Thai in Denver

9Thai

4122 E. Colfax Ave. East Denver

303-658-0751

Thai

Aloy Modern Thai

2134 Larimer St., Denver LoDo/Ballpark/Commons Park

303-379-9759

Thai, Recommended, Best Of, Readers' Choice

Think all Thai restaurants have to offer is pad Thai and crab-cheese wontons? Think again. Aloy Modern Thai, which opened in February 2016 in the Ballpark neighborhood, does serve the ubiquitous noodle and fried-cheese dishes, but its menu is packed with subtle and sophisticated dishes, as well: kobe tenderloin in a tangy tamarind sauce; mild alligator meat punched up by a hit of Thai herbs and spicy, earthy black pepper; rack of lamb alongside beets, sweet potatoes and a rich massaman curry. Go early for the fantastic happy-hour cocktails, and stay to enjoy dinner in an inviting, fire-orange dining room with equally warm service.

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Aloy Thai Cuisine

2720 Canyon Blvd. Boulder

Thai

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Aung's Bangkok Cafe

1225 E. Hampden Ave. Englewood

303-806-9354

Thai

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Bangkok Thai Food

2099 Wadsworth Blvd. Lakewood

303-238-8000

Thai, Best Of

You can test a restaurant by its simplest dishes to see how the kitchen respects ingredients. Bangkok Thai Food excels with well-executed satay, pungent larb and papaya salad zingy with tamarind. Or you can look for deep dives into a country's culinary landscape. Here, too, Bangkok Thai comes through with Isaan-style lemongrass sausage and lovely khow soi from the northern city of Chiang Mai. After exploring, though, you might want to return to old standbys, which is when this family-run restaurant delivers both comfort and pleasure with pad Thai, fried rice and colorful curries, among many other Thai favorites. Lakewood is lucky to have Bangkok — a bright, lively and welcoming slice of Thailand's finest offerings.

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Beau Thai - Denver Highlands

3464 W. 32nd Ave. Northwest Denver

720-379-6040

Thai, Menu

Beyond Thai

1030 E. 22nd Ave., Denver Capitol Hill/Uptown/City Park

303-831-5955

Thai

Bird Craft

182 Lusher Ct., Frisco Mountains

970-455-8392

Thai, Fried Chicken

Bua Traditional Thai Cuisine

950 S. Abilene St. Aurora

720-262-9923

Thai, Menu

Busaba

133 S. McCaslin Blvd. Louisville

303-665-0330

Thai, Menu

Charm Thai

14648 Delaware St., Ste. 100 Westminster

720-566-0161

Thai, Menu

Chopstix Fusion

2020 S. Parker Rd. Southeast Denver

720-626-3029

Thai, Chinese, Essentials

The word ‘fusion’ can be a red flag for diners looking for pure flavors undiluted by American or European tastes, but in the case of Chopstix, which opened in May, it’s simply an indication that you’ll find a smattering of Thai dishes on a menu that otherwise offers a deep taste of Hong Kong — a real rarity in Denver. The smart move is to hit the tiny restaurant on the weekend to chat with owner Wendy Tong about house specialties like sizzling clay pots, tempting scallion pancakes and vivid greens in flavorful sauces, plus off-menu surprises such as pillowy cubes of fried tofu. Tong also creates beautiful baked goods, so save room for a slice of multi-layered crepe cake.

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Country Thai

823 Thornton Parkway North Denver

303-856-7204

Thai, Menu

Dancing Noodle Thai Cuisine

10841 S. Crossroads Dr., #10, Parker Southeast Denver Suburbs

303-805-3880

Thai, Best Of

At noon on a Friday afternoon, Dancing Noodle Thai Cuisine, a tiny storefront restaurant in an unassuming strip mall, is anything but dancing. It deserves to be packed, though, because the Thai dishes turned out here shimmy, spin and sway with penetrating, provocative flavors that don't just dance, but sing, too -- loud and proud. The coconut-laced curries are anything but pedestrian, redolent with garlic, ginger and heat; even the ubiqutous pad Thai is shockingly good. And the couple who runs this surprisingly great joint is sweeter than Thai tea.

