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112 E. 8th Ave. Denver, CO 80203

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112 E. 8th Ave. Denver CO 80203

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  • French
    Sun 10am-9pm, Mon-Fri 11:30am-10pm, Sat 10am-10pm
    $$ $$
  • All Major Credit Cards, Diners Club, cash, check
    Banquet Facilities, Business Dining, Catering, Kid Friendly, Order Online, Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Private Party, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible
    Brunch, Dinner, Lunch
  • Full bar
    Accepted, Recommended
    Meters, Street
Description

Le Central has been giving Denver a sit-down history lesson on the breadth of French cuisine - from the haute to the basse - since 1981. Over the years, chefs and cooks from far-flung locales have passed through this kitchen, but owner Robert Tournier has always kept a close eye on the proceedings. At dinner, Le Central can be one of the city's most romantic spots, and for a relative pittance you can have feuilleté d'escargot or one of a number of mussel preparations. At lunch, the restaurant is more casual, but still a good spot to linger over your meal.








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  • Wine events pour out the fun tonight

    Wine events pour out the fun tonight

    By Patrick Langlois | Tue, May 22, 2012

    If you were hoping to attend tonight's vintage wine dinner at Le Central, 112 East Eighth Avenue, and don't have a reservation, you're too late: That event is sold out (but the restaurant does have a ... More »

  • It\'s all about wine on this week\'s calendar

    It's all about wine on this week's calendar

    By Patrick Langlois | Mon, May 21, 2012

    There are a handful of wine events on the calender this week, including three on Tuesday alone. While craft beer may be stealing the spotlight lately, you can never go wrong with the classics. Here's... More »

  • Tonight: D.I.N.E. serves up poet laureate David Mason

    Tonight: D.I.N.E. serves up poet laureate David Mason

    By Amber Taufen | Wed, June 01, 2011

    Le Central will host this round of D.I.N.E.: Dinner, Ideas 'N Exchange, with poet laureate David Mason discussing "The Poet and the West." The Colorado Humanities-organized event starts at 6 p.m. and ... More »

  • Le Central\'s 2010 Beaujolais Nouveau night was just the start of seasonal events

    Le Central's 2010 Beaujolais Nouveau night was just the start of seasonal events

    By Jenn Wohletz | Mon, November 22, 2010

    Eager winos from all walks crowded the steps and lobby of Le Central Thursday evening to get a taste of this year's Beaujolais Nouveau and sample the bistro tasting plates, all with a touch of the spi... More »

  • Tonight: Culinary class and dinner at Le Central

    Tonight: Culinary class and dinner at Le Central

    By Amber Taufen | Tue, August 31, 2010

    Le Central bills itself as the "affordable French restaurant." While some might find that description terribly bourgeois, we dare you to find any other spot in town that offers a three-course culinary... More »

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    | Lakewood, CO | 2 Reviews

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    | Sun, January 1, 2012

    POOR MANAGEMENT AND STAFF - went to LeCentral and parked in a handicap parking space (car had proper tags) in their parking lot. Asked the greater if this was a proper parking space and she confirmed it was. After diner, we discovered our car was towed. The greater then lied to her manager and said she never told us it was okay to park there. Later, she admitted to her manager and us she did in fact say it was okay to park there. After the manager left, the greater flashed a gang sign and said F-you to us. Cost us $295 to get out car back. Currently in the process of filing a legal suit against LeCentral and will NEVER GO BACK!!!

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    | Lakewood, CO | 2 Reviews

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    | Sun, January 1, 2012

    POOR MANAGEMENT AND STAFF - went to LeCentral and parked in a handicap parking space (car had proper tags) in their parking lot. Asked the greater if this was a proper parking space and she confirmed it was. After diner, we discovered our car was towed. The greater then lied to her manager and said she never told us it was okay to park there. Later, she admitted to her manager and us she did in fact say it was okay to park there. After the manager left, the greater flashed a gang sign and said F-you to us. Cost us $295 to get out car back. Currently in the process of filing a legal suit against LeCentral and will NEVER GO BACK!!!

