Cho77

I have been to ChoLon and thought the food was sublime so have been wanting to try the more casual street food fare of Cho77 for a while now. My husband and I stopped in on a Saturday about 1 in the afternoon and found the whole place to ourselves. Our service was incredible and I think even if we hadn’t been the only ones, it still would have been spot on.
I opted for the Pad see ew which is among my favorite noodle dishes. Plus the description of house made rice noodles sealed the deal. I found the veggies to be crisp and fresh, the egg wonderfully cooked and the noodles. Oh the delight of home made rice noodles. Chewy but soft, they were my first foray into my new love of fresh rice noodles.
The hubs went with the won ton noodles. The fatty yet succulent pork belly cubes were the highlight of the dish with a second going to the «pork tea» that came on the side. He was a happy man.
The waitress mentioned she really liked the coconut mango sticky rice dessert so I took her suggestion. It was a combination of sweet and slightly tart with the mango. Absolutely incredible and I literally scraped every last grain of rice out of the bowl. Heavenly.

I HATE that I have to knock some stars off. Ironically enough shortly after posting my first review my man and I swung in for dinner. Per usual I order a drunken monk and much to my surprise I was denied for having an out of state license. I have eaten here probably a dozen times (we were on a go to Cho 77 at least every 10 days kick) and now I am denied an adult beverage. Really? I had a million forms of ID in my wallet they refused to accept. It is really disappointing to be turned away when you have been loyal customers from the start. Management needs to more mindful of their regulars and not be ridiculous about the ID situation, I am clearly above age, covered in tattoos and with my (clearly) 30 year old boyfriend? Seriously? I’m not sure I will be back.

I came here for dinner with a good friend and fellow noodle lover.
I forget what he ordered, I’m selfish.
I ordered the pork belly egg noodles and it was completely yummy. We sat at the bar so we were able to watch everything be prepared and it felt really special

Hands down best southeast Asian food I have had. Street food inspired and is incredible food. Good first date atmosphere and is worth checking out

First time here and I got the Phở! It was awesome and I’ll be back for sure to grab some more soup!!! The place was pretty busy so I’m guessing there’s a wait on the weekends but I’d say it’s worth the wait… The service was pretty solid

Cho77 is definitely a great spot to try some south asian cultural food. My friends and I stumbled upon this restaurant while we are actually looking for another restaurant a few doors down. When we passed this restaurant the vibe and open window intrigued us and we wanted to check this place out instead!
Now granted it was a Saturday night and of course there is a wait time. We were given a 30 minute wait time and ended up waiting about 40 minutes. The restaurant is small and chic but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this restaurant for a large group at least not on the weekend.
The menu is quite small so there is not a large selection but I had the pad thai noodles dish and I LOVED IT! It was pretty great! If you like a lot of variety on your dishes, then this may not be the place but everything they do have is pretty good and smelled good!

The food and service are awesome! If you’re looking for a fun and delicious Asian meal in Denver, Cho 77 is the place to go!
And also, great jams on the radio!

Been here twice and there have been changes since last time we were here. They created a more urban hip atmosphere vs their old contemporary vibe. The menu still as good as always! I tend to sit at the bar to watch them prepare the food/​drinks. More fun! I had a sick kale salad, very filling and tasty! Boyfriend didn’t like the chicken wings but loved the pork bánh mì appetizer. Service is always good and the restaurant is on S Broadway, easy access to check out other bars after or get ice cream like I do ;)

I’ve been told with reasonable justification to avoid Asian fusion restaurants, but that’s generalizing and lacks adventure. Most Asian fusion restaurants try too hard to be different, resulting in authentic traditional dishes being demoted to a confused dish at best. What’s different about Cho77 is that they throw a twist on traditional dishes without completely altering the dish to an unrecognizable and complicated meal. I’ve dined here a couple of times, each time resulting in a pleasant experience.
We’ve tried numerous items on the menu including: Grilled Chicken Wings, «Bao Mi» Buns, Colorado Wagyu Satays, Burmese Pork Curry, Colorado Wagyu Phở, Thai Coconut Curry and Chicken Curry. One of my favorites were the chicken wings, just love the flavor and their amazing plumpness, moist and tender throughout. The preparation of the Thai Coconut Curry was a nice twist, served with egg noodles, departing from the traditional over rice preparation. The curry was sublime with a very creamy and silky texture. I can confidently say that most of the items I’ve tried were quite tasty, and really came down to what I was craving that night.
The restaurant was spot on, the service, food and décor were all above the norm. The staff was exceptional and more than accommodated us. This place is adventurous with a great twist on the usual Asian recipes, and may not be a place for who are rigid on the traditional preparations. I appreciate both styles, so this place offers a break for me from the usual authentically prepared cuisines.

