Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chocolate Lab has expired. Denver’s only chocolate-centric restaurant closed its Hilltop location last month. Owner Phil Simonson declined to comment. But he ...

Phil Simonson has no plans to get out of the food business. “It’s too fun,” he says. But the future of Chocolate Lab, his chocolate-centric restaurant at 2504 East Colfax Avenue, is uncertain: Owing ...

“It’s been a passion of mine since I was a little kid to own a restaurant,” Phil Simonson told Westword in January 2022. At the time, though, he was preparing to close his first eatery, Chocolate Lab, ...