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    | Denver, CO | 44 Reviews

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    | Sun, November 29, 2009

    Appetizer- Petit Chêvre Fondu á la Provençale Mussels- Provençale Dinner- Entrecote au Poivre Dessert - Pain Perdu

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  • 2009 | Best First-Date Dinner

    First dates are tricky. You want a restaurant that's inexpensive but not cheap. You want a restaurant that's loud and crowded in case the two of you have nothing to talk about, but not too loud or too crowded in case you hit it off so well you actually want to hear what the other person is saying. You want a restaurant that's cool without being flighty, solid without being ponderous. And, in the event that everything goes terribly wrong, you want a restaurant with a fairly open floor plan so... More »

  • 2009 | Best Happy-Hour Menu

    From 3 to 5 p.m. every Thursday through Sunday at Le Central, owner Robert Tournier more or less gives the house away, offering about twenty small plates at two bucks or less. We're talking rillette, chicken-liver pâté e foie, Merguez sausage or pissaldiere for $1.50 each, and moules Provençal, duck confit or salmon fumée for $2. Meanwhile, all well drinks, mulled wine and house wines are just three dollars a throw, and espresso, lattes, cappuccinos and hot... More »

  • 2008 | Best Everyday French Restaurant

    Most haute cuisine is too heavy to eat every day. But Le Central practically cries out for you to return each afternoon for a bowl of Denver's best French onion soup, a plate of snails and a glass of wine (or three). The menu here is huge and very traditional, full of French comfort foods and specials. The moules et frites choices alone can keep us amused for weeks at a time, and when we're feeling a little more extravagant? Well, there's always the loup de mer, the entrecôte or the... More »

  • 2007 | Best Taste of Paris on the Cheap

    We go to Le Central like Catholics go to confession -- as a way to clear the head and save the soul after a week spent doing wrong. For serious fans of French food, Le Central is a required stop. But even if you just dream of spending a lazy Sunday afternoon hanging around a Parisian cafe reading Rimbaud and wearing a beret, Le Central is calling. From the unabashedly Gallic menu (loup de mer in port-wine reduction, escargots Bourguignon and Canard Grand Veneur roasted crisply and served... More »

  • 2006 | BEST THREE-HOUR LUNCH

    Le Central has always been our escape hatch, our parachute, our emergency exit from the daily grind. And while the art of extended lunching has been largely forgotten in this era of eighty-hour work weeks and over-scheduled everything, it isn't completely lost. Yet. And while you can get in and out of Le Central in a hurry -- bolting down a croque monsieur and chugging a piping-hot bowl of soup a l'oignon, chasing it with a glass of cheap merlot and running for the door before the stains... More »

  • 2006 | BEST MOULES ET FRITES

    There's nothing more soothing than a huge bowl of fresh mussels, perfectly cooked, surrounded by hedgerows of frites fresh from the fryer. Moules et frites is comfort food for the terminally overserved, for those who eat more meals out than they do at home and can appreciate both the vigorous innovation of today's young chefs and the beautiful classicism of certain dishes. In Denver, there's no better place to get a serving of this calming, consoling French masterpiece than at Le Central.... More »

  • 2005 | Best Snails

    They don't look like snails when they come to the table. They look like something baked inside a pastry shell. And from the first bite, they don't taste like you'd expect snails to taste. They taste more like a forestière of mushrooms, more like some dark fowl's meat -- turkey or duck, or something equally gamey. But snails they are, with three competing sauces painted onto the plate. Le Central's escargots are an excellent introduction to the world of French cuisine, where everything that w... More »

  • 2005 | Best French Restaurant

    Le Central gets knocked around a lot for things it doesn't do wrong. People complain about the service, saying it's snooty -- when it's actually just French. They grumble about long waits on lunch service when the house is full -- which really means the place is popular. But the one thing nobody ever seems to complain about is the food: lovingly rendered classic French bistro cuisine. Through it all, the kitchen just keeps turning out giant bowls of mussels and never-ending frites, woody... More »

