Subject: Pizza

• Best Pizza -- Thin Crust

  March 24, 2005

• Lala's is a shining light in a former black hole

  January 22, 2009

• Pizzicato Gourmet Pizza calls it quits in Capitol Hill

  "Thank you for calling Pizzicato Gourmet Pizza in Capitol Hill, Denver. Due to the economic times, we have decided to close this location."That's the message I got when I called the only Colorado outpost of the Oregon-based pizzeria earlier this afternoon to check on a rumor that the joint was shuttered. The sleek pizzeria, which opened just under a year ago at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, still has 22 operating locations in California, Oregon and Washington, but it seems that the Denver pie hole c

  June 15, 2009

• Colore Pizzeria Moderna opening pushed back to next week

  Lori MidsonAs reported here a few weeks ago, Colore Pizzeria Moderna, a new pizza and pasta joint at 2700 South Broadway, was supposed to open today, but I just talked with co-owner Caroline Momo-Torres, who says that it's not going to happen. "It's like the last month of pregnancy, you know? I know it's coming, but I just don't know when," she told me. "I'm still waiting on a cooler and Comcast, and I gotta wait to open until everything's right."Which will be sometime next week, she hopes. And

  June 16, 2009

• Rosie's passes the high-altitude torch to Breckenridge Brewery

  I saw this bumper sticker affixed to a light pole outside a brewery in a little mountain town last week, but the brewery wasn't Rosie's Brewpub and the town wasn't Leadville. Instead, someone had decided to celebrate Rosie's, which closed May 30, just a few feet from the front door of Amicas in Salida. An unusual pairing of Neapolitan pizza joint and brewpub, Amicas was slammed with tourists, locals, river enthusiasts and motorcyclists all enjoying a few hours, a day or a week off, and a fun p

  July 8, 2009

• Audiofly at Beta

  July 9, 2009

• Walnut Room makes a move on Broadway

  The former Freaky's, revisioned as the Walnut Room Pizzeria.After almost two years of searching, Walnut Room owner John Burr has finally found a spot for his next venture, the Walnut Room Pizzeria. It's the former home of Freaky's, at 2 Broadway. There was a fire in the building at Broadway and Ellsworth back in March 2008 and the head shop never reopened, although most of the tenants in the 38 apartments above Freaky's eventually returned. The landlord has since gutted the former Freaky's spac

  July 15, 2009

• A conversation with Mark Dym one year after the debut of Marco's

  Lori MidsonMarco's Coal-Fired Pizza owner Mark Dym​Two years ago, when Mark Dym, his wife, Kristy, and their three kids left the balmy beachfront of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the jagged mountain peaks of Colorado, to open a pizzeria in downtown Denver, Mark was up for the challenge, despite the fact that he'd never run a restaurant in his life. "I knew exactly what I wanted to do, I'd been thinking about it for years and it was time to get out of Florida," he says. In June 2008, Mark and K

  August 19, 2009

• The Larimer Square guys and Sean Kelly get a pizza the action

  Lori MidsonThe future home a New York-style pizza joint from the Larimer Square gang and Sean Kelly​Sometime in December, Jeff Hermanson, Joe Vostrejs and Rod Wagner will add a new pizza bar to their portfolio of successful restaurants that already includes Billy's Inn, LoHi Steakbar and pretty much every chow house on Larimer Square. Their newest place, whose name is yet to be determined, will take over the former 3 Sons restaurant, which closed its location at 2915 West 44th Avenue in Ap

  August 24, 2009

• Let the dough fly: There's a pizza battle brewing at Belmar

  ​ There's a pizza battle brewing at Belmar and Virgilio Urbano, the owner of Virgilio's Pizzeria, which is across the street from Belmar at 7986 West Alameda Avenue in Lakewood, is right in the thick of it. Seems that Virgilio's has been denied acceptance into Belmar's Festival Italiano, the shopping district's outdoor Italian food and wine event that takes place September 19-20. And Urbano, whose restaurant has participated in the festival for the past three years, is pissed that he was

  August 25, 2009

• The pizza battle continues between Belmar and Virgilio's

  Can't we all just get along?​If you've been following the pizza war between Virgilio's and Belmar, a turf battle over Belmar's upcoming Festival Italiano and its refusal to allow Virgilio's to participate, then you know there's a heated debate in the comments section (seventy and counting, last time I looked). One of those comments is from a guy who calls himself "Doug" -- and Doug, it seems, took the time to contact Belmar general manager Lary Herkal, whose decision it was to deny Virgili

  August 28, 2009

• Part two: Chef and Tell with Mark Dym of Marco's Coal-Fired Pizza

  Mark Dym​This is part two of Lori Midson's interview with Mark Dym, the owner-executive chef of Marco's Coal-Fired Pizza. You can read the first part of Midson's interview with Dym here. Culinary inspirations: No question, Roberto Caporuscio, a fantastic pizzaiolo from Campania who's been living in the states for ten years and cooking some of the best pizzas in the world. Before I opened Marco's, I flew to Italy to train with Roberto, and he taught me how to make real Neapolitan style piz

  September 10, 2009

• Could Kaos hit South Pearl Street just in time for Halloween?

  Lori MidsonHalf of the menu from Kaos Pizzeria ​ Jon Edwards and Patrick Mangold-White's forthcoming venture, a take-out pizza joint called Kaos, was expected to open in May at 1439 South Pearl Street, but their little slice of pizza pie had been derailed by issues with the one piece of equipment they needed in order to to deliver pizzas to a doorstep near you: a pizza oven. Up until now, that oven has been a sore point of contention with the City and County of Denver, the dramatic details

  October 8, 2009

• Chef and Tell with Sean Kelly of LoHi SteakBar

  Lori MidsonLoHi SteakBar executive chef Sean Kelly​"Nothing that goes on my menus gets there by accident," insists Sean Kelly, executive chef of LoHi SteakBar, the packed-to-the-rafters restaurant and watering hole that opened in June in Highland. "I have a tendency to make sure that everything is researched, and I try to be as true as possible to the classics and their culture. I want to understand where my food comes from." Kelly, who made a major name for himself when he opened Auberg

  October 21, 2009

• Marco's, Root Down win Mayor's Design Awards

  Root Down is looking good.​John Hickenlooper will announce the Mayor's Design Awards tonight, but we can tell you that two of the fifteen honorees are restaurants: Root Down and Marco's Coal-Fired Pizzeria. Both restaurants opened last year, in old spaces made remarkably new. In Root Down's case, a vintage service station was turned into the town's coolest bar space, as well as a private dining room -- and also provided the sleek inspiration for the brand-new building put on the corner of

  November 12, 2009