There are practically endless combinations of tomato sauce and dough, and the expansive menu at Brooklyn’s Finest Pizza boasts at least 85 percent of them. Meatball Parmesan sandwich? Check. Sausage and pepper stromboli? Check. Create-your-own calzone? Double meatball pizza? Garlic knots and pepperoni pinwheels? Check, check and check. The most recent outpost of Brooklyn’s Finest, […]
Italian in Denver
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Locally owned and operated, Bruno’s Italian offers diners a cozy bistro experience. Open for lunch and dinner, this comfortable Italian restaurant features hot soups, cool salads, handmade thin-crust pizzas and imported pastas, as well as delicious chicken, veal, steak and seafood entrees and a signature slow-simmered osso buco. Pair your meal with a selection from […]
Family-style dining is always better when you don’t have to wash the dishes, and at Italian cuisine chain Buca di Beppo, large parties are not only encouraged, but welcomed. Buca, whose sole Colorado location is on Flatiron Market Place Drive in Broomfield, takes the old adage “bigger is better” seriously, with huge, themed dining rooms […]
Family-style dining is always better when you don’t have to wash the dishes, and at Italian cuisine chain Buca di Beppo, large parties are not only encouraged, but welcomed. Buca, whose sole Colorado location is on Flatiron Market Place Drive in Broomfield, takes the old adage “bigger is better” seriously, with huge, themed dining rooms […]
For over three decades, this Italian eatery in a nondescript Lakewood strip mall has drawn a crowd of regulars. When it moved to a larger space next door to its original location in 2018, it didn’t lose any of its charm – thanks in large part to owner and co-founder Elisa Heitman, who was born […]
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California Pizza Kitchen originated in Beverly Hills in 1985, riding the “California cuisine” wave that would come to define the culinary decade; the company now boasts 250 locations of casual sit-down eateries with modern, neutral decor and a casual-yet-upscale feel. A pioneer of envelope-pushing fusion pizzas, the chain claims to have invented the now-ubiquitous barbecue […]
California Pizza Kitchen originated in Beverly Hills in 1985, riding the “California cuisine” wave that would come to define the culinary decade; the company now boasts 250 locations of casual sit-down eateries with modern, neutral decor and a casual-yet-upscale feel. A pioneer of envelope-pushing fusion pizzas, the chain claims to have invented the now-ubiquitous barbecue […]
Situated in the now-hip Highland neighborhood, Carl’s Pizza is anything but trendy. It’s an old-time neighborhood Italian joint serving good spaghetti and meatballs, manicotti and pizza since 1953. Dinners come with soup or salad; spaghetti and meatballs can be ordered by the pint or the quart. It’s nothing fancy, just good food with a good […]
This cozy, family-owned Italian market and deli has been around since 1976. The shelves are lined with imported pasta of all shapes and sizes, olive oil, canned goods, frozen foods like housemade sausages, and so much more. Still, the sandwiches – huge, messy masterpieces loaded onto freshly baked rolls, which you can custom-order with that […]
The original Carmine’s on Penn has held down its corner of Pennsylvania and Bayaud since 1994. When the restaurant opened, it was intended as a place where large groups could converge and enjoy themselves without thinking too much about what they were eating – ordering big platters of Italian food served family style, which is […]
Chef Elise Wiggins opened her dream restaurant, Cattivella (“naughty girl” in Italian), on the eastern edge of Denver in 2017, creating a place that reflects her many experiences traveling, working and eating in Italy. The wood-fired pizza oven is used for far more than pizzas, and an adjustable charcoal grill gives meats (many of them […]
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The Cherry Tomato is a comfortable place with cracked-tile floors and rough brick walls, a bar crowded with locals and a young, eager staff. The cooks work in an open foxhole of a kitchen, preparing a menu that’s simple and ageless: homemade minestrone, caprese salad, pasta marinara, amatriciana and Alfredo, two kinds of lasagna, and […]
This restaurant has gone through some changes since it opened in 2002 as Venice. For one thing, it’s no longer called Venice – owner Alessandro Carollo renamed it Chianti, did a little redecorating, and changed the menu to match the name. What hasn’t changed are the crowds: Chianti is still packed from open to close.
In 2016, Paul and Aileen Reilly, the brother-and-sister duo behind the beloved, now-closed Beast + Bottle, opened this cozy restaurant that pays homage to the food of Southern Italy. Under chef de cuisine Kenny Minton, it continues to offer some of the finest pasta in town, as well as dreamy, house-baked focaccia and longtime customer […]
Tucked into a strip mall on East Alameda Avenue, Cucina Bella, which opened in 2022, is easy to overlook. But don’t, because its owners, brothers Luis and Heriberto Gutierrez, have some serious culinary skills. The plain exterior belies the fine-dining-style take on the food, and the kitchen’s commitment to quality comes through with every bite. […]
Cucina Colore has had an enviable run. As other restaurants in Cherry Creek North have come and gone, this beloved Italian bistro, with its big windows and landscaped patios, has quietly done its thing for nearly thirty years. Founded by Venanzio Momo, who once owned a coterie of Colore-branded outfits, the restaurant fits its well-heeled […]
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Ski resorts are often havens of fine dining for starving skiers, and Cucina Rustica is exactly that ? an oasis of upscale Tuscan-inspired food located in the Lodge at Vail. Cucina Rustica offers in-room dining seven days a week; lunch and dinner menus that change with the seasons; and a formidable menu of
The D Note celebrated its tenth anniversary and a change of ownership in 2012, but this live-music venue and full-service restaurant and bar in Olde Town Arvada is still a favorite local hangout and a tourist attraction for out-of-town visitors. Originally envisioned as a performance space/art gallery, it was expanded to include hot eats and […]
When it comes to Italian cuisine, simplicity, craftsmanship and unassailable ingredients are what count – and DiFranco’s, an unassuming, low-key joint in the Golden Triangle that opened in 2012 as an Italian deli, then expanded into a (tiny) restaurant, embraces all of those attributes. It serves a lovely selection of housemade pastas, including a terrific […]
Dino’s has been around for decades, serving Italian comfort food to generations of Denverites. The unchanging decor has all the charm of a true-blue Italian family restaurant; the unchanging menu offers such standards as pizza and pasta, overflowing with red sauce to mop up with Dino’s garlic bread.