  • 2004 | Best Gratuitous Use of a Political Scandal in a French Restaurant

    Remember all that Freedom Toast crap last year? All that screeching on AM radio about how patriotic Americans ought to pitch out their French cheese, pour their French wine into the gutter and abstain from all French kissing until the Frogs stopped thinking for themselves and, like Tony Blair, just blindly agreed with everything our president said? Yeah, that was some freaky, flag-waving shit that went down -- and leave it to Robert Tournier, owner of Le Central, to turn it all to his... More »

  • 2004 | Best Pommes Frites

    No. For the last time, the French did not invent the french fry. That was the Belgians. But as with so many things, the French took them, made them better and claimed all the credit. This means two things. One, it must suck to be Belgian, having your one great idea stolen like that. And two, when you're looking for great frites, your search should start and end in the French cafes. In Denver, that search inevitably leads to Le Central, which does pommes frites better than anyone else. The... More »

  • 2004 | Best Bargain Seafood

    There are few foods in the world as perfect as the mussel, few foods so filled with potential greatness, few so often mucked up by incompetent kitchens trying to do too much with a thing that's so good when left pretty much alone. Luckily for us, Le Central not only knows how to handle mussels properly, but it offers them in huge portions for under ten bucks, sided with excellent pommes frites in all-you-can-eat quantities. Le Central's kitchen prepares the moules nine ways, including a... More »

  • 2003 | Best French Restaurant

    Le Central is the sort of place everybody pictures when they're daydreaming of a meal at the perfect French cafe. And Le Central doesn't just look that way; it tastes that way, too. In Robert Tournier's cozy bistro, the true heart of French cuisine is honored every night by a kitchen that knows exactly what it's doing. Escargot en brioche, soup à l'oignon, steak frites, sandwiches des lardons -- all the classics are here, at both lunch and dinner, and even though the menu changes... More »

  • 2000 | Best wine list -- French

    Not only is Le Central's impressive selection of French wines the best in town -- filled with interesting bottles from across France that you won't find elsewhere -- it's also one of the best-priced, with remarkably low markups and most bottles coming in at the $20-to-$30 range. This affordable French bistro is just the place to try a 1997 chablis from Domaine de Varoux, or the 1995 Clos du Roy Fronsac, or something elegant from the Bourgogne. And if you're in the mood to splurge, you're in... More »

