![]() ![]() In late July, a food truck ban was instilled by the Denver Department of Transportation and Infrastructure and the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses that applied to zones of Blake, Market and Larimer Street on Fridays and Saturdays. To make a reservation call 30įood truck vendors are widely known for delicious late-night snacks - ones that are 10 times more delicious than any fast food or drive-through grub. El Five is aiming to launch weekend brunch this summer. Tuesday through Sunday the restaurant will be closed on Mondays. To get to it you have to take the elevator to the fifth floor. “We can only go downhill from here,” said Cucci.Įl Five is located at 2930 Umatilla Street Suite 500 Denver. He then immediately began hypothesizing on potential projects before switching back to the narrative that El Five is his last. But I’d work on something I come into a project and collaborate with other people,” said Cucci. “I don’t think I’ll ever open another brick-n-mortar. For Cucci, this is where he sees his future. It has to be about how you work in your community. Rather, being local can’t just be about commodities. “It’s not enough to just point to five things on your plate and say you’re local,” he said. It’s a vital part of what it means to be a local restaurant. To Cucci, this is not just an environmental choice. In fact, they won’t even have soda guns behind the bar and hope to make any in-house sodas with leftover food scraps. But by selecting certain types of drinks, including a kegged cocktail that doesn’t require additional chilling, they hope to reduce their water waste. Bartenders are also working to use less water, which according to Belk is like telling chefs to use their stoves less. In fact, the bar is made from 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper - called PaperStone. Rather, the bar is where a lot of the green initiatives take hold in the restaurant. The light-hearted nature of the drinks doesn’t mean there’s not intent behind them. There’s even a Porron ($12) - a vessel where you actually pour a drink from the glass into a friend’s mouth - made from a Shady of Ratio Beerworks “Dear You” saison and lemon soda. Cocktails include The Zombie ($15), a smoking tiki drink named in homage to the Corpse Reviver cocktail at Linger. Other than that, the cocktails are where El Five flexes its eccentric attitude. ![]() The cocktail program has remnants of the same intentions including making its own sweet vermouth, which according to Bar Manager Ky Belk is a staple for Spanish liquor cabinets. Much like the food, they represent the melding of Middle Eastern and European cultures. I keep thinking of using thousands of the old radio tubes, and lighting some of them so it feels like you’re under a tapestry of stars,” he said in reference to the final touches of El Five.īut despite his tendency to impulse buy on an Olympic level, most of what Cucci puts in his restaurant serves a specific purpose. “I have a lot of shit… I have radio tubes I bought three years before Ophelia’s. ![]() Cucci is notorious for this - buying random objects in bulk long before he knows what he’s going to do with them. He probably has hundreds if not thousands,” explained Cucci of the man who sold him the posters via Ebay. This time, instead of the remnants of an old mortuary, it’s vintage Egyptian movie posters from the ’50s and ’60s. And like usual, he achieves this by mixing all the trappings of a luxe modern restaurant with a spattering of found objects. ![]() It has the same alluring decor that exudes a sensual, albeit eccentric, mid-mod aesthetic. But elevation and symbolism aside, the Mediterranean tapas bar is in some ways parallel to Linger. ![]()
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