“The last thing anything wants in downtown Denver’s construction site with no foot traffic is a fancy French restaurant.”
Chef Lon Symensma during a media preview before Gusto and ChoLon opened in Denver’s Sloan’s Lake neighborhood on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. When chef Lon Symensma opened his fine-dining French restaurant in 2018, “it was initially a great idea,” he said. But six years later, the ongoing reconstruction of the 16th Street Mall has taken the light out of Bistro LeRoux’s chandeliers and champagne service.
“Downtown Denver went from a thriving market, where there was tons of foot traffic and great walk-in business to a no man’s land with high taxes, high rent and very little return on what you’re paying for,” Symensma said. Making it even more difficult for Symensma and Davis-Massey is that have two other concepts on the same block as Bistro LeRoux: the groundbreaking, 14-year-old modern Asian restaurant Cholon, and YumCha Dumpling & Noodle Bar, which opened in the same building in 2021.
Even Cholon’s sales are “considerably down, he added. Although, the upscale restaurant, known for its French-onion soup dumplings, has been able to support itself due to its familiar brand and longtime supporters, “who go out of their way just to get to us,” he added.Suburban Mexican food restaurant group will open first Denver location
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