We were wandering by and decided to stop in for dinner. We got the Great White pizza and it was EXCELLENT. Hubs had a couple of cheap beers and was happy. But the main reason for 5 stars was our server. Dana was the best! Absolutely perfect! We will definitely come back here. read more

This is the bottom of my pizza! Our pizza was burned and tasted that way too. We were looking forward to a nice meal on New Years Eve. We were so disappointed in the service and the food! The restaurant had 3 tables total at 130pm so not to busy. The server felt it more important to watch football as I had to get up and ask for another drink. My husband and I went after the re-opening and we loved it! That's why the review such a drastic change from then to now. Edgewater do better, you just lost a loyal neighborhood customer. Consistency = success! Good luck in 2024! read more

Edgewater Inn - This is the bottom of my pizza! BURNED!!! - Pizza Near Me - Edgewater, Colorado

This establishment is absolutely amazing! The atmosphere is such an experience. Pizza is incredible and service was absolutely wonderful. Highly recommended. read more

Good New York style pizza. Affordable and the people there have always been nice. Definitely recommend

The pizza is super tasty! Service is great- our server was friendly & accommodating. Will definitely be coming back! Highly recommend!

We have loved this place for years. However, was truly devastated when they changed the ingredients on the Howdy Special pizza. Any chance you could go back to the old recipe- please??!! read more

Well, they don't have calzones anymore, just Stromboli's. The sausage seemed pressed, hardly any pepperoni, and the meatballs average. Didn't really like the marinara-too chunky. Definitely not the same. I understand wanting to put your own touch on an established restaurant, but it's got to be better, not worse. Sorry. read more

Like many others that have posted, I have been going to the Edgewater Inn for 35 years. This was my favorite pizza in town. I heard that there were new owners and they had changed a few things. I was interested to see the changes were, and like some many others, I was greatly disappointed. The first thing was a change with the crust. Ownership said for shorter cook times. However, to me, the crust is the foundation for the pizza. This crust did not stand the test. Next was the change to the toppings or the lack of them. The old staple, Howdy Special, has been altered. Pickled jalapeños and sautéed mushroom. If you look at older pictures of this pizza compared to the current, you can see how limited the toppings are. The pizza of my childhood is no more. Even pepperoni is different from before. It is sad to say that Edgewater is no longer my #1 and I may not return. read more

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This is a little dive place off the beaten path slightly in Edgewater. We were looking for some late-night food, so it fit the bill. They had a limited menu, which was understandable given the hour. We had a sale and a pizza. I was surprised the salad took so long since it was an easy assembly. The pizza was ok, nothing too special but we didn't necessarily have any complaints either. It was just pretty standard from what you'd expect for pizza, nothing special read more

Pizza's pretty good! Really enjoyed their pasta sauce + peppers/sausage and garlic bread appetizer. Super bold, flavorful sauce. Drinks were great, too. Decent beer selection and had some good quality hard alcohol available as well. Definitely would describe it as down to earth, unpretentious in every way but also kinda simple. Great place if you're looking for a drink and some pizza before a walk around sloans. Definitely worse pizza than blue pan or pizzeria locale but still, not bad at all. Had a ridiculous interaction with my server last night, however. I tried to order an old fashion, she didn't know the whiskey selection so I changed my mind to a don julio + seltzer + lime and she got really oversensitive, insisted on paying for my drink and brought me out an old fashion with makers without asking me. Totally could have been avoided by saying "you know, I'm new here and haven't yet memorized all the whiskeys we have. Let me get right back to you." and I would have been fine with that. Instead, she made a whole ordeal about it. Afterwards, she left without asking us to close out our tab so she could get her tip or telling us she was leaving. Server that took over for her told me and my wife that she quit and had paid for my drink. Really don't think it needed that dramatic of an interaction. I don't think I said anything offensive and I wasn't bothered at all by her not knowing the whiskey available. Riiiidiculous. read more

A step back in time for us. Nothing has changed here in many years. And that's a good thing! Don't pass up a chance to get the real deal Howdy Paisano pizza with jalapeños! Even one bar sized personal pizza is big enough for us 2 older folks. You won't regret it. Doesn't need to be fancy for a Five star quality experience in my book. Belly up to the horseshoe shaped bar where the well worn Formica will gladly accept your elbows read more

Just like others have commented, I too have been a loyal customer for decades. I threw my entire pizza away after the first 2 bites. It's lost its entire authenticity that was Edgewater Inn. Like many other mom and pop restaurants around denver that have sold off....... This too has fallen off. I'm sure the newbies around town will love it. For those of us who grew up with the original amazing flavors, we won't be back again. read more

