Reader: Baker neighborhood has everything but good Italian

Broadway is booming these days, with new ventures -- everything from a new home for Argyll to the just-opened Thai Monkey Club -- cropping up every week. And now the owners of Interstate Bar & Grill have revealed that they'll be opening the Crimson Canary in the former home of...

By Patricia Calhoun

August 16, 2011

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Broadway is booming these days, with new ventures -- everything from a new home for Argyll to the just-opened Thai Monkey Club -- cropping up every week. And now the owners of Interstate Bar & Grill have revealed that they'll be opening the Crimson Canary in the former home of Mona's.

"It's our version of Italian-American," says partner Joey Newman. "We're drawing from the Mafioso era of great Italian food, but done more at a superlative, hip level. This is not your usual red-sauce kind of place. It's kind of like what we do here at Interstate applied to this type of food."

And that's an offer that Henry isn't about to refuse:

Now that's a great concept. Baker has everything within walking distance except for good Italian, and it sounds like this might just remedy that.

Is a good Italian joint all that Broadway needs? What would you like to see on this stretch?

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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