The Canino family has been a part of Denver's dining scene for decades. Patriarch Clyde Canino Sr., who passed away last year, founded the family business more than fifty years ago; at one point, it included three locations of the Piccolo restaurant as well as Tico's Mexican, which Clyde's son Marty continues to run as a food-manufacturing commissary.

But on April 30, the last Piccolo, at 3563 South Monaco Parkway, which has long been run by Marty's brother Vince and serves Mexican and Italian fare, will shutter after five decades. "I'm sitting here trying to realize things are coming to an end," Marty says. "It was just time after COVID. Things have changed so much with mom-and-pops...