Tag: Pizza
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Popular pizza spot expanding to downtown Colorado Springs with planned late-night hours
One of Colorado Springs’ favorite pizza spots is expanding to downtown. Slice 420 is bringing its New York-style pizza to 107 N. Tejon St. in the heart of downtown. Co-owner Christian Patriarca hopes the new spot, a Slice 420 Express, can cater to the late-night crowds that frequent downtown, especially on weekends, with closing times…
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10 great mountain town pizza spots you’ll find around Colorado
Pizza is an excellent choice for post-adventure refueling in Colorado’s mountain towns, and the restaurant selections in most of these high country spots won’t disappoint. Here are some of the best pizza places in Colorado’s mountain towns: Known as the original Colorado-style pizza restaurant, the Idaho Springs location is perfect for stopping and filling up…
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Pizza, please: 8 favorite spots to grab a slice around Colorado
In Colorado, pizza makes sense. This is a tourist state, and what tourist doesn’t want pizza? This is an outdoorsy state, and after a long day in the mountains, what’s better than pizza? Coloradans know what’s better: pizza and beer — a match made in the craft beer heaven that is the Centennial State. Pizza…
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Stock Show food vendors share their stories
Melinda Carbajal, co-owner of Simply Pizza, shares how her family got its start in the food industry and got involved with the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colo. In Simply Pizza’s second year of participation, the owners have seen increased sales, exposure and more.
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People with disabilities staff this Colorado brewpub: They have an inclusive message
ENGLEWOOD • It’s not often you see someone skip to work, smiling through the door to clock in. That’s what you see here at Brewability. “Sometimes they dance into work,” says owner Tiffany Fixter. And sometimes they dance out the door, she says — “depending on how the tips are.” It’s not often you see such exuberance…
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Hot Tomato pizza about as legendary as mountain biking in western Colorado | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save FRUITA • For his first shift at Hot Tomato eight years ago, Aaron Knapp was told to wear a costume. “I was just like, is this a prank? Are they hazing me?” he recalls. “I wore a costume, and sure enough, everybody was in weird…
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The unlikely story of how ‘Colorado-style’ pizza was born | Craving Colorado
IDAHO SPRINGS • Chip Bair doesn’t live here anymore, though he hasn’t left the business on Miner Street. Far from it. “Can I put you on hold, just a second?” he says to one caller, with another beckoning. Then another, then another. “Hold on just a second, sorry.” The 74-year-old says he’s trying to be…
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Craving Colorado | Beau Jo’s
Beau Jo’s, a pizza restaurant that began in Idaho Springs in an 1880s building, is the proclaimed home of “Colorado-style pizza.” (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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In Colorado’s San Luis Valley, a mission behind ‘mountainous’ grub | Craving Colorado
FORT GARLAND • Driving U.S. 160 through the dusty outposts of the San Luis Valley, everybody passes the building. The adobe building on the corner. The walls with colorful murals celebrating the region’s Spanish and Catholic influences. The bright yellow sign with red letters: “All-Gon.” And the mantra: “All-Gon ‘Cuz It’s All Good!” The restaurant…