Tag: Restaurant Closure
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707 Pizza Co. temporarily closes in Colorado Springs
707 Pizza Co., the family-owned and operated pizzeria that opened in the summer next to Colorado College’s Ed Robson Arena in downtown Colorado Springs, has temporarily closed. A Dec. 18 post on the restaurant’s Instagram page, still its most recent, indicated the business would close for the holidays from Dec. 22-Jan. 2 and would reopen…
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Oskar Blues closes in downtown Colorado Springs
Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, the Longmont-based restaurant, craft beer brewer and music venue that opened in late 2017 in downtown Colorado Springs, has permanently closed. General Manager Matthew Maconachy confirmed the closure with The Gazette by phone late on Tuesday afternoon. A handwritten sign that simply said “closed” was pasted to the window of…
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Old Chicago closes another Colorado Springs location
One of Colorado Springs’ last remaining Old Chicago Pizza + Taproom locations has closed. “Guests, friends and neighbors: It’s so hard to say goodbye. We have made the difficult decision to close this location permanently. It has been our pleasure to serve you,” read a notice, in part, taped to the doors and windows of…
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Colorado’s sole Wing Zone location closes just months after opening in Colorado Springs
Wing Zone Hot Chicken & Wings has closed, only five months after it opened this summer in northern Colorado Springs. Wing Zone opened in late June inside the Marketplace at Austin Bluffs shopping center, the fast-casual chicken chain’s first location in Colorado. The restaurant is known for its made-to-order, hand-breaded boneless wings, chicken tenders and…
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Longtime Old Colorado City favorite, Mountain Shadows Restaurant, shutters its doors
Mountain Shadows Restaurant, the staple diner “where the locals eat” in Old Colorado City, has closed. “I’m so sorry to say Mountain Shadows Restaurant is permanently closed. My heart’s breaking; things just haven’t worked out,” co-owner Kasie Swain announced, in part, in a statement posted on the restaurant’s website and social media this week. In…
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List: Downtown Colorado Springs business openings in 2024
Here is a non-exhaustive list of downtown Colorado Springs business openings in 2024. • Cinchona Coffee, which serves coffees from across the globe to its customers in Colorado Springs, opened this year at 130 E. Pikes Peak Ave. • Urban Animal Beer Co., which opened its south-side location in Colorado Springs in September 2023, expanded to downtown in 2024.…
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Downtown Colorado Springs diner announces closure at year’s end
Munchies, where casual dining and creative dishes served in massive proportions blended with live entertainment, is closing its doors in downtown Colorado Springs at the end of 2024. The last day of operation for the restaurant located at 122 N. Tejon St. will be Dec. 31, owners Chuck and MaryAnn Thomas announced on social media…
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Hungry Howie’s closes on Colorado Springs’ northeast side, Blackjack Pizza moves in
When one pizzeria closes its doors, another opens. In late October, more than six years after it opened at 4272 N. Academy Blvd., Colorado Springs’ first and only Hungry Howie’s Pizza location closed its doors in The Marketplace at Austin Bluffs shopping center, northwest of Academy and Austin Bluffs Parkway. Former franchisee Brian Schmitt and…
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List: Downtown Colorado Springs business closures in 2024
Several businesses in downtown Colorado Springs have closed this year, citing various factors from the rising cost of business to residual challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, while several others have opened and expanded. China Town Restaurant, at 326 S. Nevada Ave., was the latest to say it will close. The longtime favorite restaurant for Chinese…
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Longtime Chinese restaurant to close at year’s end in downtown Colorado Springs
A longtime favorite restaurant for Chinese food in downtown Colorado Springs will shutter its doors at month’s end. China Town Restaurant at 326 S. Nevada Ave. will close at the end of December, owner Eva Zhang said. Zhang rents the space in the building, which was constructed in 1963. It has operated as China Town…