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Provolino, offers Italian food at a friendly cost with salads, subs, pastas and pizza with the inspiration of conveying “…nostalgia, family, comfort, home, service, community…

With the opening of Provolino, a cost-accessible, neighborhood Italian restaurant in Denver's Hampden South, less than a month away, co-owner and chef Jeff Schwing took time to reflect on his unorthodox journey to get to this point.

Provolino, a low-key, family-friendly Italian joint in a King Soopers-anchored shopping center in southeast Denver. Set to debut later this month at 3563 South Monaco Parkway, it's replacing longtime neighborhood staple Piccolo's.

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