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A Brown Dog Tale

The tale of the Brown Dog started back in June of 2001 with Pacific Street Pizza on the west end of town. From this location, we developed a reputation for great classic American style pizza and our signature YX cheesesteak sub—which gets its name from the license plates Colorado once issued to residents of San Miguel county that started with the letters “YX”. Eventually, we outgrew the Pacific Street Pizza location, and moved to Colorado Avenue as well as changing our name to Brown Dog Pizza.

The distinctive name “Brown Dog” comes from the owners, Dan Lynch and Jeff “Smoke” Smokevitch, chocolate Labrador retrievers–Phlounder and Boone. Dan originally hails from New England, and is consequently a die-hard Boston sports team fan (as evidenced in the sports memorabilia that adorns the Brown Dog’s walls). Jeff comes from Michigan where he attended the University of Michigan and played football on the 1997 National Championship-winning team. Their successful partnership of more than a decade has resulted in the Brown Dog Pizza you see today.

In 2010, owner, Jeff Smokevitch attended the International School of Pizza, and has since assisted legendary Pizzaioli and Master Instructor, Tony Geminani, in several more sessions at the school. Jeff, under Tony’s tutelage, learned that combining the best quality ingredients along with attention to detail makes the best pizzas.

Geminani was so impressed by his pupil, he asked Jeff to be on the World Pizza Champions team in the Fall of 2010. Smokevitch has gone on to enter several other competitions, and Brown Dog’s pizza was judged as the World’s Best Pizza in the American pan division with a 1st Place finish at the International Pizza Expo 2013. As well as a 2nd place in the final round of the expo’s challenge. Read further about the Pizza Championships here.

Our menu features the Classic American (round) available in our Rustic Medium Crust, Cracker Thin Crust, Detroit Square, Brooklyn Sicilian, Gluten Free Detroit Square and Gluten Free Roman Style as well as an array of specialty subs/wraps, burgers, chicken wings, salads, pastas dishes and various daily specials. In addition we have a Gluten Free menu with pizza, wraps, burgers and pasta. We offer a full bar with a variety of beers on tap–featuring many local Colorado brews and $2.50 PBRs.

Meet up with friends to watch all of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and Soccer games on any one of the Brown Dog’s 10 HDTVs for your sporting enjoyment. The Brown Dog is family friendly, and we have an extensive kids menu. Additionally we offer up tasty gluten-free options, but our kitchen is not gluten-free environment and those that are very sensitive to gluten should think twice when ordering.

Come see why Brown Dog Pizza’s Detroit-style pizza is gaining fame and winning fans nationwide.

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