Soon the lines will be forming outside of Snooze, the popular breakfast spot in the Ballpark neighborhood. So popular, in fact, that owner Jon Schlegel decided to create a second Snooze.
"I'd say that we're screening a lot of places right now," he told me a couple of months ago. He finally settled on a space at 700 Colorado Boulevard, but judging from how it looked yesterday (pictured above), Schlegel is still a ways off from opening this Snooze.The space (which used to be a Boston Market,
We reported this morning about the impending liquor license hearing for the new Snooze location at 700 Colorado Boulevard. And now, I just thought I'd pass along the good news to all you pancake junkies in the neighborhood: It looks like all systems are go.
I just got off the phone with Jon Schlegel, the driving force behind the nascent Snooze empire, and he gave me the vitals: "We got our verbal approval today, about an hour ago," he says. And he and his boys are wasting no time. According to
Just drove by the soon-to-be-pancake-land over at 700 Colorado Boulevard, where the second Snooze is scheduled to take up residence sometime in August.And from the looks of things, owner Jon Schlegel isn't wasting a lick of time. Tear-down seems to be proceeding nicely (as evidenced by the clouds of dust billowing out onto the sidewalk and the general Day After Tomorrow look of the former Boston Market interior), the liquor license has been procured (because what's a pancake breakfast without a
Friday, July 31st at 9 a.m.--that's the opening that Snooze owner Jon Schlegel is promising for the second location of his two-unit breakfast empire.
"I don't know if you've peeked inside," Schlegel said to me this morning (I have), "but it's so close."
And man, it better be. Because while the public opening for the new spot at 700 North Colorado Boulevard is still a week off, he's already got three days of soft-opens/benefit services scheduled, starting on the 28th--one for Denv
Photo by Lori MidsonToday is National Waffle Day, so I did what any self-respecting waffler would do: I ate pancakes. Not just any pancakes, mind you, but a trifecta of flapjacks at the new Snooze, which opened its second location last Friday at 700 Colorado Boulevard. The new space, just like the original, resembles a set straight from The Jetsons, only the scalloped counter -- parakeet yellow -- at this second outpost has three times the number of stools, all of which were occupied long aft