Every Opening and Closing in August (So Far): Goodbye to Sullivan Scrap Kitchen

The owners have plans...and a baby on the way!

August 2, 2025

Image: outside of restaurant with patio.

Sullivan Scrap Kitchen is closing August 2. Molly Martin

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Terence Rogers and his wife, Holly Adinoff, opened Sullivan Scrap Kitchen at 1740 East 17th Avenue in 2020. It was a tough time to open a restaurant, and it hasn't gotten much easier. Although Sullivan Scrap Kitchen's zero-waste approach earned it a spot on Bon Appétit's "Heads of the Table" list in 2021, honoring a dozen hot food concepts around the country, and its burger nabbed our Best of Denver award for Best Hamburger that same year, "it's an uphill battle," he told Molly Martin last fall.

That's when Sullivan Scrap Kitchen ended dinner service, while continuing to serve brunch and operate as the commissary kitchen for TBD Foods, the catering business Rogers started in 2018. "We're just tired. We just need to catch our breath and see how things go," he said.

That breathing time gave the couple a chance to think about options. And at the end of today, August 2, brunch will be gone, too, and Sullivan Scrap Kitchen will close. But the two are staying busy: In announcing the impending closure on Instagram, they revealed that they're expecting a baby soon, and they plan to start a “gourmet edible cannabis line” while also continuing to offer catering through TBD Foods.

Balancing out that closing: Leroy's Bagels is opening a second outpost today, August 2, at 1549 Platte Street.

We rounded up all the opening and closing action in July, including the shuttering last Sunday of popular bars Denver City and Cap City Tavern, in our monthly Restaurant Roll Call. Unfortunately, more closings are coming in August: Milk T Boba House will be gone by the end of the month, and the Molecule Effect in Wash Park will close August 16.

In other restaurant news:

Helen Xu created a culinary tour of the world through the dumplings served in Denver.

Scott Warnick and his two daughters celebrated six years of Taco Tuesday meals together at Chubby Unicorn.

And Gil Asakawa shared the highlights of a month of eating in his Best Bites roundup.

Scott Warnick and his daughters enjoyed their 312th Taco Tuesday meal.

Gil Asakawa

All the restaurant openings and closings in August (so far):

Openings

Leroy's Bagels, 1549 Platte Street

Closings

Sullivan Scrap Kitchen, 1740 East 17th Avenue

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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