Chefs Alex Figura, left, and Spencer White in 2016. (Denver Post file)
It’s a trio for the team behind Dio Mio.
Public records show that chefs Alexander Figura and Spencer White are looking to open a pizza and pasta restaurant at 81 S. Pennsylvania St. in West Wash Park.
“We still have a couple hurdles before we can start construction and probably won’t have a good idea for at least a couple weeks of what that timeline [for opening] looks like,” Figura said in an email.
The restaurateurs, who run Dio Mio and Redeemer Pizza on Larimer Street in RiNo, declined to comment further, citing the early nature of the plans.
An Instagram post for the new restaurant says it will open this spring.
Documents submitted to the city show the eatery going into a roughly 2,000-square-foot unit on the ground-floor of an apartment complex at the corner of Bayaud Avenue and Pennsylvania Street.
A menu included in the filed documents shows pasta dishes and pizzas that cost around $20. Many of the items appear to come from the menus of the other two restaurants.
Figura worked in upscale restaurants for a while before opening Dio Mio, a pasta joint, with White in November 2016. The two met at the defunct Lower48 Kitchen near Coors Field.
The chefs opened their second restaurant together, Redeemer Pizza, in July 2021.
Their planned site for restaurant number three near Wash Park was formerly home to AJ’s Pit Bar-B-Q Steakhouse, which lasted only a few months.
The restaurant was owned by Jared Leonard, an entrepreneur who has since lost a Lakewood property to foreclosure and been hit with multiple lawsuits. The state recently seized his last remaining local eatery, AJ’s Pit Bar-B-Q in Overland.
Chefs Alex Figura, left, and Spencer White in 2016. (Denver Post file)
It’s a trio for the team behind Dio Mio.
Public records show that chefs Alexander Figura and Spencer White are looking to open a pizza and pasta restaurant at 81 S. Pennsylvania St. in West Wash Park.
“We still have a couple hurdles before we can start construction and probably won’t have a good idea for at least a couple weeks of what that timeline [for opening] looks like,” Figura said in an email.
The restaurateurs, who run Dio Mio and Redeemer Pizza on Larimer Street in RiNo, declined to comment further, citing the early nature of the plans.
An Instagram post for the new restaurant says it will open this spring.
Documents submitted to the city show the eatery going into a roughly 2,000-square-foot unit on the ground-floor of an apartment complex at the corner of Bayaud Avenue and Pennsylvania Street.
A menu included in the filed documents shows pasta dishes and pizzas that cost around $20. Many of the items appear to come from the menus of the other two restaurants.
Figura worked in upscale restaurants for a while before opening Dio Mio, a pasta joint, with White in November 2016. The two met at the defunct Lower48 Kitchen near Coors Field.
The chefs opened their second restaurant together, Redeemer Pizza, in July 2021.
Their planned site for restaurant number three near Wash Park was formerly home to AJ’s Pit Bar-B-Q Steakhouse, which lasted only a few months.
The restaurant was owned by Jared Leonard, an entrepreneur who has since lost a Lakewood property to foreclosure and been hit with multiple lawsuits. The state recently seized his last remaining local eatery, AJ’s Pit Bar-B-Q in Overland.
