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The 10 most-anticipated restaurant openings for Denver in 2023
From the reopening of a soul meals staple to a Texas burger chain to a contemporary tackle conventional Vietnamese delicacies, these 10 eating places ought to be in your eating bucket record in 2023.
Some tendencies we’re noticing amongst these deliberate openings: current eateries are discovering new areas to remain in enterprise; fashionable quick meals chains are persevering with to make the leap to Colorado; and up-and-coming cooks are able to tackle the chance of a brand new restaurant once more.
Listed here are the ten most-anticipated restaurant openings round Denver in 2023.
Supplied by Casa Bonita Dana Rodriguez is the brand new government chef of Casa Bonita.
Casa Bonita
Colorado received its Christmas want in December with the announcement of a Casa Bonita opening date. “South Park” creators and Casa Bonita house owners Trey Parker and Matt Stone mentioned they plan to reopen the doorways of the well-known Lakewood eatertainment venue in Could with well-known native chef Dana Rodriguez behind the burners.
The unique plan was to reopen by late 2022, and the restaurant — which has been closed for the reason that starting of the pandemic — made our record of anticipated openings a yr in the past, however Stone and Parker bumped into some unexpected challenges with the constructing’s renovation. In keeping with metropolis allowing paperwork and development plans, the renovations will price about $12 million.
6715 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood; casabonitadenver.com
Sap Sua
Cooks Anna and Anthony Nguyen moved again to Colorado from California two years in the past with the thought to start out their very own restaurant, and after a collection of pop-up previews that garnered lots of consideration from Denver foodies, the couple has lastly secured a location.
In April 2023, the Nguyens plan to open Sap Sua, a Vietnamese restaurant, in Congress Park. Anthony is a first-generation Vietnamese American, and the menu will embrace a few of his household recipes with a twist, reminiscent of a charred cabbage dish primarily based on his mom’s recipe.
2550 E. Colfax Ave., Denver; sapsua.com
Hey Kiddo
Followers of Kelly Whitaker, the Denver chef behind extremely acclaimed eating places like The Wolf’s Tailor, Basta and Bruto, will get one other style of his abilities with the opening of Hey Kiddo on the third flooring of the Asher boutique lodge in Berkeley early in 2023. Hey Kiddo’s menu will not be but totally fleshed out, however Whitaker mentioned the fashion will likely be New American, and he’s collaborating with a San Francisco chef on some Korean-inspired dishes. There may also be a 16-seat cocktail lounge known as Okay Yeah.
4337 Tennyson St., Denver; hk-oy.com
Molotov Kitschen and Cocktails
When you miss Insurgent Restaurant as a lot as I do then rejoice at Bo Porytko’s plans to open an Jap European restaurant known as Molotov Kitschen and Cocktails in January. Molotov is an ode to Porytko’s Ukrainian grandparents, and its menu will likely be primarily based on conventional delicacies from Ukraine, Scandinavia, Germany, Poland and Georgia. Dishes will embrace elk Sauerbraten, braised duck and bitter cherry borscht, patychky (Ukrainian meat on a stick) and rabbit in a clay pot.
3333 E. Colfax Ave., Denver; molotovdenver.com
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Fathim Dickerson, twin brother of basic supervisor Fathima Dickerson, turning out oxtail stew and a fried hen dinner throughout lunch service on the Welton Road Cafe within the 5 Factors neighborhood on June 7, 2019. (Picture by Joe Amon/The Denver Submit)
Welton Road Cafe
It’s been practically two years since Welton Road Cafe closed its doorways in 5 Factors, as a result of a landlord disagreement. And we’re counting down the times till the soul meals mainstay reappears in a bigger, newer location down the block from its unique area, the place proprietor Fathima Dickerson mentioned they plan to interrupt floor this month. A gap is penciled in for summer season.
After elevating cash via a short lived takeout area and a GoFundMe marketing campaign, the Dickerson household feels assured within the transfer and is able to present Denverites with its oxtail stew, catfish and fried hen as soon as extra. Till then, the enterprise continues to be providing catering.
2883 Welton St., Denver; fb.com/weltonstcafe
Bistro Vendome
After practically 20 years in a garden-like setting in Larimer Sq., Bistro Vendome closed its doorways on Jan. 1 and can transfer to Park Hill early in 2023. The French restaurant will get to reinvent itself when it takes over the previous house of Tables, one other long-lived restaurant that closed in August.
James Beard award-winning chef and co-owner Jen Jasinski and head chef Jeremy Wolgamott have mentioned they need to deliver the identical “Bistro Vendome really feel” to Park Hill with a patio, plus its traditional nightly dinner and weekend brunch service.
2267 Kearney St., Denver; bistrovendome.com
Kings of Wings Faucet & Tequila
When you’ve been struggling with out Kings of Wings because it closed in December 2021 as a result of a fireplace, you’ll be glad to listen to that not solely is its unique restaurant reopening subsequent yr, however the house owners are including a second, bigger location in Golden.
King of Wings Faucet & Tequila is taking on the two,800-square-foot former house of Colorado Plus Cidery & Pub in Golden. The brand new area will embrace all of King of Wings’ signature sauces and grilled (not fried) wings, a tequila bar, margaritas and a faucet wall that includes 29 native beers.
