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28025 Main St. Centennial, CO 80439

303-679-1155

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Recommended
Best Doughnuts in a Barbecue Restaurant
Award Winner 2008

Cuisine(s): Barbecue, Breakfast, Deli

Hours: Daily 5:30am-5:30pm

Price: $
Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards

Features: Takeout, Catering

Serving: Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch
Reservations: Not Accepted

Parking: Street

Description

Tin Star is a small storefront cafe mixed in among all the other small storefront cafes, bars, art galleries and purveyors of knickknackery that shoulder up along Evergreen's high street. It's a nondescript space -- but it happens to house the perfect restaurant concept. Because Tin Star serves only two things: barbecue and doughnuts, both excellent. Go for the pork shoulder and giant apple fritters, two great tastes that go great together.

2008 | Best Doughnuts in a Barbecue Restaurant

Tin Star does only two things -- barbecue and doughnuts -- which means it comes very close to any sane person's idea of how heaven might smell. When he took over the longtime doughnut joint four years ago, owner Andrew Schutt -- a trained chef and veteran of several of Denver's biggest-name kitchens -- tried adding a deli to the doughnuts, then sandwiches. Two years ago, he hit on the magical combination of doughnuts and barbecue, and he hit the jackpot. Where else can a... More »

Andrew Schutt takes his heavenly menu to new heights

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, April 23, 2009

The barbecue scene is smokin'. First I heard that Mike Frislie, ex of the late, lamented Bugling Bull Trading Post, has his hands in a new barbecue operation, The 'Que, which just opened on Yosemite Street off Park Meadows Drive. Then I got word f... More »
Tin Star Cafe & Donuts|Senor Burritos

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, June 14, 2007

Halfway up the mountain, it occurred to Laura and me that neither of us wanted jägerschnitzel. And it wasn't just that we didn't want German food. We really weren't too crazy about each other at the moment. We'd been arguing all morning about this... More »
Taco the Town

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, September 01, 2005

So how is it that Tin Star (see review, page 57), a Tex-Mex chain outfit from Dallas, and John Jourde, a first-time restaurateur more comfortable around software reps than line cooks, came together in Colorado to create a place that so impressed m... More »
Heavy Metal

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, September 01, 2005

I hate admitting that I'm wrong. Up to this point in my somewhat spotty career, I would have insisted that certain rules govern a restaurant's survival. A space that can only be located by satellite photography is never going to make it. A fusio... More »

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Tin Star Cafe & Donuts

28025 Main St. Centennial, CO 80439

303-679-1155

Description

2008 | Best Doughnuts in a Barbecue Restaurant

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, April 23, 2009

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, June 14, 2007

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, September 01, 2005

By Jason Sheehan | Thu, September 01, 2005