New Denver vegan cafe Gladys will make you overlook about about meat

Celery root Reubens, blackened carrot tacos — at Denver’s most up-to-date vegan cafe, you received’t skip the meat on any of your most well-liked menu merchandise.

“By making use of 1 factor acquainted as a leaping-off place, diners can uncover one factor tasty and comforting to latch onto, re-envisioned through our standpoint,” claimed Rocky Hunter, co-owner of Gladys at Edgewater Group Market.

Ultimate month, Hunter — and firm associate and fellow chef Dave Grant — opened their “fully animal-free of cost, vegetable-targeted idea” on the West Denver foodstuff hall. They named it Gladys quickly after Hunter’s grandmother, hoping to “invoke the spirit of grandma-design and elegance hospitality,” in accordance to the restaurant’s web web site.

Proper earlier than opening their very own counter, Hunter was chef at Fruition, regardless that Grant was culinary director for Watercourse Meals and City, O’ Metropolis in Denver.

“We’ve each of these felt that vegetable-centered meals stuff has been driving shotgun, or worse, within the again once more seat utterly at most ‘fine-dining’ consuming locations, and we want that to alter,” Hunter talked about.

“It was vital to us to make greens the ‘star’ of the delicacies and never simply an addition to (it),” Grant included.

And star these veggies do, in dishes this form of because the Reuben, with savory celery root piled deceptively instead of corned beef, topped with chicory kraut and horseradish dairy-free “crème fraîche.” A superior and hearty Beans and Grains bowl brings collectively pan-roasted squash with Rancho Gordo frijoles charros, freekah grains, “bitter cream” and herbs (equally dishes worth $12).