Boulder Organic Pizza has closed, but a taqueria may not be moving in

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Boulder Organic Pizza opened almost two years ago in a market already near-saturated with pizza joints, with a business plan that called for carving out an ingredient-focused niche. Two weeks ago, though, BOP packed away the pizza peels and closed for good, giving up the lease to Troy Guard -- who owns TAG and TAG|RAW BAR in Denver -- and H Burger Co.; the two planned to collaborate on a taqueria.

As Eater reported yesterday, though, Guard has left the project -- which was going to be named T|ACO -- and the fate of the Boulder address is now unclear. (Guard is out of town.)

Signage on the building suggests that a taco shop is still coming -- and coming soon -- but the official word at H Burger is that there is no official word; the company won't confirm whether it's still working on a taqueria in that space. "We're in limbo with everything that's going on," says a manager at the LoDo restaurant. "We don't want to say anything about it."

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Boulder Organic Pizza

1175 Walnut St., Boulder, CO

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NoBo Bears
NoBo Bears

This latest development might be good for Guard or H-Burger or both. See: Frank Bonnano's short lived partnership with the ex-owner of Wash Park Grill and the taco-hut they opened and didn't see eye-to-eye on.

Add: that spot has been a cursed dining spot for a while now, a string of short-lived establishments.

monopod
monopod

I don't know that the spot itself is cursed; Walnut Cafe is right next door and does fine, and Reuben's Burger Bistro across the street broke the string of short-lived restaurants there.  I think the succession of restaurants there just haven't been very good.  BOP was OK but couldn't hold a candle to Locale, Basta or Da Lupo, and the service was always slow when I went.  If a better restaurant moves in I'd bet they could do well.

Nobo_bears
Nobo_bears

"That spot" being the BOP location.

ravioliman
ravioliman

Limbo would be a better name for the taqueria than T|ACO.

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