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Vincenza's Italian Bakery & Deli
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- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
11 reviews for Vincenza's Italian Bakery & Deli
This place is great for what it is. Please do not expect an elegant overdone atmosphere here. That is not the point of this place. This is a Bakery that does food too. I am not really a fan of Italian. Its not because I don't like it. But that most of the time it can bore me. American Italian has become more of a formula of mediocrity than a celebration of a culture that it hails from. Vincenza's is different. It reminds me of some of the mom and pop Italian places that I knew from upstate NY.
There are tables, they are plain. The cases for the pastries and breads really are the biggest draw for your eyes. The tables are in front so you can't help but drool. There is another dining room in the back. But I have not sat back there. Seems I come in the off times. They have wine specials that are very reasonably priced to accompany the food. The wine list changes as the owner dictates. Which is nice because I get to try new things.
The pastries here - can be a little pricey, but I don't care. There is a huge variety of things that you will not find at most other places. They have cookies apon cookies and fresh baked bread to go with it. The cannoli is heavenly here. They use real cream in the pastries rather than the chemical garbage that passes off as cream in most modern supermarket pastries. the apricot and raspberry pastry cookies are light and flaky. Be sure to go there with some extra cash to burn because your eyes will start to tell you to buy more than you can eat. Have no shame that is a good thing to give into.
The food here - the menu here is short but sweet. I have had the eggplant parmesan here. It was one of the better parmesans that I have had in Colorado. The sauce tasted wonderful and complimented the acidity of the eggplant perfectly. On another occasion I was able to order their puttanesca sauce. From what I gather this more of a special than a staple there. So get it when you can. Puttanesca in Italian translates into "whore sauce". Meaning they put everything into it. If you don't know what it is check the link. http://en.wikipedia.or... Its quite a salty sauce due to the egregious amounts of capers and olives, but that is just the nature of the beast. This was smothered over the veil. Which was cooked rather well too.
Vincenza's Italian give it a whirl, but don't expect a foo foo place. They make good food and that is the reason I go there.
Dined here the other day and I cannot see how this place has so many great reviews.
The service was slow and we were the only people in the place. Plus the whole time our waitress was flirting with the cook, it was really unprofessional. Since we were the only ones there we could hear every word she was saying. I prefer not to hear stuff like that while I am eating, for I may puke. Thank you very much.
The bakery items are over priced, and it has an allover dirty feel to the place. The pasta was okay, but just average. And it really disgusts me when I see the food that other people may eat (pizza) just sitting out on the counter top not even close to being covered with flies hovering around it. Gross
I first discovered Vincenza's while wedding dress shopping with a friend up in Wheat Ridge. After a long day of running all over town, the group of girlfriends searching high and low for a dress were almost torn apart by hunger and crankiness... Enter Vincenza's.
We literally pulled in to Vincenza's a car full of cranky women and left with full stomachs and happiness! My favorite part of the visit was dessert - we ordered canolis and when we went to pay for them, the sweet owner of Vincenza's said "Canolis not to pay - canolis to eat!" Ah... bliss.
I have visited Vincenza's a few times since that first day, most recently yesterday for lunch. I had the vegetarian eggplant panini yesterday with the homemade minestrone soup and it was delish! I was with two girlfriends, and each enjoyed their meals as well (sausage & pepper panini and chicken Parmesan panini). I ordered a canoli to go and again they didn't charge me, which was awesome. It just gives a little of the locally owned flavor of the place, in my opinion.
I will visit Vincenza's again. Although it may not be the hippest place in town, they definitely offer delicious homemade food and the bread and desserts are out of this world. Enjoy!
I was very disappointed with our dinner at Vincenza's. Not-so-clean dining room, bizarre scary waiter, icky food, and attitude at the baked goods counter.
My dining companions asked to sit in the front of the house, as they had Mr. Lechuga there -- he's the big band singer -- and we were supposed to be catching up on old times. It didn't matter, because he had a cordless mic and came to us, singing Chicago. No problem. I found it fun and cheesy, if only a bit loud overall.
But when we went to sit down, there was a big pile of food on my chair. I brushed it off, and the fabric underneath the crumbs was really dingy. Our vinyl tablecloth had blue ink all over it. Simple decor is fine by me, but grime is a different story.
The menu offered no pizza. There was one huge, congealed slice sitting out on the counter. We asked our waiter if there was any specials that evening. He sort of made a long noise, and mumbled that he didn't know, walked away, and eventually came back to announce that there were no specials.
When he brought the wine, the bottle was already open, and he simply started sloshing it into four glasses and all over the table, which he didn't bother to try to wipe up.
The appetizer meatballs were the worst I've ever had. They were rubbery AND gritty. They were bland. Ugh. The red sauce they were in was edible but far from the greatest.
