Stop 004: Beau Jo's "Colorado Style Pizza" Buffet

Beau Jo's "Colorado Style Pizza" Buffet

Location:  2710 S. Colorado Blvd.  Denver, CO 80222

First of all, I suggest if you are going to try Beau Jo's, you take advantage of their all you can eat buffet.  The buffet is every day from 11-2pm and it costs $8.99, now lets dissect the buffet...  To start, the service is friendly to the point where I felt like they were legitimately happy that I decided to have lunch there.  For a pizza shop, they have a decent salad bar that sports a nice variety of seemingly fresh veggies and salad extracurriculars.  Now let's talk pizza.  The buffet has a good rotation of meat and meatless pies coming out of the kitchen at a rate that kept pace with the consumption of buffet goers.  There was never a point where I was just flat out refusing to eat the picked over pizza they had to offer.  (I feel like at any given Pizza Hut buffet I spend 50% of my dining time waiting for a better offering than what they have on display)  They offer 2 basic types of pizza, "Mountain pie" which features heavy toppings/often infused with the cheese, and a puffy honey kissed crust to which they encourage consumers to add additional fresh mountain honey on by placing a bottle of fresh mountain honey at each table.  The pizza was tasty, and the Beau Jo pizza sauce complimented the honey touched crust nicely.  When it comes to the mountain pie, Beau Jo's will not skimp on cheese or toppings and the buffet had a variety of agreeable topping combinations.  Mountain pies are not measured in typical fashion, they come by weight, you can order from 1-5 lbs.  If puffy crust if not your thing, they offer "Prairie pie" which  is their way of saying thin crust and less toppings.  As far as crust goes, what makes them unique is the honey white or honey wheat, but they also offer gluten free crust if you are trendy or actually have a glutton allergy.  No buffet would be complete without dessert pizza, and even though I was full, I can't finish a pizza buffet without a slice of dessert pizza. After trying their dessert pizza, I have concluded that Pizza Hut's dessert pizza was a caterpillar, and Beau Jo's dessert pizza is the butterfly!  I'm pretty sure they just made up the term "Colorado style pizza" but the result of this buffet was satisfaction!