Denver Restaurant Food Deals: Bar Dough, Hopdoddy, Barolo

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Denver restaurant food deals are easiest to trust when the restaurant states them itself. Bar Dough on W 32nd Ave in Highland is built for sharing plates on a patio. Hopdoddy on E 8th Pl lists a Monday to Friday happy hour. Barolo Grill on E 6th Ave lists Italian appetizers discounted at the bar. Bar Dough suits a table that wants to share plates, Hopdoddy suits a weekday burger stop, and Barolo Grill suits an evening in an upscale Italian room. For drink specials across more neighborhoods, start with the Denver Happy Hours guide.

The drinks list includes Italian-inspired cocktails, a wine list and non-alcoholic alternatives. Beer is served too.

The restaurant is open daily from 4pm to 10pm and has outdoor seating, which is the reason to pick it on a clear evening. Reservations are taken. Google rates it 4.4 of 5 across 1510 ratings, and its price level is moderate.

Regular hours are Monday to Thursday 11 AM-10 PM, Friday and Saturday 11 AM-11 PM, and Sunday 11 AM-10 PM. Outdoor seating is available, and the venue guide calls the patio seating primo. Beer, wine, cocktails and dessert are all served, so one stop can cover the meal and the drink.

On weekends the restaurant opens at 10am for brunch, with breakfast burgers, morning shakes and craft beers.

The Barolo Grill site describes Northern Italian cuisine, with a menu offered a la carte or as a progressive tasting menu. Google describes upscale Italian fare and an extensive wine list in classy quarters with a romantic vibe. The restaurant is a MICHELIN Guide Recommended restaurant for 2026, and it has held that listing since the inaugural year, 2023.

Barolo Grill is open Tuesday to Saturday, 5:30pm to 9:30pm, and it takes reservations. Wine, beer, cocktails and coffee are served. Google rates it 4.7 of 5 across 1151 ratings, and its price level is very expensive, so the discounted appetizers are the lower-cost way to eat there. The entrance and seating are wheelchair accessible.

The three offers differ in kind, and the right pick follows from what the evening needs.

Bar Dough's draw is sharing. Because the pasta is handmade and the pizza is wood-fired, a group can split plates across both.

Hopdoddy's offer is a set window. The Monday to Friday 3-6PM happy hour is dine-in only, and the menu centers on burgers, loaded fries and milkshakes.

Barolo Grill's offer is tied to the bar. Appetizers are discounted there, while the dining room keeps its a la carte and tasting-menu format.

Bar Dough keeps the simplest schedule: open every day, 4pm to 10pm. Hopdoddy opens earliest, at 11 AM, and runs until 11 PM on Friday and Saturday, with a 10 PM close on the other nights.

Barolo Grill has the narrowest schedule, Tuesday to Saturday, 5:30pm to 9:30pm, so it is closed Sunday and Monday. Bar Dough and Hopdoddy both serve every day of the week.

For a weekend morning, two of the three are open. Bar Dough serves brunch Saturday and Sunday, 10 AM to 2 PM, and does not serve brunch Monday through Friday. Hopdoddy opens at 10am on weekends with breakfast burgers and morning shakes.

For a weekday afternoon, Hopdoddy's 3-6PM happy hour is the only listed daytime window among the three, since Bar Dough opens at 4pm and Barolo Grill at 5:30pm.

Bar Dough and Barolo Grill both take reservations. Hopdoddy's happy hour is dine-in only, per its location page, so that deal is for guests seated in the restaurant.

Outdoor seating is listed at Bar Dough and Hopdoddy, and the Hopdoddy venue guide calls its patio seating primo. Barolo Grill lists a wheelchair accessible entrance and wheelchair accessible seating on its site.

All three serve beer. Bar Dough adds Italian-inspired cocktails, a wine list and non-alcoholic alternatives, per its site. Hopdoddy serves wine, cocktails and dessert, and its location page lists boozy milkshakes. Barolo Grill serves wine, cocktails and coffee, and Google describes an extensive wine list. Bar Dough also serves coffee.

Bar Dough is on W 32nd Ave in Highland. For other stops in that part of town, see the LoHi & Highlands guide.

Barolo Grill is on E 6th Ave in the Cherry Creek area. The Cherry Creek & South Denver guide covers more of that side of town.

Hopdoddy is at E 8th Pl, a separate address from both, so each restaurant works as its own outing. For a wider spread of deals by neighborhood, the Denver Happy Hours Map lays out the city by area, and the RiNo guide and the LoDo & Downtown guide cover two more.

Both Italian restaurants list free street parking. At Bar Dough, the site lists free street parking for 2227 W 32nd Ave. Barolo Grill lists free street parking as well, plus lots on the west and east side of the building at 3030 E 6th Ave, per its site. Hopdoddy sits at 4024 E 8th Pl.

Updated 2026-10-12: removed unsourced income, rate, license-count, discount and meal-price figures; removed places with no listing; added sourced hours, reservations and parking for Bar Dough, Hopdoddy and Barolo Grill.