Never say die: The space at 250 Steele Street that swallowed French 250 (and numerous restaurants before that) is now moving around the Mediterranean. According to the banner now hanging at that address, Ondo's, a tapas spot, will attempt to make a go of this spot come fall.
This is me jumping up and down in excitement. This is me rubbing my hands with glee.
Yeah, sure, 250 Steele Street has a serious curse on it. Like a Curse of the Mummy-style curse. Abandon hope all ye who open a restaurant here. This space has swallowed more restaurants than I have chicken wings (well, almost...), but that doesn't stop Denver's brave restaurateurs from trying and trying again.
Ondo's is just going to be the newest incarnation. But the reason I'm so excited? It'
There are some restaurants I talk about a lot. There are others that I talk about hardly at all. And one of the very few places that I talk about continuously (some would say obsessively) isn't even open yet. It's Ondo's.
Ah, Ondo's....I've been dreaming about having a new tapas restaurant in Denver for a long time. Any kind of Spanish restaurant, really, but particularly a tapas place. And I'm not talking about some kind of fake tapas joint, either. Not some spot that serves "small
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Lori MidsonWhile Jason Sheehan is busy building a dream team staff for Ondo's, the tapas restaurant taking over the subterranean space at 250 Steele Street, owner Curt Steinbecker, who trained with his wife, Deicy, at the Escuela de Cocina Luis Irizar, is just trying to get his restaurant open. With any luck, that will happen two weeks from now.
"Things are going according to schedule, and it looks like November 15 will be our first day," says Curt.
Just got off the blower with Curt Steinbecker (that's him in the funny hat up there, standing beside his wife, Deicy) of Ondo's, the Spanish tapas restaurant that I've been waiting forever for at 250 Steele Street (in the former home of French 250).
Okay, so maybe it hasn't quite been forever, but it's certainly seemed that way. The sign they've had out front -- the one that says "Opening This Fall"? That thing has been taunting me, filling my head with dreams of patatas bravas, litt
