Chef Jensen Cummings and his partners, Alex Comisar and Johnny Coast, started dishing out meatballs last week at the
Slotted Spoon Meatball Eatery in University Hills Shopping Center.
The new 2,200-square-foot restaurant opened Feb. 4 at 2730 S. Colorado Blvd. featuring seven different meatballs and 11 sauces served over pasta, with salad or on a bun or bread.
"We wanted to do a single-food-item fast-casual," Cummings said. "Meatballs seemed like a perfect fit for Denver. Everything is full of flavor but not so aggressive that you can’t mix and match the meatballs and sauces."
Cummings, former Executive Chef of
Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar, says he takes a global approach to the cuisine while using locally sourced ingredients.
Cummings plans to open at least one more restaurant by the end of the year, likely in the Denver Technological Center. Though he has no plans to franchise the Slotted Spoon concept, he also is eyeing Boulder and Fort Collins as potential locations.
"Nothing’s ever off the table, but franchising is not our plan," Cummings says. "We want to control the quality and consistency of our product as our brand. We’re built to grow quickly, but not too quickly. We want to grow at the right pace for the product."
Cummings also plans to open a full-service restaurant -- Revelry Pangean Eats -- sometime next year.
"It will be a fun, quirky, hip restaurant that’s upscale," he says. "We’ll take a similar global approach with a lot of local ingredients."
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