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BY MIGUEL OTÁROLA, @MOTAROLA_EATS

Our March Madness-adjacent food bracket challenge has reached its end. The winner, Momo Dumplings, bested 31 other restaurants known for making delicious dumplings in high quantities.

For me, the dumpling challenge was an opportunity to learn more about Denver's Asian cuisines, the tradition and technique that goes into folding and cooking dumplings, not to mention the absolute love that many readers have for momos from Nepal and Tibet. (We'll delve into that love later this month.) I have eaten so many dumplings in recent weeks, and yet I have yet to tire of them.

EDITOR'S PICKS

dumpling food bracket final round

And the best dumplings in metro Denver are …

If you love momos, you’ll understand why this Aurora restaurant took home the prize

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Colorado’s James Beard finalists include chefs, a sommelier and a bar

Of the 17 semifinalists, five will move forward, and most of their names are familiar to diners

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Mother-daughter team revive Jamaican cooking at newish Denver restaurant

But there are rules: If you order something spicy and can’t eat it, you don’t get a refund

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What restaurant has the best dessert in Denver?


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Cinnamon's Bakery

I see all the cinnamon buns being posted on the r/denverfood channel on Reddit and I raise you these two beautifully baked baddies. Cinnamon 's Bakery is hidden outside Estes Park's commercial corridors, and for good reason: Their cinnamon rolls sell out quickly. By the time we arrived at their little shack, they had been ransacked. Thankfully, they still had trays full of sea-salt caramel and raisin rolls and pecan stick buns. Slathered with icing, the raisin roll was just as sweet and indulgent as what I imagined the cinnamon roll was. What I'm trying to say is, select some of their other delicious options and leave some OG cinnamon rolls for the rest of us, OK?

920 W. Elkhorn Ave., Estes Park, plus a location in Loveland; cinnamonsestespark.com