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BLUE PAN PIZZA THE 100 BEST DENVER RESTAURANTS OF 2020

  Denver embraced Detroit-style pizza when Blue Pan Pizza debuted in 2015 in West Highland. Chef Jeff “Smoke” Smokevitch and partner Giles Flanagin now run two Blue Pan locations serving rectangular pies built on a traditional base — an airy, crackly crust, Wisconsin...

Reader’s Digest’s best Pizzeria in Colorado

Reader’s Digest’s best Pizzeria in Colorado

Blue Pan Pizza is proud to be listed as Colorado's best pizzeria! Detroit-style pizza—Blue Pan‘s specialty—is like the cooler younger cousin of New York-style that no one knows about. The trademark is the caramelized crust created by a blend of three different...

Colorado Parent

Colorado Parent

3 Pizzerias Where Kids Can Build Their Own Pies Blue Pan specializes in Detroit-style pizza, distinguishable by a caramelized crust made by sprinkling three cheeses all the way to the crust’s edge. For $8, Blue Pan staff delivers dough, on a little pizza peel, to the...

Pies to Mumford & Sons

Not too many folks had the pleasure of catching an appearance of Mumford & Sons as they played a four-song acoustic set at Twist & Shout Records (2508 East Colfax Avenue) earlier today, August 16. But Giles Flanagin, co-owner of Blue Pan Pizza, was one of the...

BEST PIZZERIA IN DENVER

BEST PIZZERIA IN DENVER ! Ever since Jeff Smokevitch opened his first Blue Pan in West Highland in summer 2015, he's served up consistently good pizzas, whether you go for the Chicago thin crust, classic Italian or cheese-crusted Detroit style, which really put Blue...

TOP 10 PIZZAS IN DENVER

TOP 10 PIZZAS IN DENVER

West Highlands and Congress Park This well-decorated pizza place has all the styles to offer its ravenous patrons. And with two locations, you can get a classic Detroit-style pizza with burnt cheese edges, a Chicago thin crust, an Italian-style pizza, and a NY-style...

Detroit Style: Pizza as a Career

Detroit Style: Pizza as a Career

In part two of his multi-part series on Detroit-style pizza, Jeff Smokevitch takes a look at turning from pizza fanatic to pizza purveyor Like many new college graduates, I didn’t know what I would do as a career. Life was coming at me fast and my confusion seemed to...

Hip to Be Square: Detroit-Style Pizza Is Conquering America

Hip to Be Square: Detroit-Style Pizza Is Conquering America

Detroit-Style Pizza Is Conquering America!   From coast to coast, the Motor City's signature pie is everywhere right now. Jeff "Smoke" Smokevitch’s Detroit-style pizza won him first place two years in a row in the International Pizza Challenge. Blue Pan gets...