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701 Grant St. Denver, CO 80203

303-860-2929

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Critics'
Pick
Best Hip Noodle Bar
Award Winner 2012

Cuisine(s): Asian, Fusion, Noodle Shop

Hours: Daily 5pm-11pm, Mon-Fri 11am-2pm

Price: $$
Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards

Features: Takeout

Serving: Dinner, Late Night, Lunch
Alcohol: Full bar

Reservations: Online Reservations Available

Parking: Street, Valet

Description

Bones, named Best New Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2009, is a restaurant made by a cook, for cooks. It's a restaurant dreamed up by a guy who loves food unreservedly and opened Bones for those who share his outsized passions. Nominally a noodle bar, Bones is really a loose conglomeration of plates and styles and techniques that came together only because one man, Frank Bonanno, thought to stick them together. But each one of these plates is an act of love, an ode to flavors and tastes that cooks love.

2012 | Best Hip Noodle Bar

We fell in love at first slurp with Bones, Frank Bonanno's homage to the noodle bar. The menu is small and well-edited, with French technique influencing a list of mostly Japanese specialties, which can be paired with a smart list of sake and well-chosen wines. But the noodles are the real reason we keep coming back, particularly the lobster ramen -- curly noodles bathed in a sweet broth thickened luxuriously with butter and swimming with fat edamame and rosy chunks of perfectly poached... More »
2011 | Best Non-Traditional Noodle Bowl

When Frank Bonnano opened Bones in late 2008, he took traditional Japanese noodle bowls and infused them with French touches, adding confit, pork belly and suckling pig to a lineup built around ramen, udon and soba. And while his dishes are a far cry from what you'd find over in Japan, they're undeniably good. The lobster ramen is ethereal, a decadent, delicate broth filled with tangles of curly ramen and fat spring peas. The pork udon is even better: The broth is sticky with fat, and thick... More »
2010 | Best Noodle Bar

Steamed suckling pig and pork belly buns, roasted bone marrow, escargot pot stickers, tempura-fried cod, dumplings, shishito peppers, soba noodles and soft-serve ice cream: These all play starring roles on the board at Bones, Frank Bonanno's Capitol Hill noodle bar and the fourth soldier in his army of restaurants. Celebrated since Bonanno opened the doors at the end of 2008, Bones has amassed serious worshipers, a conglomerate of cultists who gather at the counter, where the heat and steam... More »
2009 | Best New Restaurant

Bones is a restaurant made by a cook, for cooks. It's a restaurant dreamed up by a guy who loves food unreservedly and opened for those who share his outsized passions. Borders Canon Fads Fuck 'em. Nominally a noodle bar, Bones is really a loose conglomeration of plates and styles and techniques that came together only because one man thought to stick them together. But what makes Bones work -- makes the place truly sing -- is that each one of these plates is an act of love, an... More »

Bones was the first of the hip noodle bars -- and the last one still stirring

By Patricia Calhoun | Thu, October 6, 2011

In late 2008, there was a race to see which restaurateur would open the first hip noodle bar in the area. Dave Query's Big Red F group was planning to open Happy at 835 Walnut Street in Boulder, and t... More »
Second Helping: Bones

By Laura Shunk | Wed, May 11, 2011

I haven't totally fallen for Lou's Food Bar, which I review this week, and my initial lust for Green Russell has ebbed, at least temporarily. But from my initial meal at Bones, which Frank Bonanno ope... More »
100 Favorite Dishes: Sea scallop and rock shrimp noodle bowl from Bones

By Lori Midson | Tue, March 1, 2011

No. 66: Sea scallop and rock shrimp noodle bowl from Bones Like a lot of people, I spent the majority of my years as an undergraduate obsessed with keeping my waistline shaped to a size two (those ... More »
Noodle around on the Bones patio

By Cafe Society | Mon, April 26, 2010

Bones Restaurant 701 Grant Street 303-860-2929 bonesdenver.comOpened in 2009, Bones is both a neighborhood hangout and a destination spot for diners who want to experience a new way to eat noodles. P... More »
Frank Bonanno's new restaurant will bowl you over

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, March 19, 2009

See more photos of Bones at westword.com/slideshow. The first time I set foot inside Bones, I was drunk. I went there to meet a friend, eat some noodles and sober up before driving home. Nancy had beaten me there by a good twenty minutes, found a... More »
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Dinner Menu

First

$12.00

Steamed Buns
suckling pig or belly

$9.00

Escargot Potstickers

$10.00

Smoked Chicken Eggrolls

$5.00

Shishito Peppers

$9.00

Braised Beef Steamed Dumplings

$5.00

Edamame

$11.00

Roasted Bone Marrow

$10.00

Fried Calamari

$7.00

Seaweed Salad
cucumbers, tofu, scallions, rice wine vinaigrette

$10.00

Mixed Greens
duck confit, goat cheese fritter, heirloom cherry tomatoes, walnuts, balsamic vinaigrette

$8.00

Bibb Lettuce
gala apples, radishes, stilton cheese, spiced pecans, honey mustard vinaigrette

Noodles
Add Local Farm Poached Egg To Any Noodle Dish $2.

$14.00

Ba Mee
butternut squash & celeriac puree, cauliflower, fennel, parsnips, bok choy, vegetable broth

$15.00

Udon
slow cooked pork shoulder, plum-soy broth, poached egg

$15.00

Egg Noodles
crispy confit chicken, tuscan kale, spicy lemongrass broth

$17.00

Rice Noodles
tiger shrimp, house-made bacon, napa cabbage, spicy peanuts, shrimp dashi broth

$16.00

Soba
smoked sirloin, criminis, snow peas, hard-boiled egg, macadamia nuts, korean pepper vinaigrette

$18.00

Ramen
poached lobster, edamame, miso lobster broth

Finish

$5.00
Apple $5.00
Twist $5.00

Frank’s Soft Serve Ice Cream
chocolate cinnamon caramel

$3.00

Vietnamese Coffee

$3.00

Ginger Green Tea

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Bones

701 Grant St. Denver, CO 80203

303-860-2929

Description

2012 | Best Hip Noodle Bar

2011 | Best Non-Traditional Noodle Bowl

2010 | Best Noodle Bar

2009 | Best New Restaurant

By Patricia Calhoun | Thu, October 6, 2011

By Laura Shunk | Wed, May 11, 2011

By Lori Midson | Tue, March 1, 2011

By Cafe Society | Mon, April 26, 2010

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, March 19, 2009