Restaurateur reflects on quarter-century

Angie’s still serving Italian, Mexican favorites in Castle Rock

BY RACHEL LORENZ SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

While Castle Rock has changed a lot in the last 25 years, Angie’s Restaurant on the corner of Fourth and Jerry has not.

“I like to call us the OG Italian and Mexican of Castle Rock,” said April McCa rey, who runs the eatery with her husband, Mike McCa rey Jr. e full-service family restaurant, which has been serving the two disparate but delicious cuisines in Douglas County since Bill Clinton was in the White House, marked its silver anniversary in March.

Other than a fresh coat of paint, new carpet and a little bit of upholstery, the dining area is the same as ever, McCa rey told Colorado Community Media. Antique radios ring the room above walls paneled with wooden doors — complete with brass doorknobs and room numbers — that were rescued from Denver’s Spears Chiropractic Hospital before it was demolished in the 1990s.

“Friendly service, good quality. Hopefully none of that’s changed,” McCa rey said of her restaurant.

Angie’s specialty is its homemade spaghetti. Many restaurants, and home cooks for that matter, make

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Angie’s Restaurant is at 201 Fourth St. in Castle Rock. It’s open for lunch and dinner Wednesday through Sunday.

their pasta dishes with dried noodles. But the spaghetti, linguine and fettuccine noodles at Angie’s are made fresh in-house, which means the long pastas have a tender, almost velvety, texture after they’re cooked.

e bread, the sauces, the dressings, almost everything, is homemade, McCa rey said. Her husband and the kitchen crew handroll about 450 meatballs a week, each larger than a golf ball and made with a mixture of ground pork and ground beef.

On the Mexican side, most of the dishes — including old-school favorites like beef burritos and chicken chimichangas — are served with either mild or hot housemade green chile. McCa rey’s personally likes the crispy chili relleno, with its cheesy center and egg roll-like skin, best.

All the restaurant’s recipes come from her father-in-law, Mike McCaffrey Sr., who opened the rst Angie’s in Denver in 1965. ere have been 13 di erent locations since then. Today the Castle Rock eatery and a