![]() They’ll serve dishes such as charred cabbage with an egg yolk sauce and a sweetened condensed milk panna cotta with almond granita. Almost three years later, the Nguyen’s are opening their own restaurant space in Denver’s East Colfax neighborhood. Then, they hosted pop-up dinners at restaurants around the Denver metro area. In November 2020, after relocating to Denver from Los Angeles, the pair sold Vietnamese dishes like cha gio, or fried spring rolls, for pick-up out of a small rental kitchen space in the suburb of Longmont. Husband-wife duo Anthony and Anna Nguyen have overseen a few very different iterations of their Vietnamese restaurant Sap Sua. And later this summer, seven years after opening the beloved New York Thai spot Fish Cheeks, the team will open a second restaurant revolving around charcoal grilling. In Detroit, chef Javier Bardauil will build on the success of his first Argentine restaurant with a more laid back spot focused on live-fire cooking. Whether from first-timers or restaurant vets, all of these openings feel like a breath of fresh air-an opportunity to meld the food chefs grew up on with other cuisines, or depart from fine dining and test out less buttoned up approaches to cooking. More than half of these openings come from first-time restaurant owners, many of whom launched pop-ups during the pandemic. And in Austin, you’ll be able to literally drink the Kool-Aid (in cocktail form) at an inventive new spot that combines flavors like dashi and salsa macha, and reimagines al pastor in pasta form. In Denver, Sap Sua will serve food that draws on the first-generation Vietnamese-American experience of its chefs. ![]() ![]() All of that is great, but at BA, we’re busy dreaming up trips to some of the most exciting restaurants set to open in the coming months. Plenty of people look to summer for the warmer weather and the longer days.
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