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Benny’s Restaurante y Cantina

Cuisine: Mexican

Neighborhood: Central Denver

301 E. 7th Ave., CO, 80203
303-894-0788

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Benny’s is a Colorado classic, a Den-Mex restaurant that serves fat-ass burritos, enormous nacho platters, free chips and salsa, and (allegedly) 350 gallons of margaritas every weekend. This is a favorite go-to place for a side of chicharrones (crisp and hot and greasy as hell) and a bowl of green chile (indubitably Coloradan – thick and slick and full of pig). The menu is huge, the prices low, and the patio always crowded.

Best Of Denver® Awards
  • 2012 Best Free Chips and Salsa
  • 2010 Best Hangover Breakfast
  • 2004 Best Chips and Salsa
  • 2003 Best Green Chile
  • 2002 Best Burrito
  • 2001 Best Chips and Salsa
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