On the one-year anniversary of the day when all Colorado restaurants were ordered closed to on-premises dining, there are signs of life at Casa Bonita.
Not at 6715 West Colfax Avenue, the home of the pink palace since 1974 but on the web, where casabonitadenver.com has been revived, after a year offline and endless speculation about the future of Colorado s first, and certainly most legendary, eatertainment concept.
Casa Bonita is celebrating 46 years of family fun, according to the website, which doesn t offer much more (although the video section is stuffed better than a Casa Bonita taco). The Facebook link is broken, and while the home page promises red hot deals, just a click away as of March 17, that click simply takes you to a repeat of the message that Casa Bonita is re-opening soon! Check back here for more information as it becomes available.
Casa Bonita reopened this week on Comedy Central, at least, where
South Park s Vaccination Special ended with the welcome news that Lakewood s pink palace was back in business.
In reality, though, Casa Bonita the original eatertainment extravaganza that opened almost five decades ago at 6715 West Colfax Avenue in Lakewood has been closed since March 2020, with no reopening in sight. That s why the spot s top fan, Andrew Novick, and some colleagues just launched a Save Casa Bonita campaign on gofundme.com.
Novick has been in touch with Star Buffet, Casa Bonita s owner, over the past year; CEO Robert Wheaton has promised to reopen the place, and new COVID-19 guidelines in Jefferson County make it increasingly possible to open such a massive complex, even at just 50 percent capacity. But Novick isn t waiting around for Wheaton to take action: He says he wants to show the world (and any developers sniffing around) that people are committed to keeping Casa Bonita here, no matt
Casa Bonita isn’t the only landmark restaurant that has yet to reopen in metro Denver. But while some owners have definitely given up the ghost, others, like Casa Bonita s Robert Wheaton, promise that they ll be back.
While all five restaurants owned by Mountain Sun Mountain Sun, Southern Sun and Under the Sun, all in Boulder, along with the Vine Street Pub in Denver and Longs Peak Pub in Longmont are closed, and will remain so for the foreseeable future, until the vaccine allows bars and restaurants to operate with fewer restrictions, their owners promise to return. “We’ll be back,” Mountain Sun co-owner Kevin Daly told Jonathan Shikes. “All five locations will be back, and we can’t wait to have a Stout Month when people can kiss and hug and make out and have a beer at the bar with their friends.”