This was my 1st time here since the ownership change. I was a little apprehensive about the new crust but I really did like it! And when they told me why they changed the recipe (no preservatives, simple ingredients, fresh) it made sense. It is a floppy crust, kind of NY style. The Sweetness is still on the menu and now has meatballs instead of ground beef which I think is an upgrade. And they finally put a good IPA on tap. Most importantly, my favorite server, Reuben, is still here! read more

Okay when I say I never write reviews, I mean never. I've always thought reviews should be taken with a grain of salt because they're so subjective. However, I truly believe this place deserves way more stars than it currently has on this app. The atmosphere is fun, the pizza is delicious, and the service has been so attentive and caring every time I've gone. Seriously worth a visit if you're in the neighborhood. For a really treat, order the Bianca with prosciutto added. You won't be disappointed! read more

What was the purpose of purchasing a classic restaurant if you're going to change all the recipes and let people think it is the same that it has always been. I have eaten at the Edgewater Inn for over 50+ years. What they did to the Howdy Special would make Benny and Josephine roll over in their grave. I went shortly after management changed and was not happy. Different crust, sauce, and different toppings. A different pizza. A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT. Some friends talked me into going there with them recently, they too realize it's not the same. Sorry to say I will not be going back. My message to the new management...... " IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT." What was the purpose of purchasing a classic Colorado Pizza Institution famously known for their Pizza . And then you change everything to make it better Pizza... ??? Well, you failed when you took over management. And a year and a half later. And you're still failing. You should just change the name of the Edgewater Inn because it's no longer the Edgewater Inn. It is nothing more than just another pizza place in a classic building that was once something great ! Sad sad sad. read more

I was born and raised in Boulder and believe that all pizza is ultimately "good." I didn't think different areas of the country had better pies or slices because you can essentially get every style in most mid-major metropolises. However, after visiting NYC for the first time (not sure why I waited so long), I realized how wrong I was. Everything I ever had barely compared at all. I mention all this to say, Edgewater Inn is one of 1-3 places in all of CO that could stack up to good New York pizza - not to say that this is New York style, it's just the mf spot. It's a lineage of family that works there and own/runs it. Little slice of paradise if you ever wanna take someone from out of town there or treat yourself. I spent 7 hours at the bar when I meant to pick up a pizza to go Most of the people at the bar had been going there for over 30 years. It was an absolutely fascinating experience to talk with the caretakers of this piece of Denver history, and I would recommend to anyone who asked. Order the 9" bar pie well done, seriously excellent! read more

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YUCK , we have been coming to Edgewater Inn for 50 years and we ordered our go to howdy extra juicy and sausage extra juicy the crust was so soggy and the garlic so overpowering we ate several bites and threw the rest out I am sooo disappointed it tastes nothing like the good old Edgewater inn it is terrible I didn't know there were new owners and if things are going to remain like this we will never come back I don't know how you can ruin such a good thing this badly I would give it zero stars but it won't let me. it is absolutely AWFUL read more

Just ate at the Edgewater Inn. They changed hands in December and the pizza crust and ingredients are totally different. You can tell they went on cheap for both. Sad, but we'll never eat there again. What a loss. read more

Since this review and talking to the manager we are buying pizza from this place.l again. It has been wonderful and almost back to the original that I was eating in 1970. We haven't been buying pizza anywhere else. Truly the best! read more

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Not the best pizza I've ever had and not the worst. I know this place has been here for years and it slows. Pretty dated inside but has that cool old neighborhood mom and pop joint vibe. read more

Great service, friendly staff and delicious bloody Mary's to compliment our cheesy pizza! I highly recommend you come in for a bite & tasty drink mixed by Haleigh. read more

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I don't know what happened to the pizza but it's not nearly as good as it has been the last 33 years I have been coming here and 20 years before that for my parents. The pizza is floppy the the crust is damn near not there. They have switched to smaller weird tasting pepperoni. The howdy blah I don't even know how to explain how different and unpleasing and less than tasty that was. I hope you can fix your pizza read more

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I've been coming here since I was little, my dad was introduced to this place and took us as a family often through our years. I recently came here with my Dad, before the restrictions happened again, and the pizza was so good. I was happy to have left overs for the next day and I usually don't like leftover pizza. I can't wait until I'm able to get more yummy pizza in the future. Definitely will recommend this place. I known others have been disappointed but I can say I haven't been disappointed as long as I've been a customer. read more

Pizza is wonderful! However, if you come in around happy hour time and are not a regular do not expect great service. You will be forgotten, meaning items you order will not be brought. We have been patrons for years but not so much in the past 10 years as we are raising kids and have zero time. Will still return but not our first choice. read more

