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Twentieth Street Cafe

1123 20th St.
Denver, CO 80202

303-295-9041

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Category: Restaurants | American, Breakfast, Diner

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Get it hot, get it cheap and get it fast. In operation since 1946, 20th Street has never been anything more than a modest neighborhood diner, offering such working-class fare as eggs-and-bacon plates, cheeseburgers, tuna melts, green chile breakfast burritos, noodle bowls and chicken fried rice. Yes, you read that right: This modest, neighborhood breakfast bar has a history stretching back to the days when nearby Sakura Square was the center of Asian-American (or Asian with no American at all) culture in this city. Sixty years later, those noodle bowls and plates of fried rice are still selling. And the breakfast burrito (served all day, from open 'til close at 2 p.m.) is more or less an institution itself.

  • Cuisine(s): American, Breakfast, Diner

    Hours: Mon-Fri 6am-2:30pm, Sat 7am-1:30pm

    Price: $

  • Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, Discover, cash

    Features: Takeout, Kid Friendly

    Serving: Breakfast, Lunch

  • Reservations: Not Accepted

    Parking: Street

  • 2006 | BEST CHEAP BREAKFAST

    No wi-fi, no cappuccino, no dress code and no service past 2:30 in the afternoon. That's what makes the 20th Street Cafe our favorite breakfast bar. But the prices -- which top out under the ten-dollar mark -- also make it the best place in... More >

  • 2005 | Best Breakfast Bar

    To qualify as a breakfast bar, a place must do one thing -- serve breakfast -- and do it within a limited time span. In the case of the 20th Street Cafe, that span runs from 6 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. weekdays (7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturdays), and... More >

  • 2003 | Best Hole-in-the-Wall

    There are three qualifications for a true hole-in-the-wall: It has to be tiny, locals-only, and do something so surprisingly well that it earns the lifelong loyalty of its regulars. The 20th Street Cafe hits the mark on all three. First, it's... More >

  • 2001 | Best Chicken-Fried Steak

    The 20th Street Cafe bills itself as a "working man's cafe," but this increasingly upscale area doesn't have many working men these days -- not the sort the café was originally designed to serve, at any rate. But everyone from day laborers to... More >

Westword Reviews and News

  • 20th Street Cafe is no gastropub. Thank God.

    By Jason Sheehan | Thu, May 14, 2009

    20th Street Cafe is the polar opposite of a gastropub: It's a working-class diner serving the simplest and most historic of restaurant foods with nothing more than Cokes, coffees and mugs of green tea to drink. It's what restaurants were like befo... More >

  • Home at the Range

    By Jason Sheehan | Thu, September 05, 2002

    All of you health nuts are going to feel pretty stupid someday, lying there in your hospital beds dying of nothing in particular. Redd Foxx said something like that once, and I agree with him. All you joggers, all you twig-and-berry vegans, all yo... More >

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