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Daughter Thai Kitchen & Bar

1700 Platte St., Denver LoDo/Ballpark/Commons Park

720-674-9243

Thai, Recommended, Readers' Choice

The menu at Daughter Thai, which opened on rapidly changing Platte Street in 2019, reads as a little more upscale than the average neighborhood Thai restaurant, but it doesn’t give up on the bold flavors and fresh ingredients typical of the Southeast Asian country. So you’ll find beef panang curry in the style of Kanchanaburi, where chef/owner Ounjit Hardacre grew up, and a house pla-larb salad that’s the chef’s own invention, served with crispy frog legs that rival the best chicken wings in town.

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Dragon Cafe

2700 E. 6th Ave. Central Denver

303-333-8880

Asian, Chinese, Coffeehouse, Mongolian, Tea, Thai, Vietnamese, Coffee Shops, Menu

East China

15510 E. Centretech Parkway Aurora

303-363-6689

Asian, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Best Of

Looking for good Chinese takeout? Then look no further than this small, family-owned Aurora restaurant, which offers dine-in, takeout and delivery service within a five-mile radius. There really is nothing better than settling in for a Netflix marathon with waxy white boxes filled with fried rice and crab-cheese wontons. East China has an impressively large menu featuring appetizers ? yes, there is a pu-pu platter ? soups, and entrees made with chicken, pork, beef, seafood, duck or vegetables, as well as a smattering of Thai dishes and a couple of Vietnamese noodle bowls. The weekday lunch specials are cost-effective, the level of spiciness can be adjusted between warm and searing-hot, and East China has those crispy almond cookies that provide a happy ending to any meal.

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Farmhouse Thai Eatery

98 Wadsworth Blvd. Lakewood

303-237-2475

Thai, Recommended, Best Of

Freshness and balance are the keys to great Thai cuisine, and this Lakewood kitchen, which opened in 2019, serves up both, whether in seasonal salads, rich curries and soups (don’t miss the incendiary khao soi) or enlivened classics, from the floating market noodle soup to the sublimely porky hang le curry. Everything is made from scratch and loaded with the flavors of galangal, lemongrass, garlic, tamarind, chiles and other Southeast Asian spices.

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Hey Bangkok

301 S. Pennsylvania St. South Denver

303-777-0559

Thai, Menu

Honey Basil Asian Grill

1 Broadway Central Denver

303-871-8828

Chinese, Thai, Best Of, Menu

This fast Thai/Chinese spot that also offers a smattering of Vietnamese and Japanese dishes has settled into a steady, confident track since it opened in 2003 (it was originally named Spicy Basil until a 2024 name change, though management remains the same). The kitchen produces all the standards of urban Amerasian cuisine and occasionally reaches excellence with such marvels as the Panang curry and the shu mai dumplings — shrimp-and-pork-stuffed dumplings wrapped in the house's own dough.

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J's Noodle Star Thai

945 S. Federal Blvd. Southwest Denver

303-922-5495

Thai, Menu

This simple, unassuming space has gone through a lot of ups and downs over the years, but today it makes a pad thai so good that the whole place shines. The menu is very traditional, and with room for no more than twenty or so customers, the kitchen is able to carefully craft each dish. But the small space can also result in long waits for food and parking.

3 articles

John Holly's Asian Bistro

2422 S. Downing St. South Denver

303-722-8686

Asian, Asian Fusion, Bistro, Chinese, French, Sushi, Thai, Menu

1 article

John Holly's Asian Bistro

1028 S. Gaylord St. South Denver

303-942-0158

Asian, Japanese, Sushi, Thai, Menu

3 articles

Khan Toke Authentic Thai

1468 S. Cherokee St. Southwest Denver

Thai, Best Of

Tom kha, larb, green curry, drunken noodles, pineapple fried rice: The menu at US Thai, which has been a favorite in metro Denver since it debuted in 2006, is packed with hits. But what distinguishes the no-frills eatery is that it truly brings the heat. It even offers a menu warning about its spice level: "Hot, not recommended for the first-time visitor." Go mild unless you can handle the punch from Thai chiles, which are used liberally here, along with generous amounts of other spices — galangal, lemongrass, garlic, kaffir lime leaf and ginger — adding depth to the fiery fare.

