The restaurant: Taco Uprising, 2849 Welton St., Denver
About: Taco Uprising is a Mexican food-inspired taqueria y cantina offering breakfast and day tacos, coffee and agave-forward cocktails. It’s open seven days a week, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner from Monday to Saturday, as well as Sunday brunch. The Five Points restaurant is owned by friends Samuel Valdez and Matias Gutknecht. Valdez’s parents migrated to the U.S. from northern Mexico, and this is his way of sharing his heritage and passion for Mexican cuisine.