Chef brings new dim sum restaurant, Ma’s Kitchen, to the Colfax corridor

DENVER — A Chinese-trained chef is investing in the Colfax corridor, bringing his skills to a new business as others struggle amid ongoing East Colfax bus rapid transit (BRT) construction.

“The City of Denver has a vision that they want to make Colfax into a community that brings back more traffic and newer people coming back to the corridor,” chef Xi Nuan Zheng told Denver7.

Zheng’s new dim sum restaurant, Ma’s Kitchen, is opening at the corner of Colfax Avenue and York Street. Chef brings new dim sum restaurant, Ma’s Kitchen, to the Colfax corridor

The restaurant space was previously occupied by Rolling Pin Pizza, and before that by Tacos, Tequila, Whiskey. Ma’s Kitchen is now the third restaurant to occupy the storefront in the past three years.

Zheng believes he can weather the co