New York-style pizza restaurant Enzo’s End is closing this month after nearly three decades of slinging pies on East Colfax Avenue. Unless, that is, a buyer emerges for the longtime neighborhood joint. “The feedback has been overwhelming and emotional,” owner and founder Charlie Puma told The Denver Post.
“I started calling our best, long-term customers, but only got through the first few on the list. I couldn’t take hearing their disappointment.” Puma needs a change of scenery after looking out the same window onto Colfax he’s cooked every pie for the last 18 months and his only other employee is a delivery driver.
Despite setting June 30 as the closing date, Puma is hoping to find a buyer for the name and recipes. He recently floated a $20,000 price on Facebook — or less than six weeks of revenue, he said. His landlord, PS Lounge owner Pete Siahamis, has been very good to him over the years, Puma said, with fair rent and a great working relationship.
Enzos shares a door with the esteemed, cash-only dive bar ( ). “The property taxes are ridiculous, but he can’t fix that,” Puma said. “Pete would like to see someone take over the space and carry on the Enzo’s tradition.
” A buyer could potentially move to a food truck or another location, he added. “They need to have more technology and social media skills than I do. My old-fashioned phone and credit card methods are labor intensive.
Hiring people in Denver is very costly.” Known for its thin-cru.