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3757 Pecos St. Denver, CO 80211

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3757 Pecos St. Denver CO 80211

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  • Mexican
    Sun-Wed 9am-11pm, Thu-Sat 9am-1am
    $ $
  • MasterCard, Visa, cash
    Takeout, Vegetarian Friendly
    Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch
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This small, family-friendly neighborhood cafe is warm and crowded during the day, crowded and loud after dark, with the big kitchen constantly at work banging out food that may not yet be ubiquitous in Denver, but certainly is sur de la frontera. The house specialty is huaraches: long, open-faced slabs of corn masa topped with whatever is close at hand. But Los Carboncitos also offers everything from tacos to killer tortas to real Mexican Coca-Cola.








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  • westwordbestof
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    | Denver, CO | 102 Reviews

    4
    | Wed, May 6, 2009

    There have been two big developments at Los Carboncitos this year: They've added a third location, on East Sixth Avenue, that serves alcohol — and all three restaurants now serve chips (although you may have to ask for them). And Los Carboncitos still has the best salsa in the city. As a matter of fact, it has three or four of the best salsas in the city — all brought to every table in little salsa caddies so that customers can add spice and heat and flavor to their heart's content. But this doesn't mean that the food needs any enhancement. Because while Los Carboncitos might have the best salsa in Denver, it also has any number of great dishes that are just fine on their own. The tacos and burritos (particularly the desayuno) are excellent, and the huaraches are unbelievably good — giant slabs of masa on which all the best things in the world (like pork and steak and avocado and pork and bacon and shrimp and pork and bacon) come stacked. A dish this good deserves to be adorned with only the best salsa — and at Los Carboncitos, that's exactly what you're going to get.

  • tannaruzicka
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    | Denver, CO | 307 Reviews

    4
    | Fri, April 9, 2010

    Awesome chips and salsa. Great margs - not to sweet, but not to sour.

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  • 2009 | Best Chips and Salsa

    There have been two big developments at Los Carboncitos this year: They've added a third location, on East Sixth Avenue, that serves alcohol -- and all three restaurants now serve chips (although you may have to ask for them). And Los Carboncitos still has the best salsa in the city. As a matter of fact, it has three or four of the best salsas in the city -- all brought to every table in little salsa caddies so that customers can add spice and heat and flavor to their heart's... More »

  • 2008 | Best Salsa

    At Los Carboncitos, salsa is an elemental part of the meal, and every table is supplied with a caddy full of different varieties. No chips, though: That chips-and-salsa thing is an American invention, and Los Carboncitos is about as far as you can get from an American restaurant without updating your passport. This bright spot operates like a cool, urban Mexico City diner, offering comfort foods, tacos, huaraches and messy breakfast plates -- all begging to be slathered with any one of... More »

  • 2008 | Best Place to Make a Pig of Yourself

    Los Carboncitos is a temple to all things piggish, where the humble swine has been elevated to a position of vaunted honor -- its loin, its chops, its belly and fat used in marvelous excess. Not everything on the menu is made of pork, but there's nothing on the menu that doesn't have a pork-heavy option. And in many cases, you can have two or three kinds of pork on a single plate: chopped pork covered with bacon, pork rib meat over chops. Sure, there's other stuff available here; there... More »

  • 2007 | Best Taste of the D.F.

    Free chips and salsa, a night-and-day crush of crowds that would send any demographer running home in tears, and huaraches -- the greatest food ever named after a shoe. These are just some of the attributes that make Los Carboncitos a true taste of the Distrito Federal. This is the Mexican equivalent of an American diner -- an all-comers oasis where a real Mexican Coke, a couple of tacos and a giant slab of grill-seared cornmeal dough topped with beans and cheese and shrimp and pork and... More »

  • 2007 | Best Free Chips and Salsa

    Los Carboncitos is one of the best free-chips-and-salsa joints in town, and we're amazed that they're still just giving this stuff away. Every meal here begins with a basket of fresh chips and a caddy of four free salsas running the gamut from merely hot to truly punishing. Honestly, we've considered on many occasions stopping in, eating a whole basket of chips for lunch and then just walking back out again. And yet every time, the chips and salsas act like blood in the shark pool -- stoking... More »

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