Go to: Star Kitchen on Mississippi Avenue for the best dim sum in town. Should you tire of American-style eats, explore another side of breakfast. And please tell Foster that, this time, 5280 sent you. So head to his Larimer Street restaurant, where the bourbon milk punch is creamy and potent and the biscuits go with everything from fried chicken to sausage gravy. They have the requisite flaky texture, yet they’re also somehow pillowy and certainly hold more butter than a typical biscuit. They are tender inside, salty, and oh-so rich. They are baked to order and have crusty edges that shatter just so when you bite into them. Nearly every food writer in Denver has extolled Kyle Foster’s biscuits-and here we go again. Garnished with sautéed slices of sweet, meaty lap cheong (or duck, ham, or bacon) and two fried eggs, it’s a satisfying surprise that we intend to eat on repeat. The rice is toasted in duck fat-which the kitchen also uses to cook eggs and crispy hash browns-then seasoned with garlic, scallions, soy sauce, and a touch of chile oil. But then we devoured a heaping serving of Onefold’s spectacular fried rice with Chinese sausage (“lap cheong”), and all that changed. We typically reserved those daydreams for biscuits, pancakes, or hash (find our favorites below). Until recently, fried rice wasn’t the first, or even second, thing we thought about when we contemplated a big, brunch-y bowl of carbs. Best Brunch Dish We Didn’t Know We Were Craving A “gilda”-a skewer holding a plump white anchovy, half an olive, and a pickled Basque chile-and paper-thin slices of lemon and lime serve as the garnish on this stellar drink, which whets your palate for Ultreia’s tapas-style brunch menu. Ultreia’s bar team employs Spanish manzanilla sherry for nutty, saline notes that commingle with spicy, from-scratch “piri piri” (a Portuguese chile sauce), harissa, and that classic base, V8 Vegetable Juice. It makes sense that Ultreia has figured out the ideal formula for a Bloody Mary-tomatoes are a Basque staple, after all, as are briny, spicy, and boozy ingredients. Prop styling by Natalie Warady Best Bloody Mary How Clare Gallagher Is Helping Runners Save the Planet.These Coloradans Are Pushing Video Game Boundaries.The Grand Junction Company Building the World’s Most Beautiful Aquariums.