Let me tell you about my first Edgewater Inn experience.... As a native (yes, some of us are actually from here), I'd heard about Edgewater pizza many times but never experienced it. Now that I live in the neighborhood, it was time to test the legend. Expectations were high. We entered the flavor stadium and I was immediately hopeful about the food based on the atmosphere. Not dingy, but dark. Booths that were obviously as old as me. Regulars at the bar. Neon Coors Light signs. All of these acting to me as great signs of a place with some character. Things have happened here. There have been laughs and cries. There was probably a couple fights. Life has been lived in this place. Which is a refreshing change of pace compared to the clean-walled, sterile, millennial restaurants we're all used to now (I'm a millennial - I'm allowed to make fun of us). Let get to the important stuff. The food. Josh and I ordered a couple brewskis cuz Josh and I always order a couple brewskis. We decided on some wings as an app, and split a large "Easy" pizza. The wings came. A bar-basket of some classy looking chicken appendages. Juicy, large, and with a side of, what appeared to be, homemade ranch. The sauce was semi-buffalo, semi-BBQ, fully sensational. My pallet was properly pampered for some pizza. Then they brought it out. It was steaming like a bowl of soup. That sucker probably hadn't been out of the oven for a minute. The appearance was inspiring. Toppings littering the common grounds of the crust like perfect chaos. We gave it a couple minutes to cool down and dug in. Question for you, Mr./Mrs. reader of this review. Do you, honestly, think you can order a topping-full pizza, go in blindfolded, and tell me every topping it has? I would beg to argue that you could not. But at Edgewater you could. Never have I eaten a pizza so rooted by, no... so defined by... NO, so established through its toppings. Each topping danced around my taste receptors like a stone age jester - pleasing and entertaining its king. First mushroom, then sausage, then pepper, then onion. I could go on. They were all there. It was like each topping was a different musician in a famous band, and they were all sitting at my table. Peter, John, Paul, George, and even Ringo. Let's talk crust real quick. Bear with me as I am an engineer.... When I grabbed a slice of this delectable deity, I could hold it by the crust, and it still had the foundation to hold its own weight and stay upright. A perfect cantilever. Most pizzas don't have that type of foundation. Let alone when you add the musical toppings described above. Most pizzas would droop like a wet noodle. This pizza had stout. More on the crust - flaky, crispy, not burnt. The amount of science and man hours that went into the development of the dough and timing/temperature of the oven are something I will never understand but can only tip my hat to. The cheese and sauce - usually the most defining part of a pizza, simply won best supporting actress in this case. They didn't need center stage, they were just happy to hold together the symphony that already existed. This review was vetted - Josh agreed that this was also the best pizza he thinks he's ever had. Being CSU grad, we both gave a nod to Krazy Karl's, which had for so many years held that title from us. But this was different. This pizza had serious gusto. As Josh explained it, the owner of Edgewater would probably scoff at the owner of Krazy Karl's, and tell him to come back and talk to him after 25 more years of business. It really disappoints me to see some one and two star reviews hanging around the top of this Yelp list, when I most certainly had the best pizza experience of my entire life in one night. The atmosphere, the serving, the product, the history. This is pizza, folks. This is Denver, and this is good pizza. read more

Terrible food. I just had the worst "calzone" I've ever had... No ricotta cheese at all, mostly bread and over-sweet marinara from a can with HUGE chunks of low-quality Italian sausage. If it actually had ground beef in it - I couldn't find any. It also came with 3 slices of American cheese half melted on top - rather than cheddar as stated on the menu. There's a big difference between cheddar and slice of plastic wrapped American, guys. The cheese was the consistency of melted plastic. I managed to eat about a third of it. I'm guessing they don't change the deep fryer oil nearly often enough because the macaroni bites and mushroom bites both smelled and tasted kinda the same - and they really shouldn't. The Paisano salad was also weak. Mostly iceberg lettuce and black olives. Also, they have a policy of both "no separate checks" and "one credit card per table"... so, if you are there with friends, be prepared to pay cash or to use the $3 ATM they conveniently have on site; businesses get kickbacks from those in case you were unaware. This is not a customer service driven culture. If you don't care about providing a frictionless dining experience and you don't care about the quality of the food you put out why be in the restaurant business? The restaurant itself was clean enough, but it clearly hasn't had a refresh of the interior in far too long and despite the surfaces being clean, there is an odor of grease that has seeped into the walls. The service was good, but not good enough to save the experience. read more

Edgewater Inn - Pizza Near Me - Edgewater, Colorado

They have tweaked the sauce so many times that they've completely lost the original flavor. Go back to the recipe handed down to you! Also, completely ruined the Sausage calzone, previously called cannoli. The bread was just wrong, and it was runny, from cheese or I'm not sure what! The pizza was good,but not hot, and lacking sausage. read more

