{"id":1758,"date":"2026-06-18T21:37:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:37:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:37:05","slug":"denver-ramen-restaurant-closes-after-less-than-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=1758","title":{"rendered":"Denver ramen restaurant closes after less than two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Mecha Noodle Bar\u2019s bowl is empty.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the RiNo ramen restaurant closed its doors after nearly two years at 2801 Walnut St. in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=1756\">Denver International Airport flight deplanes on airport runway for unknown \u2018incident\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe loved our time in this city and are so grateful to everyone who came in for a bowl of ramen, a bao bun or one of our cocktails,\u201d a message posted to its door reads.<\/p>\n<p>The chain, which Tony Pham opened in Connecticut in 2013, did not respond to requests for comment from BusinessDen.<\/p>\n<p>When Mecha, which means \u201cmom and pop\u201d in Vietnamese, made its Denver debut in August 2024, beverage coordinator Jason Snopkoski told Westword that the spot was \u201creally just trying to provide people with a hug in a bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=1754\">Gov. Jared Polis overruled his own clemency board to release Tina Peters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mecha\u2019s website still lists 10 locations in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><em>Subscribe to our new food newsletter, Stuffed, to get Denver food and drink news sent straight to your inbox. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=1752\">To release Tina Peters, Polis ignored our board\u2019s unanimous recommendation for denial (Opinion)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National chain Mecha Noodle Bar announced the closure of its Denver ramen restaurant in RiNo on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-restaurants-food-and-drink","category-things-to-do"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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