All The Stars from The MICHELIN Guide Colorado 2025

The MICHELIN Guide Colorado 2025 has been introduced with large information! The Wolf’s Tailor, which was awarded One MICHELIN Star when the Guide debuted in Colorado, has been awarded Two MICHELIN Stars in 2025. 

That’s not the one large information out of Colorado this 12 months, nevertheless. Three new Stars have been aslo awarded to eating places. 

Learn extra about what makes every new Star sparkle and see the complete listing of all Starred eating places beneath.

The Wolf’s Tailor
Denver
Cuisine: Contemporary, Creative

Offering a seamless eating expertise as intriguing as its title, this comfy haven blends collectively creativity, consideration to element, and appeal. Chef Taylor Stark and his staff sew collectively an bold multicourse menu from culinary influences close to and much. The meal begins with a trio of canapés using product trim, making a transparent assertion concerning the kitchen’s sustainable gastronomy efforts. From there, meals could embody a Berkshire pork dumpling with a turmeric and dill broth, impressed by the flavors of Chiang Mai, or velvety Colorado bison loin plated with apricot and grilled zucchini glazed with a dried shrimp caramel.
A rigorous dedication to native sourcing in addition to gorgeously manicured shows underpin these far-flung creations. Drinks are one other knockout: An in-depth beverage program of beguiling cocktails (and their dry counterparts) alongside brilliantly curated wines additional improve this one-of-a-kind expertise.

Kizaki
Denver
Cuisine: Japanese

Going again greater than 4 a long time, Chef Toshi Kizaki has been a veritable trailblazer of Denver’s sushi scene, however even now in his seventies, he’s not content material to relaxation on his laurels. In a fruits of his lengthy profession, he now raises the stakes with this luxury counter, bringing a brand new echelon of omakase to the Mile High City. Blending conventional edomae methods and artistic fashionable thrives, the in depth menu alternates between small dishes like gorgeously marbled black-and-white sesame tofu and nigiri fastidiously crafted by Chef Kizaki himself. Exceptional ingredient high quality is a given from begin to end, spanning a treasure trove of oceanic delicacies, from buttery, frivolously seared black-throat sea perch to silvery, vinegar-accented gizzard shad.

Margot
Denver
Cuisine: Contemporary

After years spent as an esteemed pop-up, Chef Justin Fulton’s ardour challenge has discovered a everlasting berth at a comfortable eight-seat counter tucked inside a bigger shared area. Offered as a recent multicourse tasting that follows the seasons, his signature delicacies is each world and distinctly Coloradan, taking inspiration from native components whereas weaving collectively wide-ranging influences. Examples would possibly embody ethereal Parisian gnocchi bathed in an expensive sauce of mascarpone and caviar, or impeccably cooked dry-aged duck breast matched with cherries and a wealthy, refined truffle jus. Individual loaves of fluffy olive oil brioche, freshly baked for every visitor, seize the meal’s easygoing charms, echoed by the disarmingly heat hospitality of the employees.

Mezcaleria Alma
Denver
Cuisine: Mexican

Lightning strikes twice for dynamo Chef Johnny Curiel with this parallel idea cheek-by-jowl subsequent to his celebrated flagship. As the title suggests, the small trendy area has a mezcal bar vibe—and an inventory of ingenious, mouthwatering agave spirit-based cocktails to go together with it—however it’s additionally a showcase for Chef Curiel’s culinary skills. Evoking the colourful creativity of Mexico City’s restaurant scene, the succinct menu is sprinkled with worldwide flavors, as in an herbaceous ceviche of kanpachi that includes dill and roasted garlic, or a subtly spiced aguachile of Santa Barbara uni and Hokkaido scallop with mandarin and crispy ginger. Meats, like tender, slow-cooked duck piled atop a crisp blue corn tlacoyo and accented with zingy xni-pec salsa, present related éclat.

Hero & Thumb photos: Jeff Fierberg / Margot