A buffet brunch, a bottomless mimosa bar and the smooth tunes of the Adam Bodine Trio: it’s all going down at this longtime jazz-lover’s lounge from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
With a sleek sushi bar anchoring the lilac-and-black dining room, this Cherry Creek newcomer is a lot snazzier than East Asia Garden, the owners’ previous outlet. Happily, they haven’t scuttled the old menu of regional Chinese specialties; in fact, they’ve expanded and improved on it. Could there be a merrier Jewish Christmas than a family-style feast of tofu with black eggs, seafood hot pot and ants on the tree—not to mention such tempting treyf as fried pork liver?
Roast duck and char siu pork are the celebratory centerpieces at this deceptively humble Federal fixture, but the whole menu warrants exploration, from the fish-ball curry to the water spinach in pickled tofu sauce. It’s a Christmas take-out tradition in the making.
Skip the sesame chicken and lo mein just once. Though this half-hidden shopping-plaza sanctuary offers its share of Chinese-American staples, it does Southeast Asian cuisine so much better—including signatures like Indonesian gado gado (a hearty salad of cooked vegetables with eggs and peanut sauce), Malaysian char kway teow (a hawker-stall classic based on fried rice noodles), and the Singaporean seafood soup called curry laksa.
Both Rosenberg’s and The Bagel Deli will be closed for the holiday, but this South Denver homage to the Lower East Side haunts of old will be serving up its matzoh brei, cheese blintzes and chopped liver on rye as usual.
Speaking of delis, a nosh from Mary Nguyen’s twinkling Uptown cafe-bakery—be it the sterling braised-tongue sandwich or a single perfect blueberry muffin—pretty much makes any day feel like Christmas, denomination be damned. (Note the special hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
Savor the stuff your bubbeh used to make at this slice of the Old Country on Baker, opening at 5:30 p.m today: goulash, chicken paprika and of course latkes (or bramboráky in Czech).
Dine in on casual Mediterranean fare—shawarma, falafel, savory stuffed phyllo pastries—at this colorful, Israeli-run south Denver cafe and market, or stock up on an array of preserved fruits and veggies, hummus and other dips, and house-baked goods to spread the cheer at home.
Everybody knows this old favorite for chicken-fried steak, corned-beef hash and other downhome diner grub is open 24/7—except when it’s not. If you’re gunning for your usual swivel stool along the counter, you’d better get here before noon.
There’s a plaque on the wall of this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it south Denver cafe honoring the owners for their contributions to the local Russian-Jewish community. They’re earning those credentials by staying open today to dish up such comforts as borscht, stuffed cabbage and the namesake shish kebabs, best washed down with Baltika porter and capped off by tea cakes.
A buffet brunch, a bottomless mimosa bar and the smooth tunes of the Adam Bodine Trio: it’s all going down at this longtime jazz-lover’s lounge from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
With a sleek sushi bar anchoring the lilac-and-black dining room, this Cherry Creek newcomer is a lot snazzier than East Asia Garden, the owners’ previous outlet. Happily, they haven’t scuttled the old menu of regional Chinese specialties; in fact, they’ve expanded and improved on it. Could there be a merrier Jewish Christmas than a family-style feast of tofu with black eggs, seafood hot pot and ants on the tree—not to mention such tempting treyf as fried pork liver?
Roast duck and char siu pork are the celebratory centerpieces at this deceptively humble Federal fixture, but the whole menu warrants exploration, from the fish-ball curry to the water spinach in pickled tofu sauce. It’s a Christmas take-out tradition in the making.
Skip the sesame chicken and lo mein just once. Though this half-hidden shopping-plaza sanctuary offers its share of Chinese-American staples, it does Southeast Asian cuisine so much better—including signatures like Indonesian gado gado (a hearty salad of cooked vegetables with eggs and peanut sauce), Malaysian char kway teow (a hawker-stall classic based on fried rice noodles), and the Singaporean seafood soup called curry laksa.
Both Rosenberg’s and The Bagel Deli will be closed for the holiday, but this South Denver homage to the Lower East Side haunts of old will be serving up its matzoh brei, cheese blintzes and chopped liver on rye as usual.
Speaking of delis, a nosh from Mary Nguyen’s twinkling Uptown cafe-bakery—be it the sterling braised-tongue sandwich or a single perfect blueberry muffin—pretty much makes any day feel like Christmas, denomination be damned. (Note the special hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
Savor the stuff your bubbeh used to make at this slice of the Old Country on Baker, opening at 5:30 p.m today: goulash, chicken paprika and of course latkes (or bramboráky in Czech).
Dine in on casual Mediterranean fare—shawarma, falafel, savory stuffed phyllo pastries—at this colorful, Israeli-run south Denver cafe and market, or stock up on an array of preserved fruits and veggies, hummus and other dips, and house-baked goods to spread the cheer at home.
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