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In this file photo, customers listen to a mariachi band perform during their meal at Casa Bonita in Lakewood. Dave Palmer, department director of entertainment and a professional diver for Casa Bonita performs a dive from the 30 foot platform during an afternoon show at Casa Bonita as Daniel Jolivette and Dan Hlavinka upper right watch on Sept.
Located at W. Colfax Ave. Working there has become a rite of passage in some families. It felt a little like Six Flags Great America.
Casa Bonita goes through about 1. But, oh, those sopapillas. Casa Bonita sells 1. The food is secondary. Pirates, Old West gunfights, fire jugglers and a costumed gorilla fill the performance slots, which run every 15 minutes and repeat every hour and a half see casabonitadenver. No other Colorado restaurant, and few anywhere else, has such an impressive water feature, and divers take their auditions and training seriously.
The multi-story, Mexican-themed behemoth includes a foot-tall waterfall, cliff divers, fire jugglers, strolling mariachi bands, a pirate cave, magicians, puppet shows, skee-ball machines As one of my colleagues put it, it's like Disney had sex with Tijuana and left the goofy-looking bastard to fend for itself in a random strip mall on Colfax.
I loved every insane second of our trip there - except for the fact that I felt like those kids in the movie SpaceCamp who were accidentally launched into space and had no fucking idea what the hell to do.
There was just way too much stuff going on at Casa Bonita and no helpful little robot named Jinx yes, that's a second SpaceCamp reference to help me figure it all out. With that in mind, we here at Westword decided, as a community service, to create a Casa Bonita survivor's guide. Follow these rules and you'll have a hell of a time — who knows, you may even live to eat again.
By all means check out the puppet show, the magician, the arcades and everything else. But whatever you do, avoid Black Bart's Cave. That place is scary - and we're not referring to the stupid cackling, glowing plastic skull on the wall.
We're referring to what gets left all over the cave when the ten-year-old who's had one too many tacos loses his shit because of the stupid cackling, glowing plastic skull on the wall. Take it from us: You don't want to go home smelling like the curse of Black Bart. Slip 'em a greenback and they'll never leave your side until you're hemorrhaging dollars to their merciless, unending tunes. Then again, maybe it's worth the dough to have your own Mexican theme music wherever you wander, especially if the musicians take requests.
It would be pretty sweet to stroll by some hotties as your personal band plays a mariachi version of the theme from Shaft. Better yet, convince them to perform the Benny Hill Show music while you get chased around by the guy in the Chiquita the angry Gorilla suit.
Lots of it. Unless, of course, you already dropped acid in the parking lot. But stand strong. You came here for the flame-juggling, the cliff-diving, the inappropriate shenanigans involving make-believe natives and a guy in a gorilla suit, damn it, and you're not going to take anything less than a table by the waterfall, where all the good shit goes down.
Yes, they'll make you wait a bit for a table to open up, but since you've already been waiting in line for an hour, a few more minutes won't hurt. Right after you've ordered your taco salad, the server will undoubtedly ask, "Would you like fried ice cream with that?
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