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Posted: October 5, 2012 8:30 AM
Tags: The Vistas at Park Meadows, The Counter, Root Down, Osteria Marco, Frank Bonanno, DIA, David Lindberg, Bonanno Brothers Pizzeria, 20 days of giveaways
Breaking News: Frank Bonanno's Next Venture
Frank Bonanno is at it again. He's adding yet another restaurant to an empire that already includes Mizuna, Luca d'Italia, Osteria Marco, Bones, Russell's Smokehouse, Green Russell, Wednesday's Pie, and Lou's Food Bar. But Bonanno Brothers Pizzeria, as the concept will be called, is Bonanno's first eatery outside of Denver proper.
The pizzeria (the menu of which looks a lot like Osteria Marco's) is going into the space once occupied by the Counter in the Vistas at Park Meadows. Sandwiched between the high-grossing Yard House and Brio, the eatery will seat nearly 100 diners inside and another 50 on the patio. There will be a salumi station (also à la Osteria Marco), a wood-fired oven, and an open kitchen. The decor will channel the Art-Deco Santa Maria Novella train station in Florence, Italy, with broad-striped tile floors, frosted windows overhead, and murals on the walls.
Executive chef David Lindberg, who worked on Luca d'Italia's pasta station for two years before moving to Seattle, is back to head up the kitchen. He's already stationed at Osteria Marco training on the pizza oven.
The pizzeria came to fruition when Osteria Marco lost out on a bid to open in Denver International Airport (that opportunity went to Root Down). But one of the investors in the DIA project later approached Bonanno to talk about partnering on a suburban eatery. Bonanno Brothers Pizzeria is slated to open mid- to late-November.
8401 Park Meadows Center Drive, Lone Tree, 303-790-9630
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pizza!
Submitted by mykitten5683 on Fri, 2012-10-05 09:22.
menu
I hope he has a gluten free menu
A BIG reason to go to Park Meadows!!!
I love all the set of restaurants from Frank Bonanno, if this would be as good as Osteria Marco...I would not miss it!
OOh, love the idea of a great new pizza place. YUM!
Sounds awesome and cool atmosphere!
Teasing us
With excellent food that you are presenting in this article, we are just being teased! So great. Thank you for highlighting his new adventure!
Art-Deco...
Sounds like I should go just to look at the place.
sounds amazing!
Bummer that it's so far from me but sounds great!
Love the Idea!
The concept seems great and it is a bit closer to home than some of the other restaurants. I look forward to trying it out!
Yay for Pizza!
Can't wait to try it!
New Restaurant
Nice bracelet Dude!
Thank you!!
I suppose the burbs deserve
I suppose the burbs deserve some good food too ;)
DIA lost out
I'm sad to see this concept was not chosen for DIA.
Who can say no to pizza?
Never been to any of the other Frank Bonanno restaurants, but who can say no to pizza? It's hard to find good pizza when you're fairly new the area. The other restaurants look a bit upscale so hopefully they don't over do it with the pizza place. Pizza with friends is about having fun and being able to scarf down some nom nom nom while having a good time.
Whoo hoo!
It's great to see a high quality pizzeria opening up just a short drive from SE Aurora!
Wood fire oven
Pizza just tastes better.
Bonanno @ Park Meadows?!?!
Finally an amazing lunch option for those of us south of the DTC!
You had me at...
salumi station.
Can someone make that mandatory for pizzerias? DE-LISH.
Pizza!!
Who doesnt love a good pizza place.
Yay!
Close to home!
Wow
...looks great, can't wait to try it.
Pizza!
Love Osteria's pizza and can only imagine how awesome this place will be.
Sounds Delicious...
Now just open one in the North Metro as well!
The Suburbs are Lucky!
Bonanno's ventures are always great -- might even travel out of town to try this one!
Looking forward to trying
Looking forward to trying this new place!
New Pizza Venture
Sounds like a new venture that I want to be part of! Just need a nice Denver micro-brew to go along with the pizza! Yum!
pizza good - Root Down better
Root Down at DIA?!?! Once the new hotel is open I will want to live at the airport!
Pizza FTW
If it's anything like Osteria Marco's pizza - I'm sold already.
mmm....pizza
I've never had anything from any of Frank Bonanno's places - though have walked by several of them and been tempted enough - but after checking all that were listed think a weekend trip might be in order here. This new place sounds pretty worthwhile as well.
Sweet
Can't wait to try!