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Dinner Menu
Horsd' Oeuvre
$9.00
Feuillete D'escargots
six escargots preparted in a creamy sauce with blue cheese, spinach, walnuts, and tomato topped with puff pastry
$7.00
Escargots Bourguignons
six escargots sauttter, garlic, tomatoes, shallots and parsley
$7.00
Escargots En Brioche
six escargots sauteed with garlic, shallots, butter, tomatoes served over toasted brioche and flambeed with pastis
$13.00
Assiette De Fromage
bleu d'auvergne, montrachet chêvre, port salut and camembert served with toast points and fresh seasonal fruit
$9.00
Petit Chêvre Fondu À La Provençale
goat cheese flavored with olive oil and topped with sweet balsamic onion marmalade, tomatoes, basil and breadcrumbs and baked to a golden brown
$11.00
Charcuterie Du Central
house made selection of pates and cured meats served with dijon mustard, red onions, cornichons, and croutons
$9.00
L' Ail, Le Brie, Et Les Croutons
baked whole garlic head, tomatoes, basil, brie cheese, and toast
Les Soupes Et Les Salades
$3.00
$4.00
Soupe Du Jour
$3.00
$4.00
Soupe A L'oignon
$4.50
Salade Verte
mixed greens tossed with red wine vinaigrette
$5.00
Salade Cesar
romaine lettuce, parmesan cheese, and croutons tossed with a rich anchovy vinaigrette
$6.00
Salade Périgourdine
hazelnuts, mushrooms and country-style pate with mixed greens in a strawberry and balsamic vinaigrette
$7.00
Salade De Champignon
mixed greens, portobello mushrooms, roasted red peppers with balsamic vinaigrette
$8.00
Salade De Betterave
mixed greens tossed in red wine vinaigrette served over beets, hard boiled egg and blue cheese
$15.00
Salade De Onglet
grilled flat iron steak served over romaine tossed in bleu cheese dressing with bleu cheese crumbles, bacon, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, and gauffrette potato chips
$14.00
Salade Nicoise
spice rubbed and pan seared ahi tuna served over roasted tomato vinaigrette with haricots verts, boiled potatoes, red onion, olives, tomatoes, cucumber and hard boiled egg
$13.00
Le Cobb
roasted airline chicken breast served over mixed greens tossed in an herbed red wine vinaigrette with ham, bacon, hard boiled egg, red onion, diced tomatoes, and bleu cheese crumbles
Les Viandes
$24.00
Entrecote Au Fromage
black angus ribeye grilled to perfection and topped with crumbles bleu cheese and house cured bacon
$17.00
Terre Et Mer
citrus brined and grilled pork tenderloin accompanied by two sea scallops and finished with a grapefruit beurre blanc
$18.00
Magret De Canard Au Moutarde
a pan roasted duck breast and leg of duck confit enhanced with a whole grain mustard sauce
$16.00
Duo Du Poulet
all natural pan roasted airline chicken breast accompanied with chicken sausage and finished with a rosemary mornay sauce
Les Poissons
$21.00
Homard Bearnaise
half lobster brushed with butter then broiled, topped with the classic hollandaise sauce infued with tarragon
$16.00
Truite Amandine
filet of trout, almond crusted and pan seared, topped with brown butter and fried leeks
$21.00
St. Jacques
pan seared sea scallops served with a spicy sausage, tomato, and garlic confit ragout
$17.00
Saumon Provencal
sauteed filet of scottish salmon served with a rustic sauce of tomatoes, onion, garlic, capers, olives, lemon juice and olive oil
$12.00
Le Vegetarienne
savory crepe stuffed with turnips, parsnips, and roasted garlic; gratineed with gruyere cheese and topped with fresh tomatoes
Les Desserts Classiques
$3.95
Le Pain Perdu
warm brioche bread pudding served over warm caramel sauce served with fresh fruit
$4.50
La Creme Brulee
fresh vanilla custard, caramelized sugar crust
$2.95
La Creame Caramel
tradition vanilla-flavored custard with dark caramel sauce
$4.50
Le Central
almond and pistachio biscuit layered with praline, milk, and white chocolate mousse topped with dark chocolate ganache served over warm caramel sauce
$4.50
Le Citron
vanilla lady fingers complimented with lemon curd and a light lemon mousse line finished with lemon glaze and rolled in toasted coconut with creme anglaise
$4.50
Composer Votre Sable
sweet buttermilk biscuit baked with a hint of lemon accompanied with raspberry mousse, honey lemon butter, and fresh berries to construct as you wish!
$4.50
Lemon Sorbet Financier
lemon sorbet and lemon coulis with almond biscuit
Les Desserts
$12.00
L' Assiette De Fromage (le Special)
try it with a flight of wine to experience different combination an assortment of french cheese including montrachet chevre, roquefort port salnut and camembert sided by fresh seasonal fruits, candied walnuts and croutons
$4.50
Le Profiterole (les Dessert Glaces)
a choux pastry filled with vanilla ice cream, topped with chocolate sauce and shaved almonds
Les Desserts - Les Desserts Au Chocolate
$6.00
Gateau Au Chocolate Royal
soft chocolate sponge cake drizzled with rum and layered with chocolate ganche butter cream served with creme anglaise
$3.95
La Mousse An Chocolate
rich chocolate mousse, shaved almonds, toasted hazelnuts, homemade cookie

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