7741 W. forty fourth Ave., Wheat Ridge; 1100 Arapahoe St., Golden; king-of-wings.com
El Rancho
El Rancho’s closure this summer season left a brewery-sized gap in Evergreen. However the native landmark will return underneath new possession and the culinary steering of Bonanno Ideas, which owns eating places like Mizuna, Luca, Ostera Marco and Denver Milk Market. El Rancho is anticipated to start serving house-made beer and meals, impressed by Russell’s Smokehouse, which the restaurant group closed on the finish of 2022, and infused with Latin taste, in January.
29260 US-40, Evergreen; elrancho-colorado.com
Wealthy Spirit Bagels
This summer season, followers of Bakery 4’s bagels can skip the road for its pastries and head to a brand new bagel store, Wealthy Spirit Bagels, inside Wheat Ridge’s Gold’s Market improvement. Clients can anticipate to see the identical basic choices Bakery 4 has on its menu now, like every thing bagels, sesame bagels and salt bagels, in addition to different flavors like inexperienced chile, cheddar or cinnamon crunch. There may also be some bagel and lox and egg sandwich choices.
10081 W. twenty sixth Ave., Wheat Ridge; instagram.com/getrichspirit
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An In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Bellflower, Calif, on Jan. 5, 2020. (Picture by John Aguilar/The Denver Submit)
Whataburger and In-N-Out Burger
Texas-based Whataburger made its Colorado debut in 2022 with the opening of two areas in Colorado Springs. And the burger chain, identified for its honey butter hen biscuits and spicy ketchup, introduced in November that it plans to open 4 extra franchise areas in northern and southern Colorado Springs by the top of 2023. Hopefully, Denver is subsequent.
5905 Structure Ave.; 2495 Montebello Sq. Drive; 1105 Backyard of the Gods Rd.; 702 E. Fillmore, Colorado Springs; whataburger.com
California-based In-N-Out Burger, however, is opening its first Denver location subsequent yr in Central Park after having already delighted burger lovers in Aurora, Lone Tree, Lakewood, Thornton, Citadel Rock and Colorado Springs. Clients ought to anticipate to get their animal-style fries someday within the subsequent few weeks or months as the corporate is nearing the ultimate phases of development, based on a spokesperson, though there is no such thing as a set opening date but.
4597 N. Central Park Blvd., Central Park; in-n-out.com
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — A Denver Health ambulance with a patient onboard was involved in a crash in Englewood Tuesday afternoon.
The crash happened around 4:30 p.m. at Logan St and the Hampden Bypass. According to Denver Health, the ambulance was transporting a patient to Swedish Medical Center when the crash occurred.
According to Denver Health, three additional ambulances were dispatched to the scene. One took the initial patient to Swedish Medical Center. The other two ambulances were for new patients who were involved in the crash.
Denver Health could not share how many additional patients there were or if the initial patient was injured in the crash.
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DENVER — Police in Denver arrested a suspect in connection with the fatal shooting of a man outside the Denver Rescue Mission Monday night.
Officers arrested Julian Huggins, 40, at the homeless shelter in the 4600 block of E. 48th Avenue shortly after arriving on scene around 8 p.m.
The male victim, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the police.
Witnesses told police that the Huggins and the victim were involved in a verbal altercation before shots rang out.
Huggins is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder.
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Rent-free housing: Denver real estate firm donates apartments to 10 early-career teachers
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Ten early-career Denver classroom teachers will get free rent for a year in a new upscale apartment building in the northwest part of the city — a novel, if incremental, approach to the problem of rising housing costs making it difficult for teachers to live close to where they work.
Real estate investment firm Grand Peaks, whose founders attended Denver Public Schools, are donating 10 apartments in the 533-unit Skyline at Highlands development in the Jefferson Park neighborhood. The teachers will be able to live there rent-free from August through next July.
Sara Hazel, the president and CEO of the Denver Public Schools Foundation, said the foundation chose the 10 teachers in a random drawing from among about 215 who applied. Only classroom teachers with zero to three years of experience were eligible.
“I got to have my Oprah moment sending emails to these 10 winners and sharing the wonderful news,” Hazel said. “The response we’ve gotten — the quotes are, ‘This is life changing for my family.’ ‘You have no idea how much this means to me.’”
Marc Swerdlow, president of Grand Peaks, said the company’s founders, the Simpson family, wanted to do something for Denver teachers after reading news about pay disparities and the struggle to find affordable housing. The average apartment rent in the gentrifying city was $1,875 a month in the first quarter of this year, the Denver Post reported.
“This property is not an affordable-housing project, but something we could do to provide affordable housing to teachers seemed so easy, so natural,” Swerdlow said.
The hope is that increasing access to affordable housing will incentivize early-career teachers to stay in Denver and in the teaching profession, Hazel said.
“Affordable housing is one of the barriers our Denver teachers are facing — and Denver teachers living in the Denver community is good for Denver and good for our students,” she said. “We hope other companies look at this and are like, ‘Wow, how do we replicate this?’”
Five of the apartments are studios that would otherwise rent for between $1,725 and $1,900 a month. The other five are one-bedrooms that would rent for between $2,300 and $2,450 a month. The salary for first-year Denver teachers this past year was $54,141.
DPS leaders have floated the idea of providing teacher housing several times in recent years, but no projects have come to fruition. In 2018, the district scrapped the idea of converting a then-empty elementary school into rental apartments for educators after neighbors pushed back. The district leased the building, the former Rosedale Elementary, to the Archdiocese of Denver instead. It now houses Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School.
Melanie Asmar is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Colorado. Contact Melanie at masmar@chalkbeat.org.
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