What: Bao Brewhouse
The place: 1317 14th Avenue
When: Bao Brewhouse is open for lunch Tuesday by Sunday. The downstairs Faucet Room is open from 4 to 10 p.m. on Mondays, midday to 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and midday to midnight Thursday by Saturday. The upstairs Tea Room is open from 5 to 10:30 p.m. all week.
For extra data: Go to baobrewhouse.com
Bao Brewhouse’s daytime eating room has largely community-style seating, however this nook is nice for dates.
Kristin Pazulski
Why we like it: Upon getting into the Faucet Room at Bao Brewhouse, the darkish, crimson accented, neon-filled eatery makes you’re feeling as when you stepped far out of Denver. Due to this, it is an important place to neglect, at the least for some time, that you just’re in the midst of the work day. As a substitute of checking emails, this is a perfect spot to take a look at for some time — though you will want your telephone, since that is how you will entry the QR code menu and place your meals order out of your desk.
It is also a lunch favourite as a result of right here, comfortable hour begins at midday and runs till 5 p.m. Monday by Friday with specials that finish in $0.88, since that quantity is sweet luck in Chinese language tradition. Blissful hour drafts run from $2.88 (for the Flyte Co lager that is made specifically for the restaurant) to $7.88, and cocktails are $8.88.
Bao Brewhouse’s decor and daytime drink offers make it good for lunchtime dates, too, particularly when you can rating the two-top in a nook subsequent to the cityscape mural. And if that meetup goes nicely, you’ll be able to head again throughout the night for a night within the upstairs eating space dubbed the Tea Room, which serves dim sum and household dining-style entrees.
The candy soy pork stomach bao comes with shrimp cracklins.
Kristin Pazulski
What’s for lunch: The menu at Bao Brewhouse boasts extra than simply bao buns.
The dim sum menu ($10.66 to 22.88) contains a variety of shareable dishes which might be sufficiently small to get pleasure from solo when you’re eating by yourself. There are DIY lettuce wrap veggie rolls, cheese rangoons, pork and beef dumplings, shrimp shu-mai and mushroom dumplings. Every bao order ($16.88 to $19.88) comes with two buns plus a aspect of togarashi-dusted shrimp cracklins to snack on, making it supreme to share. Bao choices embrace pork stomach, tofu, the cleverly named In-n-Baout Bao and a Comfortable Shell Crab Rouliamo with buttermilk fried crab.
There may be additionally a menu of skewered meats and prawns marinated in flavors like maple miso and garlic ginger glaze($11.88 to $15.88 for a small; $19.88 to $26.88 for a big), a spicy duck soup ($18.88), vegan mushroom candy and bitter soup ($9.88), drunken noodles ($16.88) and garlic fried rice ($14.88).
The costs actually vary, permitting diners to go reasonably priced with a contented hour merchandise (most are $8.88) and aspect of shrimp cracklins for $5.88, or splurge on the dozen breaded dry-rubbed wings together with your selection of sauce, or spicy beef tenderloin skewers, each on the upper finish at $22.88.
Related Locations: The extra informal sister restaurant of ChoLon and LeRoux, YumCha Dumpling & Noodle Bar at 1520 sixteenth Avenue Mall, serves quite a lot of dumplings, bao buns and different sharables for $12 to $19. New addition Chopstickers at 1617 California Avenue additionally serves bao buns, soup dumpling, potstickers and extra.
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