20th Street Cafe Has Reopened With a New Mexican-Focused Menu

“That was delicious,” says a patron as he and a group of lunch companions leave the newly-reopened 20th Street Cafe in downtown Denver. “We’re glad this place is back.”

He’s not the only one.

The well-loved eatery closed in April 2020, another victim of both the pandemic and bad timing. The Okuno family who’d run it since 1946 said circumstances moved up their retirement plans, and the diner that had been open for almost three-quarters of a century shut its doors for good. (Breakfast Fried Rice, we miss you.)

But rejoice, lovers of both breakfast burritos and downtown eats: 20th Street Cafe is back. It’s actually two Denver institutions that are making a comeback — the family that now runs 20th Street Cafe is the same one that used to operate Tarahumara in the strip-mall on Colfax…