Il Posto

Il Posto moved from its cramped Uptown location to an airy, contemporary space in Denver's trending culinary neighborhood, RiNo. Trendy, however, is not what owner-chef Andrea Frizzi is going for. Il Posto's menu emphasizes simple, fresh, local, seasonal and authentic. Frizzi tells a story of working in a Washington, D.C., restaurant and refusing to serve a TV celebrity the dish he requested because it was not authentic (after the ubiquitous "Do you know who I am?" the celebrity caved, accepted what Frizzi made him and became a regular). Here, the Northern Italian menu changes frequently, which Frizzi calls "cooking in the present." Many ingredients come from Colorado purveyors while others are flown in from Italy.