Casa Bonita (Spanish for "pretty house") is a Mexican restaurant in Lakewood, Colorado, at the JCRS (Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society) Shopping Center, now known as the Lamar Station Plaza. Opened in 1974, it was originally part of a chain of Mexican-themed entertainment restaurants that started in Oklahoma City. The building is currently undergoing renovations with a tentative reopening in May 2023. Casa Bonita's new owners, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, asked a judge to help them keep some documents, like permit applications and building plans, from being released to the public. Per The Denver Post, the restaurant's "pink exterior conceals a vast network of nooks and crannies inside. While the main, multilevel dining room is decorated with plastic palm trees and strings of lights, different facades and themed rooms invoke regional Mexican architectural styles, including the resort of Puerto Vallarta." The centerpiece is a 30-foot indoor waterfall with cliff divers, an imitation of the cliffs of Acapulco. The building is crowned with a gold dome and a statue of Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec emperor of Mexico. It was designated a historic landmark of the city in March 2015. It has billed itself as "The World's Most Exciting Restaurant."
