16th Street’s Iconic Rialto Café Is Closing After 23 Years In Denver

Sunday’s brunch will be the last service for Rialto Café, which opened in 1997 at 16th and Curtis streets in downtown Denver. “There are just not a lot of people downtown anymore,” general manager Amy Anderson explained of the permanent closure. Without the draw of theater, concerts, conventions and sporting events, “which have always kind of been our bread and butter,” she said, the restaurant couldn’t survive the summer. Anderson began applying for an expanded outdoor patio for the 140-seat Rialto in late May, but she found out by the middle of July that 16th Street’s dedicated bus lanes prevented any more seating. Related Articles For pandemic jobless, the only real certainty is uncertainty Frontier Airlines CEO preaches safety of air travel, calls for more people to return to the skies Denver activists blocking Webb Municipal Building doors to protest evictions during pandemic “Worst nightmare”: Laid-off workers endure loss of $600 aid 1.2 million Americans – including 14,700 Coloradans – file for unemployment aid just after $600 federal check ends “We knew it wasn’t going to be the same,” Anderson said of business.