While eating my lasagna, I hit something that my fork could not cut through. I pulled it out of the lasagna and it was a cube of some kind. I even tried to cut through it again, and my fork just bounced off. I really can't explain what it was. Last week's meatballs sliced into large cubes?? I decided I'd had enough lasagna.
My honey's Chicken Marsala (he decided to forego anything that had the red sauce on it) was just as bad or worse. He swears that the mushrooms on top were from the can, as were the green beans served on the side.
The best part of the evening was trying to decide if our waiter was a) totally wasted, b) recently released from prison and this is his first job on the outside, or c) about to snap. He disappeared for a really long time and I was actually thinking he was getting his gun out of his car.
Still, I wasn't ready to totally give up on the place. After all, you can get cookies to go. So I waited patiently by the bakery counter and eventually someone came and stood directly across the counter from me and looked at me. I took that to mean that she was ready to box some goodies for me. I got a few cannolis, and she closed the box and walked away. I called her back and pointed at some cookies. She rolled her eyes and sighed at every request. I asked her what the name of one pastry was and she pulled a Leonardo DiCaprio on me. (You know how in every movie he has the same facial tic accompanied by a stiff-fingered brush of the face to show stress?) She didn't know what it was called, and I guess I freaked her out by asking.
If you're going to be a bakery/restaurant, cheers to you. But then you shouldn't be surprised when people want baked goods! I didn't get it.
The high notes: the coconut macaroon, no matter how perfectly fabulous, and the bread served with dinner, while quite yummy and crusty, just aren't enough to bring me back. Ever.
A couple of lackluster dining experiences here make me want to skip the place altogether. The places just doesn't look maintained although its open every day.
Yes, the cookies in the display case are good (but not at $13 a pound. It's not Harry & David).
Service is rude or absent. My impression is that is starts with management, which is clueless.
I give four stars to the bakery, but only three for the food and restaurant.
The baked goods are awesome and I frequently pick up boxes of cannolis, florentines, and other goodies to take to potlucks and parties. They are the best I have found in Denver and good enough that I haven't bothered to keep searching. They actually provide many of the desserts for Parisi's. The bread is good too,
Everything I have had at the restaurant has been very good (3- 4 meals). Not as good as Patsy's or Jordano's, but I was definitely happy with it.
Service has been varied - everything from free a loaf of bread because they made too much, to seeming irritated that I want to buy cookies when they are busy. It is slightly dingy and dirty. The booths in the back need to be thrown out.
You come here for the food, not the atmosphere. The Eggplant Parmesan is the best! I love their Ciabatta bread and cookies too. I agree with the other reviewers that the service could be better and the place could be cleaner. The restaurant atmosphere is average - if you want nice pictures on the wall and Italian lessons in the bathroom, you should go to Macaroni Grill instead. This place is all about the great food.
The simple dcor at this convivial Italian spot is caf-style and neighborly, but the wall-sized black and white Licata family mural displaying chefs in their whites, acts as a reminder that you're dining among serious devotees of Italian fare.
The deli cases are lined with freshly baked breads, focaccia and hills of Italian cookies, profiteroles, cream puffs, and clairs, all of them delicious.
But the top prizes at Vincenza's are the pizzas, quite possibly the grandest slices in Denver. The pizza grossa, draped with spinach, artichoke hearts, Greek olives, feta, and pesto, boasts a toothsome thin crust, smoky, bubbled, and charred in all the right places. Only someone a few sausage coins short of a whole pie could possibly eat more than one Godzilla-sized wedge, but I always try.
In a nushell, everything here is all about abbondanza.
The only reason to come here is for the bread and cookies. Their ciabatta is super tasty and dirt cheap. The rest of the food is uninteresting, especially when you consider that they may have just given you food poisoning. The last time we were there waiting in line to pay, customers were shooing flies off the congealed pizza (as accurately described in another review) sitting on the counter. Additionally, I saw five or six of the calzones that we just ate sitting out as well. Do they seriously cook everything before people order it and then just let it sit out until it's ordered? Yuck!
I wonder when the last time the health inspectors were there.
I think the owners must live in this place as even during the crazy blizzard of 2006 they stayed open. They have a great 'rotating' wine selection which I think is made of wines the owners pick out. Everything I've had here is quite tasty and I always get the muscles. Highly recommended.
We used to come here when Wheatridge Dairy occupied the space. Their food, desserts, and especially their ice cream will be missed. We came to Vincenza's for lunch on a recom. from a friend. We sat in the back dining area where they had a buffet of sorts for lunch going on ( I looked it over and decided to order off of the menu instead). I had a sausage sandwich that was okay but not great and my wife had the lasagna which also was decent. On our way out we did buy a loaf of bread and a slice of pizza (not on the menu?). the focacia bread was excellent (although expensive) but the pizza was again just okay (the slice was huge but not very flavorful and the crust was cooked well but soggy from the toppings). We do miss the Wheatridge Dairy.
