Dry January mocktail specials are long gone and Valentine’s Day menus are in the rear-view mirror. But lucky for us, Denver Restaurant Week is back from March 6 to 15 for its 22nd year with dinner deals at multiple price points in Denver and beyond.

While you may have missed out on reservations for the hottest Michelin-recognized and James Beard Award–winning eateries, there are dozens of great places left to explore. Here, 10 Front Range restaurants where you can likely sneak in during Denver Restaurant Week, plus a great pre-theater deal from a longtime Larimer Square favorite.

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Denver Restaurant Week Deals for $25

Cuba Cuba Cafe & Bar

Folks eating at Cuba Cuba Cafe & Bar
Photo by Sarah Banks
  • Location: 1173 Delaware St., Denver (Golden Triangle)
  • Cuisine: Cuban
  • Price: $25

The twin aquamarine Victorian houses with yellow trim where 25-year-old Cuba Cuba operates immediately puts patrons on island time. And a dip into the restaurant’s extensive rum selection makes sure you stay there. For Restaurant Week, enjoy a tropical salad (mango and avocado are in the mix), chicken vaca frita (shredded chicken with onion, garlic, and citrus), and flan for dessert. At only $25, adding a Havana Club daiquiri or sangria won’t break the bank.

Mecha Noodle Bar

Rice bowl from Mecha
Photo by Mark Antonation
  • Location: 2801 Walnut St., Denver (RiNo)
  • Cuisine: Vietnamese and Japanese
  • Price: $25

Steaming bowls of noodles are the specialty at Mecha, so you’ll have a chance to wade into pho or ramen on the $25 menu. Start with a fried chicken or shiitake mushroom bao before warming up with chicken pho, the Kinoko vegan ramen made with mushroom dashi broth, chicken paitan ramen with black garlic and a soft egg, kimchi fried rice, or mala stir fry with beef and flat rice noodles. You’ll like the ending of this one: Bonnie’s ube banana pudding (yes, it’s purple). Many of Mecha’s noodle bowls approach $20, so getting a full meal for $25 is a steal.

Welton Street Cafe

A spread from Welton Street Cafe
Photo by Kevin Mohatt
  • Location: 2883 Welton St., Denver (Five Points)
  • Cuisine: Southern and Caribbean
  • Price: $25

The Dickerson family has graced Five Points with nearly 40 years of homestyle cooking, from Southern fried chicken to meat-filled pates (like Caribbean empanadas). For Restaurant Week, you can have either the fried chicken or catfish dinner (or a vegetarian plate), plus white bread or cornbread, a soda, and peach cobbler or banana pudding for dessert. Whichever entrée you select, you can load up with sides like okra, hush puppies, fries, red beans and rice, mac and cheese, cabbage, and onion rings. The cafe’s everyday catfish plate runs $23 and the fried chicken meal is $26.60, so you’re getting lots of freebies for your $25.

Denver Restaurant Week Deals for $35

Cafe Aion

The facade of Cafe Aion
Cafe Aion in Boulder. Photo courtesy of Cafe Aion
  • Location: 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder
  • Cuisine: Spanish and French
  • Price: $35

Cafe Aion has been Boulder’s top destination for paella since chef-owner Dakota Soifer opened on University Hill in 2010. Restaurant Week is a great time to celebrate the Spanish rice dish with a choice of the cafe’s chicken and chorizo, vegetable, or mixed land and sea paella (a $5 add-on). For starters you can choose a mezze plate of mixed apps or merguez sausage with hummus and tzatziki, and for dessert there’s flan, spiced chocolate cake, or Basque cheesecake. Cafe Aion normally serves paella for two or four people, with prices ranging from $55 to $73. Getting your own paella along with an appetizer and dessert for $35 is una gran oferta.

Mama Kim Asian Fusion

Curry noodles at Mama Kim Malaysian Fusion
Curry noodles at Mama Kim Malaysian Fusion. Photo by Mark Antonation
  • Location: 8745 E. Orchard Rd., Greenwood Village
  • Cuisine: Malaysian with other Asian influences
  • Price: $35

Malaysian cuisine is a rarity in Denver, so it was great to see Mama Kim bring its pan-Asian menu from Kuala Lumpur to the Denver Tech Center last year. For its first Restaurant Week menu, Mama Kim is offering dishes not found on its regular roster, and at a price that’s about $10 less than a similar trio of starter, main, and dessert. Start with spicy ginger calamari or tauhu sumbat (fried tofu pockets stuffed with carrot and cucumber) before moving on to vegan Singapore noodles or ayam kapitan (spicy red coconut curry with chicken drumsticks and jasmine rice). If that doesn’t fill you up, the ube cheesecake with Oreo crust or the pandan and mung bean rice cakes for dessert surely will. Pair your dinner with a Spiced Revival, Mama Kim’s take on the Carajillo cocktail trend made with reposado tequila, espresso liqueur, fresh espresso, and curacao liqueur.

