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Kim Ba

2495 S. Havana St.
Aurora, CO 80014

303-745-1637 | Website

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Category: Restaurants | Vietnamese

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For over two decades now, owner Ba Forde has been serving a very traditional version of her home country's cuisine in a pleasant, near-invisible space in a strip mall. But one bite of Kim Ba's green-lip mussels in a Thai coconut curry sauce, or the pork in spicy black-pepper sauce, or the duck with lemongrass is enough to permanently imprint the location in your brain. For great Vietnamese food, this is the place.

  • Cuisine(s): Vietnamese

    Hours: Mon-Thu 11am-9pm, Fri 11am-10pm, Sat 12pm-10pm

    Price: $, $$

    Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, American Express, cash, check

  • Attire: Casual

    Features: Takeout, Catering, Kid Friendly, Vegetarian Friendly

    Serving: Dinner, Lunch

    Alcohol: Beer/Wine

  • Reservations: Accepted, Recommended for Large Parties

    Parking: Lot Available

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  • 2009 | Best Vietnamese Restaurant

    Denver has about a thousand Vietnamese restaurants, and most of them are pretty good. But even in this ocean of eateries, a few stand out as truly special, and the best of all is Kim Ba. Virtually every plate that comes out of the kitchen at Kim... More >

  • 2008 | Best Vietnamese Restaurant

    Denver has many good Vietnamese restaurants, but our favorite is Kim Ba. There may be better places for pho, for frogs' legs, for other individual dishes. But no crew works the grills better than the one at Kim Ba, and there's no other Vietnamese... More >

  • 2007 | Best Vietnamese Restaurant

    Denver is heaven for fans of Vietnamese food. We've got the good stuff and the bad stuff, the authentic and the fake. We've got more pho restaurants than you can shake a stick at, and dozens of good noodle-bowl joints. But when we're really... More >

  • 2006 | BEST VIETNAMESE
    RESTAURANT

    Kim Ba is one of Denver's oldest Vietnamese restaurants, a shirttail relative of more famous spots on South Federal, and has held down this near-invisible space in a ghost-town strip mall for nearly twenty years. In that time, owner Ba Forde has... More >

  • 2005 | Best Vietnamese Restaurant

    Kim Ba's menu is huge (and most of it in Vietnamese), listing a range of regional dishes that offer a whirlwind tour from the Highlands down to the Delta and back again. Even after many visits, we have yet to find a single thing that we wouldn't... More >

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  • Slow trade forces KimBa Grill to close its doors

    By Patrick Langlois | Fri, July 29, 2011

    ​KimBa Grill, the fast-casual Vietnamese noodle house located at 1470 South Santa Fe Drive, has closed after eighteen months of business. John Forde opened the spot in March of 2010, but accordi More >

  • Vietnamese noodle bowls at the new KimBa Grill

    By Lori Midson | Mon, April 5, 2010

    ​For the past 25 years, Ba Forde has been the matriarch behind Kim Ba, the excellent Vietnamese joint at 2495 South Havana that's been the recipient of numerous Westword Best of Denver awards, i More >

  • Bite Me

    By Jason Sheehan | Thu, April 14, 2005

    t Kim Ba (see review), owner Ba Forde has served a very traditional version of her family's native cuisine for almost two decades. For a time, her sister was doing much the same thing as one of the original partners at T-Wa Inn (555 South Federal ... More >

  • No Shame

    No Shame

    By Jason Sheehan | Thu, April 14, 2005

    It's one o'clock in the morning and I'm still eating crab. I've been eating crab since my wife went to bed more than an hour ago, sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of the TV, watching cartoons with the drifty stare of an acid casualty, su... More >

  • Mouthing Off

    By Kyle Wagner | Thu, May 11, 2000

    Saigon Terrace (reviewed this issue) isn't Denver's only worthy Vietnamese restaurant, of course. New Saigon (650 South Federal Boulevard) continues to turn out literally hundreds of excellent dishes (including several variations on frog legs); ev... More >

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    westwordbestof

    | Wed, May 06, 2009

    Denver has about a thousand Vietnamese restaurants, and most of them are pretty good. But even in this ocean of eateries, a few stand out as truly special, and the best of all is Kim Ba. Virtually every plate that comes out of the kitchen at Kim Ba (and yes, we've tasted almost all of them) is a model against which similar plates might be judged and found lacking. And if that plate is coming off the grill? Nothing beats it. The only challenge to eating here is saving room for the entrees, because the short board of appetizers includes Denver's best soft-shell crab and best Vietnamese fondue.

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