Reader: Denver is being flooded with pizza places

Yesterday's news that Fired Up, a new pizza joint, will soon be opening in the Golden Triangle inspired this comment from Manfrenjensen: WTF is up with all the new pizza joints opening up all of a sudden?? I thought the upscale burger, cupcake, and DIY frozen yogurt trends were something,...

By Patricia Calhoun

April 27, 2012

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Yesterday's news that Fired Up, a new pizza joint, will soon be opening in the Golden Triangle inspired this comment from Manfrenjensen:

WTF is up with all the new pizza joints opening up all of a sudden?? I thought the upscale burger, cupcake, and DIY frozen yogurt trends were something, but I think the influx of pizzerias has surpassed all of them. That said, I'm all for new GOOD pizza places, and I am hoping that more than a few of these new ones prove out and survive. What's next?

More pizza?

An hour later, in response to the news that Toppings, a new pizza joint, is opening in LoDo, Manfrenjensen says:

Ha! Apparently, a new pizza joint opened in the time it took me to comment on the previous article about the influx of new pizza joints!

Can there ever be too much pizza? What neighborhoods are over-pied, and which could use a slice?

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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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