If you’re reading this, just go. Right now. You won’t regret it. Cho77 is everything asian fushion should be but never is. Hands down the best restaurant we visited on a week-​long trip to Denver. Can’t recommend it enough.
We came in at about 730 on a Sunday and sat at the bar with no wait. I had a Singapore Spritzer, which is a very convincing looking faux cocktail for the nondrinkers and DDs. He had the pulled tea, expertly crafted by the very kind bartender other reviewers have mentioned, which was very good with an interesting flavor.
Appetizers: The frog legs are tender and very salty, but the stand out of this dish is the sauce, which I could’ve eaten straight. The pork buns are good, but the veggies overwhelm the meat a little bit.
Entrees: Personally I’d suggest just going right to these. We’re from NYC and we eat A LOT of curry. But the Thai coconut curry is the best we’ve ever had. One bite into his dish my boyfriend announced that we were coming back for dinner tomorrow to eat more curry. I had the wonton noodles, which is a well thought out dish. The bok choy is a nice balance to the noodles, which have a nice bite, and the main event that is the perfectly carmalized and tender pork belly. The broth «tea» and dumplings are a nice touch. Both of these dishes are well worth having.
Dessert: We opted for the sticky rice on the bartender’s suggestion. The pairing of the rice with the mango sorbet/​ice cream is flawless. My partner doesn’t even like sticky rice and he was devouring it right along with me.
The staff was knowledgeable and kind and the ambience was trendy but chill and welcoming. We weren’t rushed out at close, with kitchen last call happening 15 minutes beforehand.

Not really impressed with their take on Asian street food. It was just a spot better than PF Changs, and that’s really a low, low bar to clear. Everything was too salty or oversauced or cloyingly sweet. Why not get real Chinese/​Vietnamese/​Thai street food from any number of other real restaurants in Denver and Aurora. Yes, you’ll have to drive a mile or two farther out but you’ll save yourself forty or fifty bucks and get a better meal to boot.

If you ever wondered what Asian fusion food could be, then look no further. Cho77 is only open for dinner during the week and late lunch/​dinner on the weekends so plan accordingly.
I’ve been here a few times and my favorite appetizer is the bao mi buns. The crispy and rich pork belly goes well with the pickles. They come two to an order. It would be a great travesty to not at least order one per person at your table.
There’s only one way to follow up a great pork belly app… and that’s to have a pork belly entrée. For $ 14 you get plenty of the delicious pork belly and wonton noodles. The bok choy is cooked tender and well but let’s be honest, the pork belly and noodles are the stars of the dish. If this dish were the Manning brothers, the pork belly and wonton noodles would be Eli and Peyton and then bok choy would be Cooper Manning.
To top it off, you can get one of their 1.75 L bottles of sake for only $ 30 which is plenty for a table of 4.

Best meal I’ve had in quite a while. I sampled a few shared plates and they were all incredible:
Kale Salad — whoa! This was my first venture into this trendy new leafy green and was not disappointed. A huge crisp salad with a slightly sweet dressing and cashews. Awesome.
Pork Belly Buns with sriracha mayo and pickles — whoa again, these were great. Pork belly is hit or miss with me, and if done incorrectly, is really off-​putting, but these were great. Soft fresh bun and perfectly tender pork belly with an offset of crunch with the pickles
Red chile pork dumplings — these were also amazing. Sitting in a chili soy sauce, they were a bit spicy with a hint of vinegar.
Based on the reviews, it seems they switch their menu items up a bit so can’t wait to return to try the frog legs and some of their other items.
They had a great happy hour going as well from 5pm to 6pm. Give it a try!

Funky Asian, that’s the scene here. 60s music bumpin’
We had the following:
Burmese Pork Curry
Kale Salad
Ozeki sake
They were all delicious!
I’ll be back for sure.

They have some decent happy hour specials, which bring the slightly overpriced appetizers down to an average price. The drink specials are better. I had fun trying a sake bomb for the first time. The bao buns were nice and sticky and had a good amount of pork belly. The coconut curry chicken was delicious, perfect, and the favorite at the table. The ginger beef dish was also excellent. The portions are on the smaller side if you are sharing with a group. One thing that happened, and I’m posting this to see if it happened to anyone else, was that the credit card we used here was used the next day for fraudulent purposes. It may or may not have been someone that worked here, but this may be how I find out. Let me know if you had the same thing happen!

