Denizens Gets Into the Ghost Cafe Match With Sunday Gravy
A nearby brewery is acquiring in on the ghost restaurant trend. Like other individuals hunting for additional revenue streams throughout the pandemic, Denizens Brewing Co. will start out serving red sauce Italian food items to pair with their signature Significant Purple Norm ale this 7 days. Sunday Gravy very first introduced out of Denizens’ Riverdale Park location on Jan. 13 and Silver Spring will begin serving the menu of linguini with meatballs and spinach lasagna for decide-up and dine-in on Jan. 27.
Denizens has been trying to produce a ghost restaurant thought due to the fact they became trendy in April. Sunday Gravy was a organic fit. Executive Chef Tom Lozupone is Italian American, as is Denizens co-operator Emily Bruno and a great deal of the administration group. “My father’s facet is Italian and my mother’s facet is Polish-Italian,” Lozupone says. He states hes up for a new obstacle. “COVID-19 has reshaped all the things, but it’s authorized us to do matters we wouldn’t generally have done.”
Whilst the primary dishes will rotate each individual other week, there will often be a dish that includes the ghost restaurant’s namesake sauce, Sunday gravy. Lozupone isn’t earning any of the pastas in house, but the gravy is a labor of enjoy. “We get started with pork cooked for 6 hrs in tomato sauce that is cooked for 4 hours,” he claims. “It’s like likely to grandma’s household and there is a big pot of sauce on the stove.”
On the opening menu, the Sunday gravy is served around cheese tortellini. Round out a food with sides like garlic bread ($5) and mini cannolis for dessert ($8). Foreseeable future mains will include things like shrimp fra diavolo and rooster parm. Lozupone previously cooked at I Ricchi downtown and previous Clyde’s Restaurant Group eatery Tomato Palace in Columbia, Maryland.
The chef hopes the comforting food from Sunday Gravy will provide as a warm embrace of types for locals. “We want to somehow present a provider, an extension of hospitality that men and women truly feel that they are lacking,” he claims. “It’s permitting Denizens to present to the neighborhood that, ‘Hey, we’re below for you!’”
The Sunday Gravy menu is obtainable any time Denizens Brewing Co. is open up.
Denizens Brewing Co., 1115 E W Hwy, Silver Spring (301) 557-9818 denizensbrewingco.com
