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Another high-end take on southern cooking just popped up in Denver.
Julep Restaurant is now open and dishing out a “Southern sophisticated” menu in Five Points.
The new restaurant at 3258 Larimer St. — right next door to Dio Mio — is a project of chef Kyle Foster, who for six years has worked as a chef and butcher in Denver hot spots like Rebel Restaurant and Colt & Gray.
Foster's wife, Katy Foster, is the owner of Stir Cooking School.
“This has been a labor of love for us and we are thrilled to open Julep Restaurant to the public,” Kyle Foster said in a press release. “Our ‘family to table’ concept is an homage to my Southern roots, bringing simple, good food — and cocktails — to Denver’s culinary scene.”
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Before opening Julep, the Fosters visited Dallas, Memphis, Nashville, Louisville, Kentucky, and Charleston, South Carolina.
“Julep’s menu honors the traditions I learned from my mother, who was born in Savannah, Georgia, and my great-grandfather, a Kentuckian,” Foster said in a statement. “We use his techniques, recipes and stories to keep the family traditions alive and these same traditions serve as the inspiration behind Julep.”
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The menu is built for sharing, with small plates ranging from $7 buttermilk rolls to $25 juniper and rosemary rubbed lamb, and family-style Duroc pork chop and cross-cut lamb saddle suppers that serve two to four people.
The cocktail program features southern classics like the Hurricane and a Mint Julep, plus house specials including the Uptown Sour, made with Elijah Craig bourbon, Cointreau, lemon and egg white, and the Cat's Pajamas, made with tequila, grapefruit, lime and honey.
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Lunch fare includes a $15 fried oyster po' boy at the upper end and a $10 rutabaga and onion tarte tatin and the low end. Among the weekend brunch offerings: Broadbend country ham and Anson Mills grits with red-eye gravy, Real Dill pickled okra and two eggs for $15 and a crab benedict with a house-made English muffin, smoked tomato and hollandaise for $16.
Julep's 3,200 square feet feels fairly intimate, with a small outdoor patio and a mezzanine that offers a view of the kitchen.
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Hours at time of publication are:
5 to 10 p.m. Tuesday
11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5 to 10 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday
11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday
Reservations can be made at juleprino.com.