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Robinson helped Colorado Governor, John Hickenlooper build the Wynkoop Brewing Company in the early '80s.

In the years since the Wynkoop took over Gaetano's, there have been a few changes. At one point, Robinson said, the restaurant underwent major interior design renovations and operational formats that included downsizing the original 60+ menu items down to like 10, which immediately drove some of our old-timers and long-time regulars away.

When Robinson left the Wynkoop and bought Gaetano's back in 2013, he started to bring things back to normal. Robinson stated, “It's nice to have because Gaetano's is an icon not only for North Denver but to bring back some of Colorado's rich culinary history.”

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From Big Bands to Burlesque, Gaetano’s Celebrates 70 Years

NOVEMBER 13th, 2017

If these walls could talk”

read plaques on the restroom stalls inside this 70-year-old North Denver Italian restaurant.

No longer does bulletproof glass protect its front entrance

nor do the cops set up stakeouts from across the street. These days, the most criminal action Gaetano’s gets is from runaway traffic onto the corner lot at 38th Avenue and Tejon Street.

It’s been 13 years since Wynkoop Holdings purchased the restaurant from the storied Smaldone crime family

and four years since Ron Robinson, a Rhode Island native turned Denverite, bought the business for himself.

Last year

the last pane of bulletproof glass in the entryway was replaced.