Westword Best of Denver 2008 Best Wine Bar - Z Cuisine À Côté "Patrick Dupays already operated one of the city's best French restaurants, Z Cuisine, so when he announced that he'd picked up a second spot just two doors down from his original restaurant and was planning on turning it into a wine bar, Denver's francophiles were (literally) beside themselves with joy. And with good reason, too, because Z Cuisine À Côté stands as its own destination — a warm, beautiful tribute to the Parisian wine-bar culture of the 1900s, offering plenty of wines by the glass, cheeses, charcuterie and a selection of small plates (like frisée aux lardons, petit chèvre and asparagus quiche, and onion soup gratinée) made to the same high standards of rustic Frenchiness exemplified by Dupays's original restaurant. From A to Z, this is one class act."

Westword Best of Denver 2007 Best French Restaurant "One of the best, most recognizable dishes in the epic French canon is cassoulet. And at Z Cuisine, one of the best, most recognizable dishes on chef/owner Patrick DuPays's chalkboard menu is a cassoulet maison that does proud every French cook ever tasked with carrying on the cassoulet tradition. One taste of DuPays's version -- which combines a leg of duck confit on the bone, local sausage, stiff white beans, bitter greens and whole cippolini onions gone soft as roasted garlic cloves, all in a tomato broth muscled up with stock and deeply, richly flavored with the mingled essences of each individual ingredient -- will remind even the most recalcitrant epicure why the French deserve their position of honor as the undisputed masters of cuisine both haute and basse, because there's nothing more comforting, nothing more charming, than a real cassoulet expertly done. Bracket it with a brilliant assiette de campagnard and maybe a bowl of the celery soup with cr?me fraîche (when available), and you'll know that Z Cuisine represents the best of France that Denver has to offer." Best Wine List for Mortals "If you know almost nothing about wine, can't speak French and couldn't care less about growing region, age, legs, microclimatology or varietals but still don't want to make a fool out of yourself by accidentally ordering the French equivalent of a bottle of Mad Dog to go with your cassoulet, Z Cuisine has the solution. On the wall near the bar is a chalkboard that lists the wine of the day. It's never terribly expensive, usually interesting in some way you probably won't understand, and can be ordered simply by pointing -- which you should do with a certain attitude of world-weary élan. Z Cuisine's vin de la maison offers an easy, eminently drinkable choice that saves you from having to peruse the list and pretend you know what you're looking at."

Rocky Mountain News Dining Guide 2007 - Top 20 By John Lehndorff

Sunday New York Times Travel Going to Denver By Ted Loos August 20, 2006 "Although it has been open for only a year, Denver’s Francophiles have made themselves at home at Z Cuisine (2239 West 30th Avenue, 303-477-1111), an intimate, six-table restaurant named for how a native French speaker might pronounce “the cuisine.” The chef and co-owner, Patrick DuPays, however, doesn’t have any problems translating classic French dishes like cassoulet ($20) and quiche Dijonaise ($14.50)."

Denver Post Food & Dining Ooh la la! Tiny French bistro wins taste raves By Tucker Shaw April 26, 2006

Westword Best of Denver 2006 Best New Restaurant Best French Restaurant Best French Wine List Best Dinner Destination for Makin Babies

Rocky Mountain News Spotlight/Dining Z Cuisine: Amour at first and last bite By John Lehndorff January 27, 2006

Westword Cafe Five in 2005 - For restaurants, this was a very good year. By Jason Sheehan December 29, 2005

5280 - Denver's Mile-High Magazine Best New Restaurants Dec. 2005/Jan. 2006 issue

Westword Cafe Z Whiz - This bistro is a beauty By Jason Sheehan November 10, 2005