Beau Jo's Review

Beau Jo’s opened in the old mining town of Idaho Springs in 1973 and invented what’s now a genuine regional style: the “Colorado mountain pie,” a pizza with a thick, hand-rolled braided crust so substantial that the tradition is to not waste it — you squeeze honey from a bear-shaped bottle onto the leftover crust and eat it like dessert. It became the after-the-slopes ritual for a couple of generations of I-70 skiers, and the flagship in Idaho Springs, a half hour up the interstate from Denver, is the one to do. It’s hearty, it’s cheap enough, and it’s pure Colorado.