Pizza is not as good as it used to be, but still very tasty. Building has a lot of history and new owners are prominent business owners around the city. Service is solid, staff members are very kind and hard working. Location is great, I love the block it's on. read more

Edgewater used to be our go to place for special pizza. A little pricey, but pizza was worth it. New owners. Pizza is terrible. They changed the crust. They change the sauce. They changed it all so the edge water were used to no water exist. Therefore I know longer be a customer there. Sorry for the pizza going away for. read more

Pizza is very simply stated - BAD! Soggy crust , bland sauce, completely unappealing. Good employees that are friendly and professional are the only reason for the one star. A well vodka mixed drink priced at eight bucks? Seriously? Same price for a shot of Beam? Fix the food and bar prices,may give it another chance but only because I like the staff! read more

Have been coming to edgewater inn for about 40 years... still one of our favorite pizza spots

Total local hangout with a little dive feel to it. We stopped in with a friend who fondly remembered many nights spent there in the blurr of her glory days, haha. We didn't try any of the food and instead had several glasses of wine. Sitting at the bar, we felt like locals and appreciated the service. The bartender was friendly, joking a bit with us and happy to wait while we reminisced about the good ole days. Full bar but just a few beers on tap. This is definitely one of those bars where ya go to pass the time, watch a game or reconnect with an old friend... and where ya drink harder liquor. read more

Cannot rave enough about this restaurant! Family-owned business that's a staple in the community. Service was excellent, despite having nation-wide worker shortages. Crust was absolutely perfect and piled with premium cheese. Atmosphere was both family-friendly and intimate for a date night. We will definitely return in the future and recommend that you try it out! read more

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Ugh! I loved the old Edgewater so much I wanted to have my rehearsal dinner here. Absolutely not a fan of the new pizza after the ownership change. We'd been going here since 1981. It's quite the trip for pizza coming from Castle Rock and rather disappointing for that drive. There's way too much garlic in the sauce. It's not the amazing sweet sauce that used to be swirled on the top. By the way, that swirl now costs extra. My cheese pizza had all sorts of cheeses on it but I couldn't tell you what any of them were. Not listed on the menu. I couldn't even taste mozzarella. The Italian sausage is hot, not mild, and not listed on the menu as hot. Overall, save your money and buy a DiGiorno from the store. That's exactly what it tastes like. I'm so very, very, very sad. read more

I lived in the area in the mid to late 80's. I frequented the Edgewater Inn for the great pizza and cold beer. So 35 years later, I stop in for lunch. The pizza is exactly the same. Great, mouthwatering pizza. Staff is friendly just like it was back in the day. read more

I love their pizza, but feel overcharged. We ordered 2 larges (15") pizzas and got medium size at best. When I called to see if the order had accidentally been placed as mediums and maybe I was just over charged, the gentleman told me no, the order had been placed as 2 larges. When I followed up by asking how a supposed 15" diameter (large) pizza can fit in a 14" x 14" box he told me he did not know how the math worked... but that I could call back the next day when the manager would be there. I've been out of school for some time but, last time I checked, the pizza box typically has to be larger than the pizza diameter to be able to fit it. read more

THE "Howdy Special" (L) for $24 is a steal, this pie was the S%@T. I grew up on their sausage and mushroom, after water skiing on Sloans in the 60's. But, coming back after 30 plus years, this is the pie I always turn my special friends on to. Live in Casper, bought a townhouse in Denver recently (15 mins away from the Edge) , so this place is my choice for pizza in Denver!! read more

Such a disappointing experience the last two times I ordered from them. Something has changed in the kitchen. Same pizza names and ingredients but not prepared the same way anymore. I returned a Great White pizza because it didn't look like a Great White. When I got the replacement I realized they were no longer prepared the same. So sad. The pizzas are now burned evey time. The famous Edgewater Inn pizzas are now part of Denver history. read more

We've been going here for over 30 years. Sad to say the new ownership has really let the food go. If you liked the howdy pizza just know that the new version is nothing like it- skimped on toppings, cardboard crust, and cold on pickup. On the plus side, the crust was so hard that it kept our dogs busy trying to chew it up. Sad day. Guess it's time to find a new local pizza place. read more

Visiting from Az, stopped by for a late lunch and pitcher of blue moon after a hike up in the Red Rocks. We sat on the smaller bar/sitting area around 1:30. Quick service and great pizza. We had an onion ring tower as an appetizer. Nice little local establishment. Recommended if you're in the area. read more

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