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Reader: The Pizza Here Is Inferior Compared to Every Other City

Denver is home to many fast-casual chains, including a couple that that focus on pizza: Pizzeria Locale (brought to us by the folks at Frasca in a partnership with Chipotle founder Steve Ells) and Live Basil (from the Smashburger team). Homegrown mini-chain Modmarket is emphasizing its pizza, too, and now...
By Patricia Calhoun
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Denver is home to many fast-casual chains, including a couple that that focus on pizza: Pizzeria Locale (brought to us by the folks at Frasca in a partnership with Chipotle founder Steve Ells) and Live Basil (from the Smashburger team). Homegrown mini-chain Modmarket is emphasizing its pizza, too, and now Project Pie has come from Seattle to carve out a slice of the Denver market. But are all these efforts improving the pizza scene here?

See also: Fast-Casual Pizza Chains Vie for a Slice of the Denver Market

Says Cole:

Vie all they wish, the pizza here is still inferior compared to about every other city I can think of.

What do you think of the pizza here? What are your favorite spots in metro Denver? And do they beat your favorites around the country?

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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.

patricia.calhoun@westword.com
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