Even as we savor the good times we had at long-gone restaurants, we report on fresh closures. This year, we finally got confirmation that Benny’s really isn’t coming back, and we said goodbye to longtime favorites like Fruition, Lao Wang Noodle House, Mercury Cafe and Pete’s University Park Cafe.
Some spots we long to go to again closed in recent years, like Old Major, Annie’s Cafe, the Saucy Noodle and its neighbor, Bonnie Brae Tavern, while others like Baby Doe’s, Cliff Young’s, Pagliacci’s and Tante Louise have been gone for decades.
After Molly Martin served up some of the restaurants she missed the most, Denver diners shared a hefty helping of nostalgia in their comments on the Westword Facebook page post of the story. Says Niccolo:…