There are two parts to this review. The first part is that they sell themselves as Asian street food and I think this is a misrepresentation. I’ve been to SE Asian a few times and I think a decent amount of people have so we all know what that means. It means something that is really good, convenient, quick and cheap. I like the imagery of the graffiti wall here but outside of that nothing really screams Asian street food. The food was good, yes, but it wasn’t cheap nor was it fast. I think this is a marketing ploy and because of this I can’t give this place more than 3 stars.
With the left over stars, they get all three for the food and atmosphere. I really enjoyed the buns for the appetizer — it was a pleasant surprise for a dish I normally don’t like. However, $ 8? Really? In Asia it’d be maybe 50 cents and probably not worth more than $ 3 or $ 4 tops. Then I had the monkfish for dinner. It was surprisingly excellent. I know fish normally costs a lot and I felt the way this one was prepared it’s hard to criticize the price point aside from the already aforementioned comments.
I wish this place would either call it what it is or change its menu. I would willingly give it 5 stars in either case. I just don’t like the misrepresentation of what it is.

So… I’m kind of torn about Cho77. If Cho77 was presented to me as an upscale, trendy, «Americanized» Asain restaurant I would be giving it 4 stars, but it has been publicized as an Asain street food inspired gem, and I did not find it to be that. Cho77 is definitely trendy and «hip.» The menu is simple and straight forward, and the dishes deliver good flavor, BUT… is it worth paying $ 20+ per person? No. I have heard so much surrounding Cho77’s focus on Asain street food, so I was rather shell-​shocked when I sat down and saw the menu prices. Considering Asain street food’s two main concepts: quick & cheap, Cho77 is neither.
We ordered «Boa Mi» buns as a starter, and we were delivered 2 small buns. As an $ 8 starter, I paid $ 4 to eat 1 bun! Not what I was expecting. I ordered Thai Chicken Curry as my main dish. Again the flavors were good, but it is nearly identical to panang curry (but without rice), but it cost twice as much as many of our authentic local Thai shops, and you are given half as much.
Truthfully, the food is good, but I feel as if Cho77 used the gimmick of Asain street food to overcharge.

Great interior, ambiance, and happy hour. We came while it was still happy hour which offers up some decently discounted drinks (think $ 3 drafts, $ 5 house wines, $ 4 wells, and for those making a night of it, $ 1 sake shots and $ 3 sake bombs) and $ 2 off shared plates.
We shared the Wagyu beef satays which were decent but nothing special. We settled on the Thai coconut curry and the Burmese pork curry. Both were beautifully and playfully presented and could easily be doctored up by the four accompanying table condiments. Both were good mind you, but nothing you couldn’t get or taste at other Asian restaurants around town. Considering the heftier price tag relative to those other Asian joints, we were expecting more of a punch in originality or flavor. I guess the hip sobo location and ambiance are what warrant the extra few bucks per plate.
All in all, we enjoyed our meal that night and my fiancé enjoyed a brunch a few weeks back when they were still serving brunch. We aren’t opposed to returning, however, we didn’t find a need to rush back or become a regular.

Cho77 was born after Cholon. The way Cho77 rocks its own attitude no way you would know that.
It’s hip and trendy. That pretty face can back it up with some serious innovative and superb dishes. I read about their Pork Curry. Being a fan of Burmese or Vietnamese anything really got me all excited!
One thing about dining out a lot you learn that sometimes what is bought to you table is at times alarming. Take this instance. I was a bit worried when my Pork curry came out. It was the obvious watery sauce that worried me. But oh my. No way this dish disappointed me at all. The pork meat was truly tender. The sauce was a nice blend of just enough curry and something else. Partnered with just plain ‘ol rice. The best way. Then you can truly savor every bit of the curry.
Adam’s Curry Chicken that I managed to have some was a uniquely served dish. It was served with noodles instead of rice. On the side was a small bowl of crispy noodles and some greens. To supplement the noodles that’s already in the bowl. Just pure heaven!
The small table is set up so you have all your utensils really in front of you. It’s a bunch of colorful chopsticks! I adore that part! I like some colors in my sticks! Try using two different colors. Your life doesn’t always need to match. Live a little!:)
One thing was weak. Their cocktail. I had the Crouching Tiger. I’ll skip this next time.
Get their fried chicken. This is truly one of the best! Flavorful and finger licking good!
The standout for me that night was their Wagyu Satay! Flavorful, juicy and tender! But also consider that I’m true carnivore that puts red meat above all! But you don’t need the peanut butter sauce that came with it. Alone in this instance is great!
Fast service. Accommodating staff. You can dine in the bar if you’re alone. Or dine at the bar and watch the action. That would be me next!

My friends and I went for dinner here this week…
I have to say it was amazing …
We were seated right away and given little menus .
Since it was three of us… we decide to order a bunch of appetizers !
We get :
Scallop ceviche
Buffalo buns
Pork dumplings
Veggie wonton thingys
Wow! They were amazing… I don’t usually eat meat but the menu was limited and not a lot of veggie options …
That’s ok because I loved the meal…
They food came out fast and hot and the waitress was pleasant …
It was packed on a Tuesday —
I will defiantly be back and by far the scallop ceviche was my favorite !
Oh ! I ordered a cucumber drink as well — very refreshing —
Thanks again!