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La Mai Thai Kitchen

2001 Sheridan Blvd. Edgewater

720-592-0082

Thai

Orrapan Botthaisong opened her first solo venture in Edgewater in 2022, bringing a youthful, relaxed energy to La Mai Thai, where she turns out a rotating roster of street food, including staples like basil fried rice and crispy chicken wings from "grandma's recipe” as well as a take on khao soi made with crispy fried chicken instead of the typical braised meat.

Liang's Thai Food

155 Nickel St. Broomfield

303-466-3948

Thai

Liang's Thai Food cart has been drawing hordes of devoted followers on the 16th Street Mall — there's often a long line — for years. Now it has a brick-and-mortar location in Broomfield where diners can get made-to-order noodles (pad Thai, pad see ewe and pad khee mao) as well as panang and green curries without having to brave the elements.

Lucky Noodles

1201 E. Colfax Ave., Denver Capitol Hill/Uptown/City Park

720-917-1000

Thai, Essentials

Inspired by the food she missed from her hometown of Bangkok, Kamolrat “Ploy” Limpapath opened this cozy neighborhood restaurant off East Colfax in 2020 — despite delays caused by the pandemic and with the help of the community. The neighborhood has continued to show up for Limpapath’s warm welcomes and her lineup of Thai hits such as tom yum soup and khao soi, many of which are made with ingredients she sources directly from Thailand in order to provide guests a taste of what it’s like to dine in her home.

Mali Thai Cuisine

4955 S. Ulster St., #104 Southeast Denver

303-773-6254

Thai, Recommended, Menu, Slideshow

Some may like it hot, but that’s not what the people behind Mali Thai Cuisine, which opened in late 2012 in south Denver, believe. “American people, some never eat Thai food,” says general manager Alex Tongbua, a native of Thailand. “We tend to give things mild.” And that’s a shame, especially if you’re trying to beat the heat. Think of the world’s spiciest foods -- harissa, Jamaican jerk, chile-laden salsas -- and you’ll be thinking of hot climates where foods make people sweat, producing a naturally cooling evaporative effect. In this country, however, the practice isn’t as instinctual as it is elsewhere -- certainly nowhere near as instinctual as ordering a cold Chang beer. But even if Mali’s dishes aren’t as hot as you might desire, they’re quite tasty, and the green curry, tom kha and pad eggplant all sport a proper spice level. All in all, the colorful, comfortable Mali Thai Cuisine is a very welcome addition to a part of town that could use a walk on the wild side.

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Mon Thai Restaurant

2099 Wadsworth Blvd., Ste. B Lakewood

303-238-8000

Thai

My Thai Cafe

2524 Federal Blvd. Northwest Denver

720-598-6798

Thai, Menu

Pho Fusion

8800 E. Hampden Ave. Southeast Denver

303-843-6080

American, Fast Casual, Thai, Vietnamese, Recommended

Pho Fusion covers four countries with a thirty-dish menu that includes pho, hot-and-sour and wonton soups, simple shrimp-lettuce-and-noodle spring rolls and deep-fried Vietnamese pork egg rolls. The food is fast, filling and good. Owner Tom Bird is deeply rooted in Denver's Vietnamese community, and he's onto something here -- maybe the formula for a fast-food Asian empire.

5 articles

Ponsawan Thai Cuisine

16566 Washington St., Thornton North Denver Suburbs

720-638-9966

Thai

Ros Siam

2637 W. 26th Ave. Northwest Denver

303-953-0291

Thai, Asian

Ros Siam opened in the Victorian bungalow that was formerly home to Sassafras in March 2020, just as the pandemic shuttered indoor dining. But the first restaurant for owner Attawut "Wut" Intongkam managed to survive on takeout and delivery business. Now you can enjoy such Thai dishes as pad prik khing (stir-fried chili paste with bell peppers and green beans) and neau nam tok (warm sliced beef with onion and romaine) inside as you admire the wood floors, stained-glass windows, colorful wallpaper and spacious porch.

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