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Kokoro - CLOSED

555 Broadway
Denver, CO 80203

720-904-8090 | Website

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Category: Restaurants | Japanese, Sushi

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Founded by Mareo Torito, Kokoro has specialized in speed, low prices, freshness and healthy ingredients -- with a Japanese accent -- for two decades. In look and feel, this outpost apes a Japanese noodle shop, serving rice bowls and noodle bowls, sushi that isn't really sushi (five choices, all cooked), gyoza, edamame and salads, all very, very quickly.

  • Cuisine(s): Japanese, Sushi

    Hours: Sun-Thu 11am-9pm, Fri-Sat 11am-9:30pm

    Price: $

    Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards, cash, check, ATM/Debit

  • Attire: Casual

    Features: Catering, Delivery, Kid Friendly, Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Smoking, Takeout, Vegetarian Friendly, Wheelchair Accessible

    Serving: Dinner, Lunch

    Alcohol: Beer/Wine

  • Reservations: Not Accepted

    Parking: Lot Available

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  • 2009 | Best Not-So-Traditional Japanese Restaurant

    An argument could be made that all Japanese food is fast food. Dumplings and noodle bowls are basic convenience foods, and sushi's ready with the slash of a knife. But Kokoro puts a uniquely American (and, arguably, uniquely Denver) spin on this... More >

  • 2008 | Best Japanese Fast Food

    Founded in Denver by Mareo Torito, Kokoro has specialized in speed, low prices, freshness and healthy ingredients — with a Japanese accent — for twenty years. The South Colorado Boulevard Kokoro is the best of the three still operating (the... More >

  • 2001 | Best Dinner Under $5

    You'll be bowled over by the bargain that is Kokoro. Since the Colorado Boulevard location opened in 1985, Kokoro has been serving healthy food for a very slim price, and the deal is the same at the newer site in Arvada. The regular-sized rice... More >

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  • Kokoro closes its spot at Sixth and Broadway

    By Patricia Calhoun | Wed, October 19, 2011

    ​When he founded the fast-casual Kokoro more than two decades ago, Mareo Torito had visions of growing the concept into a national chain. But from its original location at 2390 South Colorado Bo More >

  • Kokoro

    By Jason Sheehan | Thu, November 09, 2006

    When Larry Leith says his idea for Tokyo Joe's -- a fast-casual Japanese rice- and noodle-bowl joint-- came out of nowhere (see review, page 50), he may be overlooking a Colorado mini-chain called Kokoro. Founded by Mareo Torito a full decade befo... More >

  • Bowled Over

    Bowled Over

    By Kyle Wagner | Thu, January 18, 2001

    The diner sitting on my left has stomach cancer and isn't sure what treatment he's going to try. The diner sitting on my right has a seventeen-year-old daughter who's pregnant. Fifteen minutes into a beef curry bowl at Kokoro, and already I know ... More >

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    westwordbestof

    | Wed, May 06, 2009

    An argument could be made that all Japanese food is fast food. Dumplings and noodle bowls are basic convenience foods, and sushi's ready with the slash of a knife. But Kokoro puts a uniquely American (and, arguably, uniquely Denver) spin on this idea that lands its noodle bowls, rice bowls, gyoza and sushi right between Chipotle fast-casual and old-time Woolworth's lunch-counter grub — except here the customers are eating unagi rice bowls, shrimp tempura udon, tekka maki and "sobaghetti" (yakisoba with vegetables and sauce) instead of cheeseburgers and milkshakes.

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