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Frommer's Highly Recommended

The Hotel Monaco's resident eatery is one of the best Italian restaurants in town. Served in a densely decorated dining room with a busy open kitchen, the menu changes every 3 months, but you'll likely find the signature buridda, a Genovese seafood stew with mussels, calamari, and shrimp in a savory lobster broth; gamberi alla carbonara, shrimp fettuccine served with pancetta cream sauce and fried egg; and an array of pastas prepared fresh in-house daily. There are also innovative variations on steak, seafood, soups, and salads, which change according to available ingredients: In the summer, for example, a sweet corn soup appears on the menu. For dessert, don't pass on the tiramisu, which manages to be heavenly and sinful at once. With lighter, similar fare (including killer salads), lunch attracts power meetings.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Denver, Boulder & Colorado Springs, 10th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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