Colorado’s first Postino WineCafé opened on recently in Denver’s LoHi neighborhood, taking up residence in the iconic Denver Book Binding Company building at 2715 17th St. Postino is the award-winning four-location concept that was started in Arizona, and the new LoHi location is the first outside the state, inspired by the owners’ close friendship with the partners in Snooze.
Postino serves a compact menu of bruschetta boards, from-scratch soups, salads and panini sandwiches. The concept’s foundation is an eclectic and approachable wine list alongside simple food sourced and prepared with local ingredients and complemented by the urban-cool vibe inside the renovated space.
The simple menu with complex flavors offers choices such as the Autostrada Panini, with sopresatta, Italian ham, cappicola, mortadella, provolone, arugula and tomato with a spicy pepper relish and the Prosciutto with Brie Panini, featuring prosciutto, triple cream brie, fig jam and arugula simply dressed with balsamic vinegar and olive oil. The stars of the designed-for-sharing- menu, however, are the Bruschetta Boards, with offerings ranging from brie and apples with fig spread to burrata, bacon, arugula and tomato, alongside tomato jam and fresh sheeps milk cheese and salami with pesto.
Postino’s process of transforming historically relevant buildings into modern wine cafes is a cornerstone of the brand. The restored and revitalized Denver Book Binding building is an open and airy space that blurs the lines between the indoors and outdoors. Guest can cozy up inside an intimate booth, settle in at the expansive indoor/outdoor bar, sip in the sun on the oversized outdoor sofas or meet friends at a communal table, all while soaking in the vintage furnishings and colorful pop-culture artwork.
The LoHi renovated book-binding space tells the story of its history with period furnishings, artwork, and furniture, and celebrates the present through a modern menu with ingredients from local purveyors including City Bakery, Infinite Monkey Theorem, and Colorado brewers including Avery, Crooked Stave, Elevation, Great Divide, Left Hand, Oskar Blues, Odell, Ska and Upslope.
Postino serves brunch on the weekend, $20 Mondays and Tuesdays (after 8 p.m., any house bottle of wine and bruschetta for $20) and their version of an “All Day Happy Hour” – $5 wines by the glass and pitchers of beer from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., seven days a week.
For more information, go to www.postinowinecafe.com.
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