Beau Jos Pizza Restaurant
Address:
1517 Miner St, Idaho Springs, CO 80452
Phone:
(303) 567-4376
Hours:
- Tue: 11am-9:30pm
- Wed: 11am-9:30pm
- Thu: 11am-9:30pm
- Fri: 11am-10pm
- Sat: 11am-10pm
- Sun: 11am-9:30pm
Other Details:
Our Founder, Pete ZaPigh (Za-Pie), an obscure French fur trapper of humble and indeed rather questionable origin, first appeared in the Idaho Springs area at about the time of the Colorado Gold Rush. How he got here is a matter of continuing speculation, the most popular theory being that of spontaneous generation. A second line of thought maintains that he arrived by cab from Trenton, New Jersey. Fortunately for the many devotees of Beau Joís Pizza, Pete possessed a somewhat less than working knowledge of natural history, and was attempting to trap a woolly mammoth, an animal for which there was little demand and even less supply. After several years of fruitless effort, ZaPigh decided that perhaps a new career was in order. At this point he disappeared into an abandoned mine shaft for two years and then emerged triumphant with a new Old World recipe for an Italian delight, which was to reshape the waistlines of food lovers the world over. Unfortunately, six months later, ZaPigh was stepped on by what witnesses claimed to be a woolly mammoth. Unknown to those who reached him first, ZaPigh had managed to carve his secret recipe onto the shell of a local box turtle who went by the handle of Beau Jo. For the next 75 years, gourmets around the world mourned the loss of the recipe. History does not mention anyone mourning the loss of ZaPigh, however.
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