osteria marco

pizza was great, so was dessert. service was friendly and everything was made from scratch. we had the carnepizzawith ricotta cheese and chocolate hazelnut torte. both were amazing and the prices are very reasonable.

so good!. great location, great service and great menu. the burrata cheese was like heaven on a plate. i only hate i do not live in denver and have not been able to find burrata ever since! followed the best cheese course in history with apizzaand the crust was perfection. will visit here again if i ever get the chance to visit denver in my future!

an italian restaurant that only has panini and pizza. and it's fantastic. started out with a cheese plate to share (which had a wide variety of cheeses) and then had a margaritapizzaand a prosciutto pizza. the crust is incredibly thin and thepizzavery tasty, not too much meat or cheese. the restaurant is in the larimer district, very cool to sit outside if you can.

very nice.. salad was awesome...spinachpizzawas very good...great service...great wine...all in all...a very good experience.

amazingpizzaand dessert. we are new to reviewing and trying new places. but as of late we've made the decision whenever we go out to at least try one new restaurant a week. we recently escaped away to denver and decided to eat out every meal and not even think twice about calories, fats, or carbs. another thing that's new to us. a good authenticpizzaplace was on our list and after reviewing both the reviews as well as all the pics, we were sold on this place.

osteria marco is located in the best part of denver - right on larimer street. with romantic strung lights down the street it really adds something to the experience.

the restaurant itself looked small, but once in you are escorted downstairs to a much larger area. the walls were lined with rows and rows of wines (which my dad would have definitely appreciated).

greg had the carnepizzawhich had sausage, meatball, pepperoni,
and house ricotta for $15.

i had the figpizzawhich had fig, goat cheese, fontina, speck, and arugula.

the pizzas are huge, and we thought no way we'd be able to finish them off. surprisingly we did. the crust was paper thin which really helped, but the ingredients on top were super fresh and tasty. so good!

though we were tempted by the nutella cake, we both had a serving of the butterscotch pudding which was probably our favorite part of the meal. it was really rich, moist, and practically melted in our mouths. we only wished the serving sizes were bigger.

it was a wonderful meal!!

fantastic service, great food and reasonable price.. if you are looking for an italian restaurant in denver,this is the place!
the service was just amazing, with managers always checking on the service and giving recommendations. you can't miss thepizzawith fig, prosciutto and goat cheese. i also suggest the mussels.
best of all, the price is more than fair.
every time i come back to denver, this will be in my dining list.

it is a joy to eat the pizzas here!. i love italian food. i figure i have eaten about 1,000 pizzas in my lifetime. and i liked, even loved, most of them. but i simply cannot recall ever having eaten pizzas as good as the ones turned out lovingly from the kitchen of osteria marco. simply put, osteria marco is topizzawhat leonardo davinci was to art.
thepizzacrust is feather light, and ultra thin, but still capable of holding the toppings without turning soggy. and the toppings exude flavor without being greasy. it is a joy to eat thepizzahere.
butpizzais only part of the menu. we found everything else we sampled to be outrageously good. the meat and cheese plate was delicious, and could easily have served four people. and the $4 marinated olive appetizer had about 40 olives, of every shape, color, and size. we couldn't come close to finishing them.
service was prompt and friendly. the restaurant is located down a lengthy flight of stairs, and has a bright and friendly atmosphere, with several floor to ceiling displays of wine adding further texture to the dining rooms. about the only fault i could find with our dining experience was an all too common one...a wobbly table.
food: a+
service: a
atmosphere: a
menu sophistication: a-
value: a

excellent bar food. had some of the best bar food i've had in a while. very inexpensive for the high quality level of fare; we had an appetizer, apizzaand desert with two beers for under $40. great atmosphere & the service was prompt and knowledgeable. very kid-friendly for a bar type location. a must if you're in denver.

delicious pizza. so my friend came to visit and she wanted to try this place before they left. so before their send off we came here for dinner. the atmosphere was nice, it is not on the street level but down below. the lighting was dim and it felt laid back and relaxed. one thing that is great is that they have house crafted meats and cheeses! we were all cravingpizzabut it was hard to choose from. two pizzas caught my eye the fig and crispy prosciuttopizzawhich had fig puree, goat cheese, fontina and truffle oil. the other was the lamb conserva which had castelvetrano olives, fontina and goat cheese. we both decided to order and share. we were very pleased. and even though i prefer salty over sweet forpizzathe fig and prosciutto was very good. i kept coming back to thatpizzabecause of the thin crispy pieces of prosciutto. yum!. overall great food, great service and relaxed atmosphere. i would reccommend osteria marco for your nextpizzaexperience!

didn't live up to the hype. cool place with a really nice vibe to it on a saturday night, but the food was disapointing. started with the ovin sardo - really nice and very similar to what we used to get in sardinia - which was the highlight of the meal. the octopus salad was consumed by the chiles - way too hot, the only flavor in the whole dish was "fire". third course was the fig and prosciuttopizza- crust was nice, but the prosciutto was way to crispy and flavorless - tasted like burnt paper. maybe it was the octopus salad that ruined the pizza. i'll go somewhere else next time.

thepizzafrom osteria marco however, was anything but common place. as soon as the wait staff approached the table carrying thepizzamy nose was tantalized by the faintest aroma of truffle oil; rich and earthy with distinctive appeal. the crust was ever so lightly charred (i would have preferred a blacker crust, but c'est la vie), and prepared in the neapolitan manner. on the crust the chef(s) spread a thin layer of chunky fig preserves, followed by a thin layer of homemade mozzarella, which they then dotted generously with tangy chèvre, crumbled pancetta followed the chèvre, and finally the lightest drizzle of truffle oil brought the flavors together.

the bestpizzasince italy. osteria marco deserves the hype. having spent six months in perugia, italy, i became accustomed to a certain standard of food, especially pizza. since coming home, i've put my snobbery on the back burner because i assumed, let's face it, they do it better.

which is why i nearly choked on my first bite at marco. there ara worse ways to go, of course, but i'm glad i got the chance to finish the meal. italy rushed back to me through my tongue. thispizzais for real. i'll spare you the played-out description of perfect crust mixing with expertly seasoned sauce and meats of the highest quality to create culinary ecstasy and let you figure it out for yourself.

the cheese was all homemade and can i just say that truffle oil andpizzawere made for each other.

out of town visitors. two of us shared the prociutto and figpizzaand it was awesome! nice atmosphere and i liked the service. i would go again when in town.

i ate one of the best pizzas i've eaten in 2010: the wild mushroom and robiolapizza($11). the thin crustedpizzawas heavy with mushrooms and robiola cheese and dabbed with truffle oil.