Denver Restaurant Week Deals for $45

Oliver’s Italian

Pasta in a bowl
Oliver’s Italian. Photo by Marc Piscotty
  • Location: 4950 S. Yosemite St., Greenwood Village
  • Cuisine: Italian
  • Price: $45

Fans of Blue Island Oyster Bar & Seafood in Cherry Creek and Lone Tree will be pleased to learn that the same restaurant group also runs Oliver’s Italian in Greenwood Village. You can try the same East Coast oysters here, although you’ll have to stray from the Restaurant Week menu to do so. But even without the bivalves, shelling out $45 is a no-brainer. Starter options include mortadella and Parmesan arancini, calamari fritti, a Tuscan kale Caesar salad, or artisan bread with whipped ricotta and truffle honey. The decisions only grow more difficult when you get to the mains: rigatoni with spicy vodka sauce and Italian sausage, barramundi piccata, or osso bucco with polenta. For sweet treats, choose between blood orange olive oil cake and lemon sorbetto with candied strawberries. For comparison, Oliver’s rigatoni with sausage would normally cost $32, and the barramundi and osso bucco are Restaurant Week–only specials.

Bon Ami Bistro & Crêperie

  • Location: 295 S. Pennsylvania St., Denver (Speer)
  • Cuisine: French
  • Price: $45

If you’re looking for a quiet neighborhood spot for Restaurant Week, look no further than six-year-old crêpe specialist Bon Ami. For your first course, say oui to French onion soup or mussels in either white-wine garlic or tomato sauce. Next up: Parisian chicken, boeuf bourguignon, or trout amandine. And of course, a French meal wouldn’t be complete without crème brûlée or chocolate mousse. For a taste of a dinner that would normally cost about $60, it’s OK with us that crêpes aren’t an option. It just means you’ll have an excuse to come back for breakfast.

Whit’s End

  • Location: 1736 E. 31st Ave., Denver (Whittier)
  • Cuisine: Italian and European
  • Price: $45

The Whittier neighborhood’s tastiest secret is the Italian-inspired menu at Whit’s End, which opened just over a year ago from the owners of Lodo’s Red Square Euro Bistro. The trattoria is offering a selection of four appetizers, three entrées, and two desserts on its $45 Restaurant Week menu. Start with steamed PEI mussels, artichoke Parmesan dip, Italian wedding soup, or a lacinato kale salad, then go with ziti lisci (these are smooth instead of ridged tubes) with eggplant Milanese, pappardelle with lamb ragu, or pan-roasted salmon with Tuscan beans and charred cauliflower (normally $35 on its own). Finish up the evening with chocolate-espresso mousse or mixed berry sorbetto.

Denver Restaurant Week Deals for $55

Hungry Goat Scratch Kitchen & Wine Bar

  • Location: 102 Market St., Morrison
  • Style: Modern American
  • Price: $55

Avoid the throngs of hungry Denverites dining out this week and head to Morrison instead. Three-year-old Hungry Goat offers a combination of fun and charm in its lively bar and dining room set in a brick mansion built in 1873. Chef Roy Benningfield’s flourishes grace the appetizer selections, including a Caesar salad with white anchovies, tomato salad with grilled goat cheese croutons, potato leek soup with fennel, and Brussels sprouts with beet hummus. The second course covers quadrucci (stamp-size pasta squares) with Bolognese sauce, San Francisco–style cioppino, shrimp and grits, and beef and mushroom cannelloni. Upgraded items include vegan “scallops” made with king trumpet mushrooms for an extra $5 or a 10-ounce New York strip au poivre for an additional $10. End your meal with chevre crème brûlée, flourless chocolate cake, or an assortment of sorbets.

The Butchery

  • Location: 7923 Allison Way, Arvada
  • Cuisine: Steak house
  • Price: $55

You’ll rarely escape a steak house without dropping at least a Benjamin, so getting filet mignon or a New York strip, plus an appetizer and dessert, for $55 is almost like putting Mr. Franklin back in your wallet. If you’re not doing red meat, the Butchery is also grilling up salmon and truffle honey-glazed chicken for Restaurant Week. All mains come with a side, and dinner includes salad selections (Caesar or garden), green chile cornbread, and either crème brûlée or chocolate layer cake.

Bonus Deal

Rioja

Rioja’s artichoke tortellini.
Rioja’s artichoke tortellini. Photo by Riane Menardi Morrison
  • Location: 1431 Larimer St., Denver (LoDo)
  • Cuisine: Mediterranean
  • Price: $50

While Larimer Square stalwart Rioja isn’t offering a Restaurant Week menu (leave that to its siblings Bistro Vendôme and Ultreia), chef-owner Jennifer Jasinski has a deal designed for folks enjoying a night out at the nearby Denver Center for the Performing Arts or Ball Arena. Her First Turn menu is being served from 4 to 6 p.m. March 6 to 15 for $50 per person (full table participation is requested). Go green with the house salad (with arugula, dates, Gorgonzola, and almonds) or a little meatier with slow-cooked pork belly with curried garbanzo beans to start. You’ll also get a choice of pastas—butternut squash mezzaluna, artichoke tortelloni, or goat cheese gnudi—and Thai chili pork or fideuà with chorizo, chicken, shrimp, clams, gigande beans, saffron, shishito peppers and lemon aioli. Portions are sized to share, and the final round lets you pick from the restaurant’s full dessert menu.