Sweet potato hash at Jelly restaurant is the newest member of the Denver Breakfast Club. (Photo by William Porter, The Denver Post)
Jelly is a fun spot for breakfast and lunch in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, sitting at the southeast corner of 13th Avenue and Pennsylvania Street. It boasts a hip-kid vibe and decor suffused with a winking irony; wall decorations include classic kid cereals such as Cap’n Crunch and Rice Krispies, plus a vintage Wheaties box with gymnast Mary Lou Retton beaming from the orange pasteboard. (Can it really be 31 years since Retton was the heroine of the 1984 Olympics and America’s pixie du jour?)
Anyway, called to me on a recent morning. I hadn’t eaten there in a while, but the menu had some familiar standbys. The day’s special: Froot Loop pancakes. Seriously.
My choice: the sweet potato hash. Anchored with chopped sweet potatoes and red potatoes, it came loaded with Mexican chorizo, onion, celery, roasted poblanos. Toast was an option, but really? When a fat, tender biscuit was available with strawberry jam?
So I sat at the counter and enjoyed a steaming mug of coffee, polishing off that hash while reading how the woebegone Rockies had clobbered the St. Louis Cardinals with an 11-run outburst the night before.
Wonder if Tulo and Co. had chowed on sweet